The Ordway new era., 1916-09-29
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union vsws ssrvics
ABOUT THE WAR

Unofficial advices say revolution
ary provisional government has been
set up on the island of Crete.
Allied transport laden with troops
sunk by submarine in the Mediter-
ranean, says Berlin admiralty report,
Athens diplomatic circles report
that the Austrians are about to eYac-
uate Triest, the chief port of the leu
tonic powers on the Adriatic.
British troops on Somme advance a
mile, capturing German trenches
Other allied successes reported by
French and British war offices.
Berlin estimates that the entente
allied armies on the Somme have lost
100000 men in killed, wounded AMI
prisoners as a result of the recent
offensive over the long front.
Ninety thousand Germans under the
personal command OF Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg cut to pieces by the
French on the Somme, according to
report to Paris newspaper, La
Liberte.
Two British subjects and thirty-siN
out of thirty-eight Carranza soldiers
we're killed when Villistas raided an
oil camp near Tuxpam Sept. 16, ac.
cording to officers of the tank steam
er Topila, which arrived at Calves
ton, Tex.
The tide in the great battle for pos
session OF DobrudIa has turned in IA
vor of the Teutonic forces, says Ber-
lin, claiming that the flank of the
Russo-Rumanian army has been
turned and that the enemy beat
hasty retreat in disorder
Important Teutonic successes re
ported from Sofia, which declares Ser
bian troops have been routed. Allied
war statements forwarded to Paris
and London via Saloniki dispute the
official reports issued by war offices
of the central powers.
WESTERN
Butte, Mont, was selected as the
1918 meeting place for the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Carpenters.
Storming the Jail, fifty armed men
lynched Bert Dudley. avenging the
brutal murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Muller, for which he was convicted at
Olathe, Kan.
Hipolito Villa, brother of Francisco
Villa, and his financial agent in the
days when Juarez was a wide open
town, was released from federal Gus
tody and set at liberty.
Prospectors, spectators and. in one
instance, a Denver oil company, have
been turned back recently from the
Lost Soldier and Mahoney Dome oil
lands in Wyoming by the withdrawal
of the land from entry.
While on his way to attend the
funeral of his lifelong friend. Nicho
las Entringer, at st. Cloud, Daniel
Kempf, 80 years old, Fond Du Lac
county. Wis, pioneer, was struck and
Instantly killed by a freight train.
Military funeral services for Col.
John H. Beacon, Sixth United States
infantry, who died recently while
commanding this regiment at Colonia
Dublan, Mex, were held at Ell Paso,
Tex. The body was sent to Wells
vile. Ohio, his former home, for
burial
WASHINGTON
An interest rate of 31a per cent for
fifteen-day notes at the Dallas Fed
the reserve board.
Miss Phyllis Julia Neilson-Terry,
the English actress. and Cecil Frank
King Ogden, her manager, were mar
ried in the British consulate at New
Orleans, La.
Austria Hungary has decided to
grant permission for establishment
of American Red Cross units in the
dual monarchy, withdrawn several
months ago because of lack of funds
Two Wyoming National guard in
fantry battalions, Troop A of the Kan
sas cavalry and Troop of the Wis
consin cavalry were ordered to the
Mexican border by the War Depart
ment.
The Department of Justice clamped
down the lid on the pending black
mail prosecutions. Hereafter, Off
cials OF the department say, the
cases will be prosecuted in the
courts and not in the newspapers"
Brig. Gen. J. J. Pershing, COM
mander Of the American punitive ex-
pedition in Mexico and ranking
brigadier Of the army, probably will
be made major general, vacancy
In that grade having been created by
the death Of Major General Mills.
Consul General Skinner at London
cnblAd the State Depa rfm ment fhot two
American sailors, William Wootton of
Harrison. n. J.. and Bernard Sweeney
Of Hayonne. N. j.. were saved from
tbe British stsamef strathtey. torps-
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