The Pulaskian., 1916-04-14

ests" were passed at the New Jersey convention of the German-American alliance.
 Simplified spelling of 12 words rec commended by the National Education al association was adopted by the Philadelphia North American. The words are tho, altho, thru, thruout, thoro, thoroly, thorofare, program, prolog, catalog, pedagog and decalog.
 
 Fifteen hundred unorganized miners employed in 10 collieries in the Ale gheny valley are on strike for an eight-hour day.
 Passenger traffic on the railroads has decreased throughout the country