Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-03-16
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European War News

Germany has declared war on Portu.
gal and handed his passports to the
Portuguese minister. The German dec
laration emphasized the fact that this
step was made necessary by the recent
illegal seizures of German ships in
Portuguese ports.
German naval and military prisoners
in the United Kingdom total 1884
and all of them receive the same pay
as British soldiers. according to a
statement made in the house Of COM
mons at London by Harold ]. Tenant.
The French official statement. is
sued at Paris, announces that the
French succeeded in driving the Ger
mans from the greater part of the Cor
beaux wood. The report admits. how
ever, that ths Germans have reoccu-
pied the Hardamount redoubt. The
capture of IS French officers and 3.277
men and 10 cannon were reported at
Berlin.
The Russians found only 16 Ar
menians alive In Erzerum out OF the
usual Armenian population of 10000,
according to information received In
Petrograd.
The German fleet. composed OF at
least fifty big war craft, which was re-
ported out in the North sea. returned
to its base at Kiel, says Reuters
Ymuiden correspondent.
Russian troops have captured the
town of Ria (Rizeh) on the Black
sea, IS miles east of TrebiSond. &C
cording to an official report from
Petrograd. The Russians also have
occupied the town OF Selma.
The Australian cruisers Australia
and Sydney, with Japanese cruisers
Chitoso and Tokiwa. are hunting the
Pacific for German commerce raider,
according to reports from Honolulu,
Hawaii.
The capture by the Russians OF the
Persian city of Cola, 81 miles west Of
Kermanshah, is announced In an Off
cial statement issued by the Petrograd
war office,
Italian aeroplanes made a raid on
the city Of Laibach and 500 Austrian
al xunttnAnd N
barracks. The raid was made Feb
ruary 10.
Domestic
The senate of the Kentucky legisla-
ture passed the woman suffrage bill,
15 to s.
Nine dead. eleven probably fatally
burned and score injured was the
toll of an explosion and fire at the
Jail in Ell Paso. Tex. The name Of one
American is included in the list of
dead.
William H. Orpet, University of Wis
nsin student, was indicted for the
murder of Marian Frances Lambert,
the Lake Forest high-school girl whose
body was found in Helms woods.
Mahoning county grand jury at
youngstown, O., against the youngs-
town Sheet and Tube company. the
Republic Steel company. the Brier
Hill Steel company. he Youngstown
Steel company, the Carnegie Steel
company, the United States Steel COM
pany and Il. H. Gary. The defendants
are charged with having formed a
trust to fix the wages of common Ia
Dor in violation of the laws of Ohio.
Congressman John A. M. Adair,
Democrat. of Portland, and James P.
Goodrich. Republican of Winchester.
were selected in the Indiana state
wide preferential primary to run for
governor next fall. Opponents of
Goodrich and Ada:r conceded their
nomination. Goodrich's majority is
1888. Adair's race was an easy one,
apparently. The contest for the Re-
publican nomination for United States
senator is undecided.
The National Housewives Co-Opera.
tive league, at a meeting in Cincinnati,
declared boycott" on sugar. The
league claims housewives use 80 per
cent of the sugar consumed in the
United States and object to the high
price that they now have to pay.
Ebert H. Gary. chairman OF the
board of directors of the United
States Steel corporation, said a new
tube plant. to cost $25.0O0.00O, is to
be erected at Gary. Ind. The work
will start as soon as the details can
be prepared.
Fire following several explosions,
virtually destroyed the plant of the
Niagara Electro Chemical company at
Niagara Falls. N. Y, causing the death
Of one workman, the injury of several
others and property loss estimated at
5000. 900.
Senator Marti.ie. Democrat, Of New
Jersey. announced at Washington his
determination not to be candidate
for delegate at large to the Democrat
|ic national convention because Of his
decision to be a candidate for the SEN
ate.
p. X. Ginetis attempted to shoot his
'ponin-lsw. Count Sebastian Carol
|Briganza de la Coralla, seventy.four
PEARS old. at Matagorda, Tex. and