The Pulaskian., 1915-07-23

state treasurer from paying out near ly $2,000,O00 appropriated by the last legislature, said that the petitions would be amended to include State Auditor Brady and Secretary of State Stevenson as defendants.
 In the strike of 10000 pantsmakers in New York, which may involve thou sands of other garment workers, one large firm has reinstated 300 strikers at an advance of $2 a week.
 The department of agriculture ex- tended until Jan. l, 1916, the time limit for use of labels and cartons printed before May II, 1914, which do not state the quantity of the contents offered in packages.
 Requests totaling $40O,O00 were made to the Home and Foreign Mis- sion branches of the Presbyterian church by the will of Edward A. Webb of St. Paul, Minn.
 Of the four counties voting in county option elections July 13, Free born, with IA saloons and three whole sale liquor houses, and Anoka, with two saloons, went dry.
 Frank Holt, the would-be assassin of J. P. Morgan, who killed himself, was buried secretly at Dallas. Tex. on the 11th.
 Gustav Stahl, German reservist, in- dicted on a charge of perjury because he swore he saw guns mounted on the Lusitania, withdrew his plea of mot guilty" in the New Torn federal court.
 John R. Lindburg, 62 years old, former president of the Kansas Bank ers' association, is dead in Denver, Colo
 The jury in the trial of John Pritch- ard at Murphysboro, H., on charge of wife murder, was discharged, hay ing been unable to agree after being out 15 hours
 Cashier Wright of the closed Citi- zens' State bank of Crystal Lake, H., has been arrested charged with em- bezzlement
 Mrs. H. J. Hamilton, 49, and H. D. Wise, both of Bowlissvlle, O., were killed when Big Four work train crashed into a jitney bus operated by Wise.
 News from Athens and Sofia ad- vises that the sultan has been dead several days and that the young Turks are hiding the news, fearing. political complications.
 Fifty steers shipped by Mrs. R. Morgan of Plattsburg, Mo, topped the cattle market of the year. They weigh ed 1,343 pounds each and sold at s1O hundred.
 A Boston paper announces the re- ceipt of a letter in which the writer states that two bombs have been placed in the state house and another in the custom tower and that these would be exploded soon.
 The Dresden National bank at Dres- den, Ohio, was closed while National Bank Examiner Bachman was trying to untangle the mystery of the disap- pearance of the cashier, John Horn ung.
 
 Minister of Munitions David Lloyd George, who absented himself from his office while reports of an impend- ing clash with Lord Kitchener and Premier Asquith were in circulation, has resumed his duties.
 It was announced here that Emperor Nicholas of Russia had conferred the cross of St. George upon all the off cers and members of the crew of the British submarine which recently sank German battleship in the Baltic.
 Garment workers to the number of 10000 are out on strike in New York.
 The Gary llnd.) Steel Mills started operations at full capacity on the 18th.
 A Paris paper suggests that a street be named after Theodore Roosevelt, because of his friendship for the allies.
 Pellagra has broken out to an alarm ing extent In the central part of Mis- souri, patients suffering from the dis ease being reported in many towns.
 
 Clint Williams, an 18-year-old negro, sentenced to hang at Fort Worth. Tex, on August 5. will die happy The sherih will furnish him one water i melon daily until he hangs. The Portuguese legation here has received dispatch denying the re-