, 1917-08-02

SSiiup'' VI iNhoSiuh wal
adds gravity to war.
Germans used liquid fire in capture
of trenches from British.
Kerensky names coalition cabinet
and policy of blood and
iron to save the Slav army.
Vienna newspapers report that tire
Russians nave evacuated Cznernowitz,
capital of the Austrian % land of
Bukowina.
The Russian retirement in eastern
Galicia continues. South of the
Dneister river to the Carpathians the
Teutonic forces are moving forward
almost unimpeded.
The Germans have captured Halicz,
Podhaytse and other towns in the
erive through Galicia. The Russians
evacuated Stanislau and fired the big
powder magazine at Tarnopol.
The japanese freight steamship
Kagoshima Maru, 1866 tons gross
register, n the Shigozan Maru, 2,S27
tons gross, We're sunk by German sub.
marines in the Atlantic ocean on July
Goth.
In Flanders the British took La
Basse but surrendered it later before
a German c~ounter-attack. The Ger.
man crown prince was repulsed in at.
tacks in the Champagne by the
French
Women soldiers of Russia fall in
battle while men desert ranks and
hide in own trenches. Disaffection
pmpnU pnecianc pnanc n for stoo1v
advance of Germans on large front in
Galicia.
A dispatch to the Daily London
Mail from Petrograd says that Rus
sian women have offered to train
themselves as crews for battleships,
and that Minister OF the Navy Keren-
sky has accepted their offer.
Ten villages have been captured by
Russo-Rumanian forces in their adj
vance in the Suchitza valley north
west of Focsani. Berlin admits the
AustrO-G Germans nave abandoned that
valley as far rs the upper course of
the Putna.
A dispatch to the London Post from
Petrograd says that under Gen. Korni.
lofts drastic measures to restore or
der in the Eleventh army, one who'll
division thereof was blown to pieces
by their W artillery.
WESTERN
Howard Elliott elected chairman of
the Northern Pacific railroad.
Andrew J.. Peters appointed media
tor of Seattle street car strike.
nna Ntaar Il, r,n.l,Lo,n. u.. 49,
in Cleveland, Ohio, for hindering reg
istration.
Food training camp department
makes nationwide appeal for speakers
for fair and exposition WORK.
A violent hail storm filled the
streets of Flagstaff, Ariz., n COW
cred the surrounding country with six
inches of Ice.
Mrs. Ollie Dill, mother of twenty.
one children, seventeen of whom are
living, filed suit in Kansas City, Kan,
for divorce, charging n%on-support.
Mrs. Rem Mooney, one OF the five
defendants in the murder cases grow.
ing out of the bomb explosion at San
Francisco last summer and which
hdNC eAClLeu NOTlOWlue interest, was
acquitted.
Pedro Monies was hanged at sun.
rise Friday in the courtyard of the
Grant county, New Mexico jail, pay.
ing the penalty for the murder of his
l~6-year-old sweetheart, Refugia VII
Ianueva, whom he shot down in the
streets of Silver City in January,
1916, because she refused to marry
him.
WASHINGTON
New war budget may reach $4,000,
100000.
Loans of $413,OOO, 900 for home
building have been made during year.
Confirmation by the Senate of Ed.
ward N. Hurley's appointment to the
shipping board as successor to VIM.
Denman, who was forced out by Pres
ident Wilson, forecast an early start
on he governments ship building
program.
What part of the war budget, which
may reach $4,000, OOO,O 0 will be
raised by taxation and on what com.
modities the levies will fall, were CON
sidered at a meeting of the Senate
Finance Committee. which is revising
the war tax bill.
Americas gold imports during the
fiscal year ending June 80 totalled
1917, 176,02G, as shown in figures com.
piled by the Department of Commerce.
The excess of imports over exports
was 685,254,S01, against a net import
OF S4OS, 1898 last year, and S25,84G,-
COZ the yea before that.