Tombstone epitaph., 1917-02-25
FOREIGN

There Is growing skepticism In Japan over the ability of the entente allies 10 crush Germany.
 The American seamen who were brought prisoners to Germany on the British steamer Narrow dale have been liberated.
 Official announcement was made at Havana that the United States gov ernment had offered 5000 rifles and S.ooo.0O0 cartridges to the Cuban gov ernment
 The reply of the United States gov ernment 10 Germany's offer to nego tiate is editorially declared in London to be the only answer compatible with Americas self-respect.
 The largest private application yet made for war loan bonds is that of Sir George Alexander Cooper of Hurs- ley Park, Winchester. He has sub scribed sl3.l75,0O0.
 from Germany with Ambassador Gerard are congratulsting themselves on having escaped further wrestling with Germany's food problem.
 Germany's war costs to date have reached the total of 60,0OO, 900 900 marks. says 8 telegram from Berlin forwarded by the correspondent at Amsterdam of Reuters Telegram Company.
 The American schooner Lyman NJ. ? . . v nn n. cording to dispatch from Stefani agency of Rome The crew, including eight Americans. is reported to have been landed
 An explosion occurred at a muni- tions factory in Yorkshire An off cial statement issued by the British government says 1t is believed that nc lives were lost. Some damage was done in the neighborhood.
 \ prize of 500,000 francs for the crew of any French, allied or neutral vessel which succeeds in destroying an attacking submarine is provided for in a resolution introduced in the chamber of deputies at Paris by An dre Lefevre.
 Reconstruction work in East Prus- sia has made marked progress. says an Overseas News Agency announce ment. According to official statis- tics" il is stated, 1000 buildings of 30,000 destroyed by the Russians have ben completely rebuilt"
 The Duke of Connaught will be ap- tpc troops, according to the London Times. The paper intimates that the duke will investigate the question of the promotion of Canadian officers, which has been a subject of criti- cism in London.
 Reuters Copenhagen correspondent reports that Norway. Sweden and Denmark have handed to the German ministers identical notes protesting against the naval measures taken by Germany and Austria Hungary and making all reservation regarding the resulting.
 SPORTING NEWS
 The baseball team of the University of California is to make a tour of Japan next summer.
 A bill 10 allow ten-round boxing bouts in Texas was killed in the House of Representatives. Les Darcy, the Australian middle weight, signed articles in New York to fight Mike Gibbons in Milwaukee, April 10, for a purse of 50,OO0, to be divided equally.
 Relations with the Baseball Players fraternity were severed by the Amer ican League at its schedule meeting en by the National League was in- dorsed
 Fred Throckmorton of Sulphur Springs, who has held the amateur championship of the Rocky mountains in the ski jumping for the past two years, again won the event at Hot Sulphur Springs, Colo. He made two long jumps, one of 100 feet and anoth- CT of 110 feet, riding both out. Lloyd Gregg of Steamboat Springs was sec ond, and Horace Janssen was third. GENERAL
 The first consignment of guns said to be for American merchant ships was received at the Brooklyn navy yard
 Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare resulted in the return of the Dutch steamship Ryndam to the New York port.
 James W. Gerard, former American ambassador in Berlin: Mrs. Gerard and their party. forty-two persons in all, arrived in Paris Thursday.
 q am glad that we have come out In the open so that all nations know where we stand" said Dr. Jonn Grier Hibben, successor of Woodrow Wilson as the president of Princeton Uniyer- sity, at the annual Lincoln Centennial Association banquet at Springfield, Ill. The spirit of Lincoln must be fol lowed in the present crisis" he said He asserted ,hat Lincoln had been a guiding spirit for the British and the French since the war began.
 Two companies of state troops were ordered to Murray, Ky, to protect Rube Martin, a negro charged with killing Policeman William Dui9uid