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Miss Alice Ruth Palmer OF Franklin
Ind. has been appointed pastor OF the
Congregational church at Silver Creek
Neb.
Lemuel Bannister. former vice-presi
dent OF. the Westinghouse Electric
company and vicepresldent OF the
British Westinghouse company, is III
in New York
Chairman Shonts OF the isthmian ca.
nal commission will sail on March 30
for Panama. where he viii remain I'M.
til April 10. Leon Pefferman. assist
ant chief 10 the commission. will be
In the party.
Two business blocks at Auburn. n.
Y. were burned, the loss being $l75,.
600.
The lumber yard OF j. Gibson Nell.
vain a Co. I'm West Philadelphia was
burned, the loss being 100000.
Fire which for a time threatened
the business section OF Asheyille, n.
C.. destroyed four buildings and caus-
ed $4,000 loss.
The Meriden theater and four
story brick building adjoining Il AZ
Meriden. Conn. were burned, the loss
being $4,000 Two fremen were in.
jured by falling timbers.
As the result OF the explosion Of
gasoline engine large part Of the
town OF Kane. Pa. was destroyed by
fire. Among the structures burned
were the city hall and the Baptist
church The loss Is $4,000.
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edge the Fall River lines big side
wheel steamer Plymouth and damaged
the freight steamer city Of Lowell and
long pier shed. hoisting shears,
paint shop and old railroad station at
Newport, r. l. Louis Lemont IRE
man, aged %, lost his life. The loss
IS more than sl,000,oQ0
Morris Buck who shot and killed
Mrs Garfield, the wife Of the oil mil
lonalre. has been sentenced IN Los
Angeles 70 be hanged June ].
Despondent because she could not
get work. Gertrude Shand. a stenog-
rapher formerly of Pittsburg, Pa, com
mitted suicide at Salt Lake City by
taking carbolic acid
The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity has
selected Bloomington as the meeting
place for the annual convention OF the
twelfth section. including Illinois. Wis
consin and Michigan. on April q and
2S.
Government engineers testified for
the defense In the trial OF Greene and
Gaynor at Savannah. Ga, for alleged
fraud in contracts, and agreed in the
main that the multiple and brush mat.
tresses used In the harbor work by
the defendants we're admissible I'M
der the specifications.
The twenty.fourth biennial Grand
Arch council OF the Phi Kappa Psi fra.
ternity will be held in Washington
April 1s, 10 and 90
John Miesch. fisherman, marooned
on a floating ice cake for six hours on
the lake, was rescued when almost
dea. at Muskegon, Mich.
s. G.. Duckworth. arrested AZ Park
ersburg. w Va. on a charge Of secur-
ing the payment Of policies Of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society on
the lives OF fictitious persons. was re-
leased under bail and was at once re-
arrested on charge OF forgery in con
nection with the same alleged trans
actions.
John Adams shot and fatally wound
ed Harry Miller, an iron worker from
Alexandria. Ind. because OF attentions
10 Mrs Adams AZ Terre Haute. Ind.
Sol Rice, aged 49, a farmer living
near Boonville, Ind. committing sui
eide because OF III health.
The trial OF the suit to compel the
Illinois state board % equalization 20
reassess the Cairo bridge OF the Hi
nols Central was commenced before
Judge Thompson In the circuit court
at Springfield Monday.
The congregation OF the propaganda
has decided 60 propose TO the pope
the appointment OF Monsignore John
II. Morris OF Nashville. Tenn. as CO
adjutor bishop OF Little Rock, Ark.
Announcement was made that David
H. Wilson, Jr.. has been appointed
electrical engineer for the Erie rail-
road in charge OF the power plants
and other electrical equipment along
the entire system.
Commissioner ~ X. Slater OF the
Minnesota dairy aud food department
declined the position OF Inspector OF
dairy products OF the New York dis
trict. dairy division OF the United
States agricultural bureau.
Governor Pennypacker OF Pennsyl-
vania, his stan and about 100 veterans
OF the Civil war visited Lookout noun.
tain. Chickamauga park. Missionary
ridge and Orchard Knob ON their way
home from Vlcksburg.
NJ. Cure. the French bllliardlst. who
ell compete In the world champion.
ship billiard tournament which begins
an New York April ?. has arrived on
the steamer La Savoie from Havre
u. n. Yoakum OF the Rock Island
railroad IL recovering after an oper.
alton for appendicitis IN New York
Arthur Epson. acting professor OF
English literature az the University
OF Minnesota. attempted suicide by
leaplng into the Mississippi. lie was
rescued. but his recovery IL doubtful
Mr. IJpeou In about s. years OF age and