Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-09


 submarines.
 The Grimsby trawler Recolo has been blown up in the North sea. Some of the members Of her crew are missing.
 French troops have occupied Rum kaleh. the Turkish fortress on the Asiatic side of the entrance 10 the Dardanelles.
 Three German aeroplanes flew over Belfort, France. and dropped approxi- mately dozen bombs. Four work men were wounded
 The French cruiser Leon Gambetta has been torpedoed by the Austrian submarine U-6 in the Strait of Otranto, the waterway leading 10 the Adriatic sea.
 IL is stated :hat the Germans have sent 5O0,0O0 fresh troops into Flanders 10 follow up first success in the spring clash which sent French and British back 10 Yser canal.
 It is officially announced at Mel bourne that a British warship has captured the German trading steamer Elfriede, which is believed to have been the last German ship free in the Pacific.
 A dispatch to the Exchange teIe- graph from Ipswich says that five houses there were virtually destroyed by an airship's bombs. and that three others were badly and two slightly damaged.
 In the battle of Celaya Gen. Villas horse was shot under him in a charge of the battalion of death." according 10 an official report from Chihuahua 10 Enrique C. Lorente of the Villa agency at Washington.
 The British land forces have made a successful landing on Turkish soil and have succeeded in establishing a line across the Gallipoli peninsula side of the straits. The allies are ad- vancing steadily toward Constantin- ople, according to late advices to the London war office.
 WESTERN
 Twenty-seven lives is given as to- tai Texas flood toll
 Cleveland. Ohio, record April heat wave caused the death of thirteen babies.
 An assembly bill removing property qualification for jurors was passed by the California Senate.
 Fire supposed to have been of in. cendiary origin, destroyed buildings and property worth $225,060 at Dubuque, la.
 Whistles blew a deafening shriek announcing that the state census takers had passed the 100000 popula- ton mark for Des Moines, la.
 Congressman Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois kept a promise made five years ago by dancing a waltz in the New York state building at the Pana- ma-Pacific Exposition in San Fran cisco, He will celebrate his 79th birthday May '.
 E. C. Reed, agent for the Burlington at Manchester, few miles west of Sheridan, Wyo., shot and killed Ed ward Hughey, a ranch hand, whom he discovered alone with Mrs. Reed in the home. Reed gave himself up to the sheriff from Sheridan, and is now in the county jail.
 Balatzar Aviles. former governor of Lower California, and Francisco Avon and Geronimo Sandoval of San Diego. Cal, pleaded not guilty in the Federal District Court at Los Angeles to an indictment charging conspiracy to vio late American neutrality by sending armed men into Mexico.
 Thomas R. Smart. whose presence is desired in Denver in connection with complaints by more than 500 per sons throughout Colorado and New Mexico. who assert he swindled them out of small sums of money on fake timber applications, was arrested by postoffice inspectors of Spokane. who found him at British Forks. Can. He was placed in jail at Spokane, and will be returned to Denver.
 WASHINGTON
 President Wilson promised to at tend. if possible, a meeting of the BRith Abraham in Philadelphia, May Q and 10. The invitation was extended by former Representative Goldfogle of New York.
 Vaccine and other medical supplies to combat smallpox and prevent spread of the disease in Mexico City have been forwarded to Vera Cruz.
 The State Department has advices that thousands are dead and others are on the verge of starvation in China as a result of the famine due to protracted drought.
 Administration officials are opti- rn;stic over prospects that the income tax this year will yield an amount considerably in excess of the original .stir.rfe of ss000o-oo0.