Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-05-19
A BRIEF RECORD or PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EleN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolNes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union news Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Two more leaders In the Irish re-
bellion. james Connolly and John Nc
Dermott, were shot in Dublin.
Intense artillery actions In progress
in Col di Lana zone, with no appar-
emit advantage on either side.
Turks lombard Russian ports on
Black sea In retaliation for attacks
on open towns along Anatolian coast.
Irish situation again at crisis and
Premier Asquith hurries to Dublin to
charge of the military admin
istration.
White Star liner Cymric torpedoed
by submarine. London reports n
other British ship and one French
vessel sunk.
Germany's latest peace Overtures
do not offer a basis for negotiations,
declared LORD Robert Cecil, British
minister of war trade.
London admits loss of 600 yards of
trenches near Vermelles in German
night attack, but claims part of
ground regained in counter assault.
French report %recapture of vantage
points taken from them southeast of
Haucourt. Heavy bombardments pro-
ceeding near Dead Mans hill and Gu
mieres.
Russians still fleeing eastward in
Caucasus before Turkish attack, ac-
cording to Constantinople report, but
P~etrograd, apparently ignoring this
feature of the campaign, claims re-
pulse Of advance toward Bagdad.
What appears to be the first en-
gagement in the long-expected Ger
man offensive against Saloniki is re-
ported from Athens, the Germans cap
turing a village and later being forced
to evacuate 1t by a French counter
attack.
The American and Mexican con-
ferees at Ell Paso Thursday, announced
they had decided to suspend their con-
ferenccs and report back to their gov.
ernments in order that these may con-
clude the negotiations through their
respective foreign departments.
With 5000 additional troops under
orders for the Mexican border, in.
GLIDING 1000 national guardsmen
from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas,
Washington officials felt that neces-
sary steps had been taken to prevent
further raiding of American border
towns by bandits.
WESTERN
About $50 shopmen at Laramie,
Wyo., are affected by the increase Of
5 per cent in pay announced by the
Union Pacific railroad.
One hundred cowboys OF Montana
have offered their services to the
Helena United States recruiting Of
ficer for war with Mexico.
Meager telephone advices from
Clayton, New Mex, tell of the destruc-
ton of Kenton, Okla, a town of 1000,
by fire Of unknown origin. The loss
is placed at 100000.
Mexican bandits raided the Polaris
mining camp seven miles below
Lochiel on the border, driving out
Americans who escaped to Nogales in
automobiles. Colonel Sage, com
handing at Nogales, sent a company
Of infantry and twenty cavalrymen to
guard Lochiel, Washington camp and
other towns on the American side.
The sentence OF life imprisonment
at Cheyenne, Wyo., imposed on Wal.
ter L. Cottrell, alias William l.. Car
Isle, the Union Pacific train bandit,
terminates a criminal career which
began when Cottrell was only II years
OF age, and extended through nine
years to the present time. This fact
became known when information gath
cred for the state was released be
u Of the prisoners conviction. sen
tence and permanent segregation.
VASHINGToN
The Bankhead good roads bill, ap
proprist ting $s5.OOo.OOO for the con
struct.on of post roads, passed the
senate It a%ppropriates $4,000, 900
for roads for the national forests.
Al erica's next step in the negotia.
lions with the entente allies regard.
ms treatment of neutral commerce
VIII be delayed on account of the i'm
He'd threat contained in the Ger
man note of May 5.
The s11.OOO.OOO Indian a~ppropria.
ion bill was finally passed by the
iouso and Senate and went to the
resident.
Supplies forwarded by the Ameri.
can Red Cross for war relief in
europe reached a total value Of more
han 100000 during the first nine
cen months OF hostilities
Secretary Redfield announced the
appointment OF DR., w. C. Huntington
# Chicago as commercial attacho al
P~etrograd to succeed Henry d.
Baker. who has resigned 70 re-enter
tho consular service.