The Pulaskian., 1915-11-26


 Switzerland, on parole. Cardinal Mer- cier aroused the ire of the Germans by his pastoral letter of Christmas, 1914.
 Fire in the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy shipyards at Aurora, H., de- stroyed warehouse filled with huge casks of gas, causing loss estimated at s15o.oOO.
 According to message, the kaiser passed through Sofia, where he wis ited King Ferdinand for two days. After the visit the German emperor left for Constantinople.
 Mrs. T. T. Taylor and her 10-year- old daughter were drowned in St. Francis river at Wise Ferry, Ark, when the skiff in which they were seeking to cross the river sank.
 
 Fire has destroyed eight stores In the village of Oneida, III.
 The Standard Oil company of Kan Bas has declared quarterly dividend of $3 a share, payable Dec. 15.
 
 State Auditor Brady appointed Ed ward Ridgley of Springfield, H., state bank examiner.
 The French liner Rochambeau, which caught fire in a reserve coal bunker after leaving New York for Bordeaux, Nov. Is, has arrived.
 Augustus O. Johnson, former col lection clerk in the Fifth-Third Ma tional bank of Cincinnati, has pleaded guilty to having embedded $21, 1000 and sentenced to five years in the fed eral penitentiary at Moundsyille. W. Va.
 The steamer Charles A. Luck, owned by F. W. Green, supposed to have been lost in a gale on Lake Su- perior last week, is safe.
 The lower house of the Georgia gen. eral assembly passed resolution in- dorsing President Wilson's program for national preparedness.
 
 Charles L. Loop, vice-president of the Southern Express company and one of it's founders, is dead at his home in Chattanooga.
 
 Joseph c. Goode of Houston, Mo-, was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 10 years. He killed his father, Fouste Goode, who was farmer, in defense of his mother.
 Vice President T. R. Marshall's we'd ding gift to Mrs. N. Gait, the presi- dents fiancee, is a gorgeous Navajo Indian chiefs blanket
 Because his wife and six children are starving, President Wilson has or dered J. M. Pugh of Aberdeen, Miss, released from the Atlanta peniten- tiary. Pugh was serving two years for making of 'moonshine" whisky. Frank Stephens, Jr., was shot and killed during a quarrel with John Cain and his two sons at Sullivan, Ind. Directors of the Citizens and Screw en County bank, a Georgia institu- tion with $60,O00 capital, announced that the bank had suspended The depositors will be paid in full
 
 It was announced that the Argen- tine government had authorized the Federal Holdings company of New York to establish in Buenos Aires a wireless telegraph station to commu- nicate with a similar station in New York.
 Judge Jett sentenced James Conner, n negro, to be hanged Dec. r for the murder of his wife. This will be the first hanging in Montgomery county, Illinois.
 In consequence of the decision of the German authorities at Warsaw to permit the reopening of all schools,  the Warsaw university has resumed its work.
 Jean Duluth Pear, in Minnesota, has established new worlds record for Red Poll cattle in the 1915 club contest by scoring more than 700 pounds of butter fat in one season.
 
 The towboat Harry Flown, owned by the Monongahela Coal company, struck snag near Osceola, Ark, and sank in 15 feet of water.
 A deed for s1S.000,Oo0 which relates to the recent transfer of the Wabash railroad was filed for record in Mo Lean county, III. The revenue stamps on the deed cost s18,000.
 The lake steamer Charles A. Luck has been lost with all hands, accord ing to report that has reached Chi