The Ordway new era., 1916-01-28
cAuaAT FROM the NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND AsouT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD or IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR susY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News serrtcs.
ABOUT THE WAR


ing vessels on the Black sea.
The French have discovered sub
marine base ON Corfu Island.
British submarine sinks Austrian
torpedo boat in upper Adriatic.
Russians push forward i'll Persia to
$50 miles southwest of capital city.
Teutonic allies claim to have cap
tured S.oGo.0oO prisoners since war
began.
Belgium reports 1S,207 houses
burned by Germans since they in
vaded country.
British relief column within seven
miles of Kut-ElAamara and big bat
tie with Turks expected.
Kaiser's proposed invasion of Egypt
appears definitely settled as Ger
many's next big move in war.
The Russians have captured Hassan
Kalah in Caucasus and driven Turks
twenty miles to forts of Erzerum.
Petrograd announces great victory
over the Turks in the Caucasus. The
Moslems suffered heavily, according to
the Russian report.
The French marked the surrender
OF Montenegro by an air raid on Bul
gar positions northeast of Salon!ki
They killed or wounded hundreds o.
Bulgarians.
Late reports indicate the announce
ment of the Montenegrin surrender
was premature. The Balkan nation
found Austria's terms too uncompro-
missing and King Nicolas has fled to
Italy.
Reports from Berlin, Athens and
London indicate the aAies have deter
mined to force the Greek ruler to all
them or quit his throne. Allied forces
control Corfu, Saloniki and Corinth
giving them bases that practically
surround Greece
WESTERN
Billy Sunday closed successful
campaign at Syracuse, N. Y. Net re-
turns, $23,112.27.
The Bessemer and Lake Erie rail.
road has placed an order with Pitts
burg company for 1000 steel cars to
cost about $2.OOO,OOO.
One dead, thousands homeless and
property damage estimated at more
than $1.0G0,000 was the toll Friday OF
floods N northern Illinois.
Five negroes taken from the Worth
County jail at Sylvester, Ca, were
hanged to one limb of tree on the
nnfckfrtc Of Cfo rEpylla
Townspeople of vandervoort, Ark,
armed with shotguns, pursued and
killed an unidentified man VINO
robbed the Bank of vandervoort.
Eight states were storm-swept last
week. Five persons were drowned in
Oklahoma. Shows N Arizona and
New Mexico tied Up railroad trains.
A resolution calling for the submis-
sion of woman suffrage constitution
al amendment at the South Carolina
General Assembly was defeated by a
vote of 81 to 81 in the lower house.
Surrounded on north, east and west
by Hood waters and faced by the Pa
ctfic ocean, Long Beach, California
summer and winter resort of 10000.
was temporarily converted into an is
land. with its Industrial section in the
lowlands covered with from three to
eight feet of water.
WASHINGTON
Secretary McAdoo asked a deficieu.
cy appropriation of s594.O0O to com.
plete the approaches to the Lincoln
memorial.
Sixteen submarine bases, divided
between the Atlantic and the Pacific,
are among projects in the naval pre-
paredness program. Admiral Stanford
testified before the House Naval
Committee.
Germany's proposal to incorpora te
In the settlement of the Lusitania case
reservation Of any admission of
wron9-doing BY her submarine com.
mznder is understood to have been
reJscted by the United States
Secretary Of the Interior Franklin
n Lane has announced the creation
by President Wilson Of three new oil
and gAs Withdrawals In the West. Two
q these are in Montana and total
~. 800 acres. The other is in North
DAkotA and embraces IS, 900 acres
. fdtal Scf $50. 900 acres.
President Wilson plans to speak in
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