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ky, Of Boise, to succeed the late Sen
ator Hepburn.
MAYOR George r. Lunn, OF Schen-
nectady, y. Y, will spend nifty days In
jail because he refused TO pay fine
! of $50 imposed upon him By the city
court for violating a city ordinance
in regard to holding a Socialist meet
| ing In the strikers district.
| V. s. Cheshire, editor of the An
derson, s. c., Intelligencer, was shot
and seriously wounded; j. A. Multi
max was shot and w. ]. Muldrow mar
rowly escaped death in an alteration
| last week over the publication of an
article In the Intelligencer.
| J. T. Burgess, an aged farmer liv-
| ing near Ocala, Florida, and his if
teen-year-old adopted daughter, were
murdered near their home few days
ago by a negro. The girl was as
saulted and her throat cut. The ne
gro was captured and lynched.
Thrown into the air from the tom
neau of an automobile and hurled
under the trucks of a trolley car
which collided with the machine,
Mrs. Bessie Lyle and her two-year-
old daughter, Margaret, were killed
at Atlanta, Ga, Sunday afternoon.
Phillip NJ. Henry, of Louisville,
KY, a freshman at Georgetown Uni
versity, Washington, D. c., was killed
Monday night while playing pranks
on his fellow-students. He was
climbing On a narrow ledge of the
building peeping in windows when he
slipped and fell. His neck was brok-
en-.
The United States Supreme Court
Monday decided against the Bath Tub
, Trust, holding the license agree
ment" of enamel ware manufacturers
illegal. The court laid down the prin-
in the unpatented product of a pat
ented machine without violation of
law.
Daniel O'Reilly, of New York City,
once a prominent lawyer and person
al counsel of Harry Thaw in his
trials, delivered himself to the au-
thorities of the penitentiary on
Blackwell's Island Saturday to serve
a term of seven months imprison-
ment. He was convicted of receiving
stolen property in connection with a
robbery.
That all postmasters should dis
pose of their own dead letters and
that letter carriers should be used to
carry the lighter parcels post articles,
even if they do come to look like
Santa Claus, was advocated by First
Assistant Postmaster-General C. P.
Crandfield in a talk to the Postmas-
ters' Association Of New England at
Boston Friday night.
The design Of the new nickel to
supplant the five cent coin now in cir
culation will be perfected by Secre-
tary of the Treasury MacVeagh with
in few weeks An Indian head will
adorn the face Of the coin and the
figure of a buffalo the reverse. The
design is intended to honor the dis
appearing Indian and buffalo, linked
| together in American history.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, of the
American Museum of Natural His
tory, has discovered a new tribe of
blond Esquimos, and announced that
| he will head an exploring expedition
which will start from either Seattle
or San Francisco in May, 1913, to set
tie the question of whether or not
there is, as many scientists believe,
another continent in the Arctic.
Secretary Knox and Ambassador
Bryce Friday exchange ratifcations
of the treaty signed July 7th, last,
providing for an adjustment between
Great Britain and the United States
of the North Atlantic fisheries con-
troversy. It precribed the boundary
waters and provides commission to
pass upon reasonableness of the local
Canadian and New Foundland fish
cries regulations
i Confident that they have establish
ed the identity of the man who, in a
series of postcards and letters con-
fessed to the murder of Joseph Jo-
Isephs, the seven-year-old Lackawan-
ma boy, Michael Kruck, the New
York newsboy, find other similar
crimes, the police of Lackawanna and
Buffalo, New York, have laid their
evidence before the grand jury and
ask for an indictment.
Four additional companies Of State
militia were rushed Monday into the