Tombstone epitaph., 1917-06-10
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 Ei0N COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINes AND HAPPENINGS ThAT MARK The PRoeREss
 or ThE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR


 ABOUT THE WAR
 Italians and Austrians both claim gains near Jamiano.
 British war office records successful raid northwest of La Bassee
 Unsettled situation in Russia places country on eve of catastrophe
 British weekly reports of ships shows eighteen big vessels sunk.
 In Albania, Italians capture three villages, extending their lines 10 new and powerful positions.
 British casualties as published in May show total of 5,so2 officers and loe.s3l men, total of ll2.233.
 Since new battle from Tolmino to the sea began, Italians have taken 2S,esl and the Austrians l4,500 pris- oners.
 Swedish ship engaged In the work Of the Belgian relief commission was sunk May 18th. notwithstanding it held German permit to sail.
 From Soissons eastward intense ar tillery duel is in progress between French and Germans. Since May lst, French have taken s,eeo prisoners.
 Austrian war office says Italian cas- ualties have been very heavy. More than l3,o00 unwounded Italians has been captured up to Sunday, says the statement
 Following reports of increase in Russian artillery activity against Aus trians, comes a statement of renewal Of activity of the Russo -Rumanian forces against the Teutonic allies in Rumania
 Seventy-si1 persons were killed and 114 injured in Dover or Folkestone, England, in the most ambitious raid upon England yet made by German aircraft. Of the killed. 27 were women and 23 children.
 In Champagne region of France, Germans launch fierce attacks, but are driven off with great loss of men French recapture all ground lost Big artillery action continues between Soissons and Rheims. South of Der ry-au-Bac. Germans carry out success ful mining operations. seizing 8 few trench clements.
 WESTERN
 Whale meat may soon be put on market in cans.
 Tornados in Illinois and Missouri kill IS and iniures many persons
 Kansas City judge denies petition, for injunction to prevent carrying out of the army registration in Missouri. Four persons are reported to have been killed and thirty injured in a tornado which virtually wiped out Mineral Point, Mo.
 Civil War veterans en masse gave the purse strings of Cleveland, Ohio, mighty pull in a Liberty Loan Drive" They celebrated Memorial Day that way.
 Evidence that l. W. w agitators, Iumberjacks and logging men are flee ing into the forests of northern Min nesota and the Northwest to escape draft was seen in a report from State Forester Cox at St Paul.
 Sixteen Mexican government sol diers were killed, six wounded and six taken prisoners by the Villa com mand when it captured ojinaga. fore ing the small government force to flee across the Rio Grande to the American side.
 Several shots were fired from the direction of men going to work at the United Verde mine. after stones were thrown at them by men in a crowd of strike sympathizers at Jerome, Ariz The shots went wild All the workers were disarmed when they reached the mine.
 WASHINGTON
 Prisoners at the Maryland peniten- tiary have bought s2,l50 worth of Lib erty Loan bonds.
 Charles Emmet Yeater of Missouri was nominated to be vice governor of the Philippine Islands.
 The Senate Finance Committee de- cided to provide in the war tax bill to raise sso.0c0.oo by consumption taxes of 2 cents a pound on coffee, cents on tea, h cent on sugar and cents on cocoa.
 freslCeut "uSOu ls COuNiuctu tEdt the British and French will be able to stand their ground until the Unit ed States can get in with ,0o0, 900 or 2.000,0 men and help roll the Ger mans back to the Rhine
 President Wilson joined the ranks of participants in the Liberty loan by subscribing for $10,000 bond
 The United States position against granting passports for attendance up- on the Stockholm Socialist conference is unchanged
 A bill by Senator Poindexter of Washington to punish malicious stor- ing Of foodstuffs and other necessar- ies, under penalties of from six montbs' to three years Imprisonment was fsvorably reported by the Senate Judiciary committee.