The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-07-20
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR


German flyers and drove eight behind
their own lines.
Heavy artillery fights continue
along the northern front around Riga,
Dvinsk and Smorgen.
British airmen have been victorious
In the most severe aerial fighting
since the beginning of the war
Sir Edward Carson quits as lord OF
admiralty to join British war cabinet.
Montague made secretary for India.
The admiralty announces the cap
ture of four German steamers by Brit
ish destroyers in the North sea. The
steamers are the Pellworm, Brietzeig,
Marie Horn and Heinz Blumberg.
Won Bethmann-Hollweg is ousted
and chancellorship is given to DR..
George Michaelis, Prussian under sec
retary OF finance. Gen. Won Stein re-
signed as Prussian minister of war.
From Riga on the Baltic sea to the
Rumanian frontier, the Russians and
Austro-Germans are engaged in battle.
From July l to July 10, according to
Russian official communication. 3G.643
oiiit'iS anu 4iith VI iIi' itdtohi' a.
lied armies have been made prisoner.
Serious inroads have been made upon
the German troops holding the line on
the France-British front during the at
tacks delivered on them in the months
OF April May and June. An estimate
made on well-esta blished averages
demonstrates that their losses must
approximate 100000 men.
Again the Teutonic allies have suf-
fered reverses-in the loss to the Rus
slams OF part OF the village of Lodzi-
any, in the Lomnica river region OF
Galicia; in the repulse of an attack BY
the Russians northeast of Kalusz, and
in the Champagne region of France,
where the French drove them from po-
sitions they had recaptured. inflicting
heavy casualties on them
French capture German positions on
a mile and half front and to a depth
OF two-thirds of mile on the banks
of the Meuse. German counter at
tacks repelled after terrific losses are
inflicted. Germans destroy French
trenches along the Laon- scissors road
Persistent counter attacks net victory
for kaiser in the north of Mont Teton.
where his forces were beaten Satur-
day The Russians in Galicia, for
strategical reasons, eyacuate town of
kalusz and take up positions south of
river Lomnica.
WESTERN
over thousand foreigners leave lead
district OF Missouri
Condition at Bisbee settling down to
normal and quiet prevails.
Soldiers death at Globe, Ariz,
causes considerable excitement.
About 200 American-born miners
went on strike at Leadwood, Mo- be-
cause mine operators there employed
foreign born workmen
Nine more Arizona strike leaders
were jailed in the Globe-Miami district
Tuesday, bringing the total number
arrested to sixty eight
The Supreme Court OF the state of
Washington. in an opinion rendered,
held that picketing is intimidation
and contrary to American nstitu-
tons
Under orders OF the commanding Of
ficer OF United States troops in the
Miami, Ariz.. district. public speaking
by members of the Industrial Workers
OF the World was prohibited in the
Globe Miami district.
Nearly 1000 men employed on the
Prairie pipe line, now under construc-
ton from Gushing to St. Louis, are on
strike, according to information re-
ceived at Tulsa, Okla. The men de-
mand an increase from SO to 81 per
day.
WASHINGTON
Part OF National Guard may be sent
to France soon after Aug. 5th
Goethals postpones requisitioning
private shipping under construction.
Senator Shafroth introduced bill
appropriating $4,000 to construct a
bridge across the Arkansas river at
or near the United States naval hos
pital, in Bent county, Colorado.
Census Bureau and War Depart
ment authorities denied northern
states had been penalized in popula-
tion estimates for the draft or that
the solid South" had been favored.
Sixteen Woman's party militants
accepted sentence to the Occoquan
workhouse rather than pay fine of
$25 each for obstructing traffic in at
tempting to picket the White House
The sentence imposed was for sixty
days
Drastic censorship Of all outgoing
cables on the Atlantic seaboard will
be put into effect.