Fair play., 1915-11-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
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The Federal Council of the Church
es of Christian America has an
nounced that Sunday, Nov. IA, will be
a day of prayer in behalf of the Ar
menians.
Wesley Ring, the 16year-old son of
P. r. King of Minneapolis, Mimi, is
dead following the eating of an apple
which he had found on the road. The
boy died from strychnine poisoning.
"The reports in the foreign newspa-
pers that Prince Won Buelow has been
entrusted with the preparation of
peace negotiations are absolutely In
correct" says the Overseas news
agency.
The American schooner Frederick
A. Dugan brought to New York about
400 young men from Ireland, many of
whom say they had left home to avoid
conscription.
Complete returns of the town cleo
tion of Bolton, Conn, reveal that Mrs
Finley, the winning candidate, ran on
the Republican ticket, while her hus-
band, F. D. Finley, was candidate
on the Democratic ticket, but he also
was elected.
"The kaiser has disgraced Admiral
Won Tirpitz.' A Central News dis
patch quotes the above statement.
George NJ. Sternberg, United States
army, retired, formerly surgeon-gen-
eral of the army, is dead at his home
in Washington.
Miss Bertha Chatkin of Chicago
died at a hospital in Pontiac of in
juries suffered when her automobile
was struck by a Chicago & Alton
train.
Returns show that the single tax
amendment to the city charter of
Pueblo, Colo, was repealed in election
by a small majority.
The death of Chief Surgeon Perre-
non of the German cruiser Kronprinz
Wilhelm, interned, was announced.
Heart failure was the cause.
The steamer British Prince, 3,770
tons, from Cape Town to Luderitz-
bucht, German Southwest Africa, is
ashore on Possession island.
The Argentine delegates to the sec
ond Pan-American Scientific congress,
which will meet at Washington Dec.
81 will leave Buenos Aires Nov. Is.
The price of coal in Rome having
risen to $50 ton, arrangements are
being made to import coal from Japan
where it is obtainable at six yen ($3)
a ton.
The trial of Daniel Hurley, 10 years
old charged with the murder of Cath
crime Roller, II, of Broadwell, has be
gun in Logan county, Illinois, circuit
court.
DIR. Francisco Bertrand was elected
president of Honduras. He resigned
the presidency last July in order tc
be eligible as a candidate.
Fire following an explosion in 6
inItt-slOIg lOuSlilS HOuoS dl DIOOhly
resulted in the death of 13 people.
Following the withdrawal of Ameri
cans from the trenches on the border
Villa made his fifth unsuccessful at
tack on the Carranza garrison at Aqua
Prieta.
Glass, baked in bread, caused thu
death of Mrs. Mary E. Smith of Rec
Lion, Pa.
A dispatch from Athens giving de
tails of the sinking of the British
transport Marquette by German sub
marine says the undersea boat fireC
on the lifeboats.
A unique and picturesque plan 70
labelling by means of khaki bras
sieres those fit and unfit for militar.
service is announced by the Englisl
war office.
The business section of Columbi
ana, Ala, town of 1000 population
and county seat of Shelby county
has been destroyed by fire.
flre IN the plant OF tue w. +. JoI
bins Chemical company. Aurora, Ill
which manufactures glycerin for us
in high explosives, caused damag
estimated at 100000.
DIR. Thomas Adds and Ralph X
Blair, both of San Francisco, convict
ed of violating the neutrality of tn
United States, were fined $1,000 each
1t was announced at the Whit
House that the marriage of Presiden
Wilson and Mrs. Norman Gait woul
take place near the close of Decen
ber."
Sir Frederick Edward Smith ha
been appointed to succeed Sir Edwar
Carson as attorney general of the Bril-
ish cabinet.