The Pulaskian., 1916-04-14
NEWS IF THE WEEK
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HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES
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A bill authorizing the president to promote Col. George A. Dodd to the grade of brigadier general was intro duced in congress.
 Proje Menchure, his wife and broth er-in-law and three children were mur dered at Saskatoon, Canada, their homes and farm buildings were burned and their horses and cattle shot.
 Gen. Carranza, head of the de facto government, issued a decree calling for a new issue of paper money, not to exceed $500,000,000, to substitute for the present issue.
 Benjamin R. Mcclure, lawyer of Brooklyn, N. T., was named presiding bishop of the Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints.
 A big observation balloon which broke from it's moorings at the navy aviation station, Pensacola, Fla, and floated away unoccupied, descended at Argyle, Fla, iC0 miles northeast.
 Oliver A. Harker, former cashier of the Johnston City Qll) National bank, was acquitted of charge of taking the banks money for his own use.
 Lawrence (Kan.) barbers raised the price of hair cutting to 35 cents. Uni versity of Kansas students who ob- jected were told that the war has caused raise in prices of barber sup plies.
 The French government has con ferred on Mrs. Edith Wharton, author ess, the Legion of Honor for her re- lief work in behalf of French war suf- ferers.
 An Amsterdam dispatch says that vice-Admiral Dick, director of the shipyards department of the German navy, has been retired cn pension.
 The German government expropri-
 
 pointed commission to regulate their distribution.
 The first married men under the group system were called up by the British war department. They range from 25 to 32 years of age.
 The taxation committee of the reichstag has fixed the amount of the increases in the postal taxes recently proposed.
 Two members of the crew of the Shackleton Antarctic exploration steamer Aurora have been arrested for disobedience at sea. The men are charged with malingering.
 Two thousand of the 5000 miners in the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas val leys who struck for the recognition of the newly formed union gained their point and have returned to work.
 Fragments, supposedly of a torpedo. which were discovered on the cross channel steamer Sussex have been for warded to Washington by Ambassador Page.
 The tank steamer San Cristobal was destroyed by fire at Puerta, Mexico. Representatives of the United Mine Workers and the mine operators in Iowa and Missouri met in Des Moines to formulate new wage scale.
 The municipal gas plant established about 50 years ago was formally rele- gated to the scrap heap on April 1. The increasing use of natural product and electricity was assigned as the reason for dismantling.
 Five hundred candy manufacturers have petitioned the interstate com merce commission for a general read justment of rates to all points west of the Mississippi river.
 Joseph Black. negro, was taken from jail at Kingston, N C., and lynched by a mob. He was the father of William Black, It years old, charged with an attempted attack on a young white girl.
 About 150 sick American troopers have been brought back from the front in Mexico, suffering from vari- ous ills due to the climatic conditions of the Sierra Madre
 President Wilson plans to occupy Shadow Lawn" the summer home in New Jersey offered him by the people of the state.
 Military training for pupils in high schools in Peoria may become real fly as result of resolution author king q poll of parental sentiment throughout the city.
 Appointment of L. F. Fletcher to succeed A J. Reno as denutv warden