Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-12-15
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. o s, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERiNes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

|aNa @h
tacks.
Germans repulse Russian attack in
Trotus valley and Russians check as
saults in Oituz valley.
Russians on offensive in Carpathi-
ans, P%etrograd claims. Berlin says at
tacks here we're repulsed.
Italian steamer Palermo torpedoed
and sunk off coast Of Spain. Twenty
five Americans aboard, Of whom n
is said TO have been fatally wounded.
With the fall Of Bucharest the CEN
trail powers are now in possession Of
four capitals Of entente allied states,
the others being Brussels, Belgrade
and Cettinge.
Won Mackensen pursuing routed Ru-
manians and Russians Friday in east
ern Wallachia. Little resistance Of
fered. More than $4,000 prisoners TAX
en- in this region.
Political crisis in Great Britain cul-
minated with resignation of Premier
Asquith and rendering Of prime minis
tership to Andrew Bonar Law, Union
list leader. David Lloyd-George, prin-
cipal opponent of Asquith, mentioned
as an alternative choice should Law
decline the post.
simultaneously with the announce
ment Of The fall of Bucharest came the
news OF the capture of Ploeshti, north
of the capital, the conquest of which
places in the hands of the invaders
the last railroad In the west ard gives
TO them the line running northward
TO Jassy, where the capital of Ru-
mania is now situated.
Bucharest is in the hands Of the
forces of the central powers. Exactly
100 days after the declaration of war
by Rumania against them finds the
Teutonic allies in control of about
$4,000 square miles of Rumanian ter
ritory-virtually one-half of the king
d~om-running from the Transylvanian
Alps northwest of the capital to the
Danube south OF it, and a large part
OF Dobrudja.
WESTERN
Wage increases a%ggregating 81 ,250,-
600 a year and affecting nearly 81 900
employees were announced in Toledo,
Ohio.
Four masked bandits held up and
robbed the State bank of WinslowI
Neb., a town fifty miles west OF
Omaha, and escaped in a high-pow-
cred automobile with $4,000.
Oscar d.. Mcdaniel, prosecuting at
,wua. or nVVohanan county nau OF.
quilted by a jury in the Criminal
Court at st. Joseph, Mo, of the charge
OF having murdered Mrs. Harriet Moss
Mcdaniel, his wife.
julius c. Gunter, governor-elect OF
Colorado was taken suddenly i'll in
Washington and was unable to attend
the opening Of arguments before the
Supreme Court of the United States
in the Wyoming-C Colorado water case
Directors of tie Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway Company authorized
a distribution equal to 10 per cent OF
a years pay to all its employees in tbs
service of the system for at least two
years and whose annual compensation
does o exceed s. $500. President Rip
ley said that the amount to be distrib
uted was estimated at about $2,750,000
WASHINGTON
Representative L~indbergh Of Mime
sofa would have the President take
steps TO end the European a
William ]. Bryan opposed exclusive
federal regulation of railroads before
Joint railroad investigating committee
With the reelection OF Senator
RansdeIl of Louisiana as president
the rivers and harbors congress ad
iourned.
Six thousand national guardsmer
will be sent home from the border al
once to be mustered out, 1t was an
nounced.
A note to Germany protesting
against the deportation Of Belgians fol-
forced labor as contrary TO all pre-
cedents and human principles of inter
national practice was made public by
the State Department.
The preliminary hearing Of Kar
ATmgaaTd Graves, Belf-styled interna
tional SPY, charged with attempting t
extort $4,000 from Countess Won Bern
storff. wife Of the German ambassador
was continued until March 10.
II has been learned that Walter
Hines Page has rendered his resigna
ton as United States ambassador t.
England.
Petitions in behalf Of the so per cen
OF railroad employees not affected by
the Adamson law. and signed by 800,
600 of them, were presented to th'
Senate by Senator Newlands.
Congressman Ben Hilliard. Of Colo
RADIO. reported to the clerk OF the Ma
tional House Of Representatives. tota
expenditures Of S2.128.11 in his rae
for nomination and election to Con
gress this year.