Tombstone epitaph., 1918-06-09
FOREIGN

Emperor William mas conferred upon Crown Prince Frederick the star of grand commander of the royal house of Hohenzollern. with swords, a Berlin dispatch announces.
 In the Memorial Day exercises in the rear of the American sector in Picardy a small American flag and flowers were placed on each grave of an American soldier.
 Andrew Bonar Law told the lower house of Parliament that 300 casual ties to hospital cases had been caused by the bombing of British hospitals in France by German aviators
 The combined railway labor fedora. tions of Argentina decided on a gen eral strike June 30. tying up the trans portation of the entire country, to force favorable solution of Argentine labor problems
 The epidemic which is sweeping over Spain. disease which somewhat resembles grip, is increasing in sever ity. There are more than l5o.o00 cases in Madrid. The mortality. how ever. continues to be low.
 The Germans are paying a heavy penalty in the fruitless attempts to re- take Cantigny. Air observers report that the American artillery is inflict- ing terrible losses on the boches 10 the eastward of the new American po- sitions.
 Strong revolutionary detachments of demobilized Russian soldiers and peasants equipped with machine guns and artillery have risen in the dis trict of Tschigerine in the province of Kiev. in an attempt to seize govern ment power.
 Premier Clemenceau had the mar rowest possible escape from falling in to German hands, according 10 the Parit Petit Journal. He left a certain point on the front only few minutes before the arrival of patrol of forty Uhlans
 The American heavy artillery May 30 obtained direct hits on big ammu milton dump of the enemy east Of St Mihiel, which blew up with s terrific explosion, the burst of flame and pill. lar of white smoke shooting many hun dreds of yards in the air
 From Flanders to Switzerland and from the battle line to the sea. the American expeditionary forces on Memorial day paid homage to their dead Wherever American flags were flying they were al half staff and be- fore the day was over the Start Span gled Banner and flowers was placed on virtually every American grave SPORT
 Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons, widow of the famous pugilist, has joined the Salvation Army it was announced in New York.
 teen rounds of his fifteen-round bout with Soldier Bartfield of New York at Toledo, Ohio.
 Bert Niehoff, second baseman for the Giants. suffered broken right leg In the game between the Giants and Phillies at the National league park in Philadelphia.
 Sioux City is assured of berth in the Western league for the remainder of the season. Several business men. headed by Charles Hagerling. pur- chased the team from the Lincoln. Neb.. Baseball Amusement Company. GENERAL
 Japan Is to have chapter of Ameri- can Red Cross.
 Forty years ago at Lincoln, Neb.. wheat was sold at so 10 S2 cents a bushel and corn at g to 25 cents.
 James s. Clarkson, for many years a member of the Republican National Executive Committee, died at Newark, x. j., aged 76.
 The New Bedford (Mass) Cotton Manufacturer Association announced . Is per cent. wage increase, effective June 3, for 3s.00O operatives in cloth and yarn mills.
 News of the sinking of the Furness line steamship Cheviot Range and the joss of twenty-five of her crew was re- ceivsd in Boston.
 The New York Board of Education voted unanimously to discontinue teaching of German in the public schools for the duration of the war.
 Casualties in the British ranks re- ported during May reached total of le6,S02 The losses were divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds. of- ficers. 1,s36: men, 20,5l8. Wounded or missing. officers. 6.162; men, 1884, 566.
 The nation was warned again by the food administration that there must be no relaxing in the rigor- ous conservation of wheat if the neces- ssry shipments are to be made to the American fighters overseas and the d. lied peoples.
 President Wilson lent . hand at Al exandria. Va, on Memorial day in driving . rivet in the keel of what will be the steamer Gunston Hall, . q.400- ton freighter for the shipping board. Mrs. Wilson also played . part in the keel-laying. guiding the last vertical plate into position and naming the ship as she did %.
 4 resolution providing for two more vears' auspensiou of the act recurring