THE EUROPEAN WAR A
Feb. 21, 1915.
Russians forced the fighting from
East Prussia to Bukowina.
Berlin reported sinking of Brit.
ish transport loaded with troops.
American steamer. Evelyn sunk
by mine off Holland; eight lost.
German sabmarine U-12 sank
British steamer Downshire,
German airmen dropped bombs
on Colchester, Coggeshall and
Braintree, England.
Reims again bombarded.
Feb. 22, 1915.
Russians made progress in Gali
cia and the Carpathians.
Turks massacred Armenians
the Caucasus.
United States presented motes to
Great Britain and Germany propos
ing modifications of blockade de-
crees.
Zeppelin bombarded Calais,
ing five persons.
Germany deaied charges of cru-
eity to war prisoners.
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Feb. 28, 1915.
Germans bombarded Reims with
Austrian 12-inch howitzers.
Russians forced Germans back
along the Bobr and repulsed Aus.
trians near Krasne.
Germans assembled great force
at Przasnysz.
American ste
mine; three lost.
Germany included Orkney and
Shetland Islands In war rone.
Carib sunk by
Feb. 24, 1915.
Russians won in Carpathians near
Usrzok pass.
British captured German steam.
er Gotha.
Steamers Hypalien and Roy Par
ana torpedoed in English clmnnel.
Germany promised to respect
italian flag.
Three British
raid on Belgium.
aviators ost in
Russia presented to wewtral ns
tions note accusing Germans and
Austrians of atrocities.
R. P. Stegler confessed details of
German passport frauds in U. 8
Feb, 25, 18915.
Germans besieged Ossowetz
Russians split Austrian army in
Carpathians and again mvaded
Eukowina.
Four forts at entrance of Dar
danelles reduced by allied ficet.
British steamer Coast
lost in the channel
Western
Feb. 26, 1915,
French made gains on the Meuse,
Battie in East on 260mile front.
Germans retired in Przasnysz re-
gion but captured 11 Russian gen-
erals in Mazurian lakes battle.
Botha took command of British
troops for invasion of German
Southwest Africa
Inner forts of Dardanelles bom-
barded.
French destroyer Dagee hit Aus
trian mine.
Allies blockaded coast of German
East Africa.
Feb. 27, 19a
Germans retired om worth of
Eastern front and Rusotaws recap-
tured Przasnysz.
German battalion gsmikflated on
the Bobr.
Russians advanced in Galicia, re-
taking Starndsiaw and Kolomen.
Forty allied warships pemetrated
Dardanelles for ¥ miles.
American steamer Dacia seized
by French eruiser.
Freuch aviators bomtbhasded Met:
amd Germans dropped bombs on
Nieuport.
Food Minimess.
The trreducible minisram for Hving
epenpes seams to howe boom attained
by Roger Crab, the hermit, who lived
#8 leckenham, near Wxbridge. About
B41 he began to restriet himself to a
vegetarian diet, avoiding even butter
and cheese. From roots he gt a diet
eonsisting chiefly of broth made from
wrnip leaves and thickened with bran,
and he finally resorted to dock leaves
and grasa, with a bran pudding as an
occasional delicacy. He drank noth-
mg but water, and lived on three far
things a week until he died in 1680, at
the age of sixty. —London Chroniale.
Had Sultan's Indorsement.
Extract from a Tarkish, newspaper:
“His serene highness has been mWeasod
to watch the eclipoe, and has directed
the lord chamberlain to express his
emtire satisfaction with the magnili
emt performance.’ TH Bits.
Easy to Get Line on Mim.
Fond Father-—*1 hardly know what
business to put my som im, 1 know
practically nothing about his ability,”
Friend—"Take him for a sea voyage.
That will show what there Is In him.”
Philadelphia Record.
DEGIOED STAND
TAREN BY LANSING
No Compromise in the Armed
Ship Coniroversy.
