Tombstone epitaph., 1915-06-27
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
OOiNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR


 The British steamer Hopemount was torpedoed and sunk by a German subm2rine.
 The British steamer Leuctra was torpedoed and sunk off Yarmouth. The crew was rescued
 Three Austrian aeroplanes dropped bombs on Kragojeyatz. Serbia. killing or wounding twelve persons.
 The British steau ship Arndale Of S,5s3 tons gross has been sunk as the result of striking a mine in the White Sea
 The steam trawler Argyll was tor pedoed and sunk by German subma- r;ne. Seven members of her crew lost their lives.
 A dispatch from Copenhagen says Norway has lost twenty-nine vessels since the outbreak of the war, with a total valuation of s7.50O,0o0.
 The British steamer Strathnairn was torpedoed off the Sciily islands and sank Twenty-two members of the crew, including the captain. were drowned
 Copenhagen dispatch to the Lon don Exchange Telegraph Company says the Swedish steamer Verdandi of Hi1 tons was torpedoed off Chris tianiasund by German submarine.
 A dispatch to the Berlin LokaI Anzeiger from Karlsruhe says that the number of victims in the recent allied air raid on that city has been in creased to twenty.two dead and seven- ty-three persons injured.
 The ustro-Hungarian troops are employing dyns mite in the Alpine passes. blowing Lp rocks and loosen Ing avalanches on the advancing Der saglieri. The heights dominating Cap )retto on the Isonzi front have been occupied by the invading Italians.
 Peril of American settlers in the faqui valley of Sonora state brought orders Thursday for the dispatch of three cruisers for the west coast of Mexico and authorization of Admiral Thomas B. Howard to land an ex- peditionary force. if he thinks best
 The Russian forces, without suffi. cient ammunition 10 make a stand against Gen. Won Mackensen, are be- ing driven steadily eastward and southward out of Galicia Four-fifths Of the cZar's army, it Is estimated in London advices, are inactive. largely because Of the shortage of munitions. WESTERN
 The Peoples Saving bank of Silver City, N. M., has been closed.
 Kansas, with its boundless wheat crop. has sent cut call for 35,OO0 harvest hands.
 William Miller, 101 years old, who wanted 10 marry for the third time, asked Joplin. Mo. minister to get him license to wed
 The death at Kansas City of Major George c. Asbury, 62 years old. marekd the passing of one of the last scouts. pony riders and wagon bosses of frontier days.
 What is described as the largest United States flag, was presented to the city of St Louis during the flag day celebration. The emblem is l5O feet by 7s feet and weighs 100 pounds.
 Normal service on Chicago elevated and surface car lines was resumed after an all night session of railway and labor representatives and a coun- cil committee headed by Mayor Thompson had agreed on arbitration
 Omaha has been awarded the 1916 annual meeting of the International Auctioneers' Association, in session at Peoria, H. J. E. Stout of Peoria was elected president of the association and J. L. Doud of Omaha vice presi- dent.
 Roy Montgomery. mayor of Gillette, Wyo, started for the federal peni- tentiary at Leavenworth, Kan, to be- gin serving a two and one-half-year term. as a result of his conviction eighteen months ago on a charge of violating the Mann white slave act WASHINGTON
 The La Toilette seaman's law may be amended when Congress re- cOnveneS.
 President Wilson will announce his selection of a successor to former Sec cretary of State Bryan upon his re- turn, July 1, from his vacation trip to Cornish, N. H, according to au- thoritative information.
 The few Bulgarians residing in San Francisco have received orders to re. turn to their native country, prepared for service in the field.
 The European war is swelling the government cable toll bill into larger figures. The State Depart ments bill for cables alone last month reached $1s,000.
 The Supreme Court decided the vir. ginia-West Virginia debt case. It held that West Virginia should pay sl2,393,S2s as its share of the yir- ginia debt at the time the states sep arated.