Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-12-13
NEWS IF THE WEEK
 FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
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SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Condensation of Weeks News Re viewed Without Comment-Ail Nations Find Something to
 EdIfy and Instruct.

Five companies operating 26S tea and coffee stores have been purchased 1 by Merrill. Lynch & Co.,. New York bankers, for $19,O0o,009. Safeb1owers are picking on" tho Consumers Coai Co, Chicago Eight times in three weeks the safes of the 1 company have been blown and each time the loot has been around $100 Mrs. Mary Kirchon of Yonkers, a nurse who has mania for kissing men, has been committed to the hos pital for the insane.
 Declaring that she proposed to him and then avoided the altar, William Schroeder, 35, of Jersey City, a widow CT, has sued Mrs. Rose Holtz, 50, a wealthy widow, for $4,000 heart balm.
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 Playing poker is no ground for sep aration, Justice Kelly told A. s. Beck of New York, who declared that his wife neglected her home to play cards.
 Carl Bushnell of Chicago is asking Judge Mcdonald to annul an order for the payment of alimony and attor- neys' fees to his wife. Bushnell has records to show the order was signed two hours after Mrs. Bushnell's death.
 The library of congress added more than 88,OO0 volumes in the year end ing in June. It contains 2,451,974 books, 154,200 maps and charts, TO- PAS volumes and pieces of music and 392,906 prints.
 FIX. Cosgrove's glass eye exploded while he was dining at North Vernon, Ind. As a result he was unconscious several minutes. The explosion was due to heat from stove. With the temperature 50 degrees be- low zero, Fairbanks, Alaska, is suffer ing from scarcity of fuel.
 Rezin Orr, William Fitzgerald, Will liam Faber and James H. Vahey, rep resenting the New York City street car strikers, called upon President Wilson to ask that the federal govern ment intervene in the strike.
 A blockade of Greece, as measure of reprisal for the riots in Athens, in which French marines were fired on. has been officially announced.
 The Pittsburg Steel Co.,, with plants at Monessen and Glassport, and the Pittsburg Steel Products Co.,, sub sidiary concern, have announced an increase of 10 per cent in wages. returned AT indictments after two weeks session. Forty-six of these are for alleged illegal selling of liquor.
 Whether to make them substantial ly shorter or to add another 50 per cent to the cost of stockings was de- bated by members of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers in Chicago.
 Inspection of all exports is being instituted by the Japanese govern ment to prevent Japanese manufac- turers from throwing away trade op- portunities by exporting inferior goods.
 Mrs. Della Wyczas, 22. of Chicago, was found dead in bed with a bullet hole in her head and across her body lay that of her husbands step-brother. Charles Wyczas, also dead from a bullet wound.
 A gift of $600,O00 for building for the school of business of Columbia University was announced by the trustees.
 Two masked men entered Mem phis bank, covered the cashier with revolvers and forced him to turn over sack of money containing $5000. They walked outside. got into wait ing automobile and escaped.
 Richard Anderson Is dead and Fred Wagner of Waukegan, H., seriously i'll as the result of drinking horse nniment which they found and mis- took for whisky.
 An investigation into the increasing infant mortality in Berlin has estab- lished that the rising death rate is dsle to an insufficient sugar allowance. according to the Exchange Telegraph Co.