The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-03-24
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STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
ABOUT THE WAR

serum.
German seaplanes raid east coast
OF England, killing nine persons and
wounding thirty-one.
The entente allies have promised
Belgium she will be invited to partici-
pate in the peace negotiations.
Dutch passenger ship Tubantia
sunk by submarine of mine, with 3Si
aboard. United States will investi-
gate.
French aviators dropped showers OF
shells on railway stations at Complains
and Metz, causing numerous 'eXplo-
sions and fires.
In Galicia the Russians are also
gaining Most of the defenders of a
bridgehead near the village of Mix
haltche were killed when it was tax
en- by the Slavs.
The forces OF Col. Cano were en-
gagged in battle Monday with bandits
led by Villa, in Numiquipa, accord
ing to dispatch received by Gen.
Gayira, Carranza commandant at
JuareZ
Germany has begun a new drive
against Verdun, using fresh troops.
The French say that although Liquid
fire was poured on their lines by the
Germans they succeeded in repulsing
all attacks
Petrograd reports large gains in the
Lake NarocZ region and the capture
OF several villages In Galicia the
ear forces have captured Austrian
trenches and bridgehead east Of
the village OF Mikhaltche.
The Russians are massing troops in
the south of Poland preparatory to
drive against the Germans in that sec
ton. There has been lively fighting
in the lake region between Dvinsk
and wilma. with the Cars troops on
the offensive.
German troops are attempting to
flank Nerdun on the west and have
worked their way through the Malau
court wood and the Avoncourt wooG
and begun a bombardment of the vii
lage of Esnes, about eight miles north
west of Nerdun The line. If con
tinued, would not only bring the Ger
mans nearer Nerdun, but would en-
danger the French in the region OF
lie Mort Fiomme hill The French are
making a strong resistance and so far
have held the Germans in the lines OF
the woods.
WESTERN
Fires destroyed Modoc and Utica.
Kan.
Fire caused 100000 loss i'll Okla
homa oil fields.
The battleship Kentucky arrived at
Galveston from New Orleans.
Thirty blocks in Paris. Tex. were
destroyed by fire, causing a loss OF
S2.ouo,ooO.
Three men were killed. two seri-
ously injured and several others
slightly hurt in an explosion nea,
Whalen, Wyo
At Anderson. Ind, Beatrice Long
Coins, Sc. son OF Marion Coins, so,
Beatrice's first husband.
general order exiting the Cath
Ole clergy from the Sonora district
of Mexico is being enforced at No.
gales, Ariz. The order, issued by the
governor of Sonora on March 20, gave
the clergy only two days to leave the
state.
Some of the horrors of the Villa
pursuit were revealed at FL Paso.
Tex, when negro trooper OF the
Tenth cavalry, who was with Col
Dodd. arrived to be treated for blind
ness. He had been rendered blind
by the glare of the Chihuahua desert.
WASHINGTON
Representative Kahn's amendment
to Hay Army Bill, making standing
army 100000 instead of 100000, de-
feated, 1873 to 1903
Several hundred Indian war vet
Grams in Colorado and other Rocky
Mountain states will be gladdened b.
the news that Senator Shafroth has
got favorable report from the Pen
sion Committee on the Indian War
Veterans Pension Bill. The bill pro-
vides that veterans of Indian wars
shall be given the same status and
entitled to the same pensions as vet
Grams of the Civil War.
The de facto government of Mexico
proposed to the United States the
drafting of protocol, under which
American and Mexican troops may CO
operate in running to earth Francisco
villa and his bandits without danger
of misunderstanding or conflict.
Winter wheat in Rumania Is grow
ing on 4,s62,00O acres, which is ,
per cent more than sown last year
and the conditions of winter cereals
in Spain. Italy, Luxembourg. Inoia ana
Tunis is reported good. in cable
gram received by the Department of
Agriculture.