Gilpin observer., 1916-06-22
AN EPITOME or
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, Doll N G 8. ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERiNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
y,,,.rn Newspaper Union rs-w. service.
About the War

western Newspaper Union News service.
About the War
. British destroyer Eden sunk in col
Tision.
Petrograd estimates Austria $
losses since drive began at 315,OOO.
French at verdun repulse German
attacks in Dead Mans Fill and Thiau-
mont regions.
Turks announce British attempting
to cross Euphrates river in Mesopo-
tamia were routed.
Vienna admits evacuation of Ger
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 Rsdziolowo, sixty
miles from Lemberg. Russian often
sive 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
militiaman in America-about $4,000
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. Pershing, Ameri
can expeditionary commander, that
any movement of American troops
from their present lines to the SOUTH
east or west would be considered n
hostile act and 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
fees Monday. Russia is convinced
that Austria is completely defeated
following the capture of Czernowitz
and the continuation of the Slav drive
westward. The Russians took 5000
prisoners in the city and vicinity OF
Cznerowitz. Rome asserts Italian
troops are succeeding in their efforts
to drive out the Austrians.
Western
Charles NJ. Hopper of "Chimmie
Fadden" fame died in the Ashtabula
general hospital at Ashtabula, Ohio.
Eighteen hundred convicts in the
state prison at Joliet, H.. had hall
holiday to attend a circus perform
ance in the prison yard.
Or. 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 ths
Sunshine Special, the Texas & Paci
fic fast train, was ditched three miles
west of Putnam, Tex.
Frank b. Kellogg of St. Paul wa
nominated for United States senato
a inlF f,H Ha,,
from early returns received from
hinnesotas primary election
Philip j. Kealy, president of thu
Kansas City Railways Company, vii
leave his $25,000-a.year job to go will
the Third regiment OF the Missouri
National guard to the border
coroner's jury conducting an in
quest into the deaths of the five pei
sons who were drowned when tn
steamer Bear ran on the rocks off tn
Mennocino coast at Eureka, Cal
brought in an open verdict withou
fixing the responsibility for the dis
aster.
The frontier between Mexico an
the United States is l.165 miles Ions
or this, that between California an
Mexico is las miles, Arizona has
border $50 miles long, New Mexic
one of $50. while Texas has is0 mile,
with the bends and turns of the Ri
Grande river dividing 1t from tn
southern republic.
Washington
immediate steps were decided o
10 expedite passage of the govern
unnt ahln-nurclanan liu L.. IL. L, -