The Ordway new era., 1916-11-17

% 'iNhtheS near NOlu llid, anu tooh
5000 prisoners.
Heavy fighting is under way on the
Transylvanian front, but no important
changes in the military situation are
reported.
German artillery defeated several
efforts of the French and British to
make advances on the Somme 'front.'
the war office announced at Berlin.
Petrograd announces the occupation
Of several towns between Hirsova and
Tchernavoda. Berlin says there have
been no important changes in Dob
rudja.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg,
In his speech before the reichstag
committee at Amsterdam, expressed
the conviction that Germany was GER
tain of final victory.
Near Rothenthurm pass the Aus
trians and Germans advanced and took
more than 1000 prisoners. Near Vul-
according to Berlin.
There has been much aerial fight
ing on the west. rn front. Berlin re-
cords the destruction of seventeen en-
tente airplanes and Paris asserts that
ten German machines were brought
down.
Forty Caranzita soldiers were killed
and twice that number injured at
Chirimoya. near Celaya, when their
train was telescoped by a pilot train,
according to advices reachin Laredo.
Texas.
Several trench elements north Of
the Somme near Les Boeufs and Sail
lisel have been captured by the
French. Berlin states Franco-British
attacks between Gueudecourt and
Sally were repulsed.
Italian forces in their offensive
against the Austro- Hungarian posi-
tions on the Carso front have captured
a total of twenty guns, including thir-
teen of medium caliber, according to
the Italian official statement.
The Bulgarian forces are rctreating
along their whole front in the prov
ince of Dobrudja, according to semi
official statement issued at Bucharest.
AS the Bulgarians withdraw, the state
ment says. they are systematically
burning the Rumanian villages.
Berlin announces officially that the
central powers have agreed to gran,
independence and constitutions.
monarchial government to Poland at
the conclusion of the war and that
plans for stabiIizing the government
will be placed in effect at once.
WESTERN
A Sioux Falls, s. D., dispatch says
incomplete returns from all over the
state give on suffrage: For, 1884;
against, 25,24S.
The steamer Castalia sank off Mani
tou island. twenty-five persons were
drowned and one saved, it is reported
at Calumet, Mich.
A petition enjoining the federal dis
trict attorney and labor leaders from
putting the Adamson eight-hour bill
into effect was filed In the Federal
District Court of Kansas City. Kan,
& Santa Fe Railway.
Two unmasked men entered the Sc.
curity State bank in Rosedale, Kan,
a suburb of Kansas City, and. after
placing the cashier, who was alone in
the bank, inside the safe. made off
with more than $1,000. A motor car
was used in their escape.
WASHINGTON
The rising cost Of living is being in
vestigated by the government to as
certain whether the increasing prices
are being pushed upward unlawfully
Contracts for the construction of
four 35-knot destroyers were awarded
tc, the Bath Iron Works of Bate, Me-,
each vessel to cost Sl l,15O,Ovv for hull
and machinery. These are are first
contracts to be awarded under the
1917 building program.
Colonels George Barnett, L. w. T.
Waller, Joseph II. Pindelton, John
I.ejeune and Eli X. Cole OF the marine
corps, under the authority of the last
appropriation bill which created this
grade, were selected to be brigadier
generals in the corps. General Bar
nett is now commandant of tie corps,
and in that position has the rank OF
major general.
Precedents established in the case
of the American ship Frye, wheat.
laden and bound for England. sank
in mid-Atlantic by the German aux
iliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Frederick in
1915, are expected to lead the German
government voluntarily to offer TO pay
for the steamer Lanao sunk by Ger
man submarine off the coast OF Portu-
eal, Oct. 2s, II 1t is established that
the vessel was sailing legally under
the American flag and registry.
a heavy earthquake, lasting almost
half N hour. was recorded On George