Tombstone epitaph., 1915-04-25
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN rHIs AND FOR.
 EleN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF ThE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR


 ABOUT THE WAR
 The Dutch steamer Katwyk was sent 10 the bottom off the North
 hnaer hshtship. according to Lon. don reports.
 The British government has offered
 "a full and ample apology" to the Chilean government for the sinking on March l4, in Chilean waters, of the German cruiser Dresden.
 Thirty-three thousand women had registered themselves for special war service up to the end of March. This statement was made by Walter Runci- man, president of the Board of Trade, 10 deputation representing the vari- ous women's societies in London.
 Two Zeppelin airships visited the east coast of England Thursday night, dropping bombs or several towns. do- ing considerable damage to property. As far as has been ascertained only one person, woman, was injured It is said she was only slightly hurt All towns on the east coast are in terror.
 German submarines have again been showing activity and. besides the Harpalyce which, according to one member of her crew and the officers of another steamer, was torpedoed, they have attacked since Saturday night the British liner Wayfarer. the French steamer Frederic Franck and the little steamer President. The Wayfarer reached Queenstown in a sinking condition; the Frederic Franck was lowed into Plymouth. and the President was still afloat when her crew of ten left her.
 Reports from Carranza officers and soldiers in Nuevo Laredo, Mex, state that $50 Villa soldier, who sur rendered after the battle between Villa and Carranza armies near Huisachito, thirty miles south of the border, as well as a number of Mexi- can women, yariously estimated at be- tween ten and eighteen. were sum- marily executed by the Carranza forces. It was stated that a CarranZa general ordered machine guns turned on one party of surrendering Villa men, resulting in the death of seventy six in the party while the wounded were bayoneted.
 WESTERN
 Arizona has raised the quarantine on livestock from Colorado, New Mex ico and Texas.
 John Gardiner, aged ninety nine. the oldest active banker in the United States, died at Norwaik, Ohio.
 The drill teams of the Denver and Cheyenne K. P. lodges will exemplify the third degree of the order at Chey- enne, May S.
 Governor w C. Mcdonald of New Mexico wired to Governor Carlson that New Mexico has lifted its stock quarantine against Colorado, Arizona and Texas.
 Thirteen persons, ten of them wom- en, were instantly killed and twenty seven others were injured at Detroit in a collision between a Detroit city street car and freight train.
 The bodies of Mrs. Luther A. Leon- ard and her four children were found in the family home at Spokane, Wash. The police reported Mrs. Leonard had poisoned her children and then had poisoned herself.
 At Los Angeles, Charles E. Sebas- tian. chief of police, who was indicted several days ago on the charge of hay ing contributed to the dependency of Edith Serkin, a minor, was indicted again for alleged offense against Vic toria Desparte, a delinquent girl.
 Charles F. Few, lawyer. of Greeley; William s. Tiff and Samuel H. Shields of Denver, with five other men whose total wealth runs into many millions. have been indicted by the federal grand jury at Chicago on charges con nected with the financing of the Greeley, ColoradoPoudre Irrigation project, according to Postal Inspector William McHenry. of Denver. WASHINGTON
 Secretary McAdoo of the treasury and Comptroller of the Currency John Skelton Williams were made defend ants in proceedings begun in the Dis trict of Columbia Supreme Court by the Riggs National bank of Washing ton. D. C., which alleges that these officials have combined and conspired to wreck that institution.
 Spain has suspended, until further notice. the import duty and transpor- fatjon tax on coal. which in the case of American coal. amounted to $1.0S . ton.
 Business of the United States gov ernment virtually was suspended Thursday in recognition of the fif- tSeth anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln
 President Wilson has decided de- fnitely not to accompany Secretary DanieIs on his contemplated trip through the Panama canal to San Francisco in July.