The Semi-weekly leader., 1916-03-04

deIphia on the water wagon" No
city employe is allowed to use liquor.
The Kiel Zeitung says a sensation
has been caused by the stranding at
SchObuell, in Friesland, Holland, OF q
small dinghy belonging to the German
cruiser Nuernburg, which was sunk in
the battle with the British fleet off
the Falkland islands Dec. 8, 1914.
Joe C. Ratcliff, 20 years old. a bank
er OF Cunningham, Kan, died at a
hospital as the result Of growth on
his back caused by snspenders rub
bing mole.
President Wilson sent to the sen
ate correspondence between the
United States and Korea relating to
Korea's occupation by Japan as was
thought compatible with the public
interest.
Cardinal Mercier, primate Of Bel
gium, has left Rome for home by way
Of Switzerland.
Lord Derby's acceptane of the chair
manship OF joint naval and military
board to control the British air sery-
ice was announced.
Sweden will be permitted to inn
port larger supplies of coal from
Great Britain under a new arrange
ment with the British government.
Hopewell, Va, the boom war muni-
ton town, which without govern
ment for a year has run a course
paralleling that OF western mining
town in pioneer days, was incorpo-
rated by legislative enactment.
All passengers aboard the Mer-
chants & Miners liner Cretan, dam
aged in a collision with a schooner
IA miles from Cape Hatteras. were
safely transferred to the steamer
Dorothy.
From the first-class mail on the
Dutch steamship HolIandia, detained
at Falmouth recently, while on voy-
age from Buenos Aires to Amster-
dam. 1.265 parcels of raw rubber were
taken.
Sheriff Bordell of Joe Daviess
county, ILL.,, while pursuing fugitive
negro, was accidentally shot and
probably fatally wounded by City Mar
shaI Richard Blair of Galena, Ill.
.
The New York curb traders, long
an outdoor spectacle in the streets OF
the metropolis. are looking for a home
under a roof.
The right of the proprietor Of q
theater to refuse admission to any
person whose published criticism Of
dramatic performances might injure
the business OF the theater was up
held unanimously by the court OF ap-
peals Of New York.
A resolution endorsing Senator L.
Y. Sherman for president was adopt
ed by the Republican congressional
committee of the Eighteenth Illinois
district at its meeting.
An immense old oak tree on West
High street, Carlisle, Pa, where
Washington reviewed his army as he
marched west to quell the whisky in
surrection, was shattered by a storm
and cut down.
President Yuan Shi Kai has hon
ored Duke Kung Lin-Yi, lineal do
scendant of Confucius, with a prince
dom.
The extraordinary session of the
Oklahoma legislature adjourned sine
die after turbulent session.
Henry Wallace, 80 years old, pub
Usher Of a farm journal, fell dead in
the First Methodist church at Des
Moines. la.
Four Swedish trawlers which were
leaving the harbor of Gottenburg
were captured by German subma-
rines.
The Georgia law imposing a tax on
redeemable tobacco coupons was held
to be discriminatory and unconstitu-
tional by the state supreme court.
Kansas Democrats will hold their
state convention in Hutchinson Tues.
day, April IL.
An American woman and her fam
lily have been murdered by Mexicans
near Cusihuiriachic, state Of Chihua-
hua.
Two of Chicago's largest dealers in
cigars and cigarettes are in a cigar
ette war and q large number of to-
bacco stores are offering cut prices.
Under a ruling handed down in the
admiralty court at Halifax, the case
OF the prize steamer Hooking is trans
ferred to England for trial.
Admiral Won Pohl, whose retirement
on account of III health from the posi-
ticn Of commander of the German bat,
tie fleet was announced few days
ago, is dead in Berlin.
Bert w. Clayton. instructor in music
at San Marcos (Tex.) Baptist acad-
emy, was found dead Of heart disease
by roadside.
Rev. o. r. Nelson resigned as pas,
tor Of the First Baptist church at
Pana. ILL.,, and will return to vandalias
H.. to reside.
Protests against the use Of soldiers
and aliens in the engine and train
service on the government railroad at
Panama we're presented to President
Wilson by union labor leaders.
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