The Pulaskian., 1916-04-07

US l1teraey test and Asiatic exclusion 1 provision unchanged, has passed the house by vote of 3O8 to 87.
 
 The Hairdressers' guild announced that after April 15, next, it's members will raise the charge for shaving from cents to cents, and hair-cutting from cents to 10 cents.
 The senate passed the Indian appro. priation bill carrying approximately | $12,O00,O00.
 Ten thousand Mersey river dock hands at Liverpool went on strike fol lowing dispute concerning pay for overtime work. Before the house public buildings committee a request for $1,000,00O for a terminal postoffice at Kansas City, Mo, was presented.
 
 The Louisiana state Republican convention selected 12 uninstructed 1 delegates to the national convention.
 
 A dispatch from Teheran says that Grand Duke Nicholas has released all Persians taken prisoner by the Rus sians.
 A general amnesty proclamation ap- plying to persons convicted before tri- bunals of Alsace and Lorraine has been issued by Emperor William. The police at work on the case of Miss Zola May Cramer, 24, a trained nurse who was found dead in a Dallas school yard, are endeavoring to prove that she was attacked by a jealous lover.
 Fire destroyed one-fourth of the buildings of tho Pennsylvania Manu- featuring Co, at Wyandotte. Detroit suburb, causing loss of $200,000 In retaliation for the attack on Ger man camps by a squadron of French aeroplanes, seven German aviators bombarded Saloniki from the air. LOcs eStHudl6u at ulOf5 LHdu $500, ,000 was caused at Houston, Tex, by fire which started in the cotton sheds of the Missouri, Kansas & Tex as railway and spread to dozen oth. CT buildings and 40 freight cars. A full state ticket will be placed in the field by the Progressive party in Missouri this year. Announcement was made that the Silk Manufacturers association will grant the demand of the workers for a nine-hour day, effective April 3.
 Ferro-manganese was sold recently to a Pittsburg steel manufacturer on the basis of $1,000 ton. Before the war it sold for s3S. Freight rates from the United States to Panama are increasing rapidly. The rate on cement has increased from s1.2O per barrel to s1.55, which is more than the value of the cement.
 One hundred persons were killed when an ammunition factory at Wells dorf, in Austria, blew up.
 Three former Manitoba ministers were indicted by Winnipeg grand jury for conspiracy to defraut.
 According to the provisions of an ordinance, druggists in Peoria, H., will be required to pay the regular sa- loon license fee of s720 annually if they dispense liquor in quantities of less than one gallon.
 A whistling well at St. Clair, Minn., is to be investigated by state geolo- gists.
 Gen. Grants letter book, from March 29 to April g, 1865, including the letter in which he prescribed the terms for Lees surrender, brought S750 at sale of autographs in New York.
 R. J. Andrews was elected mayor of Sioux City, la, by a majority of 1,200 votes. A total of 9,350 ballots were cast.
 Dr. David De Ross, 72, who went through the Little Big Horn cam paign, is dead at Wichita, Kan, from disease he contracted from two ar row wounds which he received in his right leg during the memorable fight under Custer.
 A daughter was born to Mir and Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre. She is the second granddaughter of Presi- dent Wilson.
 Two new superdreadnaughts have been added to the French fleet They were named the France and the Paris.
 
 Thomas J. Pence, secretary of the Democratic national committee, Is dead at his home in Washington.