Fair play., 1916-05-06
The losses by the Bulgarian army

garian reports received in Athens to |
amount to $1,000 killed and $4,000 |
wounded and missing.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, noted
Brooklyn pastor, has been sued for
slander in the sum of $4,000 by his
nephew, Harry NJ. Hills of Portland,
Ore.
While John II. Busch of Wakefield,
Mass, was picking at souvenir shell
from the battleship Maine the shell
exploded and killed him and injured
his young son.
The funeral of Mrs. John Barr Nc
Cutcheon, mother of John T. McCutchS
con, the cartoonist, the novelist, was
held at Lafayette, Ind.
Hugo, the tallest man in the world,
is dead in New York with pneumonia.
He was feet inches tall.
John Peterson of New York built
the detachable motorboat Exaspera-
tion in the front room of his apart
ment. 1t is Is feet long and feet
wide. He will launch it from his sec
ond-story window.
Fire in the business district Of
Washington, d. c., destroyed the gen.
eral office of the Southern railway.
A robber held up and bound Cashier
A. Walter Koehler OF the Copperfield
(Utah) State bank and took $4,000 in
cash
Billy Sunday has closed his eight
weeks campaign in Baltimore, and
among the trail hitters was "Home
Run" Baker of the New York Ameri-
can league baseball team.
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.
To test the new Florida law making
it illegal for white persons to teach
negroes, three nuns were placed un-
der technical arrest. The charges
we're brought by several negroes.
Contraband cocaine valued at more
than $4,000 was found in the coal
bunkers of the United States army
transport Logan.
Senator Shafroth of Colorado made
a strong plea in the senate for action
on woman's suffrage during this sest
sion.
Military training will be an elective
course next fall at Throop College of
Technology, in California.
A British coal and oil station is to
be established on Tanning island, an
English possession in the mid-Pacific
The New York police are searching
for Miss Doris Ponty, Sunday school
teacher, who has been missing from
her home since April 2.
Flurries of snow fell in central Tex
as on the 2Sth, when the temperature
reached 40 degrees.
There were at least 683 industrial
accidents in New York state in every
working day from July 1, 1914, to Jan
/, 1916, according to Commissioner
Archer of the state industrial com
mission.
The state department was advised
that British Ambassador Spring-Rice
had received an anonymous letter
threatening his life If Sir Roger Case
ment received ill treatment at the
hands of the British government.
A petition asking the appointment
of receiver for the Guardian Trust
company, capitalized at s2,5O0,000 has
been filed in the Kansas City federal
court by attorneys representing mi
nority stockholders of Chicago.
Federal Judge w. T. Burns rescind
ed the order to burn the 527 birds o.
agents seized from New York i'm
porter.
| oSOIeS vi lelltIo nave Dtell TtC6lNtt
from residents of Florida at the state
department telling of attempts of al
legged German spies to obtain infor
nation regarding the coast fortified
tions of the state.
War bread has Just appeared OF
breakfast tables in Holland for the
first time.
The Japanese government has re
paid to the American Red Cross $685.
expended last summer for the relief o.
the destitute on the island of Rota, IL
the Pacific Ladrone islands.
The army bill, the first of the ad
ministration's preparedness measures
is being revised by the joint congres
sional conferees.
An opinion rendered by Judge Gil
fliam In the cattle court holds that tn,
state prohibition law forbldding thu
sale of malt liquor" includes all liz
uids of malt origin or containing NAL
extracts.
Gen. Severino Coniceros and hi
command of Villa bandits have spT
rendered to the military commands
in Durango City.