The Pulaskian., 1916-03-10

anu Odfuludl tdicOulO pTeIecC OI tue congregation of religious affairs.
 A speed of 2200 words a minute has been accomplished by the wireless station at the Great Lakes Naval Training School Thirty words min ute has been considered fast record. The Russian government has grant ed permission to the wives and chiI- dren of men who came to America be- fore the war to leave Russia and join their relatives.
 The British steamer Suevir, from New York Feb. Il for Havre, has been abandoned afire at sea.
 J. W. Crow, a farmer, has pur- chased 24,700 acres of land in Jim Hogg and Brooks counties, Tex, for $655,900 from c. W. Roberts, a wealthy man of Los Angeles.
 
 The railroad department of the Cambria Steel Go. was completely tied up by strike of the engineers, fire men and trainmen, resulting from a dispute of the wage scale.
 A remarkable skin grating opera tion requiring three square feet of hu- man cuticle. was performed at Des Moines, Ia. The patient, Roy Adreon, will live.
 
 Will H. Orpet, University of Wis consin student, charged with the mur- der of Marion Frances Lambert, pleaded not guilty and waived prelim- mary examination.
 A six-inch gun on the armored cruiser San Diego, at night practice, scored eight perfect hits out of eight shots in 72 seconds, firing at range of 1,SOO yards.
 Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo announces that he is prepared to issue in 1916 $30,000,000 in refunding bonds drawing 3 per cent to take up the per cent bonds now out.
 <a CASdl SleS oldIIeu d Ire Ill pool hall at Hanna, Ok, and six buildings, including three-story hotel, were de- stroyed.
 The expiration of the 60-day period for taking advantage of the Inter- national Harvester Company's profit sharing offer found 20,000 of the cor porations employees on the roll.
 British military casualties in the Saloniki zone up to Feb. 20 were 37 officers and 14,439 men. British casualties in all the war during the month as compiled by newspapers show a total of 789 officers and 17S47 men.
 Only 375 per cent of those paroled from California's penitentiaries have gone back to a life of crime.
 
 The number of women employed on the railroads of France has reached a total of over 25.O00.
 
 Tn an official proclamation issued in Topeka. Kan, Gov. Capper has designated March 4 to Il as baby week" in Kansas.
 King Haakon of Norway injured his left hand while skiing.
 Maj. Gen. George Frederick Cor ringe is mentioned in the casualty list as having been wounded in the fighting in Mesopotamia.
 M. Rodzianko, president of the Rus sian Duma, is quoted as saying that the war was a blessing to Russia be- cause 1t was great awakening. The steamer Fifield. from San Fran cisco to Bandon, struck the rocks of the south jetty on Bandon harbor All hands were taken of in safety.
 
 By vote of s27 to 7oS, Red Lake county, Minn., with seveen saloons, voted to continue wet"
 ElgnC puDHcat1OnS owned by Gov. Arthur Capper of Kansas have adopt ed simplified form of spelling list of these 12 words: Tho, altho, thru, thruout, thoro, thoroly, thorofare, pro- gram, catalog, prolog, decalog and pedagog.
 Pinioned beneath carload of coal, his left arm and left leg crushed, Henry R. Knudsen of Chicago, a switchman, directed surgeon as to the best way of amputating his arm and leg.
 
 A press dispatch from Montevideo says that British cruisers have cap- tured the German auxiliary cruiser Moewe.
 Col. William F. Bryant, 65, editor of the Danville (Ill.) Deutsche Zeit- ung for the past 10 years, died sud- dapIy at St E1ixahoth hocpifol