Tombstone epitaph., 1915-04-04
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
 EieN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooihes AND, HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
 Zeppelin airships raided Paris Sun day and dropped a dozen bombs. seven or eight persons were injured, one seriously.
 The British admiralty received word that the Dutch steamer Medes bound for London from Salonika with cargo of oranges. was sunk off beechy Head by the German sub marine UPS. 5
 A British air fleet, flying inland rom the coast above Antwerp. routed TWO Zeppelins and five Taubes in a battle in mid-air following an attack Sn the German submarine base at Hoeoken, in which one submarine was sunk and another badly damaged by bombs.
 The size of the garrison at Przemysi and the number of men who surrendered to the Russians greatly exceed all estimates. Accord ing to Tuesdays dispatches received from Petrograd the garrison original ly consisted of 10000 men. of whom 4o.o00 were killed. Just under 120.00o surrendered when the fortress capitu- lated.
 The admiralty has good reason to believe the German submarine U-29 has been sunk with all hands," says a London report. It was this vessel which a week ago torpedoed six steamers in Bristol channel and off the Scilly islands within two days. This news, published following as it did reports that the attack on the Dardanelles had been resumed and that the Russians had won important victories over the Austrians in Bukowina and at Uzsok pass in the Carpathians, gave the peoples of the allied countries cause for cheerful ness.
 WESTERN
 With the thermometer as law as % degrees. fruit growers say the Harri- son county, Tex, fruit crop is ruined and the yield in the main Texas belt this year will be way below normal.
 Sarah Richards Smith. one of the five wives of Joseph F. Smith. presi- dent of the Mormon church. died in Salt Lake. She was born in Salt Lake City in 1850 and was the young est of the wives.
 The Sells-Floto circus with Buffalo Bill was to show ir San Francisco from May to May II. The board of supervisors of the Panama Pacific ex- position. however. voted 10 to to ex- clude the circus.
 A consignment from an Eastern factory of sixty-six traction automo- biles arrived at Tacoma, Wash, for transshipment to Vladivostok The automobiles are intended. it is said, for military use by Russia.
 All anti-liquor bills, railroad rate bill and bill providing for woman suffrage through constitutional amendment are among those that died when the Missouri Legislature post poned indefinitely all House bills on the calendar preparatory to final ad- journment.
 Vice President Thcmas R. Marshall formally dedicated the Panama-Pa- cific exposition as representative of President Wilson. Ceremonious exer- cises, which included military and naval demonstrations, preceded the dedicafory address of the Vice Presi- dent
 Matthew Bradley, twenty years old. son of Mrs. Anna Bradley. who shot and killed former United States Sen ator Arthur Brown of Utah at Wash iugton, D. C., in 1906, died at Price, utah. of knife wounds inflicted in a quarrel by Arthur Brown Bradley, his half brother, fifteen years old, who is a son of the former senator.
 WASHINGTON
 President Wilson has decided to ap- point Adolph Lankering and Emil Groth postmasters. respectively, al ,Hoboken and Union, N. J.
 The tidewater terminal of the gov ernmepts Alaska railroad will be at Seward. present terminal Of the Alas kan Northern railroad
 Secretary Bryan revealed that in fbe original report or the murder or John B. McManus. an American citi- zen in Mexico City. by Zapata troops, ,b. Brazilian minister had notified the state Department also that the Amer ,csn nag was torn from the house and partiaiiy destroyed
 Claims aggregating sl4.eoo. 900. many of them growing out of damage done [, the South by federal troops in the civil war. will. be thrown out of court n the Court of Claims sustains an Interpretation, placed by the Depart ,,ent of Justice on a provision of the crrn,bus claims bill passed by the last Congress.
 rnrmal announcement was made at xH. White House that at present Pres s1e.f Wilson has no intention of call srr an extra session of the Senate or ~e Congress before the beginning Of he regular session next December.