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House that the president would be
unable to attend the Southern Com
mercial Congress at Mukogee, Ok.
The resignation of Dr. John A.
Patten, proprietary medicine manu-
facturer, as chairman of the book
committee of the Methodist Book Con-
Germ, was accepted by the committee
at its annual meeting.
Dr. A. W. Frayel, travelling veteri-
nary surgeon, and president of med
ical company, filed charges against
Chief of Police w. H. Baldridge of
Centralia, Mo, alleging that Baldridge
assaulted him while attempting to
make an arrest
A Landwehrman who was wounded
AZ times and in whose body there are
still Is pieces of shrapnel, is recov-
ering at hospital at Konigsberg.
Andrew +. Flick of Senath, Mo-, was
killed by an Illinois Central train
while attempting to cross the track
ahead of it,
In commemoration of the Goth ami
versary of the birth of Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, upwards of
$4,000 members of that organization
met at Bloomsbury, Pa, to celebrate.
The Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad
will commence to move from 900 to
1000 cars OF iron ore daily from Con.
neaut Harbor, o., to the Pittsburg
district
A new plan of financing American
travellers abroad with international
letters of credit payable in dollars
instead of pounds sterling has been
announced by the Equitable Trust Co.
OF New York City.
Mrs Margaret Hoskins was arrested
at Douglas, Ca, charged with the
murder of her husband, the Rev. Allen
Haskins, Baptist minister The
clergyman was killed with a shotgun
as he slept at his home in Leliaton,
near here.
Abraham Reuben Levy, 81 years old,
founder of the Jewish Agriculture Aid
Society and for 20 years rabbi in
Chicago, is dead.
Twenty arrests have been made in
connection with the explosion which
wrecked the home of Samuel Leonoff,
at Erie, Pa, and probably fatally in
jured his wife.
The anti-locker club bill passed by
the last general assembly has been
signed by Gov. Rye of Tennessee with
gold pen presented by the w. c. 7.
U. of the state.
OFFICERS OF the German commerce
destroyer Kronprinz Wilhelm were
guests of honor at the opening of the
Virginia league baseball season.
Hoopeston, ILL.,, has an election SEN
sation. Eighteen automobiles were
put out of business recently by some
one entering the garages and putting
emery dust in the engines.
1t is semiofficially stated that dur.
ing the last few days 200 Bulgarians,
irregulars, have invaded Servian terri.
tory. Serbian troops engaged and
killed all of them.
Vincent Aston, "the worlds richest
young man. has purchased a 100
horse power flying boat and will spend
the summer flying up and down the
Hudson.
The state public utilities commits.
sion authorized the issuance of $780,,
600 New York Central convertible
bonds. This means a $4,000 fee for
the state.
Gov. Hammond Of Minnesota signed
the teachers pension bill. Under its
provisions teachers may retire after
20 years service on an annual pension
of $780,
ut is part of the duty of all en-
ployes of public transportation COM
panies to be courteous to passengers"
said Judge Malone in general sessions
court of New York. AS a warning
the Judge imposed year each in
prison on Michael Gavin, subway
guard. and Joseph Friedman, Third
avenue surface car conductor, who
settled quarrels with passengers by
hitting them.
Advices from Notwithstanding say
that a French aviator dropped bombs
on the villages of Kandey and Loe-
rach. At the former place one bomb
fell on the schoolnouse, killing one
child.
The Jones bill, providing for the APP
pointment of police women in New
Pork City passed the senate.