The Colorado statesman., 1916-06-03
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIG
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPH.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Eighteen persons killed and score
injured in Austrian air raid on Italy.
Rejuvenated Serbian army of So
600 to 100000 men transported from
island of Corfu to Saloniki.
Lloyds announces that the British
steamer Southgarth has been sunk.
Twenty-Five of her crew were picked
up.
Bulgars invade Greece and occupy
three forts, from which Hellenic gar
risons retired without offering re-
sistance
Austrian successes in Italy con-
tinue, surprising in significance, says
Berlin, all those won by the Italians
in year.
French forced way into village of
Cumieres in vicious midnight attack,
but Berlin asserts they were driven
out later.
Greek troops are rushed to the de-
fense of Demir-Hissar, near which
town the Teutonic allies have occu-
pied forts.
More than 200 civilians were mur-
dered between Mexico City and Cuer-
navaca, three weeks ago, it is said at
Mexico City.
Sporadic fighting of an indecisive
nature reported from Russian and
Caucasus fronts. Turks claim sue
cesses against British in Asiatic Tur-
key.
Reports from Rome describe a ter
rifle infantry action near Soglia di
Campiglia, in which the Italians stood
firm against repeated onslaughts of
the Austrians.
Germans capture two miles of
French trenches in continuation of
desperate fighting about Verdun. Part
of these gains are admitted by the
Paris war office.
Reports that 600 armed Mexicans
are encamped across the Rio Grande
from Santa Elena, an isolated hamle;
eighty miles south, were brought to
Marathon, Tex, by F. E. White.
The overshadowing development in
the war Tuesday was the imminent
entrance of Greece into the war on the
side of the entente allies, as the re-
suit of the Bulgar-German violation
of Greek soil. In some quarters the
fall of the dynasty is predicted.
WESTERN
A general strike on all building
jobs was declared in Lincoln.
]. ]. Hill, pioneer railroad builder,
died at st. Paul Monday morning.
A man won the prize for the best
slogan to be carried in the suffrage
parade at Chicago on June Z, his Of
fering being Give Woman a Man
Chance"
Two deaths by drowning marked
the opening of the swimming season
at Lincoln, Neb The victims were
Arthur Sorenson, 10, Siebert, Colo
and Lawrence Dwyer, IL, Lincoln.
Frank p Coffin, 73-year-old Civil
War veteran, dropped dead while de-
livering an address on patriotism to
school children at Memorial Day ex-
ercises at Duwamish, suburb of
Seattle, Wash.
The wealth of James j. Hill, who
died at st. Paul, Mimi, after an oper-
alton, is estimated all the way from
S100,000,000 to $500,000,0OO. He was
probably worth between 5000, 100000
and $250,000,000.
United States cavalryman and in
Antrymen, doing border duty,
marched with veterans of the Confed-
eracy, the G. A. II. and the Spanish
American War and the high school
cadet corps in Memorial day parade
at El Paso, Tex.
WASHINGTON
Dimes, quarters and half dollars of
new design will be minted after July
1, Secretary McAdoo announced.
President Wilson issued a proclama.
tion calling upon the people of the
United States to celebrate Flag Day,
June IA, with patriotic exercises, Civ
ing expression to "our thoughtful love
of America"
Placing of the postal guide in every
commercial establishment of the
United States is the aim of Postmas-
ter General Burleson, and to that end
he has reduced the price of the pub
lication from So to 80 cents.
Senator Overman introduced a bill
to authorize erection on public lanu
in Washington of a memorial to Fran
els Asbury, pioneer Methodist preach
er.
Col. John S. Mosby, the most ia
nous Confederate raider of the Civil
War, died after long Illness He
was native of Virginia and was so
years old.
The Senate passed the rivers
and harbors appropriation bill carry
ing approximately $43,OOO,OOO by
vote of 80 to 80. after adding many
amendments.