The Pulaskian., 1915-12-24
NEWS IF THE WEEK
 FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES
 BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News condensations Re- viewed Without comment-AIl Nations Find Something to
 Edify and Instruct.

There are more than 10000 soldier priests in the French army.
 Work has progressed so rapidly on the removal of the Gaillard slide that the Panama canal is now open for tugs and dredges of light draft. Federal regulation of insurance com panies was proposed in bill intro duced by Senator Weeks.
 L. E. Moody, 9. rancher of South Mayde, Tex, swallowed poison and died instantly. A year ago he married manicurist after a courtship of two days. He left note declaring that his marriage was failure.
 Mrs. Minerva Memby, 50 years old, wife of a farmer near Joplin, Mo, per ished in fire which destroyed her home.
 Mayor James G. Woodruff of At lanta, Ga, vetoed a resolution passed by the city council ordering a recall election Jan. 5. affecting the mayor and four members of the police com mission.
 Worthy Tooley of Athens, N r., and Ludwig Marquardt of Kingston, N. Y, murderers, were put to death by cleo tricity at Sing Sing prison.
 David Mccormick of Peru, Ind, 60 years old, a farmer, fell down stairs when saving household goods from his burning home and was burned to death.
 Franklin Newhall, 92 years old, long known throughout the middle west as the apple king" is dead in Glencoe, suburb of Chicago.
 Construction of another link in the German canal system has been begun. Daniel Worcester, S2 years old, who was known as the original Uncle Tom" of the dramatization of Uncle Toms Cabin" is dead at the Vermont soldiers home.
 The Rev. S. D. Lindsay of Rison, Ark, was informed that he was worth $100,000 as result of a patent auto mobile spring he invented.
 
 Mrs. Irwin Savelis of Hopkinsville, Ky, was burned to death at a bonfire in her yard.
 The Driggs- -Seabury Ordnance com pany, at Sharon, Pa, has closed a con- tract with the British government for 10000 aeroplane guns.
 Secretary Houston and bureau heads of the department of agriculture con- ferred on the advisability of having the government charter a ship and send it to Chile for nitrate to be sold to American farmers.
 A commercial traveller in Glasgow has been sentenced to three months Imprisonment for treating his wife to a drink
 Lieut." Robert Fay, Max Breitung and their three alleged accomplices. indicted on five charges of conspiracy in connection with German propa- ganda, pleaded not guilty when ar raigned in the United States district court in New York
 The business of the canary breed CTS of the Hartz mountains, Germany, has been almost destroyed by the war. The war has stopped exports and the domestic trade is almost at a standstill.
 One hundred and ten persons are reported to have been killed in an ex- plosion in the Belgian munitions fac tory at Havre.
 William M. Caddell, 57 years old, and his daughter, Miss Maud Caddell, 27, were buried at double funeral at Redwood Tenn. The father was killed by train and the daughter sue cumbe6 to shock.
 
 Exports from the port of New York during November exceeded $1S0, ,000,- 900, the largest amount in the history of the port.
 The Milwaukee newspapers have dropped the hyphen from the words 'German-American'
 
 Pope Benedict intends to consecrate the year in which peace is concluded as holy year. His holiness hopes by means of special prayers and pilgrim. ages to purify the world of all hatred and ill-feeling.