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

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President Wilson win announce his
selection Of successor to former Sec
retary of State Bryan upon his return,
shortly after July 4, from his vacation
trip to Cornish, N. H.
Gov. Dunno re-appointed DR.. G. st.
Clair Drake secretary Of the state
board of health.
The dismissal of Prof Scott Near
ing from the teaching staff Of the
Wharton school of the University of
Pennsylvania because of his persist
ent advocacy of free speech in defi-
ance of the faculty's policy not only
has caused great indignation in local
educational circles and in the univer-
sity, but has developed into question
of national Importance.
DR.. Paul M. Reinsch, United States
minister to China, is on his way to
America.
The Nebraska supreme court has
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railway commission has no power to
either raise or lower rates on Ne
braska lines.
James Finan died at Mt. Vernon,
ILL.,, from injuries received in fall Of
rock.
The citizens of Buffalo township,
Pike county, have purchased chest
of silver for Miss Genevieve Clark as
a wedding present.
The Fort Dearborn Manufacturing
company Of Chicago has purchased
1000 square feet of space and will
move its factory to Sterling, Ill.
Miss Dome, 26 years old, and her
little 8-year-old nephew, John Dome,
were found dead in their home at Phil
adelphia, with their throats cut.
Rather than go to a sanitarium,
Agnes Robertson of Galesburg, Ill,
drowned herself in a neighbor's cis-
tern.
The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad has
announced that after June 80 no liq-
uor will be sold on any of its lines.
Archie Roosevelt, son of Col. Roose-
velt, was fined $25 in the West Farms,
N. Y, police court by Magistrate
House for speeding an automobile 35
miles an hour.
Shippers at Galveston were notified
that the American steamer Leelapaw,
Galveston to Gothenburg, Sweden,
with cotton, has been detained at
Kirkwall, Scotland.
Munich, the greatest beer center In
Germany, has been compelled to cur
tail the consumption of beer, owing
to the appropriation by the govern
ment of large part of the product Of
the breweries.
Thousands gathered at Denver City
Park in a non-partisan meeting and
listened to addresses by noted speak
ers upholding the administration in
its present course in the handling OF
the foreign question.
"The king of Greec's physicians ex-
pect their patient to enter upon con-
valescence in a day or two" says
Reuters Athens correspondent.
Six persons were injured, two fatal
ly, by a tornado which swept through
South Dakota.
Maj Gen. Goethals will be retired
from the army upon his own applica-
tion some time this fall.
The degree of doctor of laws was
conferred on Josephus Daniels, secre-
tary of the navy, at the commence
ment exercises of Ohio Wesleyan uni
versity.
One hundred and forty-two new ca
dets were admitted to the West Point
military academy, the new men COM
prising the "plebe" class.
John E. Redmond, the rish Nation
alist leader, is suffering from pto-
maine poisoning.
An inventory filed here of the prop
erty mentioned in the will Of the late
Mrs. Frank Leslie showed that nearly
$1,500,000 will be turned over to Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait for the use of
the suffrage cause.
William j. Bryan denied a story
sent out from Toronto that he had
made a personal contribution of $500
''for elevation of distress among In
termed Germans"
The German submarine U-21 sank
the Lusitania, according to the Elsi-
more, Denmark, correspondent of the
Evening Star.
The reconstruction of the district Of
Colon, Panama Zone, which was de-
stroyed in the great conflagration OF
April 80, has begun.
A Central News dispatch from Am
sterdam says the recruits Of the 1916
draft who were ordered last week to
prepare for service win be summoned
to the colors now.
Certain section in Mississippi are
being visited by the 13-year locusts in
some numbers. They made their last
appearance in 1902.
The French court of appeals re-
fused to consider the appeal OF Col.
Francois Desolaux from the Judgment
of courtmartial convicting him of
stealing military stores.