Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-07-20
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. DoINos, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERiNes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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ABOUT THE WAR

The American steamer Kansas was
~torpedoed, with the loss OF four lives.
Germans claim capture Of 1900 pris-
oners and gain Of 600 yards on User.
French airmen brought down ten
German flyers and drove eight behind
their own lines.
American government believes its
aim for world democracy will not be
accomplished until people rule in Ger
many.
Bethmann-Hollweg that
Germany cannot terms of
peace and must conquer aid demand
Rnnexations.
The British battleship Vanguard
blew up and sank on July 3, says an
official statement issued by the Brit
ish admiralty.
Only fourteen vessels of 1000 or
more tons were sunk last week by
U-boats, a decrease Of two over the
preceding week.
General Korniloff's capture of Ha-
licz and Kalusz, the German army
base in the east, places Lemberg in
imminent danger.
The reichstag on a strike pending
the settlement of the German reform
tangle. Won Bethmann-Hollweg is re-
ported to be in power.
rien Tsin, China, Republican head
quarters reports that 5000 troops of
Gen. Chang Hsun, the mOnarchist
leader, surrendered in the Temple of
Heaven after a fight of two hours.
On a front of nearly fifty miles from
Halicz to the foothills of the Car
pathians, the Russians have advanced
westward across the Lomnica and
north across the Dniester, capturing
several villages and important enemy
positions.
General Korniloff is still pressing
the Austro-G Germans back and has &C.
cupied two towns on the west bank
OF the Lomnica river. The Russians
captured 1000 prisoners and 80 guns
at Halicz, and from July s to 10 cap
tured more than 10000 prisoners.
WESTERN
New Mexico mine operators refuse
TO recognize union.
Hope Of early settlement Of Globe
Miami strike vanishes.
Strike leaders declare /. w. WIS
are not under German influence.
Two men were killed at Bisbee,
Ariz., while deporting LOO l. W. WIS.
Guy U. Hardy, Of Canon City, Colo,
was elected vice-president of the Ma
tional Editorial Association.
At Bemidii, Chippewa Indians of
Minnesota, in council, gave suffrage
to their women BY a vote Of two to
one.
Fire swept three buildings ami
threatened half a dozen others in the
Black Belt in East st. Louis, ILL.,, in
dicating a renewal Of the race rioting.
The maximum price on December
and May corn futures was lowered
from S1.65 to R1.2s by action of the
directors of the Chicago Board of
Trade.
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, superin-
tendent Of public instruction of Colo
RADIO, was elected president OF the
National Education Association at
Portland, ore.
Senator Ashurst OF Arizona received
injuries to his right arm and shoulder
when an awning. being lowered over
a sidewalk on which he was walking,
fell and knocked him unconscious.
Chicago has $4,000 furnishing food
gardens, covering $4,000 acres, and
the state OF Illinois 100000 gardens.
according to a survey by the National
Emergency Food Garden Commission.
The metal mine workers union at
Butte, Mont. issued a call to every
metal mining camp in the United
States to send delegates "a Denver
not later than Aug. / to organize a
new international organization which
win include Canada.
Iowa led the United States in 1916
in the number Of motor cars regis.
tered in proportion to population.
She had one car for every II persons.
California was a close second with
one a to every ~ inhabitants. Ne
bTaska and South Dakota had one for
every 10.
WASHINGTON
Gamers urged by Hoover to make
"r~ockbottom" reductions.
House passes trading with enemy
bill without record vote.
Each person requested to cut mea,
consumption by n ounce each day.
Justus 8. Wardell Of san Francisco
nominated internal revenue collector.
The Federal Reserve Board desig.
mated ogden, Utah, as a reserve city.
All registered men to have given
number drawn in government draft
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