Tombstone epitaph., 1917-02-11
FOREIGN

the entente powers is assembling at Petrograd. says a Reuter- dispatch from the Russian capital to London
 Constantinople dispatch to Amster- dam says that the Turkish parliament on the recommendation of the govern ment. has formally adopted the Gre gorian calendar.
 The Canadian Parliament at Ottawa voted unanimously a war credit for the coming year of s5O0,000.000. Sir Robert Borden estimated that the cost for the next fiscal year would be $433.274,000.
 The ceremony of saluting the en- tente allies flag by Greece was car ried out Monday afternoon in the Zappeion in accordance with the ar rangement recently entered into be- tween the Greek government and the entente powers.
 The British steamer Artist, 3,720 tons gross. has been torpedoed. Six teen men were picked up three days later in an open boat far from land. and in weather of such severity that seven Of tine original twcntythree in the boat had died of wounds and ex- posture.
 It is stated on competent authority that at the beginning of the war there were confiscated in the ports of the central powers ninety-nine hostile ships with a total gross tonnage of ls9.000. Of these ships ninety-five with total gross tonnage of 1TS, 300 were British.
 The Ekstrabladet reports the ar rival at Copenhagen of twenty-six Swedish. Norwegian and American seamen belonging to the crew Of the British steamer Yarrowdale, which was captured by the German raider in the south Atlantic. They had been interned at Neustrelitz.
 Dispatches from Vienna tell of a large women's mass meeting in favor of peace, in the Austrian capital. Many messages were received from other women's associations. Among the communications read at the mass meeting was one from Danish women expressing strong sympathy for the movement of peace.
 Great Britain and her allies are pre- pared to meet Germany's moves in her submarine campaign. il was authori- tatiyely asserted in shipping circles in London. The entente powers were convinced weeks ago that ruthless warfare with undersea boats would be decreed sooner or later and have known for ten days that the decision had been reached.
 SPORTING NEWS
 Hal Chase. the leading batsman of the National League for 1916, today signed a two-year contract with the Cincinnati team. Chase is not a mem Der of the Baseball Players fraternity.
 Fighting Harvey Thorpe of Kansas City knocked out Frankie Adams in that city in the eighth round of a scheduled twelve-round bout. The win I ming punch was left hook 10 the jaw. This was Thorpe's third fight in twelve days.
 George Moore of New York, cham pion at three-cushion billiards, defeat ed Charles McCourt of Cleveland at New York, 50 to 42, in the first block of three nights match. The contest lasted sixty-seven innings. McCourt made high run of and Moore a 5.
 Edward F. Sweeney, the veteran catcher, and Raymond H. Heating, the spitball pitcher of Bridgeport, Conn.,, and the Yankees have at last parted ways for all time. Messrs. Sweeney and Heating were sold outright this | afternoon by Colonel Ruppert and Captain Huston to Roger Bresnahan's Toledo Mudhens of the American As sociation.
 GENERAL
 Bernard Baruch, Wall street plum | ger in New York, cleared s47s,000 playing peace lunches during thir- teen days in December, according to his testimony to the Leak" commit | tee.
 A grand total of s2.945,54l.0s was | disbursed by the United States Steel | and Carnegie pension fund between 1911 and 1916, according to the annual | report just issued by the United States Steel Cooperation. The pensions are paid to the employees of that corpora. ton and its subsidiary companies. The government today filed suit against the Pan-American Commission Corporation, Sol Wexler and others at New York, charging them with con spiracy under the antitrust laws to restrain interstate commerce and for eign trade in sisal and to increase the market price of sisal throughout the United States.
 A butcher shop in which horse meat is sold exclusively has been opened in New York with the sanction of the board of health. A sign over the shop reads, Horse Flesh for Sale Here Round and sirloin steaks are quoted at 12 cents a pound, while inferior cuts sell as low as cents a pound Horse meat frankfurters retail at IC cents a dozen.
 The time of the now famous Teak of President Wilson's peace note was | definitely established in New York d between I2:5s and l.: 54 o'clock on the afternoon of Dec. 20. In those fifty six minutes someone tipped off Wal street and thereby brought about one of the biggest crashes the street has