Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-02-02
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European War News

AuStrO-Hungarian troops have cap
tured the Albanian town of Alessio
and are nearing Durazzo, according
to word received by the Italian gov
eminent at Rome. With the occupa-
ton of Durazzo the Teuton forces will
be in control Of all of northern Alba
ria.
According to a statement made by
M. Longust, a French Socialist deputy,
at the British trade union conference
at Bristol, England, the French losses
in the war have been 100000 killed, l.
100000 wounded and 100000 captured.
An official communication made pub
lie at Petrograd says: cit has been
learned that the Turkish Goeben (Sul-
tan Selim) suffered severe damage in
an engagement January 8. It's casual
ties included 33 men killed and 80
wounded.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung says the
British in southern Arabia are in
| dangerous position as a result of fierce
attacks by Turks. British casualties
up to December 80 amounted to $4,000
killed and 10000 wounded.
Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, COM
mander of the first British battle
cruiser squadron, whose ships defeat
ed the Germans in the North sea, made
a stirring appeal at Liverpool for a
great religious revival in England as
a necessary step to victory in the war.
! Representative of the Montenegro
! government signed articles in which
the Montenegro army agrees to lay
down it's arms, according to official
announcement to Vienna from field
| headquarters.
In the attack of Nancy by two Ger
man air squadrons, Lieutenant Boehme
| of the aviation corps was killed, it was
/ announced at Berlin. Lieutenant
Boehme had been decorated by order
| of the kaiser.
Thirty-nine persons were killed, one
transport was sunk and several rail
road cars loaded with provisions were
! destroyed when German airmen raid
ed Dover, according to the Hamburg
Fremdenblatt
Hereafter French warships will as
sist British vessels in blockade duties
in both the English channel and the
North sea, participating in examina-
ton of mails and cargoes, the an
nouncement was made at London.
According to a Turkish official re-
port, the British left 5000 dead on
the field in battle near Kut, in which
they lost ground.
Domestic
The five men who held UP and
robbed the Washington Park National
bank at Chicago of $15,616 are under
arrest. The money was recovered.
The robbery, bold as it was, becomes
minor part of a gigantic plot of po-
lice graft and criminal political prac-
!
one of the bandit gang.
Seven workmen were burned, three
seriously, in four fires that occurred
at the Carneys Point, N j., plant of
the Dupont Powder company.
Five persons were killed and wide
stretch of country devastated when
two dams on the San Diego water sys-
tenn broke in the Otay valley south Of
San Diego, Cal. The dams were weak
ened by storm.
The United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea adopted at indianapolis the report
of the scale committee, which asked
for a raise of ten per cent for the
bituminous miners and workers about
the mines and 20 per cent for the an
thracite workers. The demands will
be brought before the bituminous OPP
orators at Mobile February and be-
fore the anthracite operators at New
York February Fl.
NdLlOHdl OAlCeIo u Ch0 CHIC0u AA"I
tiers of North America estimated at
New York that the contributions made
for the relief Of the defendants in the
Danbury hatters' case would be at
least $35O,000. The contributions are
sufficient to save the hatters' homes.
Six persons were killed in fire that
Quilted the Talbot Walker building at
Seattle, Wash.
Seven persons persisted in Montana
in the cold wave, the worst ever ex-
periencel in the state.
Albert H. Scherzer, president of the