Fair play., 1915-05-22


ment made public instructed the min
lister of finance to make a second in
ternal loan of S1,000,000,000 rubles
(S500,00o, ,0O0).
Barney Amick, so, was stricken
with paralysis while sitting at his
desk in the Wright County Bank at
Seymour, Mo-, and died suddenly He
served two terms in the Legislature.
One hour was lost out of the lives
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
a Sedalia (Mo.), tailor, was choked
to death by getting it's 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.
George and Tom Myers, brothers,
were shot and killed at Ringing, Ok,
by two Stotts brothers, who are bank
ers. The Stotts pleaded self-defense.
The National Order of Cowboy
Rangers is to build a clubhouse. Art-
cles OF incorporation for the building
of such home and maintaining it
have been filed with the secretary of
state of Colorado.
The feeling of resentment against
Germany over the torpedoing of the
Lusitania is so strong on the stock
exchange that the British members
united and turned all their fellow
members of German origin and all
German clerks bodily out of the
house.
Fearing he would be committed to
the asylum for the insane and never
be tried for his crime, dozen white
men from Noble, Ok, took DR.. B. f.
Ward, white, from the Cleveland coun-
ty Jail and hung him to a tree two
miles out of town. He killed his wife.
Sailors from the German vessels at
Boston say that within a month des-
perate effort is going to be made to
destroy the city of London by fire.
Theodore Roosevelt, after acquaint-
ing himself with all the latest details
of the tragedy of the Lusitania, issued
n statement wherein he demands an
immediate accounting by Germany for
the tragedy of the Lusitania.
Camillius p. Macs, for 80 years
bishop Of the Roman Catholic diocese
of Covington, KY. died from a 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
employe 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 26 at Washington
The consensus of opinion of the
Lusitania's survivors is that only five
OF her 35 lifeboats were successfully
launched. The officers of the ship
contend that 1t was impossible to
launch the boats until the vessel had
slowed down.
The Chicago, Rock Island G. 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 Qdy WOIh' IidHSOH 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 was $2O,555,507, against $685. |
3s3204 the preceding week. Cotton I
exports were 161,1sS bales, making |
7,462,630 since Aug. l.
A battle occurred on the heights
near Cape Haitien between govern
ment troops and forces of DR., Rosalyo
Babo, leader of the revolutionary |
movement against President Gull,
laume The government forces were
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