Tombstone epitaph., 1918-03-10
FOREIGN

Nearly 10000 persons lost their lives as the result of & recent earth quake in the Annoy Hinterland. say latest reports from Swatow. China.
 The consensus of opinion in Paris official and diplomatic circles con cernine Count von Hertling's speech is that it is a war speech" not peace speech"
 "A separate peace with Russia is q 'Pyrrhich victory" the Vienna Arbit- CT Zeitung declared. because Great Britain. France and America will make war 10 the bitter end.'
 There have been various reports of the loss of life due 10 earthquake al Swatow, China. The number of dead has ranged from loo to 10000. while the injured have been placed at 1000.
 The German war aims are due to mon preached al the cathedral in Bal timore. He discussed the marvellous diffusion of the primitive Christian re ligion''
 General elections were hell throughout Spain and Liberals appea. to have maintained their position. al though complete returns have not been received. Republicans carried Madrid and Valencia and the Ca,alin- ists were victorious al Barcelona.
 The British hospital ship Glenar, Castle which went down in the Bristol channel was torpedoed, according to survivors, thirtyfour of whom were landed at Swansea. Wales Nothing has been learned of the fate Of the others. including Red Cross doctors. nurses and orderlies
 A dispatch to the Exchange Tele- graph from Petrograd reports that there has been disagreement in the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers delegates regarding the evacuation O. Petrograd. and that the retirement of Leon Tro,zky. the Bolshevik foreign minister. is imminent.
 A revolution in Germany was pre- cialist deputy. in an address to the Reichstag the Volks Zeitung Of Co logne says. Dr. Cohn's address, made during the debate on the peace treaty with Ukraine, threw the Reichs tag into an uproar.
 The German raider Wolf, which has returned to a home port after raidine entente shipping in three oceans, des- troyed at least thirty-five vessels, 1t was officially announced at Berlin Some of the steamships. it is stated. were loaded with English troops. and the sinking. therefore, caused loss of life.
 British Foreign Secretary Balfour was unable to find in von Hertling's speech any basis for fruitful convet- sation or hope for peace. The chan cellor's attitude concerning Belgium. said Mir. Balfour, was completely un- satisfactory and his lip service to President Wilson's propositions vas not exemplified in German practice. SPORT
 Billy Miske, the St. Paul light heavyweight. mentioned as a contend CT for Jess Willard's crown. failed to land knockout in his bout with Gus Christie, the Milwaukee star at Su- perior, Wis.
 If Jess Willard and Fred Fulton will ship twenty-round bout al New Or ltans the Louisiana Auditorium Ath- letic Club will give them $100,O00 ito be split any way agreeable to the principals"
 The New Jersey Senate passed the Hurley boxing bill, allowing eight round bouts with eight-ounce gloves in places where liquor is not sold un- der the supervision of state boxing commission to be named by the gov ernor
 The will Of the late Horace A. Stone of Bangor, Me. sets aside 5000 for the upkeep of his favorite driving mare during her life.
 GENERAL
 Negotiations are in progress for the union of Lithuania and Saxony, ac- cording to a dispatch from Dresden, with Prince Frederick Christian, sec ond son of the king of Saxony as king of Lithuania.
 Capt David A. Henkes, Sixteenth infantry, U. 8. A., has been sentenced to dismissal from the service and cor finement ef hard labor for twenty-five years by a general co--tmartiaI held at Governors island, k. Y. The Rev T. C. Tiff of Los Angeles. known widely for his activity in home missionary and other work of the Methodist Episcopal church died at . Denver hospital He was 73 years old and veteran of the Civil War. Shoes for Russia, old shoes for Rus sia. are attracting the country's ear, as a new sort of old clothes cry. Ten million pairs of shoes for suffering Russia is asked of United States While the mujik's native soul is fol- lowing the Bolsbeviki, he is making the road tracks red with uncovered and bleeding feet.
 Two years in the federal peniten- tiary at Leavenworth, Kan, was the sentence imposed on William ?. Drum- mond. son of . wealthy Texan, and formerly . clerk in the Federal Re serve Bank at Daiias. who was arrest ed a few Weeks ago tn Dpuyer for fhp