The Semi-weekly leader., 1916-03-04
NEWS Or The WEEK
FROM OVER WORLD.
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND
ESy OTHER COUNTRIES q
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SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News Ccndensationa ns.
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EdIfy and instruct.

cOns1n student, charged Win tne nur-
der Of Marion Frances Lambert,
pleaded not guilty and waived prelim-
mary examination.
Fire in the plant of Hubbard & Co.,
Pittsburg, Pa, shovel manufacturers,
did $125,000 damage.
The sinking of the Italian hospital
ship Marechiaro, near San Giovanni
di Medua, Albania, is reported in
dispatch from Rome.
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 q range
of 1900 yards. -.
The supreme court granted the ap-
plication of the British government
for early consideration of the appeal
of Ignatius T. T. Lincoln.
The British steamer Suevir, from
New York Feb. IL for Havre, has
been abandoned afire at sea.
]. w. Grow, a farmer, has pur-
chased 24,700 acres of land in Jim
Hogg and Brooks counties. Tex, for
$655,900 from C. w. Roberts,
wealthy man Of Los Angeles.
Pope Benedict has appointed Car
dinal Dominic Serafini pro-prefect of
the congregation Of the propaganda
and Cardinal Falconio prefect of the
congregation of religious affairs.
Only 315 per cent of those paroled
from California's penitentiaries have
gone back to life of crime.
Fire was discovered in New York
on the Eurymachos, a Russian ship
laden with munitions.
The Russian government has grant
ed permission to the wives and chill
dren of men who came to America be-
fore the war to leave Russia and join
their relatives.
The Norwegian ship Ander, laden
with coal pit props, has gone ashore
in Blyth bay and is a total wreck.
Four lives were lost.
Five German generals who held the
iron cross of the first class have been
killed in the battle of Verdun.
The selection OF Harold G. Town
send, Chicago lawyer, as secretary
of the Chicago Peace society to sue
ceed Louis P. Lochner, resigned, is
announced.
A solid train of so carloads Of Pu-
get Sound and Alaska salmon, with
banners on the sides, Is en- route for
New York over the Union Pacific sys-
TEN.
According to testimony in Chi
cago court, Charles H. Mccormick
lived through 20 years Of married life
without performing any labor. Mrs.
Mccormick was given divorce.
"Big John" Murphy and Milton
Armstrong, Danville (Ill) negroes,
were found guilty of murder and SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for 80 years
each.
]. Grant Lyman, under federal in
dictment in New York on charges Of
using the mails to defraud, admitted
his identity when taken before a
United States commissioner.
The superdreadnaught Pennsylvania
remained at anchor at Portland, Me-,
on account of dense fog which pre-
vented run outside the bay for the
completion of her Standardization
trials.
The first filings under South Da-
kota's new primary law were made
when the names of Woodrow Wilson
and Thomas R. Marshall were filed.
May % is the primary date.
ss
A reception being given by the
Daughters Of the American Revelu-
tion in the dining room of the Wind
sor hotel, Jacksonville, Fla, broke up
in a riot when half dozen three-foot
alligators escaped from fountain.
"A Jury returned verdict Of $4,000
for mss Edith Sage of Minneapolis,
NES~~ l.. i,,rad. xr,1.ax. bnx o,,farooh hlIn
colIided with one belonging to Fred
n. Yates.
Microscopic moving pictures show
ing blood circulation In humans have
been completed at Battle Greek san
itariums
Jasper Perry, a convict in the Illi-
nois state penitentiary, was convict
ed Of the murder of James Howard. a
felIow-convict, on Dec. 20 last, and
was sentenced to be hanged.
Mrs Ann r. Parsons, widow Of Ly-
man J. Parsons Of Winstead, Conn,
died in the room in which she was
Dorn 20 years ago.
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Ten per cent increase in wages of
telegraphers and station agents Of
the Glover Leaf railro-l has been
granted.
Col. Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt
are in British Guinea. They win go
to Trinidad where they will take a
steamer direct to New York.
Edward CaIlaghan of Charleroi, Pa.
filed with the Ohio secretary of state
notice OF his candidacy for the DEM
ocratic nomination for president
against President Wilson.
DR.. David Allyn Gorton, called the
father Of eugenics.@ who became the
father Of twins in his eighty-first
year, died at his home in Brooklyn.
at the age Of SO.