The Pulaskian., 1915-12-10

The Federdl council of the Church. es of Christ has designated the week of Jan. 2-9 as a "week of prayer for the restoration of peace in E lropean countries.
 w W Canada, the American consul at Vera Cruz, has sailed on the steam CT Esperanza for New York.
 Cardinal Begin, archbishop of Que bee, has arrived at Rome and been granted an audience by the pope.
 Announcement was made by the At las Powder company that all employees Who have been with the company a year will receive a cash bonus of 10 per cent of their wages.
 Manufacture of naval projectiles will be begun at the Puget Sound navy yard March 1, 1916.
 An armed bandit held up Bruno Adams, ticket agent of the Wabash railroad at Springfield, IL, and ob- tanned S53 and escaped.
 Walter Willoughby, alleged leader of the night riders in New Madrid county, Mo-, was arrested in Cairo. III.
 Word comes from Malvern, Ark. that an attempted hold-up of the Iron Mountain train was foiled by the en- glneer and fireman of the crew. bnt that in the effort to apprehend the bandits the sheriff of Clark county was slightly wounded.
 Mrs. w. A. Griswold, 5S years old. died in a Kansas City hospital after being struck by police motor car driven by the chief, w. w. Gordon.
 Nick Damos, found guilty of tba murder of William Dick, Walsen- burg. Colo, merchant, was sentenced to be hanged during the week begin nlng March 10, 1916. Dick was killed en route to pay off miners.
 The sixty-seventh anniversary of the accession of Emperor Franz To- seph to the throne was celebrated on Dec. 3 with solemn services in the churches and patriotic meetings for relief funds.
 Damage estimated at $30o,O0O re- suited from fire which swept the buildings of F. J. Leslie & Go. and Barrett & Barrett, at St. Paul. Minn. Three girls trapped on the top floor were rescued by firemen.
 L. M. Bowers, one of the personal advisers of John D. Rockefeller. Jr. has rendered his resignation. effec- tive Jan. l. He received a salary of S60,O0O year. with $10,000 bonus each Christmas.
 The liner Minnesota, bound for London with grain on her farewell voyage under American registry, has put back to San Francisco because of disabled machinery.
 Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane. who was an attache of the British embassy at Washington in 1S46-47, is dead at the age of 91.
 Andrew Geisert, returning to his farm from Niles, Kan, saw 7-year- old boy with a stick fighting off five wolves. Geisert drove the beasts away with whip.
 A fourth son was born to the em- press of Japan on Thursday, Dec. 2.
 
 A six-foot channel in the Mississippi from St. Paul to the mouth of the Missouri was indorsed at the meeting of the Upper Mississippi River I'm provement association in Quincy.
 Two masked boys held up and robbed Chicago drug store after binding and gagging two clerks.
 Under construction of the new prohibition law of Colorado, it is found that mince pie, plum pudding and such other delicacies will come under the ban.
 The Washington state prohibition law has been found invalid by the state supreme court.
 
 Over 11,000 Cambridge men are fighting with the colors. Of these men 614 have been killed, 900 wound ed and 123 missing or prisoners of war.
 Two more British steamers, the Co., lenso and the Orange Prince, have been sunk, presumably by German submarines.
 Gov. Hiram Johnson of California is suffering from an acute attack of bronchitis, and is in bed at his home.