Taiban Valley news., 1917-08-03
CONDENSED RECORD or THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, poIN q 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
ABOUT THE WAR

sent 10 DOlIOn.
Russians defending Tarnopol leave
city to Germans.
Collapse of Russian war machine
adds gravity to war.
Germans used Hquid fire in capture
of trenches from British.
Kerensky names coalition cabinet
and announces policy of blood and
iron to save the Slav army.
Vienna newspapers report that the
Russians have evacuated CZnernowitz,
capital of the Austrian crown 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
drive through Galicia The Russians
evacuated Stanislau and fired the big
powder magazine at Tarnopol.
The Japanese freight steamship
Kagoshima Maru, 1866 tons gross
register, and the Shigozan Maru, 1927
tons gross, were sunk by German sub
marines in the Atlantic ocean on July
Goth.
In Flanders the British took La
Basse but surrendered 1t later before
German counter-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
among Russians opens way for steady
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
usso-Rumanian forces in their ad-
vance in the Suchitza valley north
west of Focsani. Berlin admits the
Austro-G Germans have abandoned that
valley as far as 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 whole
division thereof was blown to pieces
by their own artillery.
WESTERN
Howard Elliott elected chairman of
the Northern Pacific railroad.
Andrew ]. Peters appointed media
tor of Seattle street car strike.
One year in workhouse given three
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., and COW
SISu luc buiiOuuolh6 SOuhIiJ Win oAA
inches of ice.
Mrs. Dillie Dill, mother of twenty
one children, seventeen of whom are
living, filed suit in Kansas City, Kan.
for divorce, charging non-support.
Mrs. Rena Mooney, one of the five
defendants in the murder cases grow
ing out of the bomb explosion at San
Francisco last summer and which
have excited worldwide 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
16-year-old sweetheart, Refugia VII.
lanueva, 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 $413,000,000 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 Wm
Denman, who was forced out by Pres
dent Wilson, forecast an early start
on the governments ship building
program.
What part of the war budget, which
may reach $1O,o00,0O0,oO0, 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 30 totalled
1917, ITO, ,026, as shown in figures com
piled by the Department of Commerce
The excess Of imports over exports
was $685., ,254,S01, against net import
Of $403, ,759,753 last year, and $25,344,
6O7 the year before that.