Tombstone epitaph., 1917-01-21
FOREIGN

Count Romanones. who has been premier in the Spanish ministry since December. 1915. presented 10 King Alfonso the resignation of the entire Cabinet and Price Golitrine was ap pointed premier.
 The British battleship Cornwallis has been sunk by a submarine, it was officially announced by the admiralty. Thirteen members of the Cornwallis crew are missing and believed to have been drowned.
 More than forty persons now are imprisoned as result of the investi- cations at Rome into the destruction in September. 1915. and August. 1916. respectively, Of Italian battleships Bencdetto Brin and Leonardo da Vinci. The latter was blown up in Tarento harbor and PAS men per ished.
 The Boersen Zeitung, Berlin's lead dinner given to Ambassador Gerard by the American Association of Com merce and Trade as an opportunity to discuss peace again. IL declares that the banquet had unusual importance and expresses almost enthusiasm at the cordial relations existing between the United States and Germany, as it finds them in the expressions Of the speakers.
 The entente reply to President Will son makes specific designation of its terms of peace, which includes the restoration of Belgium, of Serbia and Montenegro and complete reparation for the damage they sustained and the evacuation of the invaded territories of France. Russia and Rumania, with such reparation as is considered just. The terms also require the liberation of Italians. Slavs. Rumanians and Czech Slavs from foreign domination. The retirement of the Turkish empire from Europe is required. The Ger man note to neutrals, published simultaneously with the entente reply, came as distinct surprise. It promptly was characterized by the en- tente diplomats as a carefully pre-
  calculated to offset the entente state ment of aims and purposes. Ger many and her allies. who had to take up arms for defense of their liberty and existence, consider this, their aim of the war. as obtained" says the Ger man note.
 SPORTING NEWS Dartmouth defeated Princeton at hockey at New York by a score of 6 to 3.
 Wisconsin defeated Northwestern University. 2s to 2l. at conference basketball at Chicago.
 Frank Gotch. in Chicago on his way south for the winter. reiterated his claim that he is out of the wrestling game for good
 Willie Hoppe, in a twenty-point match with Charlie Peterson of St. Louis at Omaha, set a new world rec unfinished run of l5. The previous recordNwas IA.
 Rolling in perfect Sorn, and kept from a worlds record only by unfortu- nate breaks, the Fl Roi Tan team of the Major league piled up on the Den yer alleys a score of 2.95s-a three game score for five-man teams beaten only once in the history of the Ameri- can Bowling Congress. | GENERAL
 Dr. E. P. Roberts. a negro, has been appointed a member Of the board of education by Mayor Mitchell of New York.
 At Ossipee, N. H., Frederick L. Small, Boston bTuSer. was found guilty of murdering his wife and sen tenced by Judge Hivel to imprison- ment in the state prison at Concord until the 18th day of January, 1918, and on that day shall be hanged by the neck until dead"
 California's thirteen electoral votes were cast in the assembly of the Cali fornia Legislature for President Will son and Vice President Marshall Francis J. Heney. who received the | ulEHtot poPNAdi FotC Aoi NicStoAp W0o selected as messenger to carry the re- suit of the ballot to Washington.
 Harry Kendall Thaw. under indict- ment in New York, together with two so-called bodyguards. for an alleged attsck on Frederick Gump, Jr., a 19- year-old high school boy of Kansas City, in 6 New York hotel last Christ mas, attempted suicide in West Phila- delphia while the police Of virtually every city in the East were searching for him as fugitive from justice.
 Miss Margaretta Washington. q great great grandniece of George Washington, died at her home in Phil adeIphia
 Three hundred and sixty-eight edu cational institutions now recognize simplified spelling. 1t was announced by the simplified spelling board in New York
 | J. Maurice Petit of Cedar Rapids Iowa. who killed his 1s-year-old bride in Chicago last August, "in order to preserve her purity and liberate hsI sowi." pleaded guilty of murder b fore Judge Barrett.