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ternal loan OF ,00O,O00,0OO ruDle
(s50O, 000,000).
Barney Amick, 80, was stricken
with paralysis while sitting at hi
desk in the Wright County Bank a
Seymour, Mo-, and died suddenly HI
served two terms in the legislature.
One hour was lost out of the live:
of persons in Detroit recently. The
common council passed an ordinance
providing for the adoption Of eastern
time, which is one hour faster.
Samuel Walker, the infant son Of
Sedalia (Mo.), tailor, was choke6
to death by getting its head caught be
tween the railing of the bed and the
mattress.
The boom in recruiting having made
further inroads on the municipal staff
of Newcastle, England, number OF
women took the places of street car
conductors who have enlisted. AT
Gates Head women have been put to
work as scavengers.
A gift of 100000 to Indiana uni.
versity by DR.. Luther b. Waterman of
Indianapolis was announced by Presi-
dent William Lowe Bryan OF the uni
versity at Bloomington, Ind.
Although refusing to reduce the
bond of the IL Terre Haute election
fraud conspirators, Judge Anderson in
federal court here granted the petit
ton for a writ which transferred the
case to higher court
Only the walls remained of the
Deutscher Verein and a German hotel
at Victoria, B. c., wrecked inside by a
mob led by uniformed soldiers in re-
taliation for the sinking of the Lusi-
tania.
The Copenhagen Politiken says that
the first steamer of the season has ar
rived at Archangel, the great seaport
on the north coast of Russia, which
has been closed by ice for months.
J. ]. Haggerty, former president of
the Raymond (Wash) Trust Co., who
disappeared last December, is under
arrest at Los Angeles, Cal, on
charge of grand larceny.
The national convention of the So
cialist party will be held in Chicago
the week beginning June II, 1916.
Camillius P. Macs, for 80 years
bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese
Of Covington, KY, died from compli-
cation of diseases. He was SO years
old.
The case against German Consul
Wilhelm Mueller, accused of conspir-
acy to buy business secrets from an
employee of the Seattle, Wash, Con-
struction and Dry Dock Co., was dis
missed in the superior court.
Hearing on the rates and practices
of the express companies was set by
the interstate commerce commission
for May rs at Washington.
The consensus of opinion of the
Lusitania's survivors is that only five
OF her 35 lifeboats we're successfully
launched. The officers of the ship
contend that it was impossible to
launch the boats until the vessel had
slowed down.
Two additional cases of bubonic
plague in Havana, bringing the totol
to IA since the beginning of the out
break of the disease six weeks ago,
are reported.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific,
the st. Louis, Iron Mountain & South
ern and the Cotton Belt railroads have
filed a petition in United States dis
trict court asking for an order to re-
strain the Arkansas railroad commits
sion from enforcing the states 2-cent
passenger fares law.
Fred Hanson, "wolfer" employed
by ranchers along the White river, in
South Dakota, to help clear that sec
ton of gray wolves, collected $500 for
one days work. Hanson captured a
mother and nine whelps. His contract
price was $50 for each gray wolf cap
tured.
Commerce Secretary Redfeld told
the cabinet that Americas favorable
trade balance for the week ending
May s was s2O,555.5O7, against $685.
S23, 204 the preceding week. Cotton
exports were 161,1S3 bales, making
I, 462,630 since Aug. /.
A battle occurred on the heights
near Cape Haitien between govern
ment troops and forces of Or. Rosalyo |
Babo, leader Of the revolutionary |
against President Gull
aume. The government forces were
victorious.