The Ordway new era., 1916-01-07
cAU0Hr FROM the NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DUaNG the PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
rSeeIE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR


the principal cities of Persia.
Italians are reported as having cap
tured Durazzo, the most Important
seaport of Albania.
Kaiser loses 5000 men in an at
tempt to break through British lines
In Belgium and France.
Reports of designations from the
British Cabinet as the result of the
conscription split are rampant in Lon
Up.
British clergy declare nation will
De in poverty at end of war London
T press demands Lloyd-George be made
premier
Enyoys of Germany, Austria and
Bulgaria at Saloniki have been seized
and imprisoned by the British and
French military authorities.
Replying to a written question by
P. A. Moltens, member of the House
OF Commons. Premier Asquith gave
the total British casualties up to Dec.
3. as 52S,227
A dispatch to Lloyds from Bergen
says the Norwegian ford steamer
I1OhCich hdS DScu Sohh a.
north of Bergen, with the loss OF one
man drowned.
Austria has acceded to the de-
mands of the United States on the
sinking of the Ancona. The subma-
rine commander who sunk the vessel
has been punished.
The Suez canal is threatened by the
Germans. British officials admit the
seriousness of the danger, and insur-
ance rates on vessels using the canal
route have been greatly increased.
WESTERN
About 1000 Villa troops were as
sembled in Juarez and of these about
1000 have been paid off and shipped
south.
More oil and gasoline were Inspect
ed In Kansas in 1915 than ever be
FORE. says the annual reports of the
state oil inspector.
Three thousand two hundred Chi
cago school teachers went on the
board of education payroll at salary
increases OF. s12o per annum, effective
Jan. l.
3. w. A. Henson, GO, retired farm
er, was arrested at Wichita, Kansas,
charged with the murder OF his wife
and his stepson. Walter Shafer. IS
years cid.
William Hale Thompson. mayor of
Chicago. requested the secretary of
state of Nebraska to withdraw his
name from the presidential primary
ballot in Nebraska.
Mrs. Frances Ellen Hare. Oldest
white woman in the Northwest, died
at Astoria, Ore, while asleep, at the
age of 104 years. Her father. the late
Judge Davenport, occupied the bench
in the Supreme Court of Virginia and
also served three terms in Congress.
Lieut.. Gov. ]. A. A. Burnquist, who
becomes governor of Minnesota as
result of the death of Gov. Hammond
at Clinton, La, was in bed with a
bad cold when he received the news
of the governors death. Mr.. Burn
auist is Republican. Gov. Hammond
was a Democrat.
WASHINGTON
The Illness of Gen. Huerta is seri-
otis, although not dangerous. accord
ing to reports received from Ell Paso
by the Department of Justice
Reports from some of the principal
postoffices estimate the volume of
Christmas business this year at from
fifteen to forty per cent larger than
ever before.
Pleas for a greater Pan-American-
ism were numerous in the program of
the Par-American Scientific Congress
in spite of the great volume of pa
pers read on technical subjects.
Every school building in the Unit
ed States was pictured as potential
town hall at the session of the Ameri-
can Civic Association at which Miss
Margaret Wilson, daughter of Presi-
dent Wilson. presided.
Secretary Lansing has suggested
that all the nations which, with the
United States, comprise the Pan
American Union. join in convention
for the arbitration of all boundary
line disputes and for the prohibition
lof shipments of war munitions to rev.
Plutionaries
Secretary Lansing formally denied
iblished statements that the real
rpose Of the visit to Europe Of Col
M. House was to settle differences
Eeen Ambassador Page At London
AMhassador Gerard and Penfield
tIin and Vienna.
ksSnE planned Of Representa-
96saaaan of Illinois, for
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