The Colorado statesman., 1916-10-07
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
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ABOUT THE WAR

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Fresh attacks by Rumanians along
the entire front in Dobrudja results
in repulses for the central powers.
Italians capture two lofty peaks on
the Carso front and report increased
artillery activity on the part of the
Austrians
Teutonic allies gain successes in
the fighting in Galicia around Lem
berg, while southeast OF that city the
Russians report gains.
More than 5000 prisoners and a
vast amount of munitions taken by
Van Falkenhayn as result of great
German victory in the Hermanstadt
region.
Serbian troops have crossed the
Danube in their campaign against the
Bulgarians, and also have routed the
enemy from four more towns in the
region of Florina.
Field Marshal Won Mackensen is
said to have ordered the evacuation
of Silistria and Turtukai, the import
ant Rumanian fortresses recently cap
tured by the Teutonic forces.
Violent fighting is in progress on
the Russian front west of Lutsk and
in Galicia, both sides resisting stub
bornly the assaults of the other. Pc
trograd admits no important gains
have been made.
The Central powers crushed the
Rumanians in three-day battle in
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feat, announcing that troops fought
way Through encircling lines of Ger
mans and Austrians.
The Greek situation continues to
develop. King Constantine, according
to an Athens dispatch, has in his
hands the designations of the men,
bers of the Cabinet except those of
the premier and the foreign minister
WESTERN
Fire in the Morris & Co. packing
plant at Omaha entirely gutted that
structure. entailing loss estimated
at $75O,0OO.
Prices of cane sugar registered an
other advance at San Francisco, the
new quotations being $40 per hun
dred pounds wholesale and $3.50 re-
tail.
Early arrival in America of two Yep.
pelins bearing mail was predicted in
San Francisco by Monroe p. Marks,
who has just returned from a visit to
Germany.
Brig. Gen. ]. ]. Pershing, at San An.
tonic, Texas, received official notifi-
cation of his promotion to major gen
eral, filling the vacancy made by the
death of Maj. Gen. Albert Mills.
Testimony was concluded at Sidney,
Neb., in the trial of Frank Connell, of
Denver charged with the killing OF
Ira Cox. farmer, last July, when flee
ing from Sunol, Neb., after the rob-
berry of bank.
Highest prices ever known at this
season of year were registered for
butter and eggs at Chicago, as fur
ther additions were made to an ad-
vance that had been almost continu-
GUS for the last two months.
1t was announced at military head
quarters at El Paso, Texas, that Bat
terry B of Denver and Battery C Of
Colorado Springs, part of the Colo
rado National Guard, would go into
camp at Deming, N. M, upon their
arrival at the border.
Wage increases or shorter hours
were announced by the packers and
garment firms in Chicago, to affec,
10000 workers, making an annual in
crease in pay rolls of $5,OOO,OOO. The
packers changes are to affect all
plants of the firms involved in the
United States.
W ahINGTON
Marked increases in the cost of liv-
ing is shown in the rising tendency
of prices of food stuffs on October l..
United States Senator James p.
Clarke, president pro tempore of the
United States Senate, died at his home
at Little Rock. Ark.
A complete report on the manufac
ture and price of gasoline will be
made public by the federal trade com
mission within the next few weeks.
The geological survey reports that
Colorado, Wyoming and Montana com
bined produced 347,397,OO cubic feet
of natural gas in 1915. The outpu
was worth S63,39S.
The shooting of Capt. Wilson of the
Second Idaho Infantry by a Mexican
sentry at Nogales. Ariz.. was reported
to the War Department by Gen. Fun
ston. Although the shooting was re
ported to be accidental and Capt. VIII
sons wound is not serious, the Mex
lean was arrested by the Carranza
authorities.
The greatest American relief cam
paign to- be undertaken since the or