The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-01-22
CONDENSED RECORD OF tn e
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D OF N G .. ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news Service.
About the War

German aircraft again raid Saloniki'
Allies destroy more bridges.
Leyland liner Huronian torpedoed
by submarine near spot where Lusi-
tania sank.
Russians, reinforced, begin often
sive on 1OO-mile front against Turks
In Caucasus.
The British steamer Clan MacFar-
land of 4,S23 tons has been sunk III
the Mediterranean.
Two Italian steamers were sunk oy
mines. The loss of life was great, ac-
cording to reports.
Germany officially announces Kaiser
has recovered from illness and re-
turned to war front.
Moslem forces have suffered re-
verse in Mesopotamia. The retreat
ing British troops have turned and
are again driving the Turks before
them.
British and. French have landed At
Phaleron. This position is five miles
southeast of Athens and enables the
allies to threaten the Greek capital II
necessary.
Germany notifies Great Britain rA-
prisal measures will be adopted for
alleged shooting of crew of German
submarine which was sunk by the
patrol boat Baralong.
Russians lose heavily in new at
tacks on Austrians and. according to
reports from Vienna, fail to gain inch
of ground. Cars men advance III
columns twelve to fourteen deep and
bnyonet fighting is frequent.
On the heels of an Austrian repor.
to the effect that Montenegro has un-
conditionally sued for peace, comes n
statement from Zurich, Switzerland.
that King Nicolas has refused to con-
slider peace terms from the Teutonic
powers.
Western
At Newton, N. j., Charles Ashford
Schaefer. 1OS years old. died from
paralysis.
Owen O'Malley, aged 40 years. was
South Omaha, Neb.
An Illinois Central passenger train
jumped the track near Pisgah, Iowa.
Four persons were seriously hurt and
a score injured.
The McClintic-Marshall Construc
tion Company OF Pittsburg notified its
workmen of 10 per cent increase In
wages. About 1000 men vii be at
fected.
Miss Ida May Swift. daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Franklin Swift, was
married in Chicago to Count James
Minotto of New York, son of Count
and Countess Minotto of Venice.
Two men were reported drowned
and hundreds of persons were home
less Monday night as result of the
heavy rainstorm which has caused
almost every river and stream in
southern California to overflow its
banks and inundate the lowlands.
Washington
The House passed the Ferris bill fol-
federal leasing of mineral lands on the
public domain.
The House military affairs commit
tee will give a hearing on the Keat
ing bill to establish an $S,000.000 mu
nitions plant at Pueblo.
RADIO public buildings as follows: Du-
range, $4,000; Fort Morgan. $500;
La Junta. $4,000. For Wyoming he
recommended Cody. $500, and Basin,
$500.
Women school teachers of Washing
ton are jubilant over a decision Of the
Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, holding that they may
marry and still retain their positions.
Establishment of a neutral zone in
northern Mexico to be Jointly policed
by the forces of Mexico and the Unit
ed States unless disorders are
speedily controlled, is proposed in a
resolution introduced by Senator
Gore. Democrat. OF Oklahoma.
Arthur Hauser, former Denver man
and a fugitive from the Colorado pen
itentiary. was found guilty of murder
ing w. H. Smith, cashier of the Wood
men of the World, by jury in the
District Court OF Omaha. He was sen.
fenced to life Imprisonment.
The capture of Gen. Jose Rodriguez,
Gen. Almeida and other Villa chief
tains by Carranza forces near MADEIRA
was announced in dispatches from El
Paso to the State Department and
the Mexican embassy. Almeida was
shot Immediately. the message to the
embassy said, and summary execution
of Rodriguez had been ordered by
Gen. Gavira. commanding the garri
son at JuareZ.
Several large shipments Of war re-
lief supplies to France. Belgium and
Montenegro have been made by the
American Red Cross.