The Pulaskian., 1916-03-03
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League, was sentenced to six months Imprisonment for circulating litera- ture urging men not to enlist.
 
 The selection of Harold G. Town send, a Chicago lawyer, as secretary of the Chicago Peace society to sue ceed Louis P Lochner, resigned, is announced.
 l A solid train of 50 carloads of Pu- get Sound and Alaska salmon, with banners on the sides, is en route for New York over the Union Pacific sys- tenn.
 Big John" Murphy and Milton Armstrong, Danville (Ill.) negroes, were found guilty of murder and sen fenced to the penitentiary for 99 years each.
 According to testimony in Chi cago court, Charles H. Mccormick lived through 20 years of married life without performing any labor. Mrs. Mccormick was given a divorce.
 J. Grant Lyman, under federal in- dictment in New York on charges of using the mails to defraud, admitted his identity when taken before a United States commissioner.
 
 The superdreadnaught Pennsylvania remained at anchor at Portland, Me, on account of a dense fog which pre- vented run outside the bay for the completion of her standardization trials.
 The first filings under South Da- kota's new primary law were made when the names of Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. lIarshall were filed. May 22 is the pri- " date. Rev o. R. Nelson resigned as pas tor of the First Baptist church at Pana, H., and will return to Vandalia, Hlp oto reside.
 A reception being given by the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion in the dining room of the Wind sor hotel, Jacksonville, Fla, broke up in riot when half dozen three-foot alligators escaped from a fountain.
 -Hopewell, Va, the boom war muni- tfon town, which without a govern ment for year has run a course paralleling that of western mining town in pioneer days, was ineorpo- rated by legislative enactment.
 All passengers aboard the Mer- chants & Miners liner Cretan, dam aged in collision with a schooner IA miles from Cape Hatteras, were safely transferred to the steamer Dorothy.
 From the first-class mail on the Dutch steamship Hollandia, detained at Falmouth recently, while on a voy- age from Buenos Aires to Amster- dam. 1,265 parcels of raw rubber were taken.
 A jury returned verdict of $15,0o0 for iMss Edith Sage of Minneapolis, Minn., injured when her automobile collided with one belonging to Fred T. Yates.
 Col. Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt are in British Guinea They will go to Trinidad, where they will take a steamer direct to New York.
 Sheriff Bordell of Joe Daviess county, H., while pursuing a fugitive negro, was accidentally shot and probably fatally wounded by City Mar shal Richard Blair of Galena. III.
 The New York curb traders, long an outdoor spectacle in the streets of the metropolis, are looking for home under roof.
 The British liner Comric Castle, which went ashore at the entrance of Mombassa harbor, was refloated.
 
 The right of the proprietor of a theater to refuse admission to any person whose published criticism of dramatic performances might injure the business of the theater was up- held unanimously by the court of ap- peals of New York Four Swedish trawlers which were leaving the harbor of Gottenburg were captured by German subma- rines.
 Microscopic moving pictures show ing blood circulation in humans have been completed at Battle Creek san itarium.
 Jasper Perry, convict in the Illi- nois state penitentiary, was convict ed of the murder of James Howard a fellow-convict, on Dec. 20 last, and was sentenced to be hanged. Mrs. Ann R. Parsons, widow of Ly- man J. Parsons of Winstead, Conn. died in the room in wLich she was