Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-12-15
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, d IN G 8. ACHIEVE.
MENTs, SUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Germans repulse Russian attack in
Trotus valley and Russians check as
saults in Oituz valley.
Russians on offensive in Carpatlii-
ans, Petrograd claims. Berlin says at
tacks here were repulsed.
Italian steamer Palermo torpedoed
and sunk off coast of Spain. Twenty
five Americans aboard, of whom one
is said to have been fatally wounded.
With the fall of Bucharest the CEN
tral powers are now in possession OF
four capitals of entente allied states.
the others being Brussels, Belgrade
and Cettinge.
Won Mackensen pursuing routed Ru-
manians and Russians Friday in east
ern Wallachia. Little resistance Of
fered. More than $4,000 prisoners TAX
en- in this region.
Political crisis in Great Britain cul-
minated with resignation of Premier
Asquith and rendering Of prime minis
tership to Andrew Bonar Law, Union
ist leader. David LloydGeorge, prin-
cipal opponent OF Asquith, mentioned
as an alternative choice should Law
decline the post.
simultaneously with the announce
ment of the fall of Bucharest came the
news OF the capture of Ploeshti, north
Of the capital, the conquest of which
places in the hands of the invaders
the last railroad in the west and gives
to them the line running northward
TO Jassy, where the capital of Ru.
mania is now situated.
Bucharest is in the hands of the
forces of the central powers. Exactly
100 days after the declaration OF war
by Rumania against them finds the
Teutonic allies in control of about
$4,000 square miles of Rumanian ter
ritory-virtually one half of the king.
dom-running from the Transylvanian
Danube south Of 1t, and large part
OF Dobrudja.
WESTERN
Wage increases aggregating S1,250.-
900 year and affecting nearly 21,000
employees were announced in Toledo,
Ohio.
Four masked bandits held up and
robbed the State bank of Winslow,
Neb., a town fifty miles west of
Omaha. and escaped in high-po~.
cred automobile with $4,000.
Oscar d. McDan>l. prosecuting at.
torney of Buchanan county was ac-
quilted by jury in the Criminal
Court at St Joseph, Mo, of the charge
of having murdered Mrs. Harriet Moss
Mcdaniel, his wife.
julius C. Gunter, governor-elect of
Colorado was taken suddenly i'll in
Washington and was unable to attend
the opening of arguments before the
Supreme Court Of the United States
in the Wyoming Colorado water case.
Directors of the Atchison, Topeka X
Santa Fe Railway Company authorized
a distribution equal to 10 per cent of
a.year's pay to all IT., employees in the
service of the system for at least two
years and whose annual compensation
does not exceed $2,500. President Rip
ley said that the amount to be distrib-
. uted was estimated at about s2,750,0OO.
WASHINGTON
Representative Lindbergh of Mime
sofa would have the President take
steps to end the European war.
William j. Bryan opposed exclusive
federal regulation of railroads before
Joint railroad investigating committee.
With the reelection of Senator
Ransdell of Louisiana as president,
the rivers and harbors congress ad-
iourned
Six thousand national guardsmen
will be sent home from the border at
once to be mustered out, 1t was an
nounced.
note to Germany protesting
against the deportation of Belgians for
forced labor as contrary to all pre-
o0dents and human principles OF inter
national practice was made public by
the State Department.
The preliminary hearing of Karl
Armgaard Graves, self-styled interna-
tional spy. charged with attempting to
extort $4,000 from Countess Won Bern
storff. wife of the German ambassador,
was continued until March 10.
It has been learned that Walter
Hines Page has rendered his resigna-
tion as United States ambassador TO
England.
Petitions in behalf Of the so per cent
OF railroad employees not affected by
the Adamson law. and signed by 3OO.-
900 of them, were presented 10 the
Senate by Senator Newlands.
CONGRESSMAN Ben IIilliard, Of Colo
rado. reported to the clerk of the Ma
tionaI House of Representatives, total
expenditures of s2.12s11 in his race
for nomination and election to Con-
gross this year.