The Pulaskian., 1916-11-10

Leary Construction Co. of New York City for $2,412,594.
 Mir. and Mrs. H. o. Walsh of Kens- more, O., were burned to death in the wreck of their car when it overturned while being rul at high speed near Drakesburg.
 Hewitt H. Langsdale, chairman of the Easton (Md.) utilities commission, was shot and killed in his office by his son Bryan. The shooting was re- ported as accidental. but young Langs- dale was lodged in jail.
 Approximately 25O,OO0 automobile licenses have been issued by the of. flee of the secretary of state of Hi. nois since Jan. l. This is 10000 more than were issued during the entire year of 1915.
 The treasurer of Contraeosta eeun. ty, Ill., received from the Charles Hardness estate $594,118 inheritance tax. The property left was Standars Oil stocks, and brother. Edward Hardness of New York, was sole bene. ficiary.
 There is one private soldier at the front whose life is safeguarded by every officer in his regiment "Thls soldier is genius" a paper says. Before he was called up he used to mix drinks at one of the best-known cafes in Pieadilly."
 A number of women, believed to be members of the Mrs. Pankhurst's So cial and Political union. participated in disturbance in Whitehall street, London. They smashed several win dows with bricks on which they had written Down With Gray"
 Chicago robbers left no finger prints in footing the safe of E. H. Koop & Go. of $1,OO0. They wore gloves except when handling the ex- plosive, when they used paper, and made it valueless to the finger-print experts by rolling, crinkling it up.
 
 The Oakland club of the Pacific Coast league has been sued for $10,000 damages by Miss Beatrice Silva, who alleges in her complaint that foul ball broke her nose and blackened her eye.
 Elmer Carlson, Is years old, boy leader of a Chicago band of hold-up men and burglars, stepped in front of a bullet intended for the man he and his associates intended to rob and was killed.
 The Berlin National Zeitung asserts that the submarine liner Deutschland at the end of August began her sec ond transatlantic voyage under the name of Weser, but that she failed to arrive in America. The U-53, the pa per says, has searched vainly for the Deutschland.
 John Lowe, 40 years old, well-to- do farmer of Pana, H., was shot in the ankle by boy whom he ordered off his farm, where he was hunting, and died of gangrene.
 A proposal has been made by the Russian minister of finance to re- place medals and decorations made of gold and silver by others of less val. uable metals. In 1915 gold and silver of value of over $2,500,00O were used for these purposes.
 In the first two years of operation the Panama canal tolls amounted to $7,411 ,6S2, although the waterway was closed half of d year, due to repairs. A total of 2,097 ships passed through the canal.
 Henry Holle, aged 20, 61s feet tall, son of August Hole of New Salem, N. D., was taken off the train by the DO lice after he had run away from home because his father had given him whipping. Hole returned It.
 The new Trolpastta canal, in Swe. den, has been opened by King Gus tav, says the Overseas News Agency. The canal establishes communication between Vener lake and the North sea and it's construction took seven years.
 To meet the increased cost of liv- ing, the Peoples Gas Light and Coke Go. of Chicago has announced a vol untary raise of 10 per cent in the wages of 3,700 employees, of whom all are getting less than $200 month.
 Ben F. Mckee, Jeff Harrison and H. Grady Webb were indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of rob- ping Louisville & Nashville train near Greenville, Ala, on July g, 1915.
 Three trainmen were killed when the caboose in which they were rid ing was demolished by an engine of another train which ran into it in the trainyard in Gibson, Ind.