The Pulaskian., 1915-10-15
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One of the historic oaks under which the Republican party was born at Jackson, Mich, in 1854, has been seriously damaged by a storm.
 
 Thomas Capello was found guilty by a jury in the Franklin county cir cult court of the murder of Robert T. Hill, chief of police of Senser, H., on July 12 He was sentenced to serve life term in the Chester peniten- tiary.
 T. C. Betterton, general manager of the Tennessee Coffin and Casket com pany at Chattanooga. was arrested. charged with violating the penal code of the United States by shipping whisky in caskets sent out from his factory without showing their con. tents.
 For the first time in the history of the state, girl ushers served in the Washington Park Methodist Episcopal church, Bridgeport, Conn.
 On pleas of guilty under nine charges of embezzlement, Irving Hirsch of Little Rock, Ark, was sen fenced to one minute of imprison- ment in each case.
 verdict of $4,00o was returned by 8 jury in the Christian county Qll) circuit court in favor of Frank J. Wot- iowa of Belleville against Mrs Ora Belle Ridgley of Assumption and J. T. Long.
 In the midst of a session of court devoted to hearing divorce cases, Judge Sellers at Conway, Ark, sus- pended business in that line to per form the ceremony uniting c. J. Yan- cey and Miss Lillie M. Roberts.
 Ellison Scott, negro, was found guilty of the murder of his sister-in- law in circuit court at Murphysboro, H., and sentenced to be hanged. Im- mediately after being sentenced he escaped from jail, but was captured. Despondent over the depression of his stock and bond business, C. c. Me Donald, widely known Raleigh (N. O stock and bond broker, took his life at the Raleigh Country club.
 
 The Lokal Anzeiger publishes a dis patch from Constantinople saying that the British consul and the consular guards at Ispahan have been killed by Persians.
 Included in gifts announced by the Harvard college corporation was a let ter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1919, in which it was stated that liar yard students of those days confined their drinking to water
 Mrs. Eleanor Elkins Widener of Philadelphia, widow of George D. Widener. who was lost on the Titanic. was married to Dr. Alexander Hamil- ton Rice.
 Charles Flueter, night counter man in the railroad eating house at Mis- souri Valley, Ia., quit his job to be married in order to qualify for a le- gacy of $17,000 left to him by an un- cle in New York City on condition he should marry before Oct. 1.
 The $5,00O,0 ,000 Arrow Rock dam. at Boise, Idaho, has been dedicated.
 The Washington navy yard machin- ists have won their fight for increased wages. Beginning Oct. g, new scale of wages, with increases ranging from 89 to 96 cents day, goes into effect. A series of earthquakes was experi- enced in Utah, Nevada, the northern part of California, Oregon and Idaho. The German naval base at Zeebrug- ge has been bombarded again. Five allied aeroplaEes attacked Zeebrugge. but only three returned. One was shot to earth by German gun and another was forced to land on Dutch soil
 A federal indictment was returned against the Delaware, Lackawanna &, Western railroad, charging 1t with re- batting.
 The Russian Red Cross society has published list of 46 sisters of mercy who perished in the bombardment of hospital by the Austrians and Ger mans.
 The pension office mailed to Wash ington addresses hundreds of pension cheeks for civil war veterans who were attending the G. A. R. encamp- ment
 British militsry authorities have recognized the importance of machine guns by the formation of special machine gun corps.