Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1917-11-18
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN coUNTRiEa
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Ahc DiiiiSH nave captured bdZd IN
Palestine following a nine-mile gain.
Only eight British vessels over 1000
tons were sunk the past week. and
four under that tonnage
The Canadians have won another
notable victory in Belgium. capturing
the Town OF Passchendaele
The losses to French shipping by
submarine or mine in the week end
tons and one under.
The American soldiers wounded in
the German raid on trench are all
doing well in the base hospital. Some
of them are suffering from painful
wounds
The Italian shipping losses from
submarines in all seas for the week
ending Nov. were two steamers un-
der 1000 tons and three sailing craft
under loo tons
The L. s. patrol boat Alcedo was
sunk by a submarine Nov. ). one OF
ficer and twenty men are missing.
The ship sank in four minutes after
being torpedoed
Seventeen thousand more Italians
have been captured and Cadorna
forces have fled across the Levinza
river. Berlin claims 25O.00O have been
taken during the two weeks drive.
Along the Aisne and in Belgium ar
tlllery duels We're reported Minor
rail
British and French forces. Addition
al ground has been gained by the
British in Palestine
A German auxiliary cruiser and ten
other armed German ships were sunk
in the Cattegat, an arm of the North
sea. by British ships. Other dis
patches tell of the destruction of an
other auxiliary cruiser tMarieD by the
British.
The Maximalists are in complete
control of Petrograd. Kerensky has
fled TO the front. and it is believed
he will direct his operations from
Moscow. and from there will endeavor
10 unite the Moderates against the
Maximalists, and also 10 rally TO his
support Cossacks and such other
troops who have not already gone
over TO the Extremists. The rebels.
under leadership of Nicholai Lenine.
arrested many of the premier's lieu
tenants, issued orders for his arrest
and began forming their new govern
ment peace delegation has been
named
WESTERN
Presidential suffrage Was defeated
in Ohio.
The vote on prohibition in Ohio was
close. with incomplete returns show
ing the vets slightly in the lead
At Fond du Lac Wis, Henry Seibel
charged with the murder OF his wife
last August, pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
The price of lard will be announced
by the Illinois state food administrat-
OF and in a week all standard cuts
of pork, beef and mutton will be ON
the list.
At Jonesboro, Ark. as result OF
paris green poisoning. Mrs. Cora
Churchwell is dead and her three chill
dren, from / to years old. are ser
iously ILL.,
The Lincoln branch of the National
Woman's party, made up OF college
girls OF the University OF Nebraska,
has announced that Saturday, Nov
IL, will be spent in husking corn.
Eugene f. Schmitz. former mayor
of San Francisco, who was indicted in
the famous graft prosecution cases in
1907, has teen elected a member OF
the city and county board OF super.
visors.
With no returns received from six
counties on Nov. 8, statewide prohi-
bition amendment in New Mexico had
a favorable majority of 1864 votes.
based on semi-officiaI returns from
the other twenty-five counties
WASHINGTON
More than so per cent oversub-
scribed, the second Liberty loan was
even a greater success than the first
Settlement Of the strikes OF shop
men on the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad and at the American Ship
building Company, Cleveland. Ohio.
was announced at the Department OF
Labor by federal mediators.
The postoffice department is plan
ming to issue 13-cent postage stamps
for registered and special delivery let
tiers.
A ChiEese general with his staff has
arrived at Pacific port en- route to
the front in France II is expected
that a contingent of Chinese troops
will follow shortly.
The American war commission,
headed by Col f. N. House, President
wilson's chief unofficial adviser, ar
rived safely at a British port on the
way to at ID the military conference
OF the al.