The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-06-24
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. DoiN g 3, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union N-ws Service.
About the War


About the War
Pritish destroyer Eden sunk in col
lision.
Petrograd estimates Austria's
losses since drive began at 315, 900.
French at Verdun repulse German
attacks in Dead Mans Hill and Thiau-
mont regions.
Turks announce British attempting
to cross Euphrates river in Mesopo-
tamia were routed.
Vienna admits evacuation of Czer-
nowitz. Austrians retreat toward
Carpathian mountains.
Berlin reports that General Won
Linsingen has repulsed Russian at
tacks and taken 3,446 prisoners.
British claim to have advanced or
Tigris river. but Turkish official re-
port asserts they were repulsed.
The Spanish Press Association has
a cablegram from the Spanish colony
In Mexico City urging King Alfonso
to intervene and prevent war between
the United States and Mexico.
Russians capture Radziolowo, sixty
miles from Lemberg. Russian orfen-
e.ve in Volhynia. Galicia and Buko-
wilma continues with little slackening
in force, tho advance of armies is not
so rapid as in early stages of drive.
The United States and Mexico are
making preparations for war. Every
milit:aman in America-about 145,00O
men-has been called out by orders
issued Sunday in Washington. Gen.
Obregon. Mexican minister of war,
has ordered every able-bodied Mexi-
can to take up arms and fight the
Americans.
Gen. Jacinto Trevino. commanding
the Carranzista army of the north,
advised Gen. J. J. Pershing, Ameri'
can eXpeditionary commander, that
any movement OF American troop.
from their present lines TO the south,
east or west would be considered a
hostile act and a signal to commence
warfare. Gen. Trevino acted upon
specific instructions from Gen. Car
rama.
Large bodies Of German and Aus
trian troops are battling to stem the
general Russian advance westward,
but with little decided success, accord
ing to reports from all the war Of
fices Monday. Russia is convinced
that Austria Is completely defeate-
following the capture Of Czernowitz
and the continuation OF the Slav drive
westward. The Russians took 5000
prisoners in the city and vicinity o.
Cznerowitz. Rome asserts Italian
troops are succeeding in their efforts
to drive out the Austrians.
Western
Charles M. Hopper of "Chimm;e
Fadden" fame died in the Ashtabula
general hospital at Ashtabula. Ohio.
Eighteen hundred convicts in the
state prison at Joliet. ILL.,, had a hall
holiday to attend circus perform
ance in the prison yard.
DIR. w. o. Henry, candidate of the
Progressive party in Nebraska for
United States senator, announced his
withdrawal from the race.
Forty persons were injured, per-
haps a dozen seriously, when thu
Sunshine Special the Texas & Paci-
fic fast train. was ditched three miles
west of Putnam, Tex.
Frank b. Kellogg of St. Paul was
nominated for United States senator
on the Republican ticket, judging
from early returns received from
Minnesota's primary election.
Philip ]. Kealy, president of the
Kansas City Railways Company. will
leave his $25. 5.OOO-a-year job to go with
the Third regiment Of the Missouri
National guard to the border.
A coroners jury conducting an in
quest into the deaths of the five per
sons who were drowned when the
steamer Bear ran on the rocks off the
Mennocino coast at Eureka, Cal,
brought in an open verdict without
fixing the responsibility for the dis
aster.
The frontier between Mexico and
the United States is 1.lG5 miles long.
OF this, that between California anu
Mexico is las miles, Arizona has
border $50 miles long, New Mexico
one of $50, while Texas has $50 miles
with the bends and turns of the RIO
Grande river dividing 1t from the
southern republic.
Washington
Immediate steps were decided on
to expedite passage of the govern
ment ship-purchase bill by the Sen
ate.
The President has sent reply to
Gen. Carranza, refusing to withdraw
of hiS
time.