BERNSTORFF SEES LANSIN
German Ambasador Afterward Notifies
His Government Yor Stand Taken
By United States As Outcome
Of Latest Lusitania Note
Washington. The United
its
States, in
with
hort of a
submarine controveray Ger
many, will accept nothin;
full and complete agreemen
all the points for whic
tended as to assurance
fare in the future wiM he
accordance with eat
ciples of nal law
In amnouncing that fact
Lansing let it be known that the State
Department considers Gorn
laration
out warning
armed merch
Allies to with the
surances previ this CO
ernment by the Berlin Foreign Office
The te
el
in the pos
sin;
until such
future
conducted in
iblizhed prin
Internati
Secretary
Any 's de
tention to egink with
February 29
ships of the Ent
stent
given
native
ed to end
are given, the co
Lusitania itself is ; epiable,
Holds
Departme:
Up Ancona tlement
f
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4
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The
through Cerm
dod as be
Ofllcials
co.pt of wh
are now awaiting the re
atl Garmany alleges to be
Eiven
the om
fri $i
Covernment
Ted Ins
the British
mandere of hant
document and eller appended to th
the German declaration have
mated Berlin
Ms
to
ro
mer ships, i his
text
been
penn
BANDITS KILL 20 RANCHERS
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THEIR RIGHTS
Positlon Taken by U. S. Under
International Law.
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Jard Assurances W
Been Given To the
can Gove
heliove
rian ns Crond
ships ents
hall nad be
malic ams official refos doubt
was expressed thet the new police
would In the elighies! way affect eon
Atlante, although It
that #howld the Italian
verumert poruikt kn arming ite me
inten KlBonity mish arice in the
oan.
In bolh
admitled
was
FARM.LOAN BANKS
appearod al Rancho San Juan Feb
an American te oecul mining men
The messenger that
bandits marehed to the Siero Prieto
district and ware not molested by
small Ourmanmn foroes at Santa Dag
bara and Parral
Theme advices reported that
ranch en roate was looted and females
over 10 years ol were maltreated,
their male relatives being forced wit
nesses
stated the
onch
ASKS ARMY OF 250,000,
Hoke Smith Presents Bill For Bix.
Year Enlistment,
Washington Increase of the Regu
lar Army to 250.000 men was provided
in a bill introduce in the Senate by
Benator Hoke Smith, of Georgia. It
was immediately referred to the Sen.
ate Military Affaire Commitise, now
engaged in redrafting the Chamber.
lain omnibus army bill. The term of
enlistment would be mix years, two
years with the colors and four years
in the reserve.
Administration Bill Favorably Reported
To the Senate,
administration
of land
rint congression
Washingion ~The
em
banks, drafied by a
ial commitiee, wis
ito the Senate, bul with radical
tions by the Basking and
Commies, The joint proposal for a
board of five commissioners to control
the system wae discarded by the com
mittee in favor of control by a treas
ury department bureau, to be known
as the Federal Farm loan Bureau,
ander the general supervision of a
federal farm loan board, the latter con.
sisting of the secretary of the treasury
and four presidential appointees
favorably 3
milera
THEATRE FALLS; 10 DIE.
Of Opera House.
Mexia, Texas Ten peisons were
killed here in the collapse of the Opera
House building, which was followed by
a gas explosion and fire that for a
time threatened the business section
of the town. Numerous persons were
injured.
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FOR NOMINATION
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Name in Ohio Primary.
Announcement President's
Determination To Se Renoming
Clarify
BELGIUM ASSURED
OF ALLIES’ FAITH
New Treaty Guaranteeing Inde-
pendence and Indemnity.
THE FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Of the Entente Allies Con
veyed To the Belgian Foreign
Office By Ministers Repre.
senting All the Allies.
ie allied powers sig
guaranieeing
reutralily
iO renew
wiilities unt
ce ndependencs
hed
ior ihe
the 1
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Gana
Minister
ian
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"he Hus
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spokesman
od powers
Jira nieg
neutrality
renow
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re of
Pres
indidate
andidate
gate to
mvention
Hy name au
dency hy any «
to Ix
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the
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which is lo assemble in
The President takes
that the
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positon
voters will have
w made the race the
1916 a= the Democratic
ledier written to A
representative
Presidency in
candidate,
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vivania, before his inaugu
Mr. Ww
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be a apnin
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yamsoos voters oe
EDITOR GETS LIFE SENTENCE
Killed Editor Of
in &
a Competing Paper
Dispute
a eer, Sune!
weekls
ound gunly of
Wiley A Hack burn, of a eon
| peting paper, last October and wa
kentenced to life Imprisonment. Nack
newspaper here
the murder of
editor
ia dispute with Rees over bids for
printing.
