Tombstone epitaph., 1917-07-29
BRIEF RECORD or PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR


l,eOo tons were sunk during the last
week.
French airmen brought down ten
German flyers and drove eight behind
their own lines.
British airmen have been victorious
In the most severe aerial fighting
since the beginning OF the war.
Sir Edward Carson quits as lord of
admiralty TO join British war cabinet.
Montague made secretary for India.
Speech Of new chancellor before the
Reichstag makes certain that relent-
less submarine warfare will be con-
tjnued.
One Italian merchant steamer and
four small sailing vessels were sunk
by submarines in the week ending
July Is
The admiralty announces the cap
ture Of four German steamers by Brit
ish destroyers in the North sea. The
steamers are the Pellworm, Brietzeig.
Marie Horn and Heinz Blumberg.
Won Bethmann-Hollweg is ousted
and chancellOrship is given to DR..
George Michaelis, Prussian under sec
retary OF finance. Gen. Won Stein re.
signed as Prussian minister of war.
The French lines are being sub
iected TO violent fire from the Ger
mans between Scissors and Rheims.
Near st. Quentin they have delivered
attacks on a front of about a half
mile
From Riga on the Baltic sea to the
Rumanian frontier. the Russians AMI
Austro-Germans are engaged in battle.
From July to July 13, according TO a
Russian official communication, 36.643
officers and men OF the Teutonic al
lied armies have been made prisoner.
The totals of the German official
lists of killed and wounded since the
war began are as follows: Killed or
died of wounds, 1,032, 500; died of sick
ness, 1850; prisoners and missing.
5el,s06; wounded. 2.s25.5s1. The naval
and colonial casualties are not in.
cluded
The British and Germans are keep
ing up their artillery duels in north
ern Belgium. British gains are re-
ported near Monchy lie Preux. The
British made a twelve-mile advance
against the Turks up the Euphrates,
while in the Caucasus the Russians
have repulsed the Ottomans.
Germans have reinforced their
armies on the eastern front and
launched a strong offensive against
the Russians along the Galician bor-
der. Further north the indications
are that the Teutons are making
army near volhynia and on various
sectors 10 the Baltic sea.
WESTERN
Leaders OF alleged bandit raids at
Brownsville, Tex. in 1915. arrested.
More miners report for work at Gal
lup-American Fuel Company in Gallup,
M.
Four thousand men working on Prai-
rie pipe line construction at ST. Louis
strike for higher wages.
Nine more Arizona strike leaders
were jailed in the Globe-Miami district
Tuesday, bringing the total number
arrested to sixty-eight.
The Rev William A. c'Billy-) Sun
day was arrested for exceeding the
speed limit in his automobile on the
Broadway bridge across the William
ette river at Portland, Ore.
Women and old men and boys and
girls in various parts Of Oregon are
caring for and harvesting the crops
which in other years have been han
died by the men now called to war.
The explosion Of 1,625 pounds Of
powder at the cement works at Tri-
dent, near Bozeman. Mont. caused the
deaths OF four men from injuries,
bringing the total fatalities to seven.
Several houses were destroyed and
1000 people were temporarily driven
from their homes at Drumright, Okla,
when a IS 600 barrel oil tank on the
outskirts of the town was exploded by
a stroke OF lightning.
WASHINGTON
In army draft drawing No. 25s was
the first number drawn.
Radio division created for aviation
and signal corps of army.
Part OF National Guard may be sent
to France soon after Aug. 5th.
Funeral services for Brig. Gen. Hen
~ w. Closson held at Washington.
w.C.A. makes application to send
women to France for welfare work.
Reorganization Of the Atlantic fleet
has been ordered to meet new prob
lens resulting from expansion to al
most twice Its normal size for war ser
vice.
Plans for bringing 10000 jobless
Porto Ricans to the United States for
railroad WORK are being discussed by
officials Of the Department Of Labor
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