The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-20
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
western Newspaper Union News servIce
ABOUT THE WAR

Another Zeppelin has been brought !
down off the coast of Norway.
Germans enter British trenches in
Ploegisteert wood, but are elected.
Germans repulse Russian attack
south of Garbunovka with heavy
casualties.
Russians bring up fresh forces in
drive toward Bagdad and occupy
Rowanduz region.
Two more leaders in the Irish re-
bellion, James Connolly and John Nc
Dermott, we're shot in Dublin.
Germans attack and occupy Rus
sian trenches in the lake region near
Dvinsk but later are expelled.
French curtain of fire checks Ger
man infantry attacks before Verdun
though Berlin reports French losses
as sanguinary.
An Austrian assault of eXtraordi-
nary violence on the Isonzo front re-
suited in the capture of $500 men
and many guns.
News is awaited with anxiety of
the powerful German fleet which is
reported to have departed for Riga,
on the Baltic sea
London admits loss of 500 yards of
trenches near Vermelles in German
night attack, but claims part of
ground regained in counter assault.
Germans made three attacks
against British trenches between the
river Somme and Mariconrt but were
driven out after entering one trench.
Another raid into American terri
tory by Mexican bandits was made
at Mckinley Springs ranch, sixty
seven miles south of Marathon, Tex.
Three bandits, including Julio Car
denas, Villista leader, were killed in
a skirmish with an American detach-
ment near Rubio ranch, twenty miles
east of Lake Itascate, Mexico.
The growing Importance and sue
cess of the Russian drive through
the Caucasus in the most important
development of the war. Petrograd
reports swift progress through Kurdi-
stan toward the Bagdad railroad and
an enveloping movement which
threatens to trap a Turkish army of
25O,000 men.
WESTERN
Armed Mexicans are patrolling the
Rio Grande opposite Hidalgo Tex,
sixty-five miles west of Brownsville.
A band, believed to be Mexicans,
seized ten head of horses at Poole's
ranch, eleven miles east of Shafter,
Tex.
Killing frosts for several nights
have caused heavy damage in Oregon
and southern Idaho to the fruit, veg
etable and grain crops.
Gov. Mcdonald of New Mexico,
granted a 21-day reprieve to the
seven bandits sentenced to die at
Deming, May 10 for the raid on Col
lumbus.
The resignation of Harold F. Nc
Cormick as treasurer of the Interna-
tional Harvester Company and the
international Harvester corporation
was announced in Chicago.
Orders to close the Academy of the
Sacred Heart of st. Joseph, Mo, were
received from the headquarters of
that organization in Rome. The
academy was established sixty-three
years ago.
Col Henry c. Olney of Sand Point,
Idaho, former newspaper editor and
former State Insurance Commissioner
of Colorado, died in Boise from heart
failure while addressing the annual
state convention of Royal Arch Ma
sons.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson nominated Mel
vile c. Hankins postmaster at Doug
las, Ariz.
Cotton used during April amounted
to 531,716 running bales, against 514,.
O09 last April according to the census
bureau.
The nomination of George Rublee
of New Hampshire, as a member of
the federal trade commission vas re-
jected by the Senate.
Proposed regulations for the pro
lection of migratory birds to become
thereafter they are approved by the
President, have been issued by Sec.
retary Houston.
An optimistic view of the Mexi.
can border situation was laid before
President Wilson and his cabinet b.
Secretary Baker, after long confer
ence with Maj. Gen. Scott, chief ot
staff.
ENJOYS of the Congressional Union
for Woman Suffrage brought their
10,00O-nile thirty-eight-day tour of the
country to a climax with final plea
to about fifty representatives and
senators gathered in the rotunda oI
the capitol for passage of the Susan