The Pulaskian., 1915-12-24


 is soon to wed the dowager duchess of Minto.
 Mrs. Rose Ferling was arrested, charged with killing her husband, James Ferling, by shooting him from a taxicab at Picher, Ok.
 Former Senator Hale of Maine is i'll With paralysis at his home. Owing to n1s advanced age, 79 years, little hope IS held for his recovery.
 C. H. Chapman, 75 years old, rice planter, is dead at Carlisle, Ark, of Injuries received when a bull gored him.
 The Secolo asserts the British gov ernment has warned Italy that emis- saries have left the United States ports to commit acts of violence in Italy against merchant shipping.
 President Wilson's name will be placed on the Michigan presidential primary ballot as Democratic candi- date for president.
 John Burke, Democrat, treasurer of the United States, will be a candidate for United States senator from North Dakota to succeed Porter J. McCum- Der, Republican.
 The Du Pont workman arrested the day before the big fire at Hopewell. Va, on suspicion that he was plotting to blow up the plant, has been fined S25 and placed under bonds to keep the peace.
 The health department announced that New York City is facing seri- ous milk shortage as a result of the enormous purchases of condensed milk by the allies for the soldiers in the trenches.
 Jesse Seligman, a wealthy leather manufacturer of Gloversville, N. Y, shot and killed his wife and then killed himself at their home.
 The stock of gold held by the Bank Of France reached total of 5,0OO,o0o,00O francs ($1,OOO,OOO ,Oo0), a worlds record.
 Miss Virgie Stevens, 29 years old. shot and killed Viola Horne, 27, in a rooming house at New Orleans.
 
 Creation of a $2,O00OO0 Booker T. Washington memorial endowment for the Tuskegee institution was author ized by the institutes trustees, who announced that $450,O0O already had been pledged.
 Washington society is discussing a rumor that Capt. Karl Boy-Ed is en- gagged to Miss Virginia Mackay Smith. daughter of Bishop Alexander Mackay Smith.
 Leland Thompson, president of the Mems Student council of the Univer- sity of Kansas has received a bill for S4l for damages done to Lawrence property during football celebrations.
 
 Clifford Burfield, 8 years old, was pounded to death when his clothes caught in a drive shaft in the flour mill at Blodgett, Mo.
 Henry Beal, negro at Kleinpeter, La., foiled mob bent on lynching him by facing the leaders and turning revolver on himself. Prof. B. H. Lebolt, instructor in French, has resigned from the faculty of the University of Wisconsin and left for France, where he will enlist. France, in common with Great Brit ain, Russia, Italy and Belgium, has recognized the Carranza government in Mexico.
 The Japanese embassy at Washing ton assures the world of "the simplest and purest'' of motives in Japan's re- lations with China.
 Sir Richard Mcbride, for more than l2 years premier of British Columbia, has resigned from that position.
 
 c. c. McChord, whose term as member of the interstate commerce commission has expired, was reap pointed by President Wilson.
 Majority Leader Kitchin introduced in the house resolution to continue the present emergency tax which ex- pires by limitation on Dec. 31, for an- other year
 P. D. English, who has been clerk of the Arkansas supreme court since 1860, has resigned.
 The Los Angeles board of educa- tion has defeated, by vote of to 8, proposals to introduce military train ing in the high schools.