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Knute Nelson, by vote In both
houses of the Minnesota Legislature,
was returned to the United States
Senate.
The woman suffrage bill, which hao
been acted on favorably in the Sen
ate of the Montana Legislature. was
passed by the House.
Former Governor James H. Brady
of Idaho was elected United States
senator for the short term on joint
ballot. He received A votes.
DR.. Rudolph Anderson of New York.
the polar explorer. was married al
Sioux City, Iowa, to Miss Maebelle
Allstrand. formerly teacher in the
Sioux City high school.
Twenty-four persons were more or
less seriously injured when three cars
Of northbound Illinois Central pas
senger train left the track and turned
over near Melvin, Ill.
The majority of the elections COM
mittee of the House of the Wyoming
Legislature decided that the three Re-
publican representatives, whose seats
Eight persons were killed and fiji
teen hurt at Mckinney. Tex, when the
walls of a building occupied by farm
ing implement firm fell and crashed
into department store. causing that
building to collapse.
Fire originating in the basement OF
the Ross Hamer block at st. Anthony.
Idaho, destroyed that and several 9TH
er buildings and for time threatened
the entire town. The loss is estimat'
ed at s250.OOO.
The Legislature of Oregon con-
firmed Harry Lane. Democrat, United
States senator from Oregon. In the
November election Lane received the
highest popular vote, although the
Legislature is heavily Republican.
After taking thirty ballots in an eff
fort to elect president of the West
Virginia State Senate, the Legislature
adjourned with the deadlock unbroken,
Since the Legislature convened, Janu-
airy 2, sixty-nine ballots have been
taken.
Beach r. Epting, charged with COM
plicity in the killing of Al G. Boyce.
Jr., at Amarillo last September, was
found not guilty by a jury at Memphis.
Tex. Epting was accused of having as
sisted John r. Sneed in his alleged
plans for the shooting.
A caucus of the Republican AMI
Progressive members of the New Mex
leo Legislature pledged Senator A. B.
Fall forty votes when the Legislature
ballots on senator for the term be-
ginning March 4. Thirty-seven votes
only are necessary to elect.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher was
attacked by Senator William E. Borah
In a speech before the Idaho Legisla-
ture. Senator Borah said that Secre-
tary Fisher knew nothing about the
conditions in the West except what he
mad seen from the window of Pull
mAa.
Eugene =. Debs, Socialist candidate
for President of the United States in
the last election, was arrested at
Terre Haute, Ind, on an indictment re-
turned against him in the Federal
Court for the Third district of Kan
sas. Debs was charged with obstruct-
ing justice.
Scenes of wild disorder occurred on
the floor of the lower branch of the
wyoming Legislature when Speaker
Martin l.. Pratt and Speaker Pro Tenn
pore w. j. Wood engaged in two sep
arate fist-fights, during which Speak
er Pratt threw Wood from the speak
er's platform.
George w. Norris, Republican, was
elected United States senator to sue
coed Senator Norris Brown by the Ne
braska Legislature. The vote was taken
in the two houses separately and was
unanimous in both houses. Norris was
the choice OF the voters in the state
primary. The Democrats have ma
jcrity of the Legislature on joint bal
lot.