Tombstone epitaph., 1916-09-24
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS 4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

ine ltutOIit iVpFS ai' NNAA'''' their advance on the Dobruja sector of Rumania.
 The declaration of Greece's policy on the side of the allies is expected almost any day from Athens.
 French assaults repulsed with san culinary losses in Berleux Belly sector. Berlin claims. Nine allied aeroplanes brought down
 Germany and Austria are planning 10 send 2o0,O0O and 100000 fresh troops. respectively, 10 aid the Bul. gars in the Balkan operations.
 Germans launch counter-attacks against the newly-won French posi- tions on the Peronne-Bethune road to the north and south of Bouchavesnes. but are repulsed.
 Combles, one of the important Ger man bases in the Somme region. IS further threatened by new gains by the French, who captured Le PrieI farm. Its capture is imminent.
 French capture important trenches north of the Somme. driving a salien, into the German lines east of tn" Bethune- Peronne road near Boucha- yesnes, taking the latter town intact
 Four giant Russian aeroplanes bonn bard German seaplane station on Lake Angern in the gulf of Riga. dropping seventy-three bombs. Eight German machines which attacked the Slay flyers were put to flight.
 Teutonic allies have made further progress in Dobruida in their advance through Rumania, according to official statements from Berlin. Russian of fensive movements in Carpathians and in the Kovel sector defeated, the statements say.
 WESTERN
 Aransas county, Tex, moved into the prohibition column, the "drys" winning in local option election by a majority of fifty-six votes.
 News of the death in Atlanta, Ga, of William H. Pope, judge of the Unit ed States District Court of New Mex ico was received at Santa Fe.
 Mrs. Frances c. Axtell was nou.- mated for Congress in the Second Washington District on the Demo cratic and Progressive tickets.
 On the face of incomplete returns, William Lorimer is defeated by about 1000 votes by Arthur W. Fulton for nomination for congressman from the Sixth Illinois district.
 The press mill of the Dupont Pow der Company's plant at Oliphant, near Fairchance. Pa, blew up. Only hu. man foot was found of three men who were at work in the mill.
 E. P. Ripley, president of the Atch. ison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, announced in New York that he would bring suit to test the constitutionality of the recently enacted eight-hour law
 Artillery target practice, directed by modern field telephones, was be gun at Fl Paso, Tex, by Pennsylva. mia National Guard batteries, usins regulation ammunition. The range of firing was nearly three miles.
 A preliminary inventory of the es, tate of the late James J. Hill, the railroad financier, obtained by the Probate Court at St. Paul, Minn. shows Minnesota holdings approxi mating s4O.0O0.000. involving an in heritance tax of sl.250.000.
 Seizures Of horses and supplies from the Mexican people by the Con stftutionalist garrison in the region which the punitive expedition cleared of bandits have been reported to the American headquarters at Columbus N NJ. Only Mexicans are said to have suffered from these highland ed methods. which, according to the reports. have seriously interfered with the restoration of prosperity and order in these districts.
 WASHINGTON
 Maj. Gen. James B. Aleshire. guar ter master general of the army since July, 1907, was placed on the retired list on account of physical disability.
 The Department of Commerce re ported that 1ss foreignbuilt vessels Of 62s,6ff gross tons had been ad mitted to American registry up tc Sept. 2, under the act of Aug. IS, 1914
 Violation of American neutrality by a British torpedo boat which held uI and examined the Philippine steamer Cebu within the territorial waters oi the Philippines was reported to the War Deuartment by Governor General Harrison
 Both Japan and Russia have given the United States formal assurances that the new Russo-Japanese treaty does not repeal or affect the treaties of 1907 and 1910. in which those na tioEs pledged themselves to maintain the integrity of China and the open door policy.