Tombstone epitaph., 1916-11-19

after brief hani-to hand encounter. according to Paris report.
 German artillery defeated several efforts Of the French and British to make advances on the Somme front, the war office announced at Berlin.
 Near Rothenthurm pass the Aus trians and Germans advanced and took more than l.0OO prisoners. Near Nul- can pass further ground was gained, according ;o Berlin.
 The capture of Russian bridge head on the Stokhod is reported by the war office On the northern part of the front, between Dyinsk and Lake Narocz, Russian artillery is displaying marked activity.
 Continuing their offensive in Dob rudja, Russian troops have driven back advanced attachments of Field Marshal yon Mackensen's forces and progressed southward, the war office announced at London.
 Italian forces in their offensive against the Austro-Hungarian posi- tions on the Carso front have captured a total of twenty guns, including thir teen Of medium caliber, according to the Italian official statement.
 The Bucharest war office announces that Rumanian forces in Dobrudja have compelled the retirement of leu tonic forces. which in their retreat set fire to several villages. The villages burned were Daeni, Garlici, Rosman and Gaidar.
 The Bulgarian forces are retreating along their whole front in the prov ince of Dobrudja, according 10 semi official statement issued at Bucharest. As the Bulgarians withdraw, the sta.a- ment says, they are systematically burning the Rumanian villages.
 Berlin announces officially that the central powers have agreed 10 grant independence and a constitutions. mouarchial government 10 Poland al the conclusion of the war and that plans for stabilizing the government will be placed in effect at once
 WESTERN
 Three persons were killed and about twelve injured when a passen- ger elevator in the plant of Chicago shoe company fell four floors.
 The Santa Fe railway will be haul ing great quantities of copper out of Arizona, California. New Mexico and Colorado, during the first half of 1917, says the Santa Fe's paper
 The proposed reorganization plan of the Missouri Pacific and the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern rail ways was approved at Jefferson City, Mo, by the State Public Service Com mission.
 Fort D. A Russell, near Cheyenne. Wyo., has been designated by the war department as the demobilization cen ter for the National Guards of Wyo- ming and Colorado. when they are re- turned home from service on the Mex ican border.
 A little mound in the Waukegan cemetery. under which lies the body of Marion Lambert, whose body was found at the foot of The Three Oaks in Helms woods last February. is all that is left to remind lake Forest. H., of the tragedy. for the girls parents Mir. and Mrs. Frank Lambert. have closed their cottage on the Kuppen- heimer estate and gone to California WASHINGTON
 In a statement announcing virtual completion of it's investigation of news print paper prices, the federal trace commission declares that during the first half of this year. when prices already were soaring to unprecedent- ed figures, the average cost of prod ing news print paper in domestic mills was less than s1.65 hundred pounds. or below the average cost in the last three years.
 Precedents established in the case pf the American ship Frye. wheat Asden and bound for England. sank in mid-Atlanticl by the German aux Hilary cruiser Prinz Eitel Frederick in 1915, are expected to lead the German government voluntarily 10 offer to pay for the steamer Lanao sunk by Ger man submarine off the coast of Portu. gal, Oct 2s, if it is established that the vessel was sailing legally under the American flag and registry.
 Children of the public schools of the District Of Columbia. after a few days campaign. which is to continue in definitely, have collected approximate ly twenty-seven tons of old news papers and magazines which sold for 3317 and the money has been placed in fund for the equipment of play grounds and other social activities.
 The Golden State Limited was wrecked near Topeka, Kan, on the Rock Island lines when a flange on a wheel snapped off. Six persons were injured sne probably fatally.