The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-07-19
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The Austrian admiralty announced
| ut Vienna that I'LL Austrian cruiser hat:
! sunk four or five British arlrOreu pa.
| troll boats. Only nine men from the
British vessels were rescued.
Berlin reports OF il decisive check to
the Russian drive on Kuvel are con-
| tirlned to some extent by the official
| report of Petrogrlu which admits "des-
pcrate resistance" on the StakhOd Sec
| tor and claims no advance of moment.
The British offensive in Pic0rdy has
captured the entire first system OF Ger
man uelenSeS on front OF eight miles.
Seven thousand five hundred prisoners
were taken by the forces of Sir Doug
las Haig. <;ontalmaisOn ana Irones
wood have been stormed and recap
tured, according to statement issued
at London. German forces gained a
footing in the Damloup battery and in
some sections Of the French line in
the Fumin wood.
The Russian forces advancing in
Volhynia toward Kovel, are crossing
| the river Stokhod at various points,
| closely pressing the Teutonic forces
] opposing them, says the Petrograd
war Office statement. Berlin says the
Russians have been checked.
While the French stormed and oc-
cupied Hill 81, a height dominating
the Somme southeast of Biaches, as
| well as German positions near Bar
leux, and the British made a new adj
| vance northwest of Contamination, the
Germans also had victories to record
In the recapture of the TrOnes woods,
| La Maisonette farm and the village of
Barleux.
On the Italian front Rome reports
Italian advances on the upper Astico
| and the occupation of Aguella pass in
the northern sector.
AC DllLlSh SICtllAC1 L VAuCAIllios SsAAo
tons gross, with cargo of timber,
from Gothenburg for Hull, has been
captured hg German warship off the
Norwegian coast and brought to Ger
man port, according to wireless mes
sage from Berlin.
Food riots have broken out in Liege
and many persons have been hurt, ac-
cOrding to information received at
Amsterdam.
Official announcement was made ut
Berlin that the British steamship Les
iris was held up by German warships
near the English coast and seized as a
prize.
Domestic
Prompt work by the fremen OF
Newcastle and Wilmington. Del. saved
the shell-loading plant Of the Bethle
hem Steel company when fire broke
out in the building.
The positive death list from the gull
coast hurricane and Il series of storms
and floods that followed in Alabama
and Georgia, stands at nine with at
least forty persons reported missing
aboard small schooners in the gulf
Property damage probably will reach
100000.
The German merchant supersubma
rine Deutschland has arrived in Chesa
peake bay. She is now at her dock
at the pier of the Eastern Forwarding
company, Locust Point, Baltimore
She is 315 feet long The boat carries
no passengers. Her cargo consists en-
tirely of dyestuffs-a thousand tons OF
them. She is commanded by Captain
Koenig and has crew of 20 men. The
Deutschland Travelled $50 miles, 1906
miles of this being under water. The
trip was made in 16 days.
Robert J. Shields, prominent state
Democratic politician, was arraigned
at Superior Wis.,, before United States
Court Commissioner H. Il. TicknOr
charged with violating the Mann act
He waived examination and was
bound over to the next term of court
on $4,000 bail, which was furnished.
The treasury of the city Of Nash
| Vile, Tenn, was looted of 81, 1877
by former city officials from 1909 Il
1914, according to the final report tt
the city commission by James Cam
eron, an expert accountant.
The most brilliant spectacle Of thu
| fOrtY-Secnnd annllul SGSSiun If tho NJ