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THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
August 14, 1915,
Cermans bombarded Novo.
georgievsk.
Severe fighting on the Ziota
Lipa.
Austrians advanced along the
Bug river.
August 15, 1915
Germans neared Kovno
Russians defeated by Germans
near Kubisko.
Austrians resumed bombard.
ment of Belgrade.
Russians advanced in the Cau
casus.
German embassy at Washing.
ton published charges that many
British merchantmen had flown
American flag
American note to Austria re.
fusing to stop shipment of muni
tions published.
August 16, 1915.
Germans forts
of Kovno
took outlying
and Novogeorgievsk.
French won
near Soissons.
Turko
Russians.
U. S. accepted Ge
of settiement for the
artillery fight
recaptu
August 17, 1915
Germans captured sou
front of Kovno, with 4,500 men
Von Mackensen cyt Ch
Brest-Litovsk railway.
Russians again took Van and
made other gains in Caucasus.
fleet bombarded
in Adriatic.
thwest
aim
Austrian
Pelagosa island
Zeppelins raided outskirts of
London
August 18,
ied
1915.
Kovno occup the Ger.
mans.
by
rmans took two forts
of Novogeorgievsk
Ge more
Von Mackensen's
crossed the Bug.
Violent artillery duels
whole western front
along
Italians
trenches in
regions
took many Austrian
Toimino and Carso
August 19,
Two more Novogeorgiavsk
forts taken by Germans
1915.
Austro.G
trated outer
Litovsk.
White Star Arabic
by German submarine; 54
German forces pene
defenses of Brest
sunk
lost.
liner
1915
YOgeorgievsk,
of supplies.
August 20,
Germans took No
with great stores
italy declared war on Turkey
Heavy fighting on the Belgian
front.
MEN AND MATTERS
Ever
fine
palaces has comes
Cheng fac
ly destroy
designs
revolutionists Reece
factory 18 received a
000 nnd will again
=
gince the wear
1
porcelain u wel in
tory The
ed and
were divid
t l ent
of $20.
the
grant
produce
iful porcelain for w! rit is
hs
rare |
and beaut
noted }
The Mc Solar observatory |
has completed a catalogue of the mag
nitudes and colors of more than 1,
stars in the globular cluster Messier |
13. Nearly 11 per cent of these stars |
have negative color indices, suggesting |
that in this direction there no |
marked absorption of light in space
Of the 400 brightest stars, 70 per cent
are redder than a normal solar type |
star; the 400 faintest, 85 per cont
are bluer than the nermal solar type |
star. By statistical methods the paral |
lax of the cluster has been found to be |
less than 0.0001 second of arc. Five |
new variables have been discovered in |
this cluster, making a total of seven.
Inoys that make a flapping noise as
they pnss through the water nnd leave
a plainly-seen wake have been invent.
ed in England to be towed behind vos.
sei to guid following ones in fogs,
For measuring cloth in a roll with
out unrolling it there hag been invented
a device tha: passes a thread between
its folds and at the same time auto
matically measures the thread.
Parchment manuscripts nearly S00
years old, from which the ink has
faded from view, have been read hy a
Berlin scientist who photographed
them with ultraviolet rays,
The 2%-story frame colonial style
home of William Loring Andre wa, In
Onk Neck road, two miles east of Bab-
ylon, L. L, {8 an repliea of the Longfel
low home at Cambridge. It is set back
some distance from the highway on an
elevation, which is" beautifully ter
raced.
New York's bureau of pure foods.
with Its corps of inspectors, claims to
have put re-enforced sugar out of the
local market and killed the industry
of freshening stale fish with paint
Starved chicken, bogus salmon and
doped candies ure also chased into
peclusion.
yunt Wilson
HOH
is
of
PLENTY OF WHEAT |
Surplus This Year and Large
Carry-Over From Last Crop.
