Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-04-07
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN coUNTRiEs.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union news servios.
ABOUT THE WAR

Austrians and Italians engage in
heavy battle at Gorizia.
Berlin reports assert Russians have
lost $4,000 men in drive.
Russians make gains from Germans
near Lake Narocz and on oginski
canal.
Five more ships attacked by Ger
man U-boats and United States plans
decisive action.
Five Zeppelin airships raided the
eastern counties of England, accord
ing to an official announcement at
London.
The Germans are making stubborn
resistance to the Russians between
Dvinsk and wilma. but have lost two
lines of trenches near Postavy.
The British have blown up about
100 yards of German trench in the
region of St. Eloi. They have also
captured 600 yards of first and Sec
ond line German trenches in bayo-
net charge.
The hospital ship Portugal has been
sunk in the Black sea by German
torpedo boat or submarine with a
large number of wounded aboard, ac-
cording to an announcement of the
Paris official press bureau. 1t is said
that the Portugal had Red Cross signs
conspicuously displayed.
Villas force, estimated at 500, was
severely defeated in a five-hour battle
at Guerrero on March 90 by Col Dodd.
according to a report from Gen. Per-
shing to Gen. Funston, sent from the
San Geronimo ranch. Thirty Mexicans
were killed and number of Mexicans
and four Americans wounded.
Having captured the village of Ma
lancourt, the Germans shifted their
offensive eastward to the sector
around the famous LIE Mort Homme.
With heavy forces the Teutons at
tackled the French line between hill
295 and LIE Mort Homme and sue.
ceeded in entering French first line
trenches. A vigorous counter-attack
by the French, however, almost i'm
mediately expelled the invaders, and
another attack by the Teutons, deliv-
cred little later, is declared by Paris
to have been put down completely.
WESTERN
Fifty persons were injured in two
street car head-on collisions in Chi
cago.
Three men were killed and twenty
injured by an explosion in the mine
of the King Coal and Coke Company
at Kimball, w. Va.
Senator l.. Y. Sherman OF Illinois
has withdrawn his name from the
preferential ballot in Montana as
candidate for the Republican nomina.
tion for President.
The Arizona Supreme Court denied
writs of habeas corpus to Francisco
Rodriguez, N. b. Chavez, Miguel Per-
sela and Edwardo Perez, Mexicans un-
der sentence of death for murder.
A man named Herman Blankenburg
and two other foreigners were muir
dered at Minaca, Chihuahua, by Fran.
cisco Villa and his followers, accord
ing to private, but authentic, sources
at FL Paso, Tex.
A cablegram from Hong Kong re-
ceived at San Francisco by a local
Chinese newspaper, said the governor
of Canton province had been assassi-
mated by his troops and that the prov
ince had declared its independence of
the central government
Branding the prosecution by the
government as disgrace and an aid
to Matchmaking scheme, Federal
Judge Anderson at Chicago ordered
a verdict of not guilty in the famous
case against William Rufus Edwards,
millionaire st. Paul lumberman. Ed
wards was accused of transporting
Miss Ada Cox. a stenographer, to st.
Paul from Chicago for immoral pur-
poses.
WASHINGTON
News of the punishment inflicted
unon Uilla's mon was rpceived with