The Pulaskian., 1915-09-17

al Equipment companys plant, Spring field, Mass, has been settled, the com pany conceding the mems demand.
 Dr. George Hazeltine, for many years one of the leading patent law yers of the world, died from injuries received last week when he fell out of bed
 David Starr Jordan, chancellor of Stanford university, advocated chang ing the naturalization laws of the United States so as to admit Chinese and Japanese to citizenship
 Edward Stephens, a farmer living near Chickasha, Ok, is in jail for the murder of his cousin, Oscar Stephens, four years ago.
 The war department ordered Lieut.. l.. L. Goodier, judge advocate gen. erals office, Pacific coast division, courtmartialed on charges of conduct prejudicial to the service.
 Carrying out orders of the Breathitt (Ky) circuit court physicians ex- humed the body of Mrs. Polly Davis of Portsmouth, so that an examination may be made for poison.
 Elmer N. Hancock, for more than 30 years editor of the Savannah (Ga) Morning News, was found dead in bed at his home.
 The city of Centralia, H., is facing one of the most serious propositions with which it ever has had to contend, as result of voting dry last May Chicago's population is now 2,550 ,O0O. This is the estimate prepared by the publishers of the 1915 directory upon a showing of 1,oS1, ,195 names listed.
 Harry Knapp, who until May 1 was city tax collector of Lincoln, H., was arrested, charged with embedding $2,347,24 in municipal funds.
 
 William Moon, an employe, was killed and one of the six wheel mills of the Western Powder company's plant, 15 miles west of Peoria, IL, was wrecked by an explosion.
 The Russian steamer Dwinsk, from Archangel, reported being detained six days outside of Archangel while trawlers swept German mines from the channel
 PJ1fb old, wife of Sibley L. Ward, and of a prominent Little Rock family, was in- stantly killed when an automobile she was driving toppled over steep em- bankment
 The war office has announced that in the Zeppelin raids over England bombs were dropped on docks and other pier establishments in London and vicinity. The German airships returned safely.
 Miss Estells Lawton Lindsay, the city's lone councilwoman, was acting mayor of the city recently. This is the first time, so far as known, that a woman has acted as the head of mu- nicipality the size of Los Angeles.
 William Cullen Rudd, brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, is dead at his home in Cleveland, o.
 Four children of MT and Mrs. R. Wolfsohn were burned in their home south of Lorette, Manitoba.
 
 A. Y. Anderson, deputy collector of customs at Astoria, Ore his bride of a few weeks, his mother, Mrs. Mar garet Anderson, and cousin, Aaron Anderson, were killed when their au- tomobile was struck by train.
 
 Four hundred employees of the American Graphophone company at Bridgeport, Conn, voted to give the company "A hours notice that they would strike unless 20 per cent in- crease in wages was granted
 Italy has declared cotton contra band of war, Rome dispatch an nounces
 Francis Burton Harrison, governor general of the Philippines, said in re- ply to ex-President William H. Taft's criticism that he attached no impor- tance to Tafts statements.
 As result of his infatuation for Tillie Wheeler, Is years old, George Webster of Philadelphia, 60 years old, committed suicide by hanging himself in jail cell
 Robert Mudie of Philadelphia, 55 years old, cashier of the Counties Gas and Electric company, killed himself on the eve of his wedding to Miss Mary McCully.
 Mrs. Polly Anne Weed Strodes, known as Marrying Polly" because she had been married 13 times, is dead at Evansville, Ind, at the age