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regiment, was seriously injured in a
practice march.
The supreme courts mandate af-
firEning the t~wo-year sentence of Da- |
yid Lamar, convicted of i~mpersonating
a congressman for fraudulent pur-
poses, has been issued.
Alfred NJ. DalrympIe, Republican
leader IN New Jersey, is dead as a
result Of injuries received in an auto
mobile accident at Dover, Del.
Rev. Edw. E. Anderson, 50, known
in Grand Army circles as the fight
ing parson," is dead at his home at
Quincy, Mass.
A safe containing 5000 was stolen
from the Yaye theater, at Sapulpa,
Ok, and carried away in an automo
bile. The car was. backed up to the
door OF the place and the safe carried
out to the machine.
Mesa Verde National park. in south
western Colorado, has opened its 1916
season. 1t is the first of the national
Fairgrounds TO be thrown open to the
general public.
First Lieutenant BOelke has brought
down his seventeenth and eighteenth
hostile aeropIanes. He was promoted
by Emperor Wilhelm. ~
The sixty-fourth session of }the
sfand lodge of the Independent Order
or BNai Birth opened its session at
Cleveland. :
I. L. Simpson has suggested te5 the
BILOXI tMiss.) commercial club that
mosquitoes can be eliminated/ by plac-
ponds IS CERTAIN" kind of "'n7''" in the
Wales at IS h is s e rs6 hs the tn @5Isns e ssa:ss,e of
OF the car, the stately Grand Duchess
Tatiana.
President Pexncare has presented
the French cr9tss of wal to Queen Eliz-
"'eth Of BYgium.
- m patriotism will suffer
=" ..hat this ear because Germany
cannot ship to his country a suffi-
cient quantity Of small United States
flags.
The kaiser has returned to Berlin to
take a hand in the ministerial crisis
brought about by the designations of
DR.. Clemens Delbrueck, minister of
the interior, and Baron Scorlemer,
minister of agriculture.
Winfield r.. Sheehan, former secre-
airy of Police Commissioner Waldo of
New York, has been made defendant
in a breach Of promise suit for S75, 900
brought by Miss Julia Beaubien, a
show girl.
Fred w. MERCK, former Socialist
editor, is charged by the grand jury
Investigating the recent Braddock
tPa.) riots with being the real leader
of the mob that attacked the Edgar
Thompson steel works.
A body found in a slough near Port
land. Ore, was identified as that OF
Miss Ella Harris. a former teacher,
who disappeared May s.
Rural credits legislation was a long
step nearer enactment because of pas
sag by the house of the Glass bill by
a vote of 295 to 10.
Murdered while asleep, with hel
baby in her arms. Mrs. ]. Farrell was
found dead at a rooming house ii
Washington, while slumped over he
bed was the body of Henry Bell, dead
from poison.
T>Ir. -~- - l~-l $500. NT,~sr ~
Gently purchased by the Krupps, will
be used as the site for a cannon fac
tory. The guns manufactured at thi:
plant will be sent to Germany's allies
Corporal Kitten Rockwell of Atlanta
Ga, a member of the American fyin,
squadron. attacked and destroyed
German aeroplane operating nea Hart
manns-Wellerkopf.
Gen. Chen-Chi-Nei, a high official o
the Chinese revolutionary party. wa
assassinated by three Yuan-Shi-ka
supporters in Shanghai.
Mrs. Eugene J.. Carigan Of Putin
Bay would save song birds from cat
by attaching a small bell to a ribbo,
or string tied around the feline necl
Loss of a 5000 bet placed on Jane
G.. Blaine for president in 1884, star
ed the Rev. Matt S. Hughes, newl
made bishop. into the ministry of tn
Methodist Episcopal church.
William Jennings Bryan will atten
the Democratic national convention
not as a delegate, but as a reporte
for a st. Louis paper.
A new record for an automobile b
tween Los Angeles and New York ha
been made by E. G. Baker, Of IT day
II hours and So minutes.
Miss Mary B. Mordecai. a leader /
Baltimore society circles. who recent
lost $780, 900 by imprudent specul,
lions IN the stock market. shot hersel
Mrs. Priscilla G. Dodd. 8. and th
only woman who Witnessed the ham
1ng a Nrs. Mary =. Suratt as one !
he paottees OF the assassination
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