Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-06-16
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THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
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Western Newspaper Union views Service
ABOUT THE WAR

OF army, numbering loV'ooV Heh.
Attack by German infantry against
Hill No. 3O4 at Verdun. repulsed.
Berlin reports Germans have cap
tured Fort Vaux. five miles from Yer
dun.
British admit Germans have taken
line of trenches running through vii
lage of Hooge.
Austria admits her troops have re-
treated to river Styr in Volhynia aft
er rear-guard battle.
Italians, under pressure of Austrian
drive, withdrew to new positions in
zone east of Asiago and east of Cam
pomulo Valley.
Turks announce they have driven
back Russians in Kope mountain re-
glon of Asia Minor and also routed
Russians northeast of Bagdad.
Russian troops have crossed the
Stripa river in their great offensive.
Petrograd reports number of prison
ers taken mas reached more than
$1,000.
Canadian troops and Germans bat
tling fiercely in region of Ypres. Can
adams regain most of lost ground on
two-mile front in attacks with bayon-
cts and bombs.
Ten American soldiers were killed
and nine wounded in a battle with
Mexican raiders near Glenn Springs.
in the Big Bend of Texas, according
to a courier reaching Marathon.
State Department agents at Ell
Paso, Tex, received information that
Francisco Villa. at the head of 1000
followers, attacked the rear guard of
the American punitive expedition in
the vicinity Of Namaduipa, chihuahua.
Contrary claims continue to be put
forth by both Berlin and London on
the naval battle off Jutland. England
now declares two more German.
dreadnoughts. the Lutzow and Hin
denburg. were sunk
Field Marshal Kitchener and his
staff have been lost at sea off the
Orkney islands by the sinking of the
British cruiser Hampshire. on which
Earl Kitchener was making voyage
to Russia on a special mission to EN-
peror Nicholas.
WESTERN
The Louisiana House defeated by
a vote of 60 to 40 the proposal sub
mittlng to the voters a constitutional
amendment granting suffrage to wo-
men.
William G. Lee was reelected presi-
dent of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen at Detroit. defeating a. +.
Whitney of Chicago, by vote of 5O3
to 296.
June "a will be proclaimed by Gov
Edward +. Dunno as Muster Day
throughout Illinois, when an attempt
will be made to bring the states land
and water forces to full strength.
Lee Harrison, %, said to be son
of James p. Harrison, former COVER
nor of Mississippi, was found dead in
Chicago. His head was crushed, and
the police believe he was murdered.
Francisco Alvarez and Juan San
chez. two Villa followers captured
during the raid on Columbus, March
., were hanged at Deming, n. NJ, on
the 9th The men were hanged singly.
Capt Abner, Martin, aged &c years.
who, as pilot before the Civil War,
taught Samuel L. Clemens Mark
Twain) to navigate the Mississippi
river, died at his home at East Liver
pool. Ohio.
WASHINGTON
The House passed diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill carrying
S5,OOO.OO0.
A bill for relief of 500 mail con
tractors in the South, whose pay was
withheld during the civil war, passed
the House.
Congressman Undertakes bill for
the addition of lands to national for
ests and for watershed protection for
Fort Collins, Boulder, Longmont and
Greeley, comprising 100000 acres, has
passed the House.
Interest was manifest in reports
that the American forces stationed at
Tien Tsin, China, had been ordered
TO hold themselves in readiness to
proceed to Peking for the purpose OF
protecting American interests there.
Edward N Hurley of Illinois is to
become chairman of the federal trade
commission on July l, succeeding Jo-
seph E. Davies OF Minnesota.
Willing acceptance by all of the
Chinese people of the new president.
Lii Yuan Hung, was indicated in Off
cial dispatches reaching the State
Department.
Grounding of submarine LA Off
Block Island near Newport, II. l., was
reported to the Navy Department by
her commander, Lieutenant Hammock,
who said he hoped 10 get her afloat
at high tide.