PROSECUTORS READY TO ACT
To Punish Boosters—Department Of
Justice and Trade Commission
Ready To Curb Price
Manipulation,
Washington. —There can
the whe
Agriculture
If there is any
the pric
eral Trade
Expert
shortage
unwarranted
e of flour, we'
11 get bu
5 . To Act
ha
[a oN ALONG,
CABIN GREEK
JWEPT BARE
BEATEN BACK
FHOM SUEZ CANAL
xceed Needs
FLOOD DAMAGE AT MILLI
That In
and Peedee Rive
$4,500
santee
tems Alone OO
1 Ww
T ha
op
arming
floods in South Car
000 acres of crops,
ige to which probably
EXPLOSION KILLS THREE MEN
Two Others Injured In Du Pont Plant
At Carney's Point
An
Wilmingtor Del
which cylinder on a re
hydrating press at the Du Pont Pow
der Company's plant at Carney’s Point
N. J., killed workmen and in
jured two The which
contained 40 pounds of guncotton, was
atop!
explosion
blew out a
three
othars Press,
were hurled in all directions
INVESTIGATING CAMPS,
Relative Of Secretary Baker Looking
into Their Condition
Laredo, Tex Mrs, Seth Barton
French, of New York, said to be a
representative of Secretary of War
Baker, arrived here to investigate con.
ditions in the border military camps,
Miss Alice McKay Kelly, fleld secre
tary of the National Patriotic Organ.
ization of New York, is here, in
vestigating conditions
also
BRITAIN SEEKS COPPER.
Wants To Contract For
Principal American Producers.
New York. -<~Negotiations by repre
sentatives of Great Britain and her
allies are now in progress for the
entire 1917 output of the principal
American copper producers, The price
for the metal ls the only thing to be
gettied. This new bargaining follows
the refusal of an offer of 21 cents a
pound recently made.
in West Virginia
MORE THAN SIXTY DEAD
Cabin
Bed After
Hundreds Of Houses
By the
Creek Returns To Its Narrow
a Day Of Destruction
Washed
Away Waters
RAILROAD MEN AVERT STRIKE
A. B. Garretson, Of Conductors, An
nounces Acceptance
A strike of 400.000 rail
he rafiways of the
ted. This
A. B. Gar
Railway Con
Brother
weeapt media
Board of Media
been aver
when Pre
Order of
that the
has
sured ident
on of the
fuctors announced
hood of Employes
tion by
would
the Federal
ion and Conciliation
FIRST FROST OF SEASON.
Mercury In Canadian City Drops To
Thirty. Two Degrees
The
reported
firet frost of the sea
from Edmonton, Al
berta, ury registered 22
degreez. From points all over the Mid.
dle West, which days ago were
sweltering in temperatures belween
106 degr rains
reported
(Chicago
HON was
where the me:
10
a0 and and cooler
eed,
weather are
SECRETARY AMADOR DEAD.
Mexican Foreign Affairs Official Sue.
cumbs To Gangrene,
Mexico City of For.
eign Relations Amador died after a 10.
which affected
A blood clot in the leg
Two operations
~Subsecretary
| his heart
{ caused the gangrene
| lite, the last yenierday
200 KILLED OR HURT.
Allied Air Raid On Metz
Given Out
The Hague Two hundred German
soldiers wore killed of injured in the
| recent allied alr raid on Metz, capital
of Lorraine, according to word re.
celved here. The station and barracks
| Result Of
the British.
3.000 ARE MADE PRISONERS
Are Hauled
~Relays Of Planks
Heavy Guns Across the
Desert By Oxen
To Keep Wheels From
ing
Sink
into the Sand
Turks Were Brave
general
RUSSIAN BUNS
|
of No Avail.
|
| HOST OF PRISONERS TAKEN
All the
stroyed,
Bridges Having Been De
the Russians Ford the
Ziota Lipa River East
Of Stanislau
Potr Cradl Huss Lroop
| forded Zot Hive
Galicia }
| tingat on
| along the
| WAY, says
the
Apa
wast lau,
of thel DETERS WwWeslw
reyeka-Niznioff
official state
War
Monants
the ment
out by Departine
Petrograd
a
AMERICAN CITED THIRD TIME
Hill With
Highly
Lovering Ambulance
Praised
LABOR BILL PASSED
| The Senate Take:
Final Action On the
East
nued,
on the
ngaged
were
in Egypt in
behind the
alae
Where £ wy
W 1 Re
Hi i Wwe
on the defensive
that
position
prepared for purpose
The Turks not only
rend
a frontal
positions,
ma
hed
around
infantry
only In
a¢
attack on our ent
but attempted
flank Our
alry «
our left
ind cav
repelling,
10 Re
artillery,
o-Operated not
but in attacking the enems
NO TROOPS WITHDRAWN.
