The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-01-29
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o IN G .. ACHIEVE
MENTS, SuFFERINGS. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War


Russian torpedo boats sink 163 sail
ing vessels on the Black sea.
Austrians take Antivari and Dull
cigno, Montenegrin seaports.
British submarine sinks Austrian
torpedo boat in upper Adriatic.
Teutonic allies claim to have cap
tured 3.0uG.000 prisoners since war
began.
Belgium reports 1S,2O7 houses
burned by Germans since they in
vaded country.
The Russians have captured Hassan
kalah in Caucasus and driven Turks
twenty miles to forts of Erzerum.
French airmen have successfully at
tackled and bombarded Monastir. They
dropped several hundred bombs, doing
great damage.
The conscription bill passed the
British commons at its third reading
by an overwhelming vote. 1t now
goes to the lords.
Germanys resumption of air raids
has terrorized England. In three days
three successive raids were made on
Dover. England's principal channel
port.
Austria announces her troops will
give Montenegrin forces opportunity
to surrender before beginning battles.
Montenegrins deny they have capitu-
lated
Turkey. it is reported. will admit Of
ficially that one of her submarines
sank the steamer Persia. on which
American Consul Robert n. McNeely
lost his life.
Austria's troops have taken Scutari.
Despite their reported surrender, the
Montenegrins are still making heroic
resistance and contesting every inch
of ground with the Teutons.
Western
The Arizona strike of 5000 Clifton
Morenci-Metcalf copper miners is
ended.
Rescue parties at Yuma, Ariz,, Mon
day extended relief to ranchers made
homeless by floods in the Colorado
river.
Five canaliform riffs in the north
polar cap of Mars have been discov-
ereu Dy dt LoWell ODSeTN-
atory at Flagstaff. Ariz.
william C. Redfield. secretary of
commerce, was reelected president OF
the National Society for the Promo
ton of Industrial Education at Mime
apoIis.
Findlay. Ohio, dispatch says the
Ohio Oil Company has added cents
barrel to the price of North and
South Lima and Indiana, Wooster and
Plymouth oils.
Another murder mystery developed
at Gary. Ind. at point near the home
of the Rev Edmund Kayser, who was
killed last fall in what was then be-
lieved to be war plot
Big Pete Mccullough. seventy-six
years old. the hanging judge" of An
dersonville prison during the Civil
War, died at his home in Mexico. Mo-,
after u short illness OF pneumonia.
Raymond Dodds, the mulatto, and
Mrs. Viola Hood, who eloped from San
Diego, surrendered themselves to the
Salt Lake City police and both de-
clared that their act was voluntary.
Washington
President Wilson soon will recon-
mend the enactment of legislation pro-
viding for a permanent tariff commits,
sion.
Senator Johnson of South Dakota is
confined to his home by injuries from
falling down stairs. Several ribs are
believed broken.
Senator Shafroth introduced a bill
forbidding railroads charging as much
or more for short haul than for a
longer one on the same route.
The income tax was declared con-
stitutional by the United States Su-
preme Court in an unanimous deci-
soin which swept aside every conten-
tion raised against it.
Consul General Lay in Berlin cabled
that the German authorities in Rus
sia Poland had prohibited the remail-
ing of letters addressed by individuals
. in the United States and transmitted
through American consulates in Ger
many.
Washington officials were both sur
prised and gravely concerned over the
report that Turkey admits responsible
ity for sinking the steamer Persia.
The House immigration committee
decided to incorporate in pending i'm
migration bill provision barring Hin
du as well as Chinese immigrants and
restricting Japanese immigration.
Chiles ratification of the peace
commission treaty negotiated by for
fad
to the State Department by the Chile
an ambassador, Eduardo Suarez Mu-
jica.