Tombstone epitaph., 1917-03-04
FOREIGN

and government agents with their families reached Zurich after having awaited a week permission to leave Germany.
 It is reported from Copenhagen. says the Overseas News Agency, that l,500 persons were killed and 2.0o0 wounded in an explosion Of ammuni tion at Archangel, Russia.
 There were approximately 2,00O per. sons killed or injured in the recent railroad accident near Chirurcha in northern Rumania, according to the Moscow newspaper. Russkoye Slovo.
 In a speech in the House of Com mons Sir Edward Carson. first lord of the admiralty. said the submarine menace recently had grown until its extent had become grave and serious.
 A law has been passed by the Aus Reuter- dispatch from Melbourne. for. bidding the departure of women or children for Europe under any circum. stance.
  minister of the navy. told the Reich stag. according 10 Berlin dispatches. that the submarine warfare had not only realized hut surpassed the navy's expectations.
 Collapse of the Cuban revolt move ment was predicted when announce ment was made of the tightening of the grasp of government troops of Gen. Jose Miguel Corners force at Santa Clara.
 Frederic C. Penfield, American am. bassador at Vienna, is said by Reuters Amsterdam correspondent to have delivered to the Austro Hun. garian foreign minister a request for a clear and final definition Of Austria Hungary's attitude regarding sub marine warfare.
 The London Daily Express under. stands that Lieut. Gen Sir Neville MacCready. the adIuscnt general. has a scheme whereby women will be sub stituted for men wherever possible in the army, both in France and in Eng. land. snd to release 10 the fighting lire men now employed in clerical and other denar..:-. vnts.
 The frontier correspondent of the Amsterdam Telegraaf says that a strike in the Krupp works at Essen. involving l7.G0O workmen, has been in progress for a fortnight The men the correspondent declared. are de- manding higher wages and increased food rations. Many of the strikers, he adds, have been sent to the front SPORTING NEWS
 There will be no material change made in the racing dates for 1917 over those of 1916.
 Ad Wolgast, former worlds light weight champion, is suffering from a general nervous breakdown, his phy- sician said in Chicago.
 Hemstreet easily defeated Goodman in the Denver three-cushion tourna- ment by the score of 2S to IS. The game lasted sixty-seven innings.
 The University of Wyoming will have no baseball teams this year, ac- cording to announcement made by John Corbett, instructor of the de- partment of physical education.
 Plans have been completed to hold the EastWest tennis matches at Los Angeles, March ', s. and 10 on a spe- cially constructed asphalt court on Bovard field of the University of Southern California.
 Harry H. Frazee, president of the Boston American League baseball club, announced that he was seriously considering an offer made by bust ness men of Honolulu to have the team train there in the spring of 1915 GENERAL
 Business was suspended in Las Vegas during the funeral of E. c. de Baca, governor Of New Mexico. The engagement of Secretary Me Adoo's daughter, Miss Mona Hazel hurst McAdoo, to Ferdinand de Mohr enschildt. secretary of the Russian embassy, was announced. Harry Mckinley, cousin Of the late President Mckinley, is being sought by Chicago police following the disappearance from his home at Birmingham, Ala, Feb. Il. American Mormons who attended the funeral Of the three Mormon vic. tins of the Corner ranch raid, re- turned to Fl Paso, Tex, with addi tional details of their murder. They | confirmed earlier reports that the bodies of the Americans were horribly mutilated by the Mexican raiders. Burton Jensen had been unspeakably maimed
 It was the U-53, the German sub marine which suddenly appeared at Newport last fall and later sank sev- eral ships off Nantucket, that sank the Housatonic, the first American ship to be sent to the bottom after the beginning of Germany's new sub marine warfare. it was made known in New York by Capt. Thomas A. Eng CT, the Housatonic's commander. Gov. Peter Norbeck, surrounded by temperance leaders in his office in the state capitol building at Pierre, s. D., signed the bill passed by the Legis- lature to make effective the prohibi ton amendment adopted by South Da, kota in the last election.