General Pershing Still Has Force In
Namiquipa.
Washington Positive evidence that
Pershing has not yet with
drawn all American forees from Nami
quipa, Mexico, afforded in the gen
eral army orders The
General
Was
issued Monday
Frank
Corps,
quipa,
At
Baker, of the
from Columbus, N, M.,
to relieve Sergt. J. P. Tillman
the War Department officials re-
fured to comment the order other
than to that it was evident that
General Pershing still has troops at
Namiquipa, which is 160 miles from
the American border.
on
Ry
FARM LOAN BANKS SOUGHT.
Forty Cities Want Them-—Board Holds
Its First Meeting.
Washington. ~The new Farm Loan
| Board, charged with organization of
the Federal Bank system providing
methods for making loans to farmers
‘on first mortgages of land, held its first
meeting Monday. The most important
preliminary work will be division of
the country into 12 districts with a
land bank in each district. Forty
citier already have applied for banks,
The board is expected to travel across
the continent to hear farmers’ views
| where banks should be located,
Measure
Washingt
the bill
merce in
ote
ready
Wik & sure
House as
brought Senate u
the ins
the
Gn
President Wilson
after Senate caucus, once had de
cided to defer its consideration until
next December
EXPLOSION KILLS 6 MINERS.
in
Gas Pocket Woodward Colliery
Wilkes-Barre Goes Off
Six men are dead
Near
Wilkes-Barre, Pa
| as a of a gas explosion in the
| Woodward Colliery of the Delaware,
| Lackawanna and Western Coal Com
| pany here. Three were killed
| instantly the other three died
{ within a time at the
i from burns. The cause of the explo
sion has not yet been determined
result
near
and
short hospital
GERARD TO SEE KAISER
Ambassador Will Present
Letter On Poland.
London. "United
dor Gerard,” says a Berlin
transmitted by the Exchange Tele
graph correspondent al Amsterdam,
“has requested an interview with the
Kaiser in order (0 present an im-
portant letter from President Wilkon
with reference to feeding the people
of Poland.”
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MAY LOOSE U-BOATS.
German Gouncil Coneiders Resuming
Unrestricted Torpedoing Of Ships.
Berne, Switzerland. The commit.
tee of the German Federal Council on
Foreign Affairs mel in Berlin to con.
sider whether the general situation
and the present relations with neutral
powers Justified a resumption of un.
restricted submarine operations by
Jermany.
Wilson's
States Ambassa
dispatch
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3 Ibs. and 18 do pude
do, 17¢. do, do, muscovy, do,
Te; do, do, smaller do, do, 15@
16¢; do, old. 13@15« Pigeons—Young,
5c, do, old, do, 25¢. Guinea
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66@ 70¢c
Live Stock
KANBAS CITY
bulk. $%404G5%865
packers and bulchers, $0.5089.70;
light, $030@92 680, pigs, $S8ES8 80
Cattle-~Prime fed steers, $9506
10.10; dressed ieers, $750
8.25: Southern REG RED; cows,
$4500 7.60; heifers, $6@9.50: stockers
and feeders, $6G 8%; bulls, $5.26@6.75;
calves, 3650@11
Sheep—Higher
yearlings, $7.750%.36
8: GCWeu, $T@T 60
Higher;
$3.5099.70,
Hoge
heavy
breser |
cltoprt
Lambs, $10.25@11;
wathers, $7.50
ST. LOUIS «~Hous
and lights, R50 9.80; mixed and
butchers, $8.50@9.77%: Rood Pury,
$0.70Q00.77%; bulk, $9500 75)
Sheep ~ Spring iambhs, $710 35;
slaughter owes, $507.25; leating
ewes, $0510; yearlings, $6@G 9.50
Cattle-Steady, native heel steers,
$7@ 10.25; yearling steers and heifers,
$R.50@ 10; cows, $6 S0@s; stockers and
feeders; $5.2098.2%; Texas and Okla
homa steers, $5.600°10; cows and heif-
ers, $508. orime vearling steers and
heifers, $8.75 10 25; aative calves, $6
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