Tombstone epitaph., 1915-10-31
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS ef RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
 eleN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNes AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Great Britain has formally declared var on Bulgaria.
 Berlin confirms Bulgarian claims claims that the allies railway line between Saloniki and Nish has been cut
 Austrian general sends wireless to Won Mackenzen. telling him Serbians cannot be crushed unless reinforce ments are sent.
 Three United States soldiers were killed and eight others wounded in an engagement with Mexican bandits near ojo del Agua.
 From Russia comes the news that Riga is about to fall. The Germans under von Hindenburg have reached the river Drina.
 The German steamers Pernambuco of ASS tons and the Soederhamn of l.4e9 tons. and four other ships were torpedoed and sunk
 The Berlin Tages Zeitung says that during one period of the great battle al Loos last month the British fell at the rate of 100 men a seccnd.
 Great Britain has made a formal of fer Of the island of Cyprus to Greece as soon as the latter nation under, takes to intervene on the side of the allies
 Greece must define her position. This is the text of a dispatch to the London Mail ,rhi.h saye ar ,,I,i,,a., Ia, n, has been sent to the Hellenic ruler by the allies.
 Approximately 25,000." was the of ficial answer in the House of Com mons to request for information as to the total number ol British pris- oners of war in Germany.
 Austro-Germans and Bulgars con tinue to advance in their drive through Serbia Aged men, women and children have taken up arms in an effort to resist their onrush.
 The German armies, which for near Iy fifteen months have been continu- ousiy fighting on the one front or the otaer, are now on the offensive at three widely separated polnts-against Riga and Dyinsk, in Serbia and in the Champagne district of France
 Count Won Bernstorff, the German ambassador, announced in New York that an official communication from Berlin stated German submarines had recently sunk twenty-three vessels. in cluding four transports of the allies, in the Mediterranean.
 WESTERN
 Thomas A. Edison had his day at the Fauama-P Pacific Exposition at San Francisco.
 Twenty r,iners were killed by the explosion Of a wagon load Of dyna- mite at Butte. Mont
 At Murphysboro. IL, Joe Deberry a negro. was hanged for the murder of Mrs. J. H. Martin.
 Two men robbed the Citizens Bank of Renton, six miles from Seattle. and escaped with about $2,500 in currency
 Chicago's first Chinese church was opened and it began it's formal min tstry to the 1000 Orientals in that city.
 Mrs. Ada R. Smith, widow of the late Joseph Smith, president of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints. died at Independence, Mo.
 Seventeen men wede killed at ths Granite Mountain mine of the Nortf Butte Mining Company by an explo sion of 800 pounds of giant powder.
 Claims totaIling si70.009 against ,tht St Joseph-Chicago Steamship Com many and the Indiana Transportation Company for the deaths of forty-on' persons and the injury nf six other ,n the Eastland disaster were filed 1T ,be United States District Court a Chicago.
 WASHINGTON
 Willard D. Doremus, inventor of th' ,et,er boxes seen on every street O every city of the United states, diet .usdenly of heart disease while visit ing the patent office. He was native of Seneca. N. T.
 President Wilson in a proclamation designating Thursday, Nov 9, al Thanksgiving Day. called attention t' ,be fact that the United States hai teen at peace while most of Europ' has been at war
 President Wilson has signed proc ,amatiou giving notice of the neutral itv of the United States in the war be tween Serbia and Bulgaria.
 president Wilson returned to Wash s..,or from Princeton after casting sbe first ballot ever given by chiel s-scutive of the United State in fay o- of xoman suffrage.
 The War Department estimate .h,ch will be submitted to Congress ,n,. winter will include an appropria con Tor Qualifications at San Pedro .sI where sixteen-inch guns will b r1ountcd-