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attorneys.
Hostilities have begun on the from
tier of Peru. Two hundred Peruvian
soldiers attacked the village OF Cha.
oras, Ecuador, near the boundary.
Three Ecuadorians were killed and
eight others wounded.
BY direction of the president, Secre-
tary OF the Navy Meyer asked Admiral
Barry for his resignation. 1t has been
received and was accepted, for the
good of the service" according to an
announcement made by Secretary
Meyer
There is mystery in the death of
Prince Tchin Pomil, former Korean
minister to Russia, whose body was
found hanging in his lodgings in a
suburb of st. Petersburg.
To cut through a winter trail for
dog teams and single horse sleds more
than 400 miles to meet recent rapid
developments in the Iditarod mining
district in Alaska, the war department
has asked congress for an appropria-
ton of $4,000.
Judge K. r. e. Kimbrough Of Dan
vile, ILL.,, who started the investiga-
ton into the traffic in votes in Yer
million county, was a witness before
the grand jury. Judge Kimbrough ad-
mitted the truth of the reported dis
tribution Of bags of money on election
day. Only he said the distribution
was for legitimate campaign expenses.
The jurymen in the case of Mrs.
Laura Farnworth Schenk, on trial at
Wheeling, w. Va, charged with poi
soning her husband, John o. Schenk,
reported that they were unable to
agree and were discharged. The jury
stood IL to l for acquittal.
Senator A. B. Cummfhs of Iowa adj
dressed the United States senate in
opposition to retaining in the senate
William Lorimer, senator from ILL
nois, whose election is alleged to have
been accomplished by bribery. He was
severe in his criticism of the made
quacy and responsibility" Of the re-
port Of the subcommittee which inves-
tigated the charges.
north-bound Canadian Northern
passenger train ran into the caboose
Of a snow-bound freight at Meltford,
Sask., injuring seven men who were
sent to dig the freight train out of
the drift
Park Commissioner Stoyer of New
York has received letter from Wal
ter Kasang of Norwich, n. Y, who
writes that he has a calf with a rab-
bits tail. Instead of walking or run
ming like an ordinary calf, the writer
says his calf hops.
The United States is pressing its
proposal for the lease of the Galapa-
COS islands. The offer of the Ameri-
can government, 1t is now stated, is
S35, 900 for lease of 80 years, and
Ecuadorean sovereignty is guaran-
teed.
Organized labor felt the restraining
force of the Sherman antitrust law,
when a jury in the United States cir
cult court at New Orleans returned a
verdict Of guilty against three mem
bers of the New Orleans Dock and
Cotton council, charged with con-
spiracy to interfere with foreign COM
merce.
If the senate approves the plan, a
financial protectorate will be estab-
lished by the United States over Hon.
duras The president will send to the
senate a treaty embodying this propo-
sition which has been negotiated by
the state department.
Announcement was made by off,
Gals of the Pullman company at Chi
cago that arrangements have been
completed for the application Febru-
airy 1 of their new rate rules, which
include a nationwide reduction of 20
per cent. in practically all upper berth
rates and a cut ranging from 25 cents
to 81 on 20 per cent. of all lower
berths.
Monmouth, Quincy and Kewanee,
ILL.,, at special elections voted on the
commission form of municipal gov
eminent. The first two rejected it,
while Kewanee adopted it.
Orders have been issued by the war
department to move United States
troops. with pack trains, from Fort
Ohlh AlOhSlOh W COOs
Eagle Pass and Del Rio, to patrol the
Mexican border and prevent further
shipments of arms and ammunition
to the Mexican revolutionists from
their agents in the United States.
The health of William Sprague, for
mer governor, of Rhode Island, who is
in Paris, is such that his death would
not be a surprise to his family al.
though his physicians say that he may
live many months.
Charles J. Barth, one of Denver's
wealthiest men, is authority for the
statement that Former Senator Thorn
as NJ. Patterson has sold the Rocky
Mountain News of Denver to Senator
Simon Guggenheim.
Following a quarrel, John Drost,
twenty-five years old, shot and killed
his father, Peter Drost, fifty-five years
old, and wounded his nineteen-year.
old sister, Phoebe. on their farm near
Northbend, Wash.
The appropriation of 100000 to
provide for the erection Of a memo
rial arch at Valley Forge, Pa, has
been urged on the national house OF