The Ordway new era., 1917-03-30
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK or
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

A German gunboat in the haroor OF
Tsin Tau, China. was blown up and
sunk.
Russians admit important German
success on the eastern front but claim
some captured positions were recap
tured.
yillistas under the command OF
Gen. Salazar captured the town OF
MADEIRA, on the Mexican Northwest
ern railroad, according TO arrivals at
Juarez.
South Of the Disc the French con
tinue 10 cross the Ailette river, and
north of scissors, Paris says, consid-
cradle progress has been made toward
Margival
North of Monastir, after a violent
fight, Hill 1,2iS remained in the
hands of the French. In sixteen
hour battle near Kerind, Petrograd
reports the Turks were forced to re-
treat to Kerind.
A British communication says that
for the week ending March IS, sixteen
British ships, each of tonnage Of
more than 1900, were sunk and eight
OF tonnage under 1900 tons. Twenty
one Ashing vessels also were sunk.
The French cruiser (battleship)
Danton was torpedoed in the Mediter-
anean sea on March 19, it was an
nounced officially by the admiralty at
Paris. Two hundred and ninety-six
men were lost and SOC were saved by
the destroyer Massue and patrol
boats.
British report progress southeast of
Arras, and the French. Paris says,
have moved forward between one and
a quarter and two and half miles
in the st. Quentin region. French
troops also have made gains in the
heights overlooking the Disc valley,
northeast of Tergnier.
Paris reports the total amount Of
French territory liberated from the
German invaders by the Somme often
sive up to March 2lst is $50 square
miles situated in the four departments
of Pas-de-Calais, Disc, Aisne and
Somme. 1t includes 366 towns and vii
lagos, the homes of 1S1,935 French
men. The Germans are still in posses
sion of 1926 square miles OF France.
WESTERN
The death of John Ward, 10. Of
Evanston, Wyo., removes another OF
the fighting sheriffs" who became
famous during the early days when
Wyoming was infested with outlaws.
No fewer than 1000, Germans have
left ST. Louis since the United States
Kaiser's government, according to
estimates secured from German
American sources.
An oil painting of Kaiser Wilhelm
valued at 500, was slashed in the
first anti-German demonstration re-
ported to the police in St. Louis.
Fanatics wrecked the rooms OF a Ger
man singing society.
Warren A Waite, 60 years old
father of Arthur Warren Waite, un-
der sentence OF death in New York
for the murder of John E. Peck by
poisoning, died at his home in Grand
Rapids, Mich He had been i'll ten
days of pneumonia
New Albany, Ind, was struck by a
hurricane driving ahead at the rate
OF fifty-two miles an hour Friday
afternoon, and besides killing more
than fifty persons and injuring hun
dreds of others, wrought damage to
residence and business property esti-
mated at s2,GOO.0OO
WASHINGTON
President Wilson and all govern
ment officials are concentrating on
the grim business of preparing the
nation for war.
The chief railroads of the east pc
tttioned the Interstate Commerce
Commission tn amend fts rulas RI nav