The Pulaskian., 1915-12-31

While at dinner Alfred Hilton, sex ton of Christ church, New York, swal- lowed his false teeth and died.
 
 The British forces at the Darda- nelles had suffered 112,912 casualties up to Dec. l, it was announced in the house of commons by H. J. Tennant
 
 The board of trustees of the Arkan- sas State District college announced that seven students have been ex- pelled as a result of the recest attack by students upon Charles Scott, presi- dent
 The Berlin federal council has de clded on the coinage of iron 1O-pfen- nig pieces.
 Stock dividends paid from net earn lngs, surplus or undivided profits of corporations, joint stock companies, associations and insurance companies were held by the treaury department to be income taxable under the law.
 
 Ellhu Root, in a letter to the Min nesota Republican state central com mittee, said: T am not a candidate for the presidency. If ny name is put on the ballot I shall be compelled to insist upon it's being withdrawn" Designing of the three gold medals to be presented by the United States to Ambassadors Naou of Argentina, Da Cana of Brazil and Suarez of Chile, popularly known as the A. B. C. mediators, was awarded by Secre- tary Lansing to Miss Jeanette Scud- der of New York.
 After passing through life together for nearly half century, MT. and Mrs. Samuel Hyett of Lecompton, Kan, died of pneumonia within few hours of each ether
 s. Jerwas, an American aviator, who was injured while making flight from the aviation school at Guate- mala, Mexico, is in the military hos. pital and is improving
 
 Czar Nicholas of Russia has been decorated with the French war cross. Gen. Paul Pau, one-armed commander conferred the decoration.
 
 Angelo Sarto, brother of the late Pope Plus K, is dead.
 Mrs. Sue Simmons, GA years old, was found dead in the road near Van Buren, Ark. Evidence indicated that she had died and fallen from her buggy.
 Twenty-three convicts were freed by Gov. George w. Hayes of Arkansas in the annual Christmas pardons, ap- proved by the governor.
 
 As he kissed his wife seven times on the lips, Frank Gudrum oe Red Bluff, Cal, stabbed her seven times in her side. He then stabbed himself. Both are in serious condition. sherman Brown of Davenport, la, a fireman, is under arrest, charged with killing his sister-in-law and wounding his wife.
 Construction of another link in the German canal system has been begun Opium said to be valued at S450, 900 was taken by customs officials from the Japanese liner Selyo Maru, bound from Hongkong, China, to Salina Cruz, Mexico.
 Six men forming a band known as the robbers with grayish automo- mile," were executed in the City of Mexico by order of Gen. Pablo Con. zales.
 Fines aggregating more than 26,000,- GOO marks (s6,500,O00) have been i'm posed at Bonn on three distillers for excise frauds.
 The constitutionality of the Mary land law fixing the minimum wage schedule for laborers employed by the city of Baltimore at $2 day was up held by the supreme court.
 o. D. Finley, a wealthy lumberman of Inverness, Miss, was shot and kill ed here and A. P Burnett, merchant, charged with having killed Finley, committed suicide
 H. B. Moore, formerly a banker of Granville, Tex, is under arrest pend. ing a charge of having embedded $15.000.
 Otto l. Maier, 49 years old, vice president and general manager of the Algiers Railway and Light Co.,, shot and killed himself at New Orleans.
 
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