The Pulaskian., 1916-11-03

Wilber Gettys, son of Rev. w. w. Gettys, was instantly killed in a high school game in Ansley, Neb. He was thrown during a scrimmage, falling on his head and breaking his neck.
 Bremen succeeded in extinguishing the flames in the hold of the French liner Chicago. The vessel itself was not damaged.
 A proposal has been made by the Russian minister of finance to re- place medals and decorations made of gold and silver by others of less val nable metals. In 1915 gold and silver of value of over $2,5O0,00O were used for these purposes.
 
 A 3-year-old child of MT. and Mrs. A. Collins of Newport, Ark, fell into a kettle of boiling apple butter the mother was making and died
 
 The four bandits who were cap tured at Babicorn ranch, 75 miles from Casas Grandes, Mexico, have been executed.
 William Ostermeir, wealthy farm CT of South Fork township, H., was kicked in the abdomen by a horse and killed
 President Wilson has commuted the sentence of dismissal from the army iupnaad hv on,,rt ,,, ~+;,1 l.: rr.. upon Capt. John B. H. Waring, medi- cal corps, to loss of 25 numbers.
 An additional $15,OO0,000 in gold was received by J. P. Morgan & Go. from Canada. Total imports from all sources thus far this year aggregate $365.0Oo, ,00O.
 John Lowe, 40 years old, well-to- do farmer of Pana, IT., was shot in the ankle by boy whom he ordered off his farm, where he was hunting, and died of gangrene.
 
 Henry Hole. aged 20, 61s feet tall, son of August Hole of New Salem, N. D., was taken off the train by the po- lice after he had run away from home because his father had given him whipping. Hole returned hol..
 Brig. Gen. w. A. Mann, commanding the army division with headquarters at Laredo, Tex. was selected for chief of the division for militia affairs in the war department. made vacant by the death of Maj. Gen. Albert J. Mills. Mrs. Matilda Banks, S6 years old, of Hume, Mo-, was run down and killed by an automobile driven by J. L. Me Connell
 To meet the increased cost of liv- ing, the Peoples Gas Light and Coke Co. of Chicago has announced a vol untary raise of 10 per cent in the wages of 3,700 employees, of whom all are getting less than $200 a month.
 Ben +. Mckee, Jeff Harrison and H. Grady Webb were indicted by federal grand jury on charge of rob- ping a Louisville & Nashville train near Greenville,. Ala, on July g, 1915.
 Three trainmen were killed when the caboose in which they were rid ing was demolished by an engine of another train which ran into it in the trainyard in Gibson, Ind.
 uauioO cho% apd IviIJo5 Ir..-xa... r,-.- ton, whom he mistook for a deer, ac- cording to advices received in Be midi, Minn., Richard Martin of Grant Valley, Minn., is held under a charge of manslaughter.
 The new Trolpastta canal, in Swe- den, has been opened by King Gus tav, says the Overseas News Agency The canal establishes communication between vener lake and the North sea and it's construction took seven years.
 In the first two years of operation the Panama canal tolls amounted to e7.411 ,6S2, although the waterway was closed half Of year, due to repairs. A total of 2.o97 ships passed through the canal
 Women and girls will no longer be allowed to work longer than nine hours a day as result of an order is- sued by the labor and industrial con- mission in Kansas.
 Homer T. French pleaded guilty in the federal court in New York to the charge of impersonating a government officer to extort $15,000 from Alfred R. West. Eighteen months.
 Preparations for a national turn the-clock ckforward-an-hour" convention In December were discussed at meet ing in New York.
 Students of the Atlanta (Ga.) school for the deaf will receive military train ing Commands will be conveyed by