Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-07-28

in Biaches wood.
Russian army in Armenia captured
Gumuskhaneh and now is forty miles
northwest of Baiburt
Belgian troops reach Lake Victoria
in German East Africa and disperse
Teutons in seven-hour battle.
Russians inflict another decisive
check upon Austrians at confluence
of Lipa and Styr rivers, capturing l.
500 men.
Italians capture more Austrian
trenches on Monte Maio but engage
ment now is almost entirely confined
to bombardments.
Floods on the Dniester prevent
farther advance into Galicia by the
Russians, but hard fighting is in
progress below Vladimir-Volynski.
According to Rome reports, the
violent Russian offensive has been re-
sumed in the Carpathians. at Kovel,
Vladimir-Volynski, and in the Riga
sector.
One of the most striking episodes
of the great Somme offensive was the
taking of the field fort at Biaches and
the garrison of 113 men by nine
French soldiers.
Germans stop new British offensive
near La Bassee and claim 1000 Eng
Iishmen were killed. Berlin admits.
however, British have captured first
line trenches near Hardecourt on two
mile front.
j. Beltran, one of Villas chief lieu
tenants and a participant in the mas
sacre OF eighteen Americans at Santa
Ysabel, chihuahua. last January. was
killed in the engagement at Cerro
Blanco July IL, reports TO General
Jacinto Trevino at chihuahua City
indicated.
WESTERN
Two hundred and eighty-one women
in Kansas are running for office.
Jennie B. Campbell, 81. and Rich.
ard Cavius, is, were drowned while
bathing in Ogden river at Ogden,
Utah.
Eight members of the First Cali
fornia field artillery were injured
when the tent in which they sought
cover from rainstorm at Nogales.
Ariz., was struck by lightning.
Lee Villa, a cousin of Pancho VILLA.
and Theodore Valencie were wounded.
probably fatally, and Pablo Estrada
was wounded in the thigh, in mys-
terious shooting at Cheyenne, Wyo.
Permission has been obtained from
Washington, 1t was announced at
Douglas, Ariz., to ship a carload of l.
900 boxes of dynamite across the
border tl.at the Cananea Consolidated
Copper Company may resume its
normal operations.
Friends of the Orpet family de-
elared at Waukegan, ILL.,, that VIII
orpet spent his first day of freedom
In the company of Miss Celeste
Youker. the schoolteacher whose en-
gagement to the University of Wis
consin student was announced a few
days before Marion Lambert died in
Helms woods last February.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson nominated Abram
Elkus of New York to be United
States ambassador to Turkey.
The McGillicuddy-Kern workmen's
compensation bill was passed by the
House by vote OF 2S6 TO 3.
The Senate passed the House bill
appropriating s135,OOO to finance the
public health service campaign
against infantile paralysis.
Cotton used during June was 570,-
f66 bales. exclusive of linters, and for
the eleven months ending with June
5.906,039 bales, the Census Bureau
announced.
Denouncing the British blacklist as
an Outrageous assault on citizens of
this country" Senator Thomas of
Colorado, in a Senate speech. advo-
Gated reprisals of severe nature.
Freedom to enter the United States,
denied at first, was granted to former
President Cipriano Castro OF Veneza-
ella and his wife by order of Secretary
Wilson of the Labor Department.
The Senate passed, by a vote of 60
to s, the construction section of the
naval appropriation bill providing for
three-year program, including four
dreadnoughts and four battle cruisers
70 be constructed at once.
Inquiry as to why certain business
concerns in the United States have
been placed on blacklist under
Great Britain's trading with the
enemy act" were directed to the Brit
ish government by the State Depart
ment through both the British EN-.
bassy at Washington and Ambassa-
dor Page at London.