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Father Hans Schmidt, confessed
slayer of Anna Aumueller, was indict-
ed for murder in the first degree by
the grand jury in New York.
One hundred and ten members of
the Mexican chamber of deputies who
signed resolutions of warning to Pres
ident Huerta as the result of the dis
appearance of DIR. Belisaro Domin-
guez, senator for Chiapas, were ar
rested and lodged in the penitentiary.
Opening fire in general merchan-
disc store at Paris Springs, Mo-, while
the store was filled with patrons, Phil
Vass shot Ben Neseler, probably IA
tally, and injured three others in the
store.
Cardinal Gregory Maria Aguirre
Garcia, archbishop of Toledo and pri-
mata of Spain, is dead at Toledo,
Spain. He was born at Pola di Cor
don March IL, 1895, and was created
and proclaimed cardinal April is,
1907.
why shouldn't | vote? | am old
enough, am | not?" said Grandma"
Sarah Todd, aged 1913 years, who reg
istered as voter for the first time in
her life, at Eugene, Ore.
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Abbatemagio, the notorious inform
er In the celebrated Camorra trial,
has been released from prison at Ma
plev, Italy, and is determined to go
at once to America.
The roller towel, which has been a
feature of many years in government
buildings, has been abolished ''in the
interests of the public health by an
order of President Wilson.
Mrs. Laura M. Reuter- was. granted
new trial at Bartlesville, Ok In
granting the new trial Judge Hudson
stated, among other things, that the
evidence did not warrant conyic-
ton
| President Wilson will get his cur.
4 rency bill. The three Democratic
senators, in opposition have yielded a
point, and there will be further yield
| ing within few days. If not, a DEM
ocratic caucus will be held
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More than 1000 refugees from Pie
dras Negras and other parts of north
erh Mexico have been rounded up in
the detention camp on the outskirts
Of Eagle Pass, Tex, by government
immigration officials.
The estate of Benjamin Altman,
| president of the dry goods firm of B.
Altman & Co. of New York, who died
at the age of 70 years, is said to
amount to $45,OO0,0OO.
Federal Gen. Alvarez and his staff
and 1875 federal soldiers were exc
cuted in Torreon, Mexico, under or
ders of Gen. Francisco Villa of the
Constitutionalist forces
|
| Lincoln Beachy, the aviator whose
aeroplane killed Miss Ruth Hildreth
and severely injured her sister Doro-
thy at Hammondsport, N. Y, is re-
ported to have forsworn flying for
ever.
Miss Lillian Ton, the American
suffragette who had been missing
from London for several months, aft
er being released from Holloway jail
under the "cat and mouse" bill, was
rearrested at Padding Station.
Mexican federal troops have cap
| tured Santa Rosalia, according to
state department dispatches. The
revolutionists withdrew their forces
| to Torreon.
| Yuan Shi Kai was elected president
of the Chinese republic for term of
| FIVE years. He received the necessary
/ two-thirds vote of the united houses Of
parliament on the third ballot.
Fourteen passengers were killed and
| rs injured when the express from
Kiev to St. Petersburg collided with
stalled locomotive near the station at
| Dyinsk. Russia.
Mrs. Mildred Allison Rexroat, a
dancing teacher, who was shot to
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the victim of modern Bluebeard,
who, according to his own confession,
had killed 10 others In as many
years. Henry Spencer confessed that
he not only killed Mrs. Rexroat, but
that he had slain IA persons.
| Home rule for Ireland was Endorsed
with pronounced enthusiasm by the
National German-American Alliance,
in convention in st. Louis. San Fran
cisco was chosen as the meeting
place of the convention In 1915.
William Ziegler, adopted son and
sole heir of the late William ziegler,
the baking powder manufacturer,
will, it is understood, settle gener-
Gus part Of his $16,000,000 fortune
upon his sister. Florence Brandt,
who, Surrogate Fowler ruled, is not
entitled to share in the estate.
The American minister to the Do
minican republic, James M. Sullivan,
has induced the warning factions in
that country to sign peace pact and
the revolution headed by Horatio Vas
quez against the government of the
provisional president, Jose Bordas
Valdez, Is at an end.