The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-03-18
CONDENSED RECORD or TIE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o IN c 3. ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
About the War

turkish ARMENIA.
German commerce raider Moewe
arrives safely in Teuton port.
In the Champagne. region the Ger
mans captured a French trench.
Heavy rains have caused the ces-
sation of Austro-Italian hostilities.
Russian artillery is hammering the
German lines in northwest Russia.
German infantry attacks at Douau-
mont and east of Vacherauville re-
pulsed.
Turkish war minister, Enver Pasha,
reported wounded in attempt to as
sassinate him.
Russians drive wedge between flee
ing Turkish armies, Bagdad's fall re-
ported imminent.
Berlin reports that 1876 men and
22S officers have been captured so
far in the Verdun fighting.
More than 5000 men drowned when
French auxiliary cruiser Provence IL
was sunk in Mediterranean.
Paris semi-official estimates place
the number of German dead lying on
the field before Verdun at $4,000.
Twelve persons were killed and
tbirty-three injured in a raid by Yep
pelins over, the northeast coast OF
England.
German forces captured the village
OF Forges nine miles northwest of
Verdun. Efforts to advance from this
point were blocked by French couh
tor-attacks.
Supported by fire from their fleet
the Russians landed on the shore OF
the Black sea east of Trebizond, cap
turing the towns of Atina and Ma
prava, routed the Turks and took
about 800 prisoners.
Western
Bankers in Colorado and Wyoming
are a unit in reporting prosperous
conditions everywhere.
A prairie fire starting west OF Mar
avisa, New Mex, swept twenty-five
miles eastward and threatened the
town,
Robbers blew open the safe and
wrecked the bank at Mounds, Okla,
and escaped with between $1,000 ana
$4,000.
Twenty persons are dead and about
thirty seriously burned as the result
OF an explosion in the disinfecSns
baths in the jail at Ell Paso. Tex.
The two-day conference of mayors
or national defense closed at st.
Louis with banquet at which the
principal speakers were George w.
Wickersham. former attorney general
o. the United States; Mayor William
Hale Thompson of Chicago and Miss
Anne Morgan of New York.
Alex. Brodie, one of the four men
on trial in Chicago for robbing the
Washington Park National Bank OF
$4,000, on the stand corroborated the
story of his associates to the effect
that they had been induced by Eddie
Mack, who turned states evidence, to
join in the plot, with the understand
ing that they were to be protected
by acting Police Lieutenant Thomas
Sheehan, who was to receive ten per
cent of the proceeds of the robbery.
Washington
The army bill has been reported TO
the Senate.
President Wilson nominated David
X. Francis of st. Louis to be ambas-
sador to Russia.
Newton c. Baker. former mayor OF
Cleveland, has been selected by Presi-
dent Wilson for Secretary of War.
Olney Arnold. American diplomatic
agent and consul-general at Cairo,
Egypt, died in hospital at Lisbon.
Portugal.
The United States is preparing to
make formal demands upon Austria
Hungary as a result of the attack by
an Austrian submarine upon the
American tank steamer Petrolite.
Louis D. Brandeis was described by
witnesses in his behalf, in the Senate
Supreme Court Justice, as a public
spirited man of high character, who
lad incurred the enmity of powerful
financial interests by advocating
movements to which those interests
were opposed.
Col. e. M. House returned from
London, Paris and Berlin and told
President Wilson that the German
government believed itself justified
Il its new submarine policy, and that
here is no prospect for immediate
Jeace
The final report of the strike com
:nittee which Investigated for Presi-
.ent Wilson on labor troubles in
5clorado's coal field was presented at
he White House. The commission
made no recommendation, but re-
, iewed the situation before and after
he strike.