Tombstone epitaph., 1915-04-18
eHieF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
 EioN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

France declares that Germany has 3.2o00 0O0 fighters
 The fighting in the mountain passes continues as fiercely as ever.
 The German admiralty issued statement admitting the loss of the submarine U-2i.
 A big submarine that dashed through heavy sea at incredible speed sank the steamer Northlands off Beachy Head in the English chan mel.
 A British officers casualty list shows that the British army since the beginning of the war has lost 1.s4i officers killed and 3.30l wounded. while 132 have been reported missing This is a total of 5.S77.
 The nations now at war have lost 5,s50,OO0 men in the first eight months of the conflict and spent S.iO0, ,00O, ,OO0 in the first six months. according 70 figures prepared for the Avanti. a Paris Socialist organ. by its military expert.
 According 10 the press bureau of the French war office, forty-three German generals have been killed during the war, while 3l,276 other of ficers have been slain or are missing out of a total of 52,S05 in army in time of peace.
 Two more vessels. the Russian three master Hermes and the Glas- sow steamer Olivine. have been sunk by German submarines. according to an official statement from the ad- miralty in London. The German U- Sl sank both vessels.
 A furious assault on the German positions between the Mouse and the Moselle is being made by the French in continuation of their offensive movement. The official communica- tions from Berlin mentions attack after attack, and says these on- slaughts were repulsed with "extraor- dinarly heavy" losses for the French. WESTERN
 George H. Green. former imperial potentate of the ShTiners. died at Dal- las, Texas.
 Naval officials turned their atten- tion at San Francisco to new devices for reaching the submarine F4, which took her crew to the bottom off Homo lulu hartor March 9.
 In Milwaukee the non-partisans won all but one vacancy in judicial offices, while the Socialists reelected one judge. and appear to have elected four out of five school directors.
 Samuel Cohen, salesman, whose widow and three children are said to live in Denver. was killed by gas in Chicago. Fumes of escaping gas at tracted Herman Miller. with whom Cohen was boarder.
 Ex-Gov. T. L. Oddie brought word to Reno. Nev., that after the miners in a new camp near Lovelock heard of the result at Havana they met and named the camp Willard, saying one good strike deserves another.
 Frederick C. Watson, 24 years of age, for six years a resident of Engle- wood, Colo, was shot to death in lonely shack near the Fort Logan res eryation, after he had given a desper ate battle to the murderer in a vain effort to protect his own savings and the money entrusted to his care by his employers.
 Carl Busch, son of the late Adoiphus Busch, millionaire brewer of St. Louis, died at the residence of his mother at Pasadena, Cal. He was 36 years old and had been in i'll health for several months His niece. Miss Marie Busch, daughter of August A. Busch. was married Wednesday to C. Drummond Jones, St. Louis club man and tennis champion. at the Busch country home, near St. Louis.
 WASHINGTON
 Work on the new Alaskan railway. if was said, will begin soon after President Wilson announces the route.
 Commander Thierichens of the Ger man auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich asked the United States government, through Newport News hort authorities, to intern his ship and crew.
 Both Secretary Daniels and Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, aide for op- erattons, declined to discuss the lat ,er,s request to be relieved of duty as senior military adviser in the Navy Department.
 Secretary Daniels commended En- sign Robert w. Cary, Jr, Of the cruiser Maryland for courage, ability and resource" in helping save three lives at the time of the recent boiler explosion on the cruiser San Diego
 Secretary Bryan made public let ,e, he had written to L. w. Kenning- ion. Democratic national committed man from Iowa, expressing the hope that the Democrats of Iowa would take . stand for prohibition and vote .r.tns, officials who could be con trovled by the liquor interests.