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Portuguese army aviators sent to
san Diego from Lisbon by the Portu-
guese government must discontinue
flying at the government aviation
school.
b Is employees of the Illinois
hospital at Anna have been tempo
rarlly laid off in a campaign to keep
the appropriations within the esti-
mated amounts.
All amateur wireless telegraph ope-
rators Of San Antonio were ordered
closed by the secret service depart
ment.
1t takes on the average eight hours
OF time to get a pound of much-cov-
t butter in Berlin, according to
statistics of the Vossische Zeitung.
Exports from the port of New York
for the last week were S64, O22, $40, ac-
cording to figures compiled at the
customs house.
Fred Talada and Lawrence Reynolds
face long terms because they
"swapped" wives. The women agreed
to the deal, and nearly two weeks
elapsed before the police learned of
b case n arrested the four.
The first convention of the League
to Enforce Peace will be held at
Washington May &c and q.
The German Alliance of Iowa adopt
ed a resolution calling on it's mem
bers to oppose Woodrow Wilson or
Theodore Roosevelt if either or both
should be a candidate for the presi-
dency.
During the past 10 years there have
been 284 divorces granted in the
Pike county (Ill.) circuit court, more
than $50 of them on the charge of
desertion.
Francisco Obregon, brother of the
minister of war, was killed in an au-
tomobile accident in the town of Nav
ajoa, state of Sonora.
Members of the executive commit
tee of the Illinois State Bar ~associa-
M ASAC uCSAuCu uOL W WlI114TdW
the invitation extended to Theodore
Roosevelt to address the body in Chi
cago April 20.
John S. Reilly, aged so, publisher
of a trade paper at Evansville, Ind, is
dead at Miami, Fla.
Six hundred applications for enlist
ment in the United States army were
received at the Chicago recruiting sta
tons in one day.
An suspicious opening of the seal
ing season after two disastrous years
is reported from the ships operating
Off the Labrador coast.
The death Is announced of Col. Sir
Charles Moore Watson, who was Sec
rotary to the royal commission for the
st. Louis exposition and commission
er-general in 1904.
All passenger and freight agents,
including the clerical attaches, have
received word that the Lake Erie G
Western Railway company has decid-
ed to grant a 10 per cent increase in
pay.
The province of Kwang-Si has de-
clared its independence, joining the
provinces of Yunnan and Kwei-Chow
in the republic.
Poor health caused John B. Russell,
40, Of H~opkinsville, KY, a well-to-do
lawyer, to kill himself with a shotgun.
Frank Ellis and John Krinock were
killed in a gas explosion at the Para
disc mine, Duquoin, Ill.
The London Standard, established
as a morning newspaper in 1857, sus-
pended publication.
Ellsworth E. Fout, a farmer of
Claysville, w. Va, and his five chill
dren were burned to death when fire
destroyed their home.
The Nova Scotia legislature has
passed the prohibition bill by a vote
of 20 to 8.
Wartime economy still holds sway
at Covent Gardens, London, where
Guernsey beans are being sold at 81
a pound, Guernsey peas at Is cents
pound and French asparagus at $3.50
q bundle.
Fire destroyed the fertilizer plant
OF the International Agricultural cor
poration, at Buffalo. causing a loss
estimated at $55o.00O.
A strike that lasted IL minutes re-
suited in 200 workers employed by the
Western Steel Car and Foundry COM
pany, In Hegewisch, ILL.,. receiving an
increase Of IL cents an hour.
Theodore Voorhees,. president of the
Philadelphia & Reading Railway com
7any, Is dead at his home in Elkins
Park.
Submarine E-2, ordered out of COM
mission after an explosion last Janu-
airy. Is to be used as a laboratory for
testing engines and batteries.
The first step toward military train
ing In the Chicago public schools was
taken when a course in military tao