The Prescott daily news., 1913-01-18

civil service examination Friday for chief of police Miss Mary Sorvich has filed her application and will com pete with the men applicants. Commissioner Williams of New | York requested Cipriano Castro's at | torneys to withdraw their writ of habeas corpus and in turn promised to begin at once the inquiry into Gas tros right to enter this country, This Castro refused to do.
 Turkish and Bulgarian delegates met in London to discuss terms of ca pitulation The Turks demanded that they be allowed 70 retain their arms The Rulgarians refused to grant this Frightened to death by burglars at Uniontown. Pa Mrs. w. E. Johnston fell upon her infant daughter and crushed her to aeath
 The old fight for the re-establish- nent of the canteen in the army again was carried before congress, when Mrs. Alice Burbank appeared before | the house committee on military af- fairs in favor of the Bartholdt can teen bill. She represents the wives and daughters of the enlisted men F the army, and gave Chairman Hay petition signed by 2,300 women. The governments petition for permanent injunction against the Eastern States Retail Lumber Deal CTS association, alleged to be com- bination in restraint of trade, was granted by the federal district court in New York
 An emergency appropriation of $50, 900 to combat an epidemic of scar let fever and diphtheria that threat ens Chicago has been asked from the city council
 Senator O'Gorman introduced bill granting medals to all surviving sol diers of the battle of Gettysburg.
 A Sofia dispatch gives reports from Adrianople, saying the rations in the invested towns have been reduced to one-fourth. Eighty thousand persons are sick, without medical aid or the means of obtaining warmth.
 With exciting episodes following fast in the early hours of the Tennes- see legislature, former Gov. Patterson appeared before the Democratic eau GUS and in the interest of harmony, announced his withdrawal from the senatorial fight
 The Servian government decided to withdraw from the Adriatic sea. This action is regarded in all quarters as notable step in the direction of peace.
 Frank l.. Chance, former manager of the Chicago National baseball team, has signed contract to manage the New York American league club for three years. He will take charge Feb, ruary '. Terms of the. contract were not announced.
 Mir. and Mrs. Will Titsey and their three children. Merrill aged g; Leon, aged 6, and Dorothy, II months old, were burned to death when their home on farm ten miles north of Erie. Kan was destroyed.
 Renouncing his vows to the church for the woman he loved, the Rev. Fla ther D. J. Gallagher was married in St. Louis to Miss Florence Layer trained nurse of Louisville, Ky.
 There are now 4,5o0,0OO enfran- chised women in the world, according to figures compiled by suffragists. Of the number, 2,700,000 are Americans.
 The next Norwegian storthing will contain no woman member or alter nate, 1t became apparent, and oppo- nents of equal suffrage are gloating over the unexpectedly poor showing made by the suffragists in the recent parliamentary elections.
 President Taft sent to the senate the name of Lieut. Col Lansing H. Beach, U. s. A, who he nominates to be a member of the Mississippi river commission.
 Worry because he could not under stand the workings of the new parcel post caused Earl Sheetz, 22 years old Yale CIa) rural mail carrier, to commit suicide.
 Nebraska Republicans and Progress siYes decided to fight out their differ ences within the Republican party and to present a solid front to De mocracy in future campaigns.
 "Cornering he market" in com modities is illegal under the Sherman antitrust law, according to decision of the supreme court of the United States, which held James A. Patten and his associates for trial in the New York federal courts for an al legged "cornering' of the cotton mar ket in 1910.