The Colorado statesman., 1916-06-10
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

AuStrlanS are being held from fur-
ther advances and with heavy losses
by the Italians, according to Rome.
British losses in North Sea battle
fixed at six cruisers and eight destroy
ers; German losses said to include
dreadnought Westfalen.
Germans engaged in violent hand
to-hand fighting with Canadian con-
tingent, former having recaptured ma
jority of positions taken from them
last week.
The Turks in Asia Minor near Bal
burt and Erzingan, have again at
tempted an offensive against the Rus
slams, but Petrograd says their eff
forts failed.
Canadian troops and Germans bat
Ting fiercely in region of Ypres Can
adams regain most of lost ground on
two-mile front in attacks with bayon-
cts and bombs.
Fighting in the Verdun region has
developed into artillery duels with
the Fort Vaux-Damloup sector the
center of the greatest violence. No
material gains reported.
Ten American soldiers were killed
and nine wounded in a battle with
Mexican raiders near Glenn Springs,
in the Big Bend of Texas, according
to. courier reaching Marathon
Contrary claims continue to be put
forth by both Berlin and London on
the naval battle off Jutland. England
now declares two more German
dreadnoughts, the Lutzow and Hin
denburg, were sunk.
Field Marshal Kitchener and his
staff have been lost at sea off the
Orkney islands by the sinking of the
British cruiser Hampshire, on which
Earl Kitchener was making a voyage
10 Russia on a special mission to EN-
peror Nicholas.
From the Pripet river southwark to
the Rumanian frontier, the Russians,
according to Petrograd, are develop
ing successes against the Germans
and Austrians. Along n front of
some $50 miles. the Russians have
taken 4S0 officers and more than 25,-
600 men, and captured 27 guns and
more than so machine guns.
WESTERN
Bernard G. Farrar, brevet brigadier
general, U. S. A., and former United
States sub-treasurer at st. Louis, died
at his home in st. Louis at the age
of So.
Irving Shuman. assistant United
States treasurer in charge of the Chi
cago sub-treasury since 1913, tele-
graphed his resignation to Secretary
McAdoo.
Six men were killed and five others
injured when part of Denver & Rio
Grande passenger train No. 10, west
bound, left the rails and crashed into
freight train on siding at Cotton,
Utah.
Reports of damage done by great
numbers of grasshoppers in north
western Nebraska reached state of.
ficials at Lincoln. Sheridan county
crops are especially menaced. accord
ing to reports.
Fred o. Roof of Pueblo was elected
chairman of the Colorado delegation
at the Chicago convention and DIR. HUI
bert Work, also of Pueblo, was re-
elected national committeeman, both
by unanimous vote.
WASHINGTON
The House passed, 35S to 4. naval
appropriation bill carrying increased
building program substantially as re-
ported from committee.
Louis d. Brandeis of Boston took
his seat as an associate justice of the
Supreme Court, the sixty-second citi-
zen to rise to that distinction.
Plans for the Democratic national
convention. with particular reference
TO the platform, were discussed by
President Wilson with his advisers at
the cabinet meeting and at an infor-
NAL White House conference.
The Supreme Court interpreted the
Harrison Federal Drug Act of 1914,
making it unlawful for any person not
registered under the law to have
opium in his possession as applying
only TO those who deal in the drug
and not TO those who use 1t.
William Jennings Bryan, as a news
paper correspondent, made the rounds
of all the headquarters of the presi-
dental candidates in Chicago,
An executive order was signed by
President Wilson closing all govern
ment departments in Washington on
June II to enable employees to par
ticipate in the preparedness parade.
Maj. Gen. George w. Goethals, gov
ernor of the canal zone, after arriving
at Washington unheralded, conferred
with Secretary Baker and is under
stood TO have reiterated his desire
to retire 10 private life.