The Pulaskian., 1916-12-01

ducting an investigation into the Bos- ton food supply. reports that at pres ent there are 10,630, ,G00 pounds held here, all which belongs to the entente allies.
 Mayor J. W. McC1endon of Hot Springs, Ark, was found guilty of as- sault with intent to kill and was sen fenced to serve one hour in jail and pay fine of $50.
 While two little children of Charles Meyer of Rockville, Tex, were play ing at their home they pulled the bung from an empty whisky barrel and ap- piled match. The resultant explo- sion instantly killed one child and fa- tally wounded the other.
 Mrs. Inez Millholland Boissevain, prominent New York suffrage leader, is dead
 The town of Red Level, Ala, was destroyed by fire set by safe rob- bers who footed drug store and fired the building.
 Fifty members of the I. w. w alighted from a freight train here and formed line to the nearest city fire station, took possession and sent out a delegation with certain demands to be met by the citizens.
 
 Three United States sailors met death in San Francisco when a launch carrying 36 men of the Glacier was swept under the paddle blades of the Apache.
 For the first time in 24 years Dem- ocrat from Allegheny county, Pa, will sit in congress. Guy E. Campbell, on the canvass of the complete vote, won the congressional election.
 A fifteenth century carved and painted wood bust of girl from the Dayanva1l palace at Florence, Italy, was sold for s17,9OO
 Despite the threatened federal in- vestigation of the high cost of living, the price of butter continues to go up. The Elgin board of trade here has ad- vanced the price to 42 cents.
 
 George Armstrong. 50, a cabinet maker of River Rouge, Mich, who has just died, was buried in coffin to which he had devoted himself during the last few years of his life.
 Some 200 female textile workers have been deported from Ghent
 Population of continental United States on Jan. l, 1917. will be 102 ,S26,- 309 and with it's outlying possessions 113.S0s,2S5.
 Dewie Hanes, 19 years old, of Ar canum, Drake county, retains his title as the champion boy corn grower of Ohio. His yield this year was better than ITS bushels to the acre.
 Ex-Queen Liloukalani of Hawaii, re- gently ill. is much improved, accord ing to passengers arriving from Homo lulu.
 A bandit entered McDowell's jew elry store at Arkansas City, Kan, held up the only clerk in the store and escaped with diamonds valued at $10,000 after locking the clerk in the vault.
 The French minister of war has in- troduced bill by which all civilians exempted from military duty or mus tered out as physically unfit, prior to April l, 1916, must submit to further medical examination.
 Richard Townsend of Chicago smoked and read and dozed in bed. Then he was awakened to find his clothes in flames. Hurriedly he dashed into fire engine house. The firemen put him out.
 Word comes from Belgium that the German conquerors of that ill-fated nation have determined to deport the entire population of many towns, and those who object are being sent to prison.
 Chicago divinity students have struck on the high cost of laundry . work and are now wearing flannel shirts.
 M c. Caudell, a Louisville mail clerk. who saved $1.200 out of his sal ary of s100, has "pyramided" it into $180.000 in the wheat market.
 Kate Mulcahey. who served Mrs. John McCabe as cook for Al years, is made Mrs. McCabe's heir in will just probated in Carlyle, III. The whole estate is worth about $200,000. A German submarine torpedoed the II x>o er rtay,