The Semi-weekly leader., 1915-06-26

ert Lansing, now acting secretary o
state, will be appointed as the per
manent successor to w. ]. Bryan.
The body of Albert Hood, a farmel
of Jackson county, who mysteriousl!
disappeared two weeks ago at Du
quoin, ILL.,, was found in the Big Mud
dy river.
Mrs. H. M. Dansle, 20 years old
died in Colorado Springs, Colo, aftel
Caesarian operation. Twins were
born and both are likely to live.
The Rev. DR.. Loaring Clark of st
Paul's Episcopal church, Chattanooga
Tenn, received a message announc
ing the death of his son, Lieut.. Chas
Loaring Clark at the front in France
The German government has made
a full explanation and has paid ar
indemnity of 100000 marks ($45,OOO)
for the lives of Spaniards who were
shot at L1ege last August.
Mai. Lumsden of the Royal army
flying corps was killed while flying
over the Brooklands aviation course
Herr Muller, convicted German spy.
must die at London. His appeal was
dismissed
William H. Rand, for many years
head of the printing and publishing
house of Rand, McNally & Co., is
dead at New Canaan, Conn.
Ambassador Marye, ST. Petersburg
notified the state department of the
arrest at Kholm, Russia, of John
Reed and Boardman Robinson, Amer.
leans.
Announcement has been made that
French postal service is handling
mail in 80 towns and villages in AL
SAGE. They all now bear the names
they had As years ago.
Two tornadoes swept part of
Adams county, Neb. No great damage
was done by the wind, but the hail
storm which followed devastated a
section of farming country Is miles
long and five or six miles wide.
Despondent over a love affair, Elsie
Blake, 23 years old, of st. Louis, drank
poison in Springfield, Ill.
The Nashville, Tenn, scandal over
the disappearance of the city books
had new sensation when it became
known that ]. B. West, Jr., assistant
treasurer, was unaccounted for and
his whereabouts unknown.
The American dollar is now worth
more than 100 cents. The drop in
sterling exchange to $4.76$ makes
the American bill represent value of
$1O2A in English coin.
The British press bureau issued an
official denial of a report current in
the United States that the British bat
tleship Agamemnon was sunk at the
Dardanelles.
William Jennings Bryan plans to
speak at a peace demonstration to be
held in Madison Square Garden.
The Illinois house passed, 104 to 1,
the Lyle bill, substitute for the pres
ent child delinquency act. The bill
provides a fine of 5000, Imprisonment
in Jail for one year or both, for per-
sons taking a male child under II
years of age or female child under
Is into resorts, policy shops, pool
rooms, saloons or gambling rooms.
Pope Benedict has informed Austria
that should hostile air raid result in
damage to church property in Rome
or to residences of dignitaries the
Vatican would consider it a grave in
cident.
Miss Mona McAdoo, daughter of the
secretary of the treasury, has return
ed to New York from France, where
she has been nursing wounded sol
diers.
Joseph H. Peterson, attorney-gen-
eral of Idaho, was acquitted of a
charge of completely in embezzle-
ments from the state treasury.
1t was learned from authoritative
sources that Len Small of Kankakee,
Ill, will be elected president of the
state board of agriculture.
Because the purchase contract was
not ready to be submitted, the board
of directors of the Detroit United Rail
ways company adjourned until June
80.
A brutal baby murder case came to
light when the body of a 2-month-old
girl baby was washed ashore from the
damage canal near Lamont. Ill.
The Evangelical Lutheran Orphans
home at Hoyleton. ILL.,, was destroyed
by fire started from defective fue.
More than 100000 feet Of Oregon
spruce has been shipped to warning
nations of Europe for use in making
airships during the last three months
Two boys found in the Willamette
river at Portland, Ore, body be
lieved to be that Of Mrs. Emma Her
rim Dickey, 43 years old, a sister Of
William F. Herrin, vice president oi
the Southern Pacific Railroad Co.
A confession of the stabbing to
death Of Thack Wright, private Of
Company G, Twenty-third infantry
was made at Texas City. Tex by
Frank M. White, business man, who
found his wife in the soldiers tent
Mabel Hammond. aged 26, died IN
Harlan. Kan. as the result Of a stom-
och ailment she weighed 500 pounds.