Fair play., 1910-01-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation, and Particularly
the Great Southwest.

suit was a Third avenue, New York,
confectioner. The child sued for $500
Queen Wilhelmina gave banquet
in honor of Gen. Stewart l.. Wooford,.
president of the Hudson-Fulton cele-
bration commission, who came here TO
express the thanks of the commission
for Hollands participation in the his.
torc festivities at New York.
The Bankers Depositors' Guaranty
and Surety Co. has received certih-
cate to do business in Kansas. The
company was organized by national
bankers to offer depositors surety
equal to that given state banks by the
state guaranty law
Gen Pedro Andreas Fornes Diaz,
who started out Thursday from Blue
fields, Nicaragua, in order to treat for
peace with President Madriz, met with
a tragic end on Greytown Bar. The
canoe in which he was attempting to
make a landing, was caught by gi-
gantic wave and broke amidships and
Daz disappeared from view in the
sea
Married dl lue dSt VI IL dhu uiS-
satisfied after year of married life,
Mrs. Reatha Ragan, wife of Peter
Ragan, committed suicide by shooting
with a shotgun at Bloomington, Ind.
The Canadian bureau of census esti-
mates the population of Canada at the
close of the year at 7,350,000. The
province of Ontario leads with 2,619,-
O25.
Four striking shirtwaist makers who
were fined $25 for their activity as
pickets, paid their fines in pennies 1t
took tine clerical force of the court
nearly half an hour to count the 1000
pennies while the girls looked on with
amusement.
The Scott expedition is search of
the south pole is now assured, the
British government having promised
100000 towards the 100000 which
is the estimated expense.
Wilson ID. Rich, assistant postmaster
at Ames, Ia, was bound over to the
federal grand jury on a charge of
using official letters for his own
private business.
Nine persons are dead and two 9th.
ers are not expected to live, as the
result OF eating canned peaches con-
tanning ptomaine poison at Los An
geles.
The town of Castlewood, S. OAK,
narrowly missed being wiped out by
fire of unknown origin, during heavy
wind. The entire south side of Main
street is in ashes, entailing a loss es'
timated at $4,000 Twelve buildings
We're destroyed
Richard yelling, a New York law.
yer, classmate of Theodore Roose'
cvelt at Harvard and a Republican,
was appointed by Mayor Gaynor as a
member of the Municipal civil service
commission, at salary of $4,000 q
year.
Announcement was made by the
Merchants and Manufacturers Asso
citation at Grand Rapids. Mich, that
it would fight any local option move
ment to the end,
David W. Gerard, supreme chief OF
the Tribe of Ben Hur, died at Craw
fordsvile, Ind.
l.. L. Dyche, state fish and game
warden, is preparing to issue "a cook
book on how to prepare fish and re
tribute the book free to try to in
crease fish eating in Kansas.
Johnny Breeland, postmaster OF
Varnado, La, was arrested on a charge
of embezzing $1,000 from the office
Thomas A. Petit, whom Breeland sue
ceeded, recently completed term OF
six months in prison for "a similar of
Tense
Six million dollars in holiday pres
ents is the amount Tom Waggoner
Fort Worth millionaire banker, ranch
man and capitalist, gave TO his thre'
children.
An unusual case came TO a close
in the Morgan county courts at Mar
tinsyille, Ind, when Miss Catherine
Hendy of indianapolis received a yer
dict of $4,000 against the Indianap
oils Traction and Terminal Co. FOL
malicious prosecution.
+. IL. Jermyn, one of the wealthies
coal mine operators in the United
States, was struck down and fatally in
jured by street car In San Francisco
The coroner's jury brought in |
verdict declaring in formal way tina
the California Special wreck nea
Trenton. Mo-, was caused by spread
ing rails, The woman who was amonl
the killed has been identified as Mrs
q, Hedrick of Chicago.
The legal brawl between Gov. Has
kell and States Attorney Genera
West and District Judge A. II. Hus
ton over the Prairie Oil and Gas Co.
prosecution in Oklahoma was dis
missed by the supreme court of tn
United States at Washington withou
an opinion.
The British steamers Ayrshire, 10
Durham and theArcadian for Glasgow
collided in fog in the Irish channe
The Arcadian sank. All of her ere,
scrambled aboard the Ayrshire, bu
IL Lascars returned to get their none
and were drowned.