Tombstone epitaph., 1916-02-13
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 gIcN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF ThE ACE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service. ABOUT THE WAR

Greece and Rumania have signed dual neutrality pact.
 British collier sunk by bomb dropped from Zeppelin.
 Zeppelin sinks in North Sea with all its crew after being fired on by Dutch.
 The British war casualties pub iished in January totaled l.079 off cers and l9.G2i men.
 Berlin claims the defeat of a strong . Russian force in East Galicia. While l the British say they are sweeping the | Germans from Africa.
 Heavy bombardments are in prog | Tsss ;,S.S line in France and Belgium. ] London believes Germany is beginning !. serious attempts to reach Calais.
 The Russians have placed the Turks | in a precarious position at Erzerum. l Eighty thousand men are tied up in l the city with only two weeks pro l visions.
 Austrian troops are sweeping through Albania, while the Montene-
 
 fected junction at Durazzo, the chic! Albanian seaport. Englands commerce is demoralized by the activity of German raiders. that, according to reports, slipped past the British fleet guarding the outlets of the Kiel Canal. Fifty-four persons were killed anf sixty-seyen injured in Monday night; Zeppelin raid The figures were cor tained in an official statement is sued at London.
 Two Greek soldiers. five refugees and seven workmen were killed and | fifty civilians were injured by the in | flammable bombs dropped from the | Zeppelin in the Saloniki raid. British warships are combing the | seas for the raiders while the diplo- matic branch of the government | crying piracy" and demanding that the United States restore the Appam, the Teuton's prize, to Britain. | A German raider, the Moewe. loose | on the seas, with known record Of seven enemys ships sunk and another l captured, at time when the Ger man naval flag was believed to have been swept from the ocean, except for submarines, is the most startling fea- ture that attracts attention to the capture of the British liner Appam. and her daring dash across the At lantic to a haven at Hampton Roads. WESTERN
 Railroads in southern Colorado are using dynamite in an effort to clear the tracks of ice and snow.
 John NJ. Parker was nominated for governor at Progressive party con vention at New Orleans, La.
 President Wilson. speaking at Des Moines. Ia. Tuesday night, dealt with the futility of messages and words Of protest to meet breaches of interna- tional law.
 Twelve Pittsburg capitalists, ex plorers and business men, sailed from New Orleans, La, for Colombia, South America, to explore the Magdelena river jungle.
 At St. Louis President Wilson told an audience of I5.0o0. cheering tumui tuously below him, that the United States should have the greatest navy in the world.
 Ten persons were killed and four seriously burned by the explosion of the boilers on the tow boat Sam Brown. of Pittsburg, in the Ohio river at Huntington, W. Va.
 Augustin Beauchamp, 6.year-old son cs Mir and Mrs. August Beauchamp. of Escanaba, Wis, has been asleep for and others to awaken him have proved futile.
 Receivers were granted al San
 Francisco for 1,2S0 acres Of Califoin mia oil lands, much of it in the naval re-
 serve district. in nine suits begun by drawal act of 1909. WASHINGTON !, The Supreme Court recessed until Feb. 2I.
 By a vote of 5S to IA the Senate re- fused to eliminate from Philippine bill provision under which naval base would be retained in islands. Appropriation of s5o0, 0,ooO and use of army tents and equipment for relief of flood sufferers in Mississippi val ley proposed by Representative Rus sell of Missouri.
 Vice President Marshall cast the de ciding vote that passed the Clark . amendment to the shafroth Philippine
 bill. The amendment provides that the United States shall withdraw its
 sovereignty from the islands in not , less than two nor more than four . years.
 The House passed the Keating child