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ness, though solvent, was being run
at q loss on account Of the prohi,
bition wave, a receiver was applied
for by Eckhouse Bros, wholesale
liquor dealers Of Cincinnati, 0.
Judge Kunkel fixed April as the
date upon which the third OF the
series of trials growing out OF the
scandal surrounding the contracts for
the Pennsylvania capitol furnishings
will be started.
It is reported that President
Roosevelt has sent Francis j. Heney,
the noted San Francisco graft hunter,
into Pittsburg to report on the coun-
cilmanic graft scandal.
Mrs. Tower, the formef telephone
operator, won her divorce suit against
her millionaire husband, and was CIV
en- 500 month alimony.
Evidence to indicate that the
death of William e. Annis was not
premediated was presented by the
attorneys for Thornton ]. Hams.
An elephant got loose at Coney
Island and was not captured until
it had done much damage to build
ings and amusement places.
Burglars drilled into the safe OF
the jewelry store of Oscar G. JockIe,
New York, and got away with $780,
900 in watches and cash.
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York.
sent stenOgraphers to attend the Sum
day theaters and secure evidence.
Many paper mills in New York
State may have to shut down on ac-
count of lack of water.
The Modern Languages Associa-
ton of America began its sessions
at Princeton University.
The national encampment Of the
G. A. r. will be held In Salt Lake
City August to IS.
Tom Longboat, the Indian runner,
was married to an Indian girl. in
Toronto.
Rev. Wilbur L. Y. Davis. OF
Springfield, o.. was stricken blind in
the pulpit.
Tobacco growers of Connecticut
favor duty on tobacco.
A report of the committee of the
National Society for the Promotion
of Industrial Education recommends
the establishment of industrial Inn
prOyement schools and trade schools
and national department. with a
secretary of education in the cabinet.
William Jefferson Powell, claim
ing to be Baltimorean and heir TO
100000, was sentenced to $50 days
In the workhouse at Los Angeles,
Cal, on a vagrancy charge.
The Arlington Hotel and seven
other buildings in the business sec
tiCn Of Oneonta, N. ", we're destroy
ed by FIRE. Loss. 100000.
Plans are being perfected to in
vfte England to celebrate Commodore
Perry's victory ever the British on
Lake Erie in 1912.
boys, broke through the ice at Spring
held, Mass. and were drowned.
Many thouands were fed in New
York and Christmas generosity was
general throughout the country.
President-elect Taft got many
greetings and big saddle horse.
Nine murders clouded Christmas
Day in Louisiana and Southern Mis-
sissippi, while tragedies were report
ed from many other places.
The inquiry into the meat-pack-
Ing industry by the Federal Govern
ment is to include every feature of
1t.
Four members of one family were
asphyxiated by gas in Chicago.
The Hamburg liner Pretoria was
81 days crossing the Atlantic and put
into ST. Johns for coal.
The chauffeur was killed and three
persons were injured in an auto
mobile accident at Oakland, Cal.
George c. Hurlbut. librarian of the
American Geographical Society, and
his daughter were probably fatally
hurt in collision between their au-
tomobile and car in New York.