Cheyenne record., 1916-11-09
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ABOUT THE WAR
Austrian attacks on Italian posi-
tions on the Carso front were beaten
off at the point Of the bayonet, the
war office announced at Rome.
Transylvania struggle still in prog
ress. with neither the Austro- Germans
nor the Russ-Rumanians having a de,
cided advantage. No news arrived
Sunday from the Dobrudja sector.
Italian war report chronicles con-
tinued triumph for the Italian arms
in the new drive against the Aus
trians. Prisoners taken since Aug. s
number 40,3S5, the statement says.
Important advances have been made
on the Somme and Meuse sectors by
the allies. British advance 1000
yards while French capture three
trenches and all the German posi-
tions in the st. Pierre vaast wood.
The Bucharest war office announces
that Rumanian forces in Dobrudta
have compelled the retirement of Teu-
tonic forces, which in their retreat set
fire to several villages. The villages
burned were Daeni, Garlici, Rosman
and Gaidar.
Berlin announces officially that the
central powers have agreed to grant
independence and a constitutional
monarchial government to Poland at
the conclusion of the war and that
plans for stabilizing the government
viii be placed in effect at once.
After more than week Of doubt
concerning operations in the Dobrud1a
region OF Rumania, where the Teu-
tonic allies had been marching almost
unimpeded northward from the Black
sea to the Danube, comes the report
that the Rumanians have taken the
offensive, probably aided by Russians,
and compelled the enemy to retreat at
several points. On the Transylvania
front, however, the Rumanians in the
jul valley, who for some time had
been holding the upper hand over the
Austro- Germans, forcing them to give
ground, have now been stopped, the
Teutons having brought up reinforce
ments.
WESTERN
The Southern Pacific has placed or
ders for 20 locomotives, so passenger
cars and 4.204 freight cars.
Cecil Towery, slayer of Charles
Vaughn, oil man, was electrocuted in
the death chair at the state peniten-
tiary at McAlester, Okla.
Edzl Ford, only son of Henry Ford,
Detroit manufacturer, was married to
Miss Elenore Clay, a niece Of the late
Joseph Hudson, millionaire dry goods
merchant.
Advances within q week in the
prices of thirty-two items of their
stocks were enumerated for retail
grocers Of San Francisco by tho Retail
Grocers' Association.
The women of San Antonio, Tex,
are to be asked to bake sufficient
cakes, pies and cookies for the
Thanksgiving dinner of the $1,000
troops stationed at Camp Wilson.
The women of San Antonio, Tex,
are to be asked to bake sufficient
cakes, pies and cookies for the
Thanksgiving dinner Of the $4,000
troops stationed at Camp Wilson.
The American steamer Willapa,
bound from Bluefields for New Or
leans, sank off the Nicaraguan coast,
according to a cablegram received by
her agents at New Orleans, La.
Seattle, Wash, was named at the
concluding session of the fifteenth tri-
ennial assembly Of the general grand
chapter Of the Order of the Eastern
Star at Louisville, KY, as the meeting
place for 1916. -
At Columbus, Ca, w. o. Bowden.
aged 50, was in critical condition
from stab wounds received in a fight
with relatives OF his 16-year-old bride
to DEATH
D. B. Taylor, charged with killing
e 8. Burleson, relative of Postmas-
ter General A. 8. Burleson, is under
sentence Of five years in the peniten-
tiary after trial at San Antonio,
Tex, on q change Of venue.
The California railroad commission
authorised consolidation Of the two
telephone systems of Los Angeles, the
Home and tho Pacific companies. and
their sale to the Southern California
Telephone Company. which will be
given permission to issue $14, 4,000, 900
securities to pay for the properties.
WASHINGTON
The department Of Justice appealed
tn the Supreme Court from the doci-
sion in the antitrust suit against the
American Can Company, which Fed
eral Judge Rose OF Maryland declined