Tombstone epitaph., 1917-09-30
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND ron
ElcN coUNTRiEA
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE. PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR
The unarmed American schooner
Ann J. Trainer was sunk.
Russia reorganizing army TO make
firm stand against Germans
Two German submarines have been
sunk BY British naval forces.
On the French front a German At
tack south Of Cerny was repulsed.
Argentine Senate votes to break off
diplomatic relations with Germany.
Italians break through Austrian line
east Of Trent and capture 200 pris
oners.
Italians claim to have repulsed vio-
lent attacks Of the Austro oHungarians
on the Bainsizza plateau.
A Toxic dispatch says Japan will
soon take her first step in her plan
to furnish shipping aid to the allies
in the war.
England reports loss by U-boat at
tacks and mines during the week OF
only eight ships over l.6OO tons and
twenty under 1000 tons.
The German minister 10 Sweden for
mally expressed TO the Swedish gov
eminent Germany's regrets in conse-
quence Of the Swedish-Argentinian tel
egram affair.
Dugouts and defenses were wrecked
10 q successful British raid near
Cherisy, southeast of Arras. Berlin
also admits losses in Flanders on the
Ypres-Menin road.
Rumanians are continuing their OF.
fensive in the mountain resion north
west Of Fokshan!. Moidavia. and have
captured height near Ocna. Berlin
claims Rumanians were driven back
by a counterattack
In the recent raid by entente allied
airmen on the Belgian town Of Roul-
ers, says the Courier de Ia Meuse.
newspaper Of Maastricht, Holland.
bomb fell on building near the mar
ket and killed or wounded 900 Ger
mans.
The gigantic offensive begun by the
British Thursday morning, met with
complete success all along the line.
and is declared to be the most i'm
portant gain OF recent months. Gen.
Haig's forces battered their way
through the great German defenses for
an advance Of a mile and captured
1000 prisoners and won many impor-
tant positions.
WESTERN
Election riots At Philadelphia cause
death Of policeman.
Arizona mine owners will not arbi-
trate strike differences.
Crowd of soldiers wreck /. W. w.
headquarters in Los Angeles.
Prospects seem bright for early
settlement Of strikes on Pacific coast.
Werner z. Reed. OF Denver. was
named by the President as a member
Of the board to mediate strikes.
Fifty-one steers. selling at ST \
hundred pounds. established the high.
est price ever paid west Of the Mis-
sissippi river. The cattle averaged
1.447 pounds.
Approximately $1,000 acres of land
OH the Grow Indian reservation in
Montana were sold at public auction
at Billings, according to an announce
ment made by Franklin X. Lane, sec
retary of the interior The land
brought from 81 to $50 an acre
A signed statement Of guilt that
Rev. George J. Kelly is alleged to have
made in the jail At Logan. Iowa. Aug.
81, was admitted as evidence at Red
Oak, Iowa, in the trial Of Kelly. who
10 charged with murder In connection
with the villisca AZ slayings.
Men, not inventions or machinery.
will win the war in the opinion o:
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, commander
of the national army cantonment at
Camp Funston. Kan, who believes
that the men who win IL must be
trained to the highest degree Of mil.
itary perfection.
WASHINGTON
Starvation will win the war declares
Herbert Hoover.
Japan again assures United States
she il on side Of allies to win war.
CASTOR B. Means. confidential ad-
visor to Mrs. Maud King. who was
killed at Concord, N. c., three weeks
ago, came to Washington early in 1915
on an errand for representatives Of
the German government.
President Wilson calls on school
children to join Junior Red Cross.
Washington officials are disposed to
accept Sweden's messages Of regret.
Nearly 100000 drafted men Of the
new national army. 1t was estimated
by Proovst Marshal General Crowder
arrived at cantonments throughout the
country.
Telling. the warden she was sorry
she had picketed the White House and
promising not to do It again, Mrs.
Bertha N. Jackson of Baltimore OBJ
tanned her release from the workhouse
at OccoquaJ.