Tombstone epitaph., 1917-02-11
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EioN coUNTRiEa
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoiNos AND HAPPENINGS TRAY MARK THE PROGRESS
 or THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
 vessel believed to be the German raider is reported to have been cruising off Monte Christi. on the north coast of Santo Domingo.
 Considerable aerial activity con tinues over the lines in France. Lon don reports the destruction of three German machines,
 There have been minor skirmishing operations and isolated artillery firing. Southwest of Lake Doiran detach- ments which advanced after a strong fire were repulsed
 Considerable artillery activity along the Austro-ltalian front, notably on the Carso, where the Austrian guns have been more busily employed, is reported from Rome
 The German submarine recently re ported sunk near Hammerfest was the U-27, commanded by Captain Benber, according to information re- ceived at Christiania.
 In the Austro-Italian theater the Austrfans are bombarding with great intensity the region near Lake Garda, and positions in the Gorizia zone and on the Carso plateau.
 In northwest Persia the Turks are credited with gains over the Russians by Berlin Accommodating engage ments continue around Kut El-Amara and heavy bombardment also is in progress there.
 Petrograd reports a Russian ad- vance near Kalnzem, southwest Of Riga, and the repulse of three at tacks by the Austro-Germans against the Russians east of Jacobeni, near the northern Rumanian frontier Small actions also have occurred in the Narayuvka river region in Galicia.
 Despite the severity of the weather reported from nearly all the Euro pean battle fronts, spirited fighting is taking place in several of the war areas. The most notable recent de velopment is on the northern end of the Rumanian line, where the Rus sians took the offensive and broke through the Austro- German lines on a two-mile front along the railway from Kimpolung to Jacobeni
 WESTERN
 Eleven Mexicars were killed and fiji ty injured at Charcas, between San Luis Potosi and Saltillo, when one train ran into another oh siding at Laredo, Tex.
 Seattle, in the opinion of business men, has passed the crisis of its finan- cial scare. which resulted in the fail ure of the Northern Bank and Trust Company and the German-American Mercantile bank
 How the hair of a 10-year-old girl turned white almost instantly was told to deputies in the office of Sheriff John s. Corless in Salt Lake City by persons who witnessed an automobile accident which occurred in Salt Lake City.
 David E. Mcqueen, aged 24, was killed at San Antonio. Tex, while making flight at school of aviation. He was a son of Maj. G. D. Mcqueen in the Canadian records office, Lon don, and was training to join the avia- tion corps of the Canadian army in France.
 After being completely buried at the bottom of an eighteen-foot ditch for twenty minutes, Wayne Richardson. a laberer from Clay Center, who was working on the construction work in the draining district of North Law renee, was rescued alive without ap- parent injury.
 Hunters have estimated that 400 elk were killed just outside the northern boundary of Yellowstone national park duing the last two days of the hunt ing season. Heavy snow storms of the last week drove hundreds of the elk from the mountainous regions of the park into lower attitudes.
 WASHINGTON
 The Army League of the United States held its annual meeting in Washington and elected Joseph Letter of Washington president to succeed Gen. Robert Shaw Oliver.
 President Wilson has nominated the following captains in the navy to be rear admirals: Harry Mel. P. Huse, Robert S. Griffin, George w. Burd, James H. Oliver. John Hood and Will jam s. Sims.
 United States naval forces are con centrated at or near Guantanamo, the best possible strategic point from which the Panama canal may be guarded, and at the same time the eastern coast of the United States pro tected.
 Immediate measures to safeguard American business in the economic struggle expected to follow the Euro pean war is urged in Washington by fhe Chamber of Commerce of the United States in the unanimous adop- ton of . report from its foreign rsla- tons committea