The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-04-14
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STORY OF THE WEEK
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EvElsrs IN QUA OWN AND
FOREIGN lANoS-
ABOUT THE WAR


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Russian efforts to advance in the
krzerum region st2bbornly resisted
BY Turks.
Paris reports capture OF 159 yards
R German trenches southwest OF
Douzrmoat
British troops a. St Elol capture
German trench and retake mine crater
recently lost
Yrench eyacuats BethlneO1rt salient
n Verdun into which Germans had
driven wedge
Germany announces the steamer
Sussex was not attacked By q Ger
man submarine
British forces repulsed by Turks In
effort to penetrate 70 relief Of Kut-el-
Auara, floods hampering attack
Germans seize French trenches east
OF LIE Mont HOmme al Nerdun but are
driven from captured positions in
Doua uamont-Vau1 region
Petrograd reports German plan to
rash reinforcemeuts to Nerdun from
Dvfnsk front has been baked by new
Russian offensive, which has engaged
Yield Marshal Won Hindenburgs en-
tire available force.
Gen. Gavira, Carranza commander
At Juarez, announced that the forces
Of the de facto government were in
. position to take immediate control
a the villa situation If the American
troops Withdrew
Tex. Sunday from Columbus reported
that additional troops are being bur
ried south into Mexico from the base
as rapidly as they can be provided
with transportation and equipment
Twenty thousand Germans were
killed or disabled In the first forty
eight hours of the new Nerdun at
tack and German losses in the Yer
dun offensive total zoe 600, Paris re-
ported 1t is admitted that the French
losses have been $4,000.
AT Gen. Pershing's headuarters at
the front renewed reports have been
received that Francisco Villa is dead
and buried These reports ara under
Investigation. Meanwhile the hunt
for the VnIistas is proceeding with
renewed yigor with the arrival a. the
front OF Gen Pershing
WESTERN
T. M Potter Of Norwich, Kan shot
and killed his wife because she tooA
their children walking Sunday when
he protested.
Fifty persons, including women AMI
children. were murdered by bandits
between Torreou Zacatecas, March Is,
when the marauders wrecked th7
train on which they were riding. ac-
cording 10 word brought to Laredo.
Tex. By passengers.
Returns from the war baby crop in
in East Hammond, Ind, and foreigners
accept fatherhood by proxy in much
the same way as they hail a victory
for the country of their nativity.
When it is boy, the daddy stands
he drinks.
Confirmation of the burning OF the
100000 lumber plant OF the Com
pania MADEIRA. Durango City by ban
dts, was contained in letter re
eeived by an Ell Paso busines man. 1t
10 not known whether followers of the
Arrieta brothers or stray Nillista
bands attached to Gen. Canuto Reyes
we're to blame
James Moran. alias Arthur Maggs,
did not participate in the robbery OF
= United States mail truck in New
York last February, as he has con
yt..a
and at San Diego. according to Los
Angeles officers, who said Moran was
in San Quentin penitentiary at the
time the 100000 robbery was com
mitted.
WASHINGTON
The House passed $4,000, 900
rivers and harbors appropriation bill,
z10 to 1873.
Unofficial and unconsirmed reports
that Villa is dead reached the Car
rama embassy and was given some
degree Of credence by officials there,
The Senate passed forty to thirty
two. substitute for House sugar re-
peal resolution. extending present
sugar tariff until 1920.
Rear Admiral Caperton, command
ing the cruiser squadron in Haitien
waters. telegraphed that the minister
Of public instruction and another citi-
zen had been bitten by mad dog and
were en- route to New York for treat
ment-
The Senate adopted resolution by
Kenyon asking attorney general for
report on investigation OF Standard
Oil activities since ordered dissolved,
particularly as to gasoline prices.
Surgeon General Gorgas asked Con-
gress to authorize the army to feed
its trained dogs.