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committee, to recover $4,000 on a
note given by Kerens at Ostend. Bel
GUM. in 1900. Kerens admits the note
is genuine. but declares he was the
victim OF sharpers.
Executive clemency, recommended
by the courts-martial in their cases,
has been granted by the President.
for Harry l.. Harris. Jr., first lieu
tenant, Twenty-second Infantry, In the
Philippines, and Second Lieutenant
Samuel II. Fisher, Twenty-eighth In.
fantry. In San Francisco. Instead Of
being dismissed from the army they
are reduced in rank.
Edward J. vattman. long at Fort
Sheridan. is among the army chap
lains promoted by President Roosevelt
from the rank OF captain to that OF
major authorized by the last con-
gress.
Barney Oldfeld, the automobile ra-
Ger, was fined $40 and cost in police
court in Cleveland for driving his ma
chine thirty-fve miles an hour through
the streets.
Dir. Edwin ID. Alderman, president
OF Tulane University. New Orleans
has been chosen the first president OF
the University of Virginia, at Char
louisville. The latter school always
has been in charge OF chairman"
chosen by the faculty.
Advlces received in San Francisco
state that the ship Leyland Brothers,
from Newcastle, Australia. has reach
ed Salina Cruz, Mexico, with a cargo
OF coal. The vessel was long overdue
and 60 per cent reinsurance on her
was quoted
The Canadian cabinet has decided
10 dismiss Lord Dundonald as com
mander OF the Canadian militia be
cause Of his utterances at a banquet
at Montreal
Sir Frederick Treves, the English
surgeon who operated on King Ed
ward before the latter's coronation. ar
rived at Philadelphia and was given
an honorary degree by the University
of Pennsylvania.
Miss Roosevelt left Washington for
Philadelphia, where she will be brides
maid at the wedding of Miss Whelan.
She will afterward go to Hyde Park,
NJ. Y. TO be bridesmaid at the we'd
ding of her cousin, Miss Helen Roose-
welt.
Among the foreign musicians en-
gagged for tour OF the United States
next season are Joseph Holman, the
pianist; Fritz Kreisler. the Austrian
yiolinist, and Anton Hekking. the Ger
man 'cellist. Nine. Kirkby Lunn has
been engaged for five months to sing
Kundry in the English production of
"Parsifal"
The fourteenth international conven-
ton OF the Baptist Young Peoples
Union OF America, In Detroit, July g.
10. is expected to be the largest gath
ering OF Baptists ever held.
Ofncials of the Ladies OF the Mac
cabees OF the World announce that the
Michigan supreme court has decided
in their favor and against the Michi-
gan organization, and that the latter
has been recognized under a new
ritual and will hereafte- be known as
the Ladies' of the Modern Maccabees.
Richard, William and Joseph Jack
son Of Johnstown. PA. and Joseph
Born of Pittsburg we're arrested,
charged with the attempted hold-up OF
Superintendent W. II. c. Ramsey and
Frank Howard Of the Johnstown Water
company, who were carrying $1,000 to
pay the employees at the Dalton Run
dam.
j. II. Ross and William Stubs, rail
road section laborers. who were sus-
pected of completely In the Denver and
Rio Grande, hold.up are in Pueblo,
Colo, and were there the night OF the
robbery. The robber who killed him
self. and who was thought TO be Ross,
has been identified as George w. Ken.
drick, who had served zine In Pennsyl-
vania.
The American. Hawaiian company's
steamship Ncbraskan, which has just
been converted into an oil burner, ar
rived at San Francisco from New
York. having made the trip in fifty
four days.
Sheriff Sim ID. May OF Crenshaw
county, Alamaba. was arrested on a
charge OF peonage. He is said to have
held half-witted negress under a con-
tract TO work out a fine which had
been remitted by the governor.
The edict has gone forth from the
common council OF la Cross, Wis,
unofiiclally TO be put In the form OF a
resolution later, that the bathers at
Pettlbone park must not wear abbreyi-
ated costumes.
An award OF sls.500 for the loss OF
an eye has been secured In the supe-
rior court In Boston by woman who
was struck by a piece OF metal falling
through the window OF train.
Cecil Hall and Walter Goldthwaite,
high school graduates. were drowned
by the overturning Of launch at Bur
lington. La.
Nashville. Tenn. is crowded with
visitors. veterans and delegates to the
fourteenth annual reunion OF the
United Confederate Veterans.
Detroit police have Identified pho