Fair play., 1916-05-13

The best instrumental musicians
and singers in Illinois gathered at |
Jacksonville for a four days musical !
convention.
Two vessels under charter by the
American commission for the relief of
Belgium, the Swedish steamship Frid-
land and the British steamer Hendon
Hall, were sunk within two days.
The town hall at Lille. France, one
of the most famous structures of its
kind in Europe, was destroyed b. fire.
Derailment OF train by crocodile
lying across the tracks near Tela,
Honduras, causel the death Of Henry
Kinard Smith, civil engineer, %, son
Of the late Bishop Coke Smith OF the
Southern Methodist church.
Sheriff White of Murphysboro, H.,
refused to say how many persons he
would invite to the hanging of Elston
Scott and the governor has granted a
fourth reprieve to Scott to July IA
Forty-three persons were killed by
automobiles and automobile trucks In
Philadelphia since Jan. l, 1916.
The postoffice and a general store
at Lakenan, Mo-, was entered and
robbed of a small sum of money.
Frank B. Thayer, a graduate of
Oberlin college, Oberlin, o., and Wis.
consin university, has been appointed
an instructor in journalism in Kansas
university.
From Dec. 81, 1915, to March, 1916,
deposits In national and state banks
increased s15,71S.S1723, according to
w. W. Bowman, secretary of the Kan.
sas Bankers association.
DR.. E. H. Trezona, 80 years old, OF
Gibson City, his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Mclean, so, and Miss Gertrude Shaw,
40, were instantly killed at Garter, Ill.,,
when Wabash train struck their au.
tomobile.
N'S'POt'b NhoiilApiOi
er of the United States, owned by
former Congressman Joseph c. Sibley
OF Franklin, Pa, is dead Her record
was 19,694.S pounds of milk year.
Edward NJ. Hall, a stockman, is
dead from burns received in an un.
successful attempt to rescue his
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, and her
maid, Miss Alma Shaw, when the Hall
country home at Carthage burned.
Reilly NJ. Smith, former deputy
United States marshal at East st.
Louis, who was convicted of murder
in the second degree in the Omaha
courts, was released under parole to
his wife.
Plans for the second annual mill.
tary training camp for high school
boys at the Culver military academy,
which will be held May Is to 80, have
been announced. Six hundred boys
from the high schools of the central
west states will be admitted this year
to the camp, which last year was lin.
tied to 200 boys from Indiana.
Suicide is only death, but a good
cigar is a smoke. So thought Richard
Kuhlman of Chicago, who postponed
his jump from a third-story window
when Leroy T. Steward asked him to
have a smoke.
Miss Sophia Brauer, 81 years old,
OF Murphysboro, ILL.,. burned herself to
death. She touched a match to her
clothing, which had been saturated
with coal oil. She had been lame since
childhood.
Notices were posted in the mills OF
j. & P. Coats, Ltd, thread manufac-
tnrers at Pawtucket, r. l., announc.
ing an increase of 25 per cent in the
wages of $500 employees, effective
May /.
This week will see the beginning of
work on the long-talked-of mine near
Bush, ILL.,, on the $4,000 acres Of coal
lands owned by the Western Coal and
Mining company.
The Postal Telegraph company was
fined $1,000 in the criminal court in
Butte, Mont, on conviction of trans
mitting information on which racing
bets were made.
A new searchlight was tried out in
the New York navy yard. The lens is
five feet and the range is 10 miles.
President Wilson has received an
appeal to intervene in the cases of
Mexicans recently convicted of muir
der in connection with the Villa raid
on Columbus, N. NJ.
The New York police are searching
for Miss Doris Ponty, a Sunday school
teacher, who has been missing from
her home since April 2.
Ground was broken for the S65,O00
addition to st. Andrews hospital, at
Murphysboro, Ill. The addition Will
make the hospital the largest in the
state south of East St. Louis. The
work will be completed by August.
Or. C. F. Osgood, 46, prominent
physician of Ogden, Utah, was shot
and killed as he entered his auto by
Honbert w. Burch, 38, farmer.