Fair play., 1916-02-12
NEWS Of THE WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
OTHER COUNTRIES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News condensatlons Re-
viewed Without comment--Ai
Nations Find Something to
Edify and Instruct.

ptOlSt vi ANA's yhoN
noughed himself out of an illness of
IL years duration. Physicians said
his coughing spells were due to tuber-
culosis. But he coughed up collar
button swallowed when boy and is
getting we'll.
Three men were drowned at the wa
terworks lake at Porum, Ok, when
they were trying to rescue Miss Stella
Anderson, who went through the Ice
Robert H. Perry, 103 years old, said
to be the oldest Arkansan, is dead at
his home at Conway. He was too old
for service in the civil war.
James Wilson Guiteau, brother of
Charles j. Guiteau, who assassinated
President Garfield, is dead at his
home in Dobbs Ferry.
The office of the Socialist paper, the
Worker at Glasgow, were entered by
the police and the plant seized. The
premises have been closed.
Two negroes drowned in the Missis-
sippi just north of Cairo, one while
trying to save two mules and the other
while salvaging household effects
Roumania has called to the colors
all members of the class of 1916.
Harold L. Severey, the youth who
shot four persons, one mortally, in AL
bany was committed to Matteawan
state hospital for the criminal insane
by County Judge Addington.
A wireless dispatch reports that a
French cruiser had arrived off the Vir-
ginia capes and was patrolling there
to prevent the Appam from escaping
from Newport News
Miss Lena Keyser Of Schenectady,
H. Y, was shot and killed by John H.
pierce of Delenson, N. Y, to whom
he was engaged. He afterward shot
knself
irving and Herbert Updike, who re-
htly confessed a plot to murder
ksir millionaire father, mother and
fster, have left Chicago and are
now on a ranch somewhere in the
west"
Augustin Beauchamp, years old,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. August Beau
champ, Escanaba, Wis, has been
Co. Ill oHf &c
physicians and others to awaken him
have proved futile.
Lewis j. Marshall of Lisbon Falls,
Me, convicted of using the mails to
defraud women who made neckties at
home on commission, was sentenced
TO two years in the federal peniten-
tiary at Atlanta.
The convictions of Don M. Roberts,
former mayor of Terre Haute, Ind,
and 10 others found guilty with him
of election frauds were sustained by
the United States district court of ap-
peals.
Sixteen persons were killed and As
injured in wreck of the Calais ex-
press at Saint Denis, Paris suburb.
The four suits brought against the
North German Lloyd Steamship COM
sny to recover S2,000,000 damages
because the steamer Kron Princess
Cecilie failed to complete her voyage
TO France and England, just before
the war, were dismissed.
The will of Curtis A. Petit, mil
lionaire mine owner, who died two
years ago in Minneapolis, was de
-clared invalid by Judge ]. A. Dahl in
the probate court, and the estate was
ordered distributed.
Oscar and Gustave Olsen, brothers,
both section hands, and William
Rhodes, a negro, were found muir
dered and robbed in the old railway
station at Kingston Station, r. /.
Notice announcing 10 per cent in
crease in wages. effective Feb 2S,
was posted at the Phoenix Iron COM.
pany's plant at Phoenixville, Pa.
After physicians had pronounced
Harry Slade of Urbana, ILL.,, who killed
his two children, a defective, Judge
Boggs sentenced him to life imprison-
hent.
The Rockefeller foundation has do
mated S22,800 for carrying on surveys
of the care of the insane in 16 states
this year.
The national aeroplane fund being
raised for the development of coun-
try-wide aerial reserve for the ma
tional guard and naval militia has
passed the $S5O.OOo mark.
One OF the four submarines OF the
X type. member OF flotilia en-
route from the New York navy yard
TO Key West, is '1ost In the fog"