Tombstone epitaph., 1916-08-06
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EiGN coUNTRiEa
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

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 ABOUT THE WAR
 The Italians have captured Monte Cimont from the Austrians A French sub-lieutenant has
 brought down his tenth German war l plane.
 Turkish troops to be sent 10 rein
 force Teutonic allies against Rus
 sians in Galicia.
 Germans withdraw troops from Yer dun front to strengthen resistance to
 allies in northern France. 1 Berlin declares British attack on Thiepval-Guillemont line was minor
 success, won at great cost Of men.
 Russians report capture of 6.26O
 German soldiers in battle at the ex-
 treme western point Of the Russian ! front.
 A new advance Of Turkish forces
 on the Sinai peninsula 10 within about
 thirty miles of the Suez canal has ! been reported 10 the British authori- | ties.
 Probability that the war will end | in autumn denied by Russian author | ity, who admits il will be impossible ! to overcome the Germans by that ! time
 l Danger of an attack by the forces [ of the central empires on the allied | stronghold of Saloniki no longer is
 contemplated, according to report | from Athens.
 French expert claims that as re | suit of the occupation of Pozieres, ! the British now hold the entire sec | ond line of German trenches in the 1 Somme river sector. | Col. Joseph A. Gaston. commanding | the American border patrol in the ! Big Bend district of Texas, is conf. dent that his force is so disposed as ! to be ample 10 cope with any bandit band which might attempt a rail | across the border. Berlin reports that the enemy lost i seven aeroplanes, four Of them south | of Bapaume. one east of Arras, one west of Combles and che near Rove. Lieutenant Wintgens disabled his
 tenth and Lieutenant Hoehendorff his slowed the Pour le Merite on First | Lieutenant von Althaus, who con quered a biplane near Rove.
 WESTERN
 James Whicomb Riley, the Iioosie. | poet, died at his home in Indianapo- | lis.
 Reno, New, wants the thirteenth head camp session of the Woodmen
 of the World. | Charles Darling, a Republican can
 didate for governor, is dead at his | home at Rimini Mont
 L L Boak of Denver was reelected
 head council of the Woodmen of the
 World of the Pacific jurisdiction at
 the convention in Denver.
 Charles F. Hughes telegraphed
 Senator Fall of New Mexico asking
 if it would be convenient to meet him
 in New York to confer on the Mexi-
 can situation. When the crest of the heat wave
 that has been baking the prairie states swept over Chicago Thursday ] it hung up a five-year record, gov 1 ernment thermometer registering 100.
 The nickel, made famous by the | jitney, is worth nearly a cent more | than its face value, according to the | latest government reports, and there
 might be fat fortune of more than
 ss,000,00 ready and waiting for the
 man who could corner all the five | cent pieces in the United States. In the sundry civil service bill ap-
 proved July l provision is made for
 work on the road to Yellowstone park by way of Cody, Wyo., by government engineers. The bill appropriated | sl5,0O0 for the development of the
 road leading through the Shosbone
 national park to the eastern gaieway of Yellowstone.
 WASHINGTON Receipts from the national forests
 for the fiscal year 1916 reached the
 high-water mark of approximately s2,-
 s2O,O0O.
 Formation of college militia or | ganizations into an officers reserve
 corps is proposed by the War Depart
 ment in an order providing for re