The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPH.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVE,iTs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
ABOUT THE WAR

Allies claim they have taken $4,000
prisoners in battle of Somme.
The German official casualty lists
since the war began total 100000.
The Germans have gained a foot
hold at Damloup and in Fumin wood
at Verdun.
Berlin announces that Russians
have been driven back in fighting be-
fore -Kovel.
Austrians admit crushing defeat by
Russians and retreat of five miles on
Galician front.
Petrograd reports 271 $50 prisoners
have been taken by Russians since
drive in East began.
Rome announces that Austrians
have recalled divisions from Russian
front to meet Italian attacks.
According to a statement given out
at Berlin by the Overseas News
Agency. German warships between
July 4 and sank eight trawlers near
the English coast.
Signal successes on the eastern
front over the Austro-G G crman armies
are reported by Petrograd. Teuton
losses since the drive began now are
officially estimated at 100000 men.
Allies make constant progress on
western front, with only occasional
setbacks. British have taken Contal-
maison and nearly all of Trones wood.
The German first defenses on front
of nearly eight miles are now in Brit
ish hands.
The main body of the Villa force
retreating from Jimenez attacked
Parral, fifty miles to the southwest,
but was defeated by the Carranza gar.
rison after savage battle, according
to an official report received by Gen.
Jacinto Trevino at Chihuahua
Gen. p. Elias Gales, military com
mander of Sonora, ordered the de-
mobilization of troops now in the Dor
der districts, discharged from the ma
tional service, and ordered the re-
opening of all public offices along the
border.
Defying half dozen enemy war
ships patrolling the Atlantic coast
from New York to Charleston, and
tluuiuB IllG NOTIH sea 1lttL
of France and England, supersub.
marine from Germany passed Vir-
ginia capes and is lying safe at an
chor in the harbor of Baltimore.
WESTERN
One case of infantile paralysis has
developed in Salt Lake.
Miss jeanette Rankin of Missoula,
Mont, a prominent suffragist of the
West, announced herself as candi-
date for Congress.
President Wilson urged peace by
mutual understanding rather than
force, in speeches to enthusiastic
Michigan audiences.
Edward o. Rightor of New Orleans
was elected grand exalted ruler of the
Benevolent and Protective Order o.
Elks at the Baltimore meeting.
Louis Conley, alias Johnson, alias
Lynch, alias Kennedy, is in Jail in
Cheyenne, Wyo., where he is being
held for Denver police. The prisoner
is wanted on the charge of having
robbed Phillip Peters, a resident OF
Sullivan, Colo, of $40.
Mrs. Helen nlingsworth, 2S, who
has a husband and three children,
co.nesseu 10 the police at Cleveland.
Ohio that she shot Thomas Cochran,
30, bricklayer. who boarded at her
home, because she loved him and
didn't want anybody else to have
him"
WASHINGTON
With full military honors the body
of Capt. C. T. Boyd, Tenth Cavalry,
who was killed at the head of his
command at the Carrizal fight was
buried in Arlington National ceme-
terry.
Secretary McAdoo asked Congress
to appropriate $135.0O0 for the pub
lie health service to aid in the fight
against the infantile paralysis epi-
demic in New York and to prevent its
spread to other states.
Senator Lewis of Illinois intro
duced resolution directing Secre-
tary Lansing to report to the Senate
whether the new Russo-Japanese al
lance is not likely to close the open
door" in China and result in disas-
ter to American business interests.
The administrations emergency
revenue bill expected to raise 5000.
100000 was passed by the House BY
n vote OF 240 to 14O.
Nominations for the promotion of
several hundred officers to carry out
the army reorganization were sent to
the Senate by the President.
Corroborative evidence to support
the charge made in Secretary Ian
sings note of .lnne 90 that Carranza
.EliaIal.. In