Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-08-02
Important
News Events
Of the World
Summarized
European War News
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European War News
Capt Charles Fryatt of the British
steamship Brussels, which was cap
tured by the Germans, has been exc
cuted following the passage Of death
sentence upon him by naval field
court sitting at Zeebrugge, says a
Berlin dispatch. The charge against
him was that he tried to ram the Ger
man submarine U-33 on March %,
1915, in the North sea. 49,.
According to a London dispatch the
Russians delivered three great blows
against the Teutonic forces on the
east front. The cars troops captured
the important railway town of Brody
on the northern Galician border, the
chief obstacle to their advance on
Lemberg, capital of Galicia; smashed
the entire TeutOnic first line west of
Lutsk, and swept the forces Of Gen
oral Won Linsingen from the line of
the Rivers Slonevka and Buldurovka,
In southern Volhynia.
The last German strOnghOlds In
Longueval have been captured by the
British troops, according to the official
statement given out by the London
war Office. The British also have pos
session Of the entire Delville wood,
the fifth Brandenburg division, the last
Germans in the wood, being cleared
out with the capture Of three officers
and 1853 men. .-s
A Turkish army, estimated at 10000
strong, is concentrated In the Hun
garian plains for the defense of Hun
gary, says dispatch to the London
Exchange Telegraph company from
Lausanne, Switzerland.
A Petrograd dispatch says all Of
Turkish Armenia is now in possession
of the Russians as result of the cap
ture Of Erzlngan by the army of Grand
Duke Nicholas.
-. Advices from Smyrna state that an
entire Turkish regiment mutinied at
Sevelkeny, taking refuge in a forest
on Mount Mimiolou. Loyal Turks gave
chase, setting the forest on fire.
A London Dispatch says intense
sfghting, which resulted in slight prog
ress for the Italians, took place on the
Tennezzo plateau. Strongly intrenched
positions were wrested from the Aus
trians north of Monte Cimone. On the
remainder Of the front heavy artillery
engagements continue.
"A French military court at Mar
settles on May 49," says the Berlin
Overseas News agency, sentenced a
woman named Pfadt to death for trea-
son and espionage. The supreme
court, having rejected the appeal, the
sentence of death against the woman
has become valid"
Gen. Vladimir SukhOmlinof, former
Ill at Petrograd. 1t is feared he is af,
1ficted with insanity.
An Austrian withdrawal before SUI
perior Russian pressure north OF
Brody, in northeastern Galicia, is an,
nounced by Austro-H Hungarian army
headquarters at Vienna.
Following official announcement both
from London and Berlin Of the capture
Of the important village Of Pozieres
the British war office at London report,
ed in It's statement that there was no
further fighting Of any consequence
The war is costing the Dominion OF
Canada $1,0OO,000 day, an official an
nouncement issued at Ottawa said.
Six civilians have been executed by
the Germans at Ghent, charged with
''war treason" according to Reuter-
Amsterdam dispatch quoting the Tele-
.graaf.
An Austrian official statement rel
ceived at London says that $500 Ital-
dams were killed in an attack In the
Sugana valley Monday.
Domestic
The building of the Salmondsport
Vintage company at Penn Yam, N. T.,
was destroyed by fire. The loss Is
$4,000.
DR.. Arthur Warren Waite, awaiting
electrocution in Sing Sing prison for
the murder of his father-in-law, John
b. Peck Of Grand Rapids, Mich, was
found in his cell in the death house.
bleeding from wound in his chest
made in the shape Of a cross.
The Nebraska State bank at Sunol,
Neb., was robbed Of 81, 200 by two rob
;bers, who locked Cashier w. G. Smith