The Pulaskian., 1916-04-07

tape Tn government offices, the Brit Ish cabinet has effected a saving of s7,000 a year.
 Ira Jones, constable at Christopher, H., was shot and killed by Clee Smith, miner, in a saloon.
 Because of increased business, A. H. Rogers, president of the Southwest Missouri Electric company, at Joplin, announced 10 per cent increase in wages of employees.
 Citizens of Columbus, N M, will be armed with pistols furnished them by the Kansas City (Mo.) police depart ment
 l.. Garfield Snow, editor of Valpa- raiso tInd.) reform newspaper, was either thrown or jumped from sec ond story window of his office build ing following an attempt to kidnap him.
 Appeal was made here to the Illinois board of arbitration by the carclean- CTS at the Pullman car shops to settle the strike for higher wages.
 
 Owing to rumors of President Yuan Shi Kai's resignation, Pekin is in a veritable state of panic. Marines from the gunboat Wilmington have been landed at Swatow.
 
 Dr. Herbert Cummings, a Grand Ha- ven (Mich.l dentist, drank a large quantity of poison about 10 hours be- fore his brother. F. P. Cummings of Lansing, shot and killed himself in a Chicago hotel.
 A general increase of pay of em- ployes of the American Smelling and Refining company became effective April 1.
 Edward Monohan married Miss Yer nie McHenry March 13 at Kansas City. Two days later they separated, and he has brought suit for divorce. Expert mechanics from the plant of the New London (Conn.) Ship and Engine company departed for Petro- grad to work on submarines being built by the concern for the Russian government.
 Judge Dooling of San Francisco overruled demurrers to the bomb plot indictments against Franz Bopp, Ba- ron R. H. von Schack, Baron George Wilhelm von Brincken and four others.
 Henry P. Haas of Pittsburg was elected president of the National As sociation of Real Estate Exchanges. A reward of s1,0O0 is offered for the arrest of Oliver H. Cline, missing cashier of a Seattle concern, whose books show defalcations of s100,000. Gross earnings of the Erie railroad during 1915 were $66,436,7 ,720, an in- crease of $6,776,494 over 1914, accord ing to the annual report.
 British casualties in March, as com piled from the published lists, amount ed to 1,107 officers and 19,317 men. A bill for comprehensive control of rivers, prevention of floods and devel- opment of water power was intro duced by Representative Rainey of H. linois. It carried an appropriation of $60,000.000 a year for 10 years.
 The British steamer Carly has been picked up, disabled at sea, by the steamer Fogola, and is being lowed to Halifax.
 A dispatch filed at Oldenzaal, Hol- land, says that many persons lost their lives in fire in a powder fac tory at Trcisdorf, near Cologne.
 The schooner Metinic, which sailed from New York on Feb. 26 for Ston- ington, Me, has been given up as lost. She carried five men.
 Two earthquake shocks occurred at
  Panama, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon.
 Five men were killed an 12 others injured, some seriously, when a boiler exploded at the Manuel Riddle grist mill on Peter creek, near Pikeville, Ky.
 Six masked men held up 30 men in an alleged gambling house in New York and obtained money and jewelry estimated at $5.500
 
 Final certified statements of the revenues of the Panama Pacific expo. sition submitted to the board of di rectors gave the grand total of re ceipts as $12,524,523.40.
 A message from Perugia, Italy, says thieves entered the sacristy of St Peters basilica and stole nine pic n