Tombstone epitaph., 1918-06-16
FOREIGN

 ert Adam Philips Haldane- Duncan) died at his residence at Shipston-on- Stour. He was born in lS%l. fingered by the news of the sinking of the Porto Rico liner Carolina by a German submarine. an anttGerman demonstration broke out in Ponce. The Dutch hospital ship Koningen Regentes was sunk by e mine in the North sea while bound from an Eng fish to a Dutch port. Four firemen | were killed.
 Gen. Robert F. L. Michie of the American army died in a railroad train near Rouen. France. His death was sudden and unexpected. as he had not been ill
 | The supreme war council. which has had under advisement the entire war | situation. has expressed in an off cial statement made public in London full confidence in the outcome of the 1 war. with the aid 0! the American forces.
 A sudden cold wave struck central Europe. including Germany. Holland and Scandinavia. There have been To cal snowfalls, hail storms and severe night frosts. Widespread damage 10 the grain, fruit and potato crops is re ported
 The spirit and morale of the Amer ican soldiers wounded in the Cantigny battle. go per cent of whom will re- l cover. is wonderful The first question they ask the surgeon is: Doc. when will be able 10 go back after the Ger man who fixed me."
 The part played by American ma chine gunners in the defense of the | Chateau Thierry bridges Is classed by Reuters correspondent at French headquarters as worthy to stand with | the achievements of the American in. fantry recently at Cantigny. Lieut. Victor Hugo III. great grand son of the famous French author. is attached to the American army as an | instructor and distinguished himself in the capture of Cantigny recently. | IS oA c and was a student in Paris when he 1 entered the army as member of . | famous chasseur regiment ! Russian reserves are concentrating for the defense Of Kars, which was captured from the combined German | and Turkish forces in big battle May 24. The Germans and Turks are re- tiring along the Ardagan road. massa- | cring the population. Soviet forces have retakep several towns in Ukraine. repulsing enemy counter at | tacks.
 SPORT
 There were forty starters in the Modified Mountain Marathon race run over the Littletonto-Denver course Lieut. F. L. Fleer of the marine fly. ing school at Miami, Fla, made l09 successive loops. His feat is said to establish a new military aviation rec ord.
 Sergt. Earl Caddock. champion heavyweight wrestler of the world, and Ed (StranglerD Lewis of Lexing ton, Ky, were matched for bout in Des Moines, Ia. on June 21 Caddock is in the national army at Camp Dodge.
 GENERAL
 | The police department issued an or der that ali display lights in New York at night are forbidden until further notice.
 l More than a million and e half Ii. fles have been produced for the United States army since this country en. tered the war.
 l Americas second largest wheat crop is in prospect this year The Depart. ment of Agriculture forecast 931 900. 900 bushels, only 69,000,00O less than the billion-bushel crop the government had hoped for.
 According to statistics published in ,hc Vienna Zs.;uns, ;9.G30 persons iH Budapest are barefoot. owing to the scarcity of shoes.
 A supplemental appropriation ol $ie2 GOO for the defense of the Pane ma canal was asked of Congress by the War Department.
 For ten hours in the night Mist Edith Donate virola, an ls-year-olt Porto Rico girl. coming to this coun try to marry. floated on the body ol her drowned fiance before she wal dragged out of the water to safety after the steamship Carolina was tor pedoed by a German submarine.
 George D. Kimball of Denver wal chosen district representative of the federal fuel administration in Colo rado and J. Van Houten of Raton wal selected for a similar office in New Mexico when ninety-five coal oper ators of Colorado and New Mexico me, in Denver with J. D. A. Morrow and c
 U. Galloway. government fuel mer
 from Washington. for the purpose o effecting an organization whose pur pose will be to assist the government in obtaining an equitable distribution
 of coal throughout the country.
 Nelson Morris. rich young Chicago
 meat packer, has been transferred