Fair play., 1915-04-03

west is dead at Aurora, H., OF the
age of 81 years.
Buster" Caldwell, 4 years old, ia
tally shot Russell Standard. aged 8.
through the body while they were
playing with pistol at Evansville,
Ind.
A fleet of barges will leave La Sale,
ILL.,, for New Orleans, La. May /, in
augurating water freight service with
San Francisco and other points on
the coast.
Gen. Rene Joseph Delarne, chief of
a division of the French army, was
killed when he was struck in the head
by a bullet on an inspection of a
trench at the front.
Forty-five hundred Villa soldiers
were opposite Mercedes pumping
plant, on their way to Matamoras to
give battle to the constft1tionalists
Villa currency is being traded here
freely at three Villa dollars for one
25-cent piece of United States cur
rency.
A bill in the Illinois legislature lin
its the amount of money a widow and
children can inherit to 100000 and
the amount a childless widow can in
herit to $4,000. 1t also permits lille
gitimate children TO share equally
with legitimate.
A German Zeppelin attacked the
Russian fortress of Lomza on the
q Narew river, the war offices an
nounces. Fourteen bombs were
dropped and nine civilians were in
jured.
Sammy Mucoish, aged II, confessed
that he had shot and killed Felix No
venski, also aged IL, near Jackson.
vile, Ind, recently. lie admitted hid
ing the body in clump of bushes.
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AS result of fight at Big Muddy,
ILL.,, Patrick Priest is in the county
jail. probably mortally wounded, and
six other men, slashed with razors
and shot, are in hospitals and eight
others are prisoners.
Walter l.. Ross, receiver for the
Glover Leaf railroad, applied to the
federal court for permission to bor-
row 100000.
A large band of masked "possum
hunters" armed with shotguns, Wis
/. tied the home of Thomas Rockport OF
Rockport, Ky, and took him and his
son Frederick into nearby thicket
and whipped them with hickory
switches.
Mrs. Victoria Cadaract, aged 105, is
dead in Ottawa county infirmary
near Oak Harbor o. Mrs. Cadaract
was the last survivor of the native
t Ohio Indians.
George Ward, charged with the mur
y der Of his wife, Mrs. Ward, whose
I, charred body was found in the ruins
OF the burned home of the family neal
r Willow Springs, March IL, was dis
+ charged by Justice r. F. Holloway Of
Willow Springs.
e The gasoline yacht La Sofa, with
4 her millionaire owner, Morgan Adams
t his bride of a month and 10 friends
aboard, all of Los Angeles, Cal.
burned six miles off San Pedro.
[ After dreaming that he saw hi!
4 daughter, Mrs. Stella Laird, who hat
/ disappeared from home recently, OF
3 the steets of Fort Worth. Tex, ]. II
McForums of Waco, Tex. found her
nj The Vermont legislature passed an
act providing for eugenic marriages
Q A fine of $500 Is fixed for any person
who weds without fulfilling the re
: qulrements of the law.
d H. j. Freelich. the Chicago pro
9 moter who has been in jail at Dan
vile, Ill.,. since his arrest last Decem
!. ber, has been released on bond o
y $4,000.
:. Speaker Champ Clark, wife an(
y their daughter, Miss Geneyieve CLARK
- narrowly escaped injury when the
5 Lyan Haven hotel, at Pass Christian
n was destroyed by fire.
. A vote on the preferences Of chill
- dren in the Alton, H., public schools
as to moving picture dramas shows
n that the largest number like cowboy
y dramas. The vote was as follows
a For cowboy pictures, es4; for comedy
l. 594; dramatic, 447; crime. 65; educa
tional, 23. u.
It Col. Roosevelt has not accepted tbs
s. invitation to testify before senate
d committee on the ground tina he ha:
r no information. Chairman Walsl
IL, called conference to decide whether
t. to issue subpoena for the colonel.
4 A woman was killed and four meI
d injured, one seriously. when natura
Q gas explosion wrecked the home o.
l. ]. M. Mathews at Louisville, Ky.
Il The export of pure ana alloyed golt
n | and silver In bars and also of coinl