Putnam patriot., 1913-02-28

cal for the Criminal Insane, charged that William F. Clark, Secretary of the Sulzer inquiry committee, used the Governors name in an effort to bring about the release of Harry K. Thaw
 Edouard F. Mylius, who was con- victed and sent to prison in England for libelling King George, was admit ted to the country by Federal Judge Moves after the immigration authori- ties had sought to bar him out
 The Senate passed bill so strin- ent that saloon keepers say it will re- duee saloons in the District of Colum- bia, exclusive of hotels and clubs, from 300 to about seven, if it becomes law.
 Professor Sloane of Columbia Uni versity gave a luncheon to several German sportsmen to further the cause of American athletics in the Berlin Olympic games in 1916
 Miss Josephine Cochran, aged 16 months, a relative of President-elect Wilson, will probably be the next "White House baby" as she is great favorite with the Wilson girls.
 The substitution of steel for whale bone in corsets, has forced the price of bone from s5 to g per pound in San Francisco. The demand is so small that no whalers are going out this year.
 The body of Joaquin Miller. the poet of the Sierras, was cremated. The
 Mayor Gaynor promised to review the St. Patrick Day parade in New York. He said he is fighting harp"
 Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York, received an enthusiastic wei come at San Juan, Porto Rico.
 The Singer Manufacturing Co. has obtained 30,000 acres of hardwood timber land in Louisiana
 The Illinois Supreme Court decided that butcher shops and moving pie ture shows must close Sundays.
 The Wilson inaugural committee voted to exclude all donkeys and "houn' dawgs' from the parade.
 Mrs. M. Van Rensselear, aged 104, oldest woman in northern New York, died in Saratoga.
 bill abolishing the death penalty was defeated by the Tennessee House. similar bill was killed in the Arizona Legislature.
 The Senate amended and passed the House bill for physical valuation of the property of all common carriers.
 Edward E. Grosscup was sworn in as State Treasurer of New Jersey, and furnished a bond of $900,000, which has to be approved by the Legislature.
 An effort is being made to have John w. Kern replace Thomas s. Mar tin as Democratic leader in the Sen ate.
 Marion Gentry, young negro, ac- cused of assault, was taken from his guards near Manning, s. C., by sev- eral masked men and shot to death.
 Frank Romea, a miner, convicted of murder, was shot to death in the Utah penitentiary. He tainted when he faced the rifles.
 The South Dakota House and Sen ate have passed resolution, for the direct election of United States Sen ators.
 Among the new bills in the Penn sylvania House of Representatives, is one which prohibits the working of horses more than 12 hours day.
 Four children of Joseph Hatfield of Brookville,. Ky, were burned to death when the house in which they had been locked was destroyed.
 Whalers at Amagansett, l.. l., sank a harpoon into a 50-foot humpback, which broke the line and got away with its $5,000 worth of oil and bone.
 J. Ealus, Assemblyman from Atlantic City. pisaded in the United States Dis trics c>drt in Trenton to charge of shipping meat, which had not been properly labeled.
 Rosie Hertz, convicted of having kept disorderly houses on the East Side in New York for the last thirty years, was sentenced to serve year in the penitentiary.
 Fire destroyed the plant of the At lantic Cotton Compress Co, at Colum- bus, Ga, doing damage at $1.O0o.O 900. About Il, 900 bales of cotton were de- stroyed.
 George D. Farovid, one of the lead ing druggists of New Haven, was fined s400 for selling cocaine without out a doctors prescription. A clerk was fined s100.
 Ed. McNamara. Ed. Gallagher and James Kelly, auto bandits. who killed Patrolman Leroy Bouker. in Cleve- land, Thanksgiving Eve. were sen fenced to life imprisonment.
 Mrs. Ernest Sill of Atlanta saved her baby by putting him in a steamer trunk and dragging him through