Tombstone epitaph., 1916-09-17
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIs AND FOR
 EIGN coUNTRiEa
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNcs AND HAPPENINos THAT MARK ThE PRooREss
 OF ThE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Paris claims fresh gain near Fleury, in the verdun sector.
 Russians bombarded towns close 10 Lemberg, setting Halicz. sixty miles distant, afire.
 Russians continue to drive Turks from strong mountain positions near Ognott. in Armenia.
 Russians advance in sector west and southwest of Lutsk and north of Zborow, in Galicia.
 Germans surrender to British the city of DarEs Salaam. chief seaport of German East Africa.
 French offensive south of Somme results in capture of portions of Berny and Vermandoyillers. British and French, in Somme re- zion, capture four towns from Ger mans and take more than 5000 pris. oners.
 Rumanians, after forty-eight-hour battle with Austrians, force enemy to abandon important Hungarian city of Orsova.
 The Albanian front reports further advances by the Italian troops, al though Berlin claims the recapture of recently lost positions.
 Russians push back center of the Austrian army commanded by Arch duke Charles in Galicia and have cap tured i,50U prisoners. Berlin admits the reverse.
 The French captured some more German trenches on the Somme front east Of Deniecourt. Germans unable 10 make counter attacks S"cause Of the intensity Of the French artillery fire.
 That another Zeppelin airship was badly damaged in the raid on the Eng. fish southeastern counties in addition to the one destroyed was indicated in an official statement given out at Lon don by the government press bureau.
 Lloyd's shipping agency reported that the following British steamships had been sunk: Quart, 3,1Os tons. un- armed; Strathallan. i,40i tons, un- armed; Kelvinia, 3,l40 tons, unarmed. crew and passengers saved; Mas cote, 1.O97 tons, of Leith.
 German and Bulgarian troops have captured the Rumanian stronghold of Turtakai. with 2O.OOO prisoners and 100 guns. Both armies lost heavily in the battle for possession of the fortress. Vienna admits retirement on both the Russian and Rumanian fronts under pressure.
 WESTERN
 Richard C. Kerens of St. Louis, for. mer ambassador to Austria, died at the home of his daughter in Philadel- phia.
 Primary election returns indicate United States Senator LaFollette has been nominated for United States Sen. ator in Wisconsin over NJ. G. Jeffris
 Funeral services for the late John P St. John, former governor of Kan sss and nationally known as an advo cate of prohibition, were held at Ola the, Kan.
 Formal negotiations have been re sumed between the Southwestern rail roads and the representatives of 25.- GOO shop employees for increased wages and the eight-hour day.
 The bulk of the fortune of Patrick A. Valentine, former vice president of Armour & Co, who died at his sum- mer home in Oconomowoc on Aug. 21. was left to his only son, Patrick A. Valentine.
 Edward Lyndon, one of the builders of the Baby Marold, which burned after making a new world record in the hydroplane speed boat race, was drowned at Detroit. Mich, after gas explosion in the wreck of the boat.
 The Rev. Charles F. Aked, who re- signed the pastorate of the First Con gregational church at San Francisco 10 accept an appointment as delegate with the Ford peace party, was re fused reinstatement by his former congregation.
 WASHINGTON
 The President has nominated H. H. Given to be postmaster at Gillette, Wyo.
 The 15,000 guardsmen returned from the border by the recent order of the  War Department were ordered out of the federal service. The guardsmen remaining on the border stay there for the present
 Sweeping and drastic demands are revealed in the secret terms being pressed on China by Japan. Private dispatches reveal that Japan seeks in demnities, an apology and political concessions.
 To the proposal Of the entente allies that neutrals accept the principle that all submarines are vessels of war the Urited States has dispatched a reply wbich, it is understood, holds to the principle that the characteristics of each individual submersible must gov ern the case.