Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-05-26
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Strong attack by Germans at YER
dun put down by French.
British rout Turks and tribesmen at
Bayoud and Mageibra, in Egypt.
French forces in Balkans report
progress in advance on Monastir.
Germans enter British trenches In
Ploegisteert wood, but are elected.
Austria preparing to transport a
large force for attack on Avlona, Al
bania.
British warships and aeroplanes
lombard town of Ell Arisk in Egypt,
which is held by Turks.
Italians forced to withdraw from
part of their lines in region of Trent
under three days bombardment.
An Austrian assault of extraordi-
nary violence on the IsonZo front re-
suited in the capture of $500 men
and many guns.
The fourth vessel sunk in the new
submarine campaign against German
shipping was the steamer Trave. The
crew was landed.
Three bandits, including Julio Car
denas. a Villista leader. were killed in
a skirmish with an American detach-
ment near Rubio ranch. twenty miles
east of Lake Itascate, Mexico.
Five Austrian attacks on Zega-
torta repulsed by Italians with heavy
losses to attacking party. Italians
make gains in Sarca river region and
Tecapture trenches near head of gulf
of Triest.
The growing importance and sue
cess OF the Russian drive through
the Caucasus in the most important
development of the war Petrograd
reports swift progress through Kurdi-
stan toward the Bagdad railroad and
an enveloping movement which
threatens to trap Turkish army OF
100000 men.
United States soldiers have rescued
+. Decmer, American storekeeper cap
tured by Mexican raiders on Glenn
Springs and Boquillas, Tex, and, ac-
cording to the report of an army
truck driver, have killed six and cap
tured seventy-five' of the bandits. A
negro who was a prisoner with
Deemer also was rescued.
WESTERN
The Burlington railroad has an
nounced an increase of wages to all
employees of per cent. effective for
Nay.
Francisco Rodiguez was hanged at
Florence, Ariz., for the murder of his
wife in Phoenix, Jan. IL, 1911. He
had been reprieved nine times.
Three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars for the relief of Jewish war
sufferers was subscribed in Chicago
as the result of mass meeting.
Quadruplets-two boys and two
girls-arrived in Cleveland, Ohio. The
mother is Mrs. Frank Zeman, wife of
q dry cleaner. All are doing well.
Pancho Villa is operating south of
Parral under an assumed name, ac-
eording to story current in Chihua-
hua, and brought to Ell Paso by trav-
elers from that city.
Jose Buenostrico and Melquaides
Chapa, Mexicans convicted of the
murder of A. l.. Austin and his son
Charles in the Mexican border raids
last autumn, We're hanged in the
Cameron county jail at Brownsville,
Tex.
WASHINGTON
The sundry civil bill, carrying to-
tai appropriations of s127.237,2 ,221 was
reported to the House.
III. ~ Tn
to put an embargo on the export of
macaroni, one of her chief food prod
ucts.
Russia's 1915 cotton crop, accord
ing to estimates reaching the De-
partment of Commerce, was about 20
per cent larger than that of the year
before. The total number of pounds
grown was 717,5OO,OoO. against Gos.-
100000 in 1914.
The sundry civil bill contains the
following building appropriations:
Colorado-Durango, $4,000; FIT. Nor
gan, $4,000: Glenwood Springs, S5,-
600; Grand Junction, $4,000. Wyom-
Buffalo, $4,000; Cody, $4,000;
Newcastle, s1,400.
miTZa All Null Nahh' SouhSei'oi VI
the Persian legation at Washington,
has been appointed consul general of
Persia at New York.
Three hundred marines at Norfolk
and between 400 and 500 in Haiti
were ordered to Santo Domingo TO
reinforce the American force polio
ing the little republic.
Admiral Fletcher will be assigned
to the navy general board to succeed
Rear Admiral Badger, retired, when
on June 10 he surrenders command
OF the Atlantic fleet to Admiral
MayD