The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-02-19
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

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR
Six persons killed in air raid on
Milan, Italy.
Russians capture ole of Turkish
forts at Erzerum
Hungarians routed at Yale Sczsyky
and retire four miles.
British cruiser Arethusa wrecked by
mine and ten men killed.
-Hungarians occupy Tirana in
Albania, near port of Durazzo.
Sinking of French cruiser Admiral
Charner by submarine confirmed.
Four hundred men killed
An Athens dispatch asserts Bull
garia has made overtures for sepa-
rate peace to the entente powers.
Ten days battle in France and Bel
GUM has resulted, it is estimated, in
total casualties of at least 100000.
Berlin officials pessimistic on re-
ceipt of Bernstorff's latest communi-
cation on settlement of Lusitania
case.
A conference of the entente allies
in Paris has been arranged. Japan
has been invited to send representa-
tive.
Germany and Austria announce that
beginning March l all armed merch-
anthem will be treated as warships, to
be attacked without warning.
The Germans, after clearing their
path with several hours heavy artil-
lery fire, broke thru an SO0-yard line
of British defenses around Ypres.
Practically all the British defenders
were killed.
At the opening OF the British Par
Lament, Premier Asquith announced
the war was costing $24,000000 a day
He added that a credit of about ST.
500,000,000 would soon be asked. Lord
Kitchener spoke on the urgent need of
more soldiers.
WESTERN
Reports that great damage has been
done to the San Diego 1916 exposition
by the recent rains and overflow of
Otay dam are untrue.
Miss Rosa Lee Bubanks, 20 years
old, cashier for a manufacturing com.
pany, was shot to death on a down.
town street at Macon, Ga.
According to information received
by Cleveland, Ohio, Hungarians, Sari
Petrass, famous Hungarian actress
who was noted in Europe for her
beauty, has been executed as a British
spy in Budapest.
startling charge that the sour
served at the banquet to Archbishop
Mundlein was "maliciously poisoned
was made in a statement issued by
II. j. Doherty, manager of the Univer-
sity Club at Chicago.
At Sallisaw, Okla, viii, Henry, Alec
and Marvin Shandlen, brothers OF
George Shandlen, a farmer living near
Muldro, are held, with seven other
men, on the charge of being implicated
in an attack by night riders on Shand
len.
A new 100000 terminal at New
Orleans, to be used by the Texas &
Pacific, the Missouri Pacific and the
st. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
was formally dedicated in ceremonies
participated in by government ant
railroad officials.
Convict labor on the California state
highway has been a success, accord
ing to a statement contained in a rec
ommendation made by Division High
way Engineer Sumner to the State
Highway Commission that convict la
Dor be continued and that more camps
be installed in Mendocino county.
WASHINGTON
Six amendments to the Federal Re
serve Act were recommended to Con
gress in the report of the Federal Re
serve Board for the first full year OF
operation in the new banking sys
TEN.
The first train in four years owe.
the Southern Pacific from Nogales
Arizona, to Mazatlan, Mexico was run
on January 80, and State Department
reports express a hope OF keeping the
line open.
President Wilson formally an.
nounced his candidacy for reelection,
He wrote to Secretary of State Hide.
brand of Ohio, announcing his assent
to the placing of his name on the pri.
mary ballots of that state.
Prohibition amendments to the con.
sritution, but not woman suffrage
amendments, will be considered at
this session of Congress.
Mrs. Joseph E. Kuhn, wife of Col.
Kuhn, American military attache at
Berlin, died at the home Of Secretary
Garrison, after stroke of apoplexy.
Col William Nj BLACK In nhnrnn 81