THE BULLDOG OF THE NAVY.
The Battleship Oregon Placed On the
Retired List
Vallejo, Cal. ~The battleship Oregon
Bulldog of the Navy, went on the re
tired list when she was turned over
without formality, to the Naval MiMtis
of California at the Mare Island Navy
Yard, She gained fame by a aruise
around Cape Horn which ended ia the
battle of Bantiago July 3, 1908,
1831.
elppned No
Neutratily Pledoed In
1 the treaty of London
venrfbor 15, 1821, the neuts
gma wae guaranteed by Austria, Ru
Creat Britain and Prussia
R38 another
of Bel
ALLY
ri,
trolly was signed
sobecribed to alse
"Belgium
amd
.
nevirat stale it shall bt
"ua
providing
an independent perpelually
bound wo ob
ger
katona ©
" has reported aooflieially
several eocasiong recently that
ny desired to conclade a separate
Belgium, restoring the oo
ferritory and paving an in
in return for certain commer
sin! advantages. Offieinl denial of
these reports, however, was made laut
weet by the Delgian legation at Lon.
dem. In comiection with these reports
slenicance war attached to the
potent on Pebroary 4 of Ban
Corson and Gen. Sir Douglas Haig,
ammander of the British forves on
the Continent, to visft King Albert of
Belgiem on a special mission, the
etry of which was not disclosed,
been on
(Ger
oops with
cupied
demerits
ap
G. T. MARYE RESIGNS.
Ambassador To Russia May Be Suc
ceoded By D. RB. Francis.
Washington. David R. Praneis, of
Bl. Lows, former Secretary of the In.
tbr and former Qovernor of Mis
poord, is understood to be under peri
ous oomwideration for appointment as
Ambassador to Russia to succeed Geo.
T. Marye. It Is not known whether he
will aocept the post If it ia offered to
him. Mr. Marye's resignation has not
rol been accepted, but it was stated at
the State Department and White
Bowe (hat it undoubtedly would be.
IID GUNG TAKEN
Russians Go Wild Wilh Joy a!
Success at Erzerum.
BATTLE REPORTED
Turks, 110 Gur
Are
40,000
Stores
Reporied
rd--Baves Egypt
pegs
Opens Asia Mi
JEFFERSON DAVIS HIGHWAY
One From Memphis To New
Oclean
ls Proposed,
Te ond re
ay ne
Wi river § i
i meee here
“ies for a pro
highway. It
io New Orleans
» Missisadpol, the koro
Con foderaes
Meonnlibe
dent of the
the road wonid co
with the MemphisPuducan highway
which in ta: coRnects with the trans
continental througk
Kentucky
pre
8 ordain} %
At Memphis nneet
parang
INCREASED 3000 PER OENT
Barrel Of Violet Dye Bought For $401
is Sold For $12.000
The shortzpe In dyes ull:
us by textile manufac
this product was pointed ous
by dealers who reported that a barre
of violet bought 14 nme
$400, had been sold here for £12
080, an increase of 2.0068 per cent
Postion
and the
turers fou
nd
dre months
for
IDEAL MAN DISCOVERED
He Is Bradford M. Fullerton, Swim.
ming Captain At Marvard.
Cambridge, Mase. ~The ideal mas
has been discovered at Harvard, ae
cording to the specifications of (he
merchant tailors of (he United Stale
He i= Bradford M. Fallerton, swim
ming captain, from Spokane, Wash
VON PAPEN DECORATED
Former Attache In United States Mon.
ored By Kaiser.
Rome. ~~ Swiss dispatches report
that Kaiser Wilhelm has conferred the
order of the Red Eagle upon Capt.
Franz von Papen, formerly German
Military Attache to the United States