Tombstone epitaph., 1915-06-06
NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT
 THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY
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ABOUT THE WAR

The Turkish ministry of war places the total of men under arms at pres. ent al i.3s2. 900.
 The Italian government declared a blockade of all ports on the Austro- Hungarian coasts.
 The British battleship Triumph was sunk in the Dardanelles. according to oilcial announcement at London.
 The Austrian barracks at Rovereto. a town in Tyrol with about l2.O00 Italian inhabitants. was blown up.
 Italy has given her adhesion to the agreement already signed by the al lied powers not to conclude separate peace.
 The Austrian emperors proclama- tion to his people recalling the vic, tories over Italy, has further inflamed Italian feeling.
 Austro-German armies under Gen. eral Mackenzen have crossed the San at Radymo, six miles north of Przemysl, after capturing the town of Swiete
 The Overseas news agency gave out the following at Berlin: According to Bucharest dispatch the Russian arm ored man-of-war Winteleimon has Black Sea"
 Renewing the offensive movement of Przemysl, General Mackenzen's armies have stormed six strongly fortified villages and captured 2l,000 Russian prisoners. the war office an nounced at Berlin.
 The official announcement by the Italian war office states that the Italian forces penetrated Austria, had occupied Caporetto. the heights be tween the Judnio and Isonzo and the towns of Cormons, Cervignagno and Terzo
 The American steamer Nebraskan, Captain Green, from Liverpool. May 24. for Delaware breakwater. was tor pedoed by a submarine at a point forty miles westsouthwest Of Fastnet. off the south coast of Ireland and close to the spot where the Lusitania went down.
 Austria has struck first with her navy and aircraft along Italy's sea coast: Italy promptly countered by throwing a considerable body of troops across the northeastern iron tier and occupying a stretch of Austrian territory along the river Isonzo and capturing four towns. WESTERN
 The market price for spelter reached sl3.42 hundred May p. the highest it has ever attained
 Thomas J. Brown, chief justice of the Teyas Supreme Court, died at Greenville, Tex, after an illness of three weeks.
 Lassen Peak gave a few weak puffs of smoke early Monday and subsided into its first period of quiescence since Thursday of last week.
 Julia walcott, one of the oldest act tresses on the American stage, died at Chicago. She was 76 and had been playing parts since she was 6.
 Judge Emlin Mccain, dean of the law department of the State Univer- sity and former chief justice of Iowa, died of heart disease at Iowa City, Ja.
 The Rev. Father John Kelly. treas urer of Creighton University, Omaha, who has been pastor of Catholic churches in Chicago. St. Louis. Balti- more and Kansas. died at St. Mary's, Kans. He was 67 years old.
 On the 1O5th anniversary of the in- dependence of Argentina the Argen- tine pavilion and all of the Argentine exhibits in the various palaces at the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco were formally opened.
 Robert Uhlich. president of the Trinidad local of the United Mine Workers of America, was acquitted at Trinidad, Colo. of the charge of hay ing murdered Mack Powell, also a un- ion man. in the Ludlow fight of Oct c 1913. incident to the coal strike. WASHINGTON
 The Americas for Americans with a xau of inviolability that no European nation shall dare to violate, was the slogan sounded at the Pan-American Financial Conference by Dr. Santiago Perez Triana, delegate from Colombia.
 The Italian postoffice department ,o,isied the United States of the sus- pension of parcel post between the two countries. Packages now in the mails will be returned to the senders.
 A neutrality proclamation by the Tinted States covering the entry of I,alv fin the European war was pub usbed by the State Department under date of May 24.
 A billion dollar trade balance in Americas favor, as the direct result Inf inc European war, is already in st.s, Secretary RedfieId told the Pres dent arG Cabinet