Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-02-18
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAX
-Four French attacks repulsed near
yimy.
Austro-Hungarians occupy Tirana IN
Albania, mar port of Durazzo.
Italians and Austrians continue ar
tillery duels despite heavy snow.
British war office denies cruiser
was sunk by German torpedo boat.
Russians again strongly on the Of
fensive in east Galicia and Volhynia.
The British steamer Areo has been
sunk. One member Of the crew was
lost.
Russians repulse Teuton attacks In
volhynia and on heights northwest OF
Tarnopol.
A separate peace offer conveyed to
Belgium by an official of the Vatican
has been rejected.
gium has resulted, it is estimated, in
total casualties of at least 100000.
Berlin reports British cruiser Caro-.
line and two destroyers were sunk by
Zeppelins in recent raid over England.
About 14.9OO German troops from
West African colony crossed the
border into Spanish territory and
were disarmed and interned.
Germany and Austria announce that
beginning March 1 all armed merch'
antmen will be treated As warships, to
be attacked without warning.
Decisive struggle of the war seems
to have begun on the vest front and
to depend only on improved weather
for assuming tremendous proportions.
Earl Kitchener probably will quit
the British Cabinet to take active COM
mand in the field. A civilian will sue
ceed him as secretary of state. but the
war part of his office will be filled by
an officer.
WESTERN
Mrs. Pauline Randle was divorced
at San Francisco from her husband,
Jules, who, she swore, has been drunk
for thirteen years.
Two posses searched for the lone
bandit who held up and robbed
thirty passengers in sleeping car on
eastbound Union Pacific train No. IS
between Rock Springs and Green
River, Wyo.
Another American has been added
to the list of victims of Mexican ban
dts. Guy Johnson, ranchman, was
found dead in the mountains between
Minaca and Ocampo. His body was
riddled with bullets.
The Metropolitan Street Railway
Company, under a settlement reached
in the Circuit Court at Kansas City.
agreed to ray Miss Evelyn Whiting
ton, 16 years old, $500 for kiss ad-
ministered by one of the company's
conductors.
Three men and three women, al
legged to have blown open the vault
of the United States collector at st.
Paul, Jan. G, and to have escaped
with $4,000 in money and revenue
stamps valued at s577,S57. were ar
rested at Chicago.
Two deaths and the safe return of
one man who had been reported
drowned increased to eighteen the
number OF those known to have per.
ished in the Arkansas flood. 1t is be-
lieved two other persons were
drowned near Arkansas City.
WASHINGTON
Speaker Clark introduced bill to
increase number of cadets at West
Point.
President Wilson accepted the resig-
naticr of Lindley NJ. Garrison as sec.
retary of war.
Baron Zwiedenik, Austrian charge
de'affaires. called on Secretary Ian
sing and discussed the question OF
armed merchantmen.
The Philippine republic. the first
real republic of the far East, will be
the immediate result OF the passage
of the Hitchcock bill. according 10
Manuel l.. Quezon, resident commits
sioner of the Philippines.
President Wilson has given up the
idea OF making an exten6ed southern
trip tc speak for preparedness. He
told senators and representatives who
invited him to various cities that at
present he would not make another
trip.
The Senate passed bills to make
100000 Immediately available for
Mare Island and New York navy yards
and increase Annapolis midshipmen.
h. G. Rhett, former mayor of
Charleston, S. O., was elected presi'
dent OF the Chamber Of Commerce of
the United States. All other officers
were reelected.
Former President Taft told Red
Cross workers that adequate military
preparedness was absolutely neces.