Tombstone epitaph., 1915-03-28
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 Eich couNrRIEa
IN LATE DISPATCHES
coiNos AND HApPeNiNos THAT MARK THE PaoeREss
 or TIRE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
 England and France have modified the blockade order. on protest from the United States.
 The British Admiralty announces the loss of the auxiliary cruiser Bay ano while the vessel was engaged in patrol duty.
 The last eight official Prussian casualty lists. No le6 to No. IFS, con tain 33,142 names. bringing the grand total of killed, wounded and missing since the war began to 1,05O,029 men.
 In written answer to a query, Win. ston Churchill. first lord of the Ad- miralfy. asserted that the number of British merchant ships detained. cap tured or destroyed from the beginning of the war to March 10 totaled 166.
 There are 100000 soldiers buried in triangle only a few miles in size be- tween Warsaw and Skierniewice, ac- cording to a correspondent who has just completed a trip by automobile over this portion of the fighting line.
 The London foreign office was ad- vised that Turkish soldiers recently ran wild in the Urumiah district or northwestern Persia and killed several hundred civilians. The Turks are said to have burned several villages after footing them.
 The British foreign office delivered to Ambassador Page its reply to the American note proposing to Great Britain and Germany the withdrawal Of the German submarine blockade provided England would permit food to reach German civilians. Great Brit ans reply is an absolute refusal
 The British casualty list for the five days from March 10 to March II, in elusive, during which the battles of Neuve, Chapelle and St. Eloi were fought, show that ll2 officers were killed or died from wounds and that 193 officers were wounded or are miss sing. The list of casualties among the potent critics state them at about two thirds of those suffered by the Ger mans, which Field Marshal John French, the British commander-in- chief. said were between 1000 and 1S,00G.
 WESTERN
 Vice President Thomas R. Marshall left Chicago for San Francisco and other cities on the Pacific coast.
 Six persons were serious injured, the others slightly injured and two story house was wrecked by terrific gas explosion at Salt Lake.
 The strike of the coal miners in the Eastern Kentucky fields came to a sudden termination when an agree ment was reached between the miners and the operators.
 Mrs. Peter Veuve, who was Count ess Jeane De Madre, once a belle of European courts and a friend of Elm press Engenie. died in her small cot tage in South Bend, Ind. She was s3 years old.
 In message made public at San Antonio, Texas, in which Carranza an pounced restoration of the Catholic church at Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. to the Catholic congregation, Carranza says he is planning to turn over all other Catholic churches to their re- spective congregations as conditions warrant.
 WASHINGTON
 Without formalities. the five mem bers of the Federal Trade Commis- sion took up their offices.
 President Wilson has decided on the route for the Alaskan railway, the building of which is to begin this spring.
 protest was sent by the United States to General Villa against the collection from Americans or other foreigners of part of special tax of DOG. 900 pesos levied at Monterey.
 Secretary Bryan made public the text of cablegrams sent through diplo- matic representatives of the United States to nations of South and Central America. inviting them to send dele gates to the Pan-American financial conference May 10.
 Under the new law creating the ~rade of admiral in the United States navy President Wilson designated as .dmirals Rear Admirals Fletcher. Howard and Cowles, commanders-in- ch,ef. respectively Of the Atlantic, Pa <1ffc and Asiatic fleets
 The Supreme Court announced it would take its usual Easter recess after giving decisions March 2 and vouId re-assemble on April 5.
 President Wilson's Colorado Coal commissios, consisting of Seth Low, Charles W. Mills and Patrick Gilday, ..s nossrcned it's visit to Colorado un- til autumn
 Count Bernstorff. the German am n..sador. received an official report eh.f the cruiser Dresden was blown vn bv her own crew after having been sstseked in neutral waters of Chile by British warships-