Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-02
FOREIGN

Three cases of bubonic plague have
 been discovered in Vedado, the most
 fashionable suburb of Havana. Adele Hugo. youngest daughter of Victor Hugo, died at her residence in Suresnes, suburb of Paris, at the age Of S5 years.
 Declaration of intention to become
 an American citizen will not exempt
 native of Germany, Austria or Tur-
 key from arrest If found in Canadian | territory.
 Queen Helena of Italy may suffer
 of injuries received seven years ago
 while working among the Messins
 earthquake sufferers.
 The Third Australian expeditionary ! force, 10 consist of 10000 men. which | will soon leave the commonwealth for
 the front, will be made up largely of
 recruits from New South Wales and ! Victoria
 The young Egyptian merchant
 named Khalil. who. on April S. made
 an unsuccessful attempt in Cairo to assassinate Hussein Kamel, the Sul- tan of Egypt, was sentenced by a
 military court to death by hanging. The captain and nineteen members | of the crew Of the Dutch steamer | Olanda were landed at Grimsby. Eng ' land, by a port trawler. The Olanda | struck a mine in the North sea Sun | day and sank. She carried cargo of | coal
 | Baron Augustus Julius Clemens Her | bert de Reuter-, managing director of Reuters Telegraph Company. com
 mitted suicide at Reigate. Surrey | Grief over the death Of his wife. who died recently, is believed to have been 1 the reason.
 Vera Cruz officially honored the | memory Of her citizens who defended ] the city one year ago against occupa-
 tiCn by the American forces. The
 troops Of the entire garrison paraded
 and there were alsc civic ceremonies [ in which Gen. Carranza participated
 The lower house Of the Territorial | Legislature passed the bill abolishing capital punishment in Alaska. The bill has already passed the senate and awaits only Governor J. r. A. Strongs | signature to become effective. l. i was fathered by Senator Charles A l Sulzer. brother of former Governor 1 Sulzer of New York.
 Work that has been going on for | several days preliminary to an at i tempt to raise the submarine Fl, sub merged outside the Honolulu harbor | since March 2, was halted because | of bad weather The hulk. which con | tains the bodies of twenty-one men. is | resting at the place on the ocean 1 floor to which it was lowed after be
 ing raised twelve feet.
 SPORTING NEWS Of the forty-eight states in the union
 the box-fight game is permitted in
 eighteen.
 Jimmy Reagan was given a decision
 over Billy Wagner in a fifteen round
 bout in Denver.
 The Denver Bears wound up their | spring practice games by a 6 to l vic | tory over the Cpuds at Greeley, Colo.
 Joe Rivers of Los Angeles won a | decision in a fast ten-round bout with | Frankie Burns Of Oakland, Cal, al
 Kansas City.
 Tom McCarty, Montana heavyweight
 had the better of every round of a
 ten round bout in New York with Colin Bell, Australian heavyweight ! title holder
 Seventeen strong the Grizzlies left | Denver for Lincoln, where they
 opened the 1915 Western league sea | son. Governor Morehead pitching the | first ball
 The Louisville Jockey club an nounced that at the spring meeting, ] beginning May s. there will be seven
 races a day. The extra race will be
 for a purse of not less than $500
 The English Football Association has announced that with the close of | the present season, on May ,, no more | professional football games will be played until after the war is ended A report at Paris says William ! Thaw, an American aviator. serving ! with the French army, has been killed near Verdun. The report has not been | confirmed, however. A postcard dated 1 April r showed that he was in good
 health then.
 GENERAL
 Mrs. A R. Garfield. 74 years old. | was elected mayor Of Warren, III. The Gary, Ind. plant of the Ameri- can Bridge Company resumed work. giving employment to 45O men. At feast twelve persons were killed | at Birmingham. Ala. when two retail
 stores. crowded with shoppers were crushed by a five-story wall blown | down in a wind storm.
 At Erie, Pa, Sam Leonoff. co. was | killed, his wife. Katherine. injured
 and fifteen others badly hurt when
 the Leonoff home was destroyed by
 dynamite explosion.
 Women composing various relief societies in New York took steps
 toward putting into effect suggcs
 ton by Miss Anne Morgan urging q
 permanent nation-wide organization
 of women to aid the unemployed of |