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ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
Cunard liner Franconia, used as a
transport, sent I the bottom in the
Mediterranean by a Teutonic sub
marine.
Rumanians defeated along a fifty
mile front in Transylvania by COM
bined forces Of German and Austro-
Hungarians.
Tribesmen in Ispahan, Persia. have
arisen in revolt and driven the Rus
slams from the city, says a CONSTANT
nople report.
British troops, having crossed the
Struma in Macedonia, capture the
town of Nevolyen. Artillery duelling
continues the feature of the fighting
on the Somme and around Verdun.
Attempted Rumanian offensive into
Bulgaria completely frustrated, ac-
cording to claims of Berlin war office
and admission of Bucharest. The en-
tire Rumanian army has r%etreated
across the Danube.
Russia has lost 5000, 900 men dur
ing the first two years of the war,
and at least 1850 0 in this years
offensive, according to estimates from
Danish sources, given out by the semi
official news agency at Berlin.
The Greek situation continues to
develop. King Constantine, according
to an Athens dispatch, has in his
hands the designations of the mem
bers of the Cabinet except those of
the premier and the foreign minister.
Russians and Rumanians gaining in
heavy fighting in the Dubrudja region.
Gen. Brussiloff's army of Russians
continues its drive against the Teu-
tonic lines in Volhynia toward Lem
berg. Berlin claims the repulse of
those attacks and the capture of 1900
Russians.
Charles Call, a member of the am
bulance corps, national guard of Cali
f%ornia, while on border patrol duty
recently, strayeo on the other side
Of the International line and was
caught and hanged by Mexicans, ac-
cording to a letter received at Wood
lands, Cal.
WESTERN
The State Bank at Rutland was
blown up by yeggmen and robbed of
$4,000.
Two dollars for wheat was pre-
dicted by Chicago grain men before
the first of January.
Major William Warner, former
United Senator from Missouri, died at
his home in Kansas City.
Manuel Esquerdo, a bandit, who
held up and robbed the Miami, Art
iona, branch Of the ella Valley bank,
was shot and killed by Deputy Sher-
if Williams.
Nine men are known to have per-
ished as the result of a fire that de-
stroyed the central portion of the main
building of Christian Brothers college
at st. Louis.
A band of foreigners shot and killed
Henry Rider of Howell, Mich, and
wounded Mrs. Elsie Smathers, James
Rigby and A. j. Rider of Harmon
ton, N. j., in an attempt to rob the
party of $4,000, representing the pay
roll of cranberry pickers employed by
A. J. Rider.
James Couzens, Detroit's multimil-
l%ionaire police commissioner, an
nounced the establishment of a bonus
system for members of the Detroit
police force. The bonus, provided per-
~sonally by Mr.. Couzens, will amount
to about $4,000 annually. II is be.
lieved to be the first of its kind ever
established in the United States.
WASHINGTON
The limit of weight Of parcel post
packages carried between the United
States and Panama will be increased
from eleven to twenty pounds on Oct.
Is. Postmaster General Burleson an
nounced.
On condition that he go to Japan
and agree never to return to Ameri.
a territory, shun Shimada, a Japan
ese serving a life sentence for murder
in Alaska, will be liberated by fed
eral authorities.
Bids for the tour giant battle cruz
sers to be laid down next year will
be opened at the navy department
Dec. 6, virtually completing the work
Of getting the huge building program
authorized by congress under con
tract.
Foul play is suspected in the death
Of Mrs. Mary F. Sw0rtz Of Chicago,
whose body, found floating in the Po-
tomac river neal Mount Vernon was
identified by John E.. Swartz Of Chi.
cago, a brother-in-lRw OF the dead
woman.
The department Of justice threat
ened to prosecute sugar refiners for