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Ex-President Castro soon goes to
Hamburg and thence he will depart
for Paris.
A general strike of the $500 men,
Ders of the ice cream workers union
was called Saturday in New York.
William Hale White, better known
under his pseudonym of Mark Ruth
erford," died in London recently aged
"a.
Richard Olney of Boston, to whom
President Wilson offered the post of
ambassador to Great Britain, has de-
clined.
Lars Anderson, who recently re-
signed the post of United States am
bassador to Japan, has sailed for
home.
The nomination of John Burke, for
mer governor of North Dakota, to be
treasurer of the United States, has
been made.
At Elmira, N. Y, the Rev. Augustus
w. Cowles, president emeritus of the
Elmira College for Women, died Sat
urday, aged "a years.
A million pounds of sugar at AZ
cents a pound for the use of the men
in the United States navy during the
year was the contract awarded re-
Gently.
The centenary of the birth of David
Livingstone, the African explorer and
missionary, was celebrated by the peo-
pie of his birthplace, March Is, in
Scotland.
The recent defalcations of Charles
F. Baker, former assistant cashier of
the Croker National bank, San Fran
cisco, amounted to $4,000. He is
out. under $4,000 bond.
A morals court" to have jurisdic-
ton over all municipal cases in which
social immortality is the chief factor,
has been established as an adjunct to
the municipal court of Chicago.
Strong feeling against the Bulgar-
fans is spreading with great rapidly
among the Greek population at Sofia.
Only the strong hand of the govern
ment prevents a violent outbreak.
Home rule in Ireland within two
years was the prediction Saturday of
William j. Bryan, secretary of state,
in an address at a st. Patricks day
banquet given by Irish-Americans.
The first conviction in the district
attorneys crusade against grafters in
the New York police department was
obtained Saturday. John ]. Hartigan,
patrolman, was found guilty of per-
jury.
Hollow Horn Bear, big chief of the
Sioux Indians on the Rosebud Is. d.
reservation and probably the most
famous of all Sioux chieftains, died
Saturday at Washington, D. c., Of
pneumonia.
Plymouth, England-The Grand Ho-
tel, situated on the Hoe, an elevated
promenade commanding a view of the
sound, was destroyed by fire Satur-
day. There were many guests at the
hotel, but all were saved.
Ten of the Madero family, all rela-
tives of the slain president of Mexico,
arrived in New York Saturday to join
others of the family already in the
United States, and to consider where
and how the Maderos may reestablish
their fortunes
Frank Sullens, who was saved from
mob vengeance at Salem, ILL.,, recently
by the efforts of Sheriff Purcell and
deputies and by the arrival of four
companies of national guard, was
bound over to the grand jury on a
charge of kidnapping Dorothy Holt, the
16-year-old daughter of Charles w.
Holt, assistant states attorney.