Tombstone epitaph., 1916-12-10
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EiGN coUNTRIES-
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOiNGS AND HAPPENINGS TRAY MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Western Newspaper Union News Service. ABOUT THE WAR
 Russians admit advance by Turks in Turkish Armenia.
 Germany's famous "man-power' bill introduced in the Reichstag
 Carranza men won four day fight in Chihuahua City and flee from city on the fifth.
 Small Russian gains in kirlibaba region are admitted, but Berlin says Russian casualties were enormous.
 The Chamber Of Deputies met in Paris in secret session for the second time since the beginning of the var.
 Rumanians report progress against the Teutonic allies on the north and northwest in the BuZeu and Prahova valleys.
 British repulsed in attack on two mile front at Ypres. Berlin and Sofia record repulse of heavy allied attacks in Monastir sector.
 Entente allies have met with se- were check north CT Monas;i-, Berlin reports Attack over front of sev- enteen miles repulsed
 The Rumanian government and dip lomatic authorities have left Bucharest and gone to Jassy, according 10 a Hayas dispatch from Bucharest.
 Important railroad junction of Pete ehti, sixty-five miles northwest of Blu charest, captured by von Falkenhayn' 5 army and Rumanians are reported to be retreating in disorder.
 Von Mackensen's troops are almost within big gun range of the southern tier of forts surrounding Bucharest. Tzomana, sixteen miles from the city. captured. Inhabitants fleeing and mar tial law rules.
 Russians and Rumanisns have taken the offensive in Dobrudja, north of the Tchernayoda-Constanza railway. The Rumanians advance on the whole front and occupied five towns fifteen miles north of the railway. WESTERN
 Prohibition carried In Montana by q majority of 2s,ss6 votes, 1t was oi. ficially announced.
 The ashes of the late Jack London, the author, were buried on a hillside of his Glen Ellen ranch at Santa Rosa. Calif
 Nearly 5000 pies and 2,5O0 cakes were baked by the housewives Of San Antonio for the l5.O00 soldiers at Fort Sam Houston and Camp Wilson for Thanksgiving.
 Major Bosse announced that he will take steps at once to open wholesale municipal markets at Evansville. Ind, where food products will be sold to the consumers at cost.
 PHI. Morrissey, assistant to the vice president of the Burlington railroad. for many years head of the Brother hood Of Railway Trainmen, and one of the most widely known railroad men fin the country. died at the family home in Galesburg, H.. of tumor of the brain.
 Merchants of Leroy, H.. in order to attract out of town trade, gave away turkeys and other kinds Of poultry. The birds were permitted to fly from the roof of a tall building. one at a time, and the persons who seized the birds were declared the owners. Sev- erai thousand persons joined the chase
 Villa will take Juarez within the week and his capture of the city will be the signal for war between the United States and the conqueror of northern Mexico. according to Mai A. H. Williams of the department of the adjutant general of Colorado. who returned from the border to Denver Thanksgiving.
 WASHINGTON
 Senator Chamberlain of Oregon will offer in Congress a joint resolu tion to abolish thhe electoral college by amendment to the constitution oi the United States.
 A two and one-half cent piece Is de manded by the country. according to the director of the mint, whose annual report recommends passage of a law authorizing coins of that denomina tion from copper and nickel.
 The War Department Tuesday an. nounced the receipt through official channels of information" that Chi. huahya City had fallen to Francisco Villa, General Trevino. Carranza com. mander. having evacuated the town.
 The Polish National Defense com mittee of Chicago, in a letter to Count von Bernstorff. the German ambassa- dor, made public in Washington, de clares that establishment by Germany of the kingdom of Poland is a corner stone for permanent peace in Europe
 Secretary Daniels awarded con tracts for more than sG5.000. 900 worth of new fighting ships for the navy. in cluding four battleships at $11 .000, ,000 each, two fleet submarines at approxi
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