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two Lake Shore electric limited cars
collided head-on six miles east Of Ere
mont, o.
Abandoning efforts to raise the F.4
with pontoons, Admiral Moore report
ed from Honolulu that an air hose
was to be run from the cruiser Mary
land into the submarine in hopes OF
replacing the water in the vessel with
air and thus bringing the craft to the
surface.
Clarence A. Blain has invented a
submarine which he insists in unsink-
able because Of certain suitable air
ducts.
L. s. Scurlock, travelling agent for
Chicago firm, was shot and Instant
ly killed at his home near Edmond
son, Mo, by his son Bedford, Is years
old. The elder man was attacking his
wife with a razor when the boy fired
the fatal shot.
The 0rton district levee on the Red
river in Arkansas, has broken, re-
sulting in the flooding of 10000 acres.
Theodore Brink, a blacksmith of
Dioxn, ILL.,, who was charged with
making counterfeit money, was SEN
fenced to Is years 1905. 12S456 Z
fenced to Is months at Leavenworth,
Kan.
Eli E. Gregory, president of the de.
fmct bank of Central City, KY, has
been indicted on 10 counts.
President Wilson took another step
in rejuvenating the diplomatic serv-
Ice by signing an executive order
which win bar men more than IS
years old from the so-called civil serv-
ice portion Of the corps, which In
cludes secretaries and clerks.
The trawler Union was held up in
the North sea by German torpedo
boat and forced to surrender 76 bas-
kets of fish, result of three days.
work. The trawler was then released.
Persistent reports that parts Of sub
marines have been shipped from the
United States into Canada are stiIl
under investigation.
Chicago policemen are to wear
wrist watches-if they care to. The
chief said he believed they would be
more convenient for uniformed men.
Fred Ellwanger, sole survivor of the
Mariana mine disaster of Nov. 2S,
1909, in which about 200 men were
killed, Ia dead in q Washington hos.
pital.
Mrs. Thomas Lewis OF New Lexing.
ton, o., who cited as one cause she
should be granted divorce is that her
husband made her curry and take
care Of his horses. was granted the
horses as alimony.
Cleveland's record April heat wave
caused the death of Is babies, health
department officials say.
The admiralty court announced its
decision In the Empress of Ireland
Storstad collision in the st. Lawrence
river May 29, 1914. holding the collier
responsible for the accident. More
than Loco lives were lost In the col.
lision.
Two roomers have not been located
in a fire in Louis Goldman's roOming
house at St Paul, MINI.
A determined but futile fight in the
assembly on the bill designed to raise
the cost of liquor business one-fourth
throughout New York state delayed
adjournment of the legislature for a
day. The measure was passed, 50 to
As.
The consolidation of the Merchants
National bank and the Illinois State
bank has been announced at Peoria
The new bank will be known as the
Merchants and Illinois National bank. |
Six hundred acres OF wheat have
been destroyed by crickets in the VIII |
son Creek section OF Grant county,
Wash.
Among the so passengers on the
steamship City of Tampico, which ar
rived at Galveston from Vera Cruz
and Tampico. was Phil E. McCleary, |
the American newspaper man recent
ly sentenced to death by Carranza
Frederick w. Seward, who was the
last survivor Of those who took an
active part in the event OF April IA.
1866. when President Lincoln was shot
at Fords theater by John Wilkes
Booth. is dead at Auburn. NJ. Y.
Capt Geddes, once prominent on the /
Chicago Board Of Trade, and recently
in command OF a company of Cana.