The Elk Mountain pilot., 1916-01-15
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL e
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. o o N G 8. ACHIEVE
MENTS, suFFERiNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War

| British submarine 6ccldentaliy sunh
off Dutch coast; crew saved.
Italian steamer sunk by mine and
200 Montenegrin recruits drowned.
French troops withdraw from sum-
init of Hirzstein in the Vosges noun
tains.
Last of British and French troops
evacuate remaining positions on Call
poll peninsula.
Germans drop fifteen-inch shells on
city of Nancy behind French lines,
killing six civilians and wounding ten.
Residents fleeing.
Russian troops control the impor-
tant strategic heights about Czerno-
witz, Bukowina. Heavy snowstorms
hinder operations.
Germany agrees to pay indemnity
for American lives lost in Lusitania
disaster and gives new assurances as
to submarine methods.
Turks have trapped 10000 British
in Mesopotamia The force which was
left to guard the retreat of the main
British army is surrounded.
| A furious German assault in Cham
payne drove the French from 100
yards of trenches. The French in dcs-
perate counter attacks won back part
OF the lost ground.
Japan is now supplying Russia with
arms and ammunition. Berlin reports
say that arms and supplies recently
taken from the Russians were all OF
Japanese manufacture.
The Austrians are slowly but surely
driving the Montenegrins backward.
In desperate encounters in snow
I blocked passes the Austrians have
proved the masters of the Montenes-
rim mountaineers.
Western
AS result of action taken by the
assembly. California's muddled cleo
ton laws were virtually Strengthened
out
Cooper County, Mo-, outside OF
Boonville, voted into the dry column
by 275 votes. Boonville voted to re-
main wet.
The funeral of the Rt. Rev. Richard
Scannell, bishop of the Catholic do
cese of Omaha, was held from his
home in Omaha.
Wheat shipments from the port OF
| Galveston established a new record
in 1915, when 3l.949.927 bushels were
exported. December shipments were
| 2.022,240 bushels.
The worst blizzard in years was rag
| ing Monday, at Missoula, Mont. ac-
companied by a fifty-mile gale and
temperature below zero. Slight dam
age to property was reported.
| Two children's banks and their con-
tents. aggregating 500, were stolen by
a burglar who entered the home of
H. C. Nelson, travelling salesman OF
San Francisco, while the family was
at a party
| Bills to make illegal in South Caro-
| lima employment of children less than
IA years old and to amend the new
prohibition laws so that only one
quart of liquor per month may be
shipped into the state to any one in
dividual instead of one gallon, as at
present allowed, are expected to come
before the South Carolina General
| annual session.
Washington
Major General Scott, chief of staff
of the army, told the house military
committee at the army bill hearing
that in the event of war the country
must have an army of 100000 to
100000 men or accept disaster
Leaders of the Congressional union
and Miss Anne Martin of Nevada, now
in Washington acting as legislative
chairman. have expressed particular
appreciation of Senator Thomas cour-
tesy il reporting the woman suffrage
bill.
Secretary Lane designated 100000
acres of land as nonirrigable, open
ing to settlement vast areas In sew
eral Western states. Some of the lani
has been filed on already, however
and some homesteads have been pat
ented. The land includes 100000
acres in South Dakota. 100000 in Cal
ifornia and 100000 in Montana
President Wilson renominated Sur
geon General Blue of the Public
Health Service for another term of
four years.
President Wilson refused to appoint
colored man recorder of deeds in
the District of Columbia, place long
held by colored men.
Great Britain and her allies, it was
announced, have given their consent
to the American Red Cross Society 70
ship its present accumulation of hos
pital supplies means for hospitals in
Germany and allied countries