Tombstone epitaph., 1917-01-28
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EiGN coUNTRIEa
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poiN0s AND HAPPENINGS THAv MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

western Newspaper Untcn News Service ABOUT THE WAR
 Rome reports battle of Italians in Tripoli with rebels in which the lat ter lost 1000 men.
 Artillery duels on the French front are described by Paris as of rather serious character"
 Violent artillery activity and minor fights are reported from the Russian front and in Galicia.
 A Russian squadron Is reported to have raided the Anatolian coast of the Black Sea and sunk forty Turkish sail ing vessels carrying food to CoDstanti- nople.
 Advance of Teutonic allies in Ru- mania apparently checked. Rumani- ans surround German position south west of Pralia and capture large num- bers of prisoners.
 According to the London war office the right bank of the Tigris river, e1- cept for a small strip northeast of kut-El-Amara, has been cleared of Ottoman troops.
 After defeating Gen. Hernandez and his Carranza command of l,500 in the vicinity of Satevo, on the wagon road to Parral, Villa drove the defacto col umn to La Jolla. eighteen miles north of Sateyo. where another defeat was administered and the column was forced to retreat to Santa Ysabel and then 10 PalOmas
 The British troops in France have hit the German line hard at two places for good gains. Northeast of Cite Calonne, the Canadians carried out a brilliant raid of German trenches on a front of TOO yards At Beaucourt Sur Ancre another drive by the British gave them German positions over a front of GOO yards.
 Fierce fighting along the lower Ser eth line resulted in the capture by Turkish troops Of the Rumanian town of Mihalea, northwest of Braila, and 400 men of its garrison. Others Of the defending force. attempting to es- cape, were drowned in the Sereth. The Bulgarians have taken a monas- tery near the confluence of the Buzeu and Sereth rivers.
 WESTERN
 The body of Admiral George Dewey will repose in the mausoleum of Gen. Nelson A. Miles at Arlington national cemetery.
 The limited suffrage bill, providing that women may vote on all offices except these provided for in the con stitution. was passed by the House at Bismarck, N. D., ss to 20.
 President Wilson promoted Dr. Cary T. Grayson, his physician and golfing companion, from past assistant naval surgeon with the rank of lieutenant to medical director, with the rank of rear admiral.
 Six Mexicans were killed by two American cowboys thirty miles west of Nogales, Ariz. when they were fired upon while herding back cattle "rustled" by the Mexicans. according to reports to the sheriff's office.
 Without a dissenting voice, the House of Representatives at Indian apolis, Ind, accepted report of it's committee on public morals declaring in favor of the passage of the Wright bill, providing for statewide prohibi- tion.
 Nevada, threatened with financial disaster two years ago. now has full public treasury, having produced si0,- 900 900 worth of minerals alone in the last year. Gov. Emmett D. Boyle pro- claimed at Carson City in his message to the Legislature.
 WASHINGTON
 Contracts for armor-piercing navy projectiles of the fourteen and sixteen inch type, totaling &3.141 900, were awarded by Secretary Daniels to the Hadfields, Limited, the English muni- ton company.
 Sovereignty over the Danish West Indies after half century of negotia- tjon. passed to the United States with the exchange of notifications of the purchase treaty by Secretary Lansing and Danish Minister Brun.
 Great Britain's supplementary note amplifying the entente reply to Pres ident Wilson's peace note has given much encouragement to American of- ficials who are looking forward to a world league to preserve peace.
 Test cases regarded as decisive of about 800 railroad claims against the government for approximately s35.- GOO 900 additional compensation TOT carrying the mails from 1907 to 1911 were decided by the Supreme Cour. against the railroads. The right to borrow under the farm loan act Is limited to farmers and prospective farmers.
 Capt. Matthew A. Batson, U. s. A.. fin charge of the West Virginia re- cruiting district with headquarters in Huntington. w. Va, died in hospital of pneumonia