The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03
NEWS IF THE WEEK
 FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES
 BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News condensatlons Re- viewed Without comment-Ail Nations Find Something to
 Edify and Instruct

The department of labor has an- hounced that 39 states have pledged their cooperation in the observance of Baby Week. on March to Il, next.
 Joseph w. Took, champion office holder of central Illinois, is dead. He was postmaster for 30 years, tax col lector for 40 years, town clerk for 36 years and justice of the peace for 20 years.
 Mrs. Ruth Current of Paducah, Ky, TO, has filed suit for divorce from Jesse Current, Fl, alleging absence of the husband. The couple were mar ried in 1865 and separated 24 years ago.
 Telegrams from Damascus state that Djemal Pasha, commander of the Turkish forces in Syria, has ordered that the chiefs of two Turkish bands be hanged for i'll treatment of Ar menians.
 Officers casualty list for the fort night ending Oct. 25 show that the British army in all theaters of the war lost 474 officers killed. 875 wounded and 147 missing.
 Col. Charles McD. Townsend an- nounced that a commission has authorized the immediate expenditure of $75,00O to remove Mud Island," a 40-acre bar directly in front of the Memphis (Tenn.) wharf.
 
 Twenty-two arrests were made at Fairmont, w. Va, oR charges grow ing out of the recent strike of clerks and carriers at the local postoffice. They were charged with obstructing the passage of mail.
 The greatest oats crop ever grown in Nebraska by fully 100000 bushels was that of the current year, 72,- 1000 bushels, with Boyd county to make return
 James R. Forgan, president of the First National bank of Chicago and of the First Trust and Savings bank, will retire Dec 31, to become chairman of the boards of directors of those insti- tutions.
 The Rev. A. H. K. Beam, 98 years old United Brethren minister, who served 60 years and accepted no re- muneration of any kind, is dead at his hOma in Hartcvil1a Ind
 Dispatches from Athens say the Italians are landing in Albania and that Russia has concentrated a we'll equipped army of 35O,0O0 men in Bes- sarabia.
 One man was burned to death in a fire at the Hotel Burton, Chicago, five-story structure.
 Songs written by Joseph Hillstrom, who was executed in Utah after con- viction of murder, were sung in a dozen languages at his euneral in Chi cago.
 Proposals have been submitted to the justices for increasing the fines for drunkenness in England One-half of the crime in the city is due to ex- cessive drinking.
 The president has been asked by the National Golf association to have the department of agriculture investi- gate the kinds of grasses best suited for golf course.
 The Bridgeport (Conn.) Daily News, owned by Alexander and Victor Con- dos, has been suspended indefinitely. Forty fortresses have been captured by the armies of the central powers to date. Five of these fortresses were in Belgium, 12 were in France, 15 were in Russia and were in Servia.
 
 A doctors bill for $99,568 for at tending Mrs. Nellie M. Noe of New York three times day for four years was presented to her estate by Dr. Joseph Byrne.
 Meta Aromel, II years old, and Her. man, 6, were burned to death at Bloomingville, Wis. when the home caught fire, probably from an over turned lamp.
 Postal savings deposits in October increased $2,15O,OOO over the preced- ing month.
 Herschel Bruner, 14 years old, mem- Der of the Clarkson (Ky.) high school football team, is dead from injuries.
 
 Schedules of the Chicago s& Eastern Illinois proposing a general increase of cent per 100 pounds in rates on yellow pine and hardwood lumber were suspended by the interstate com merce commission until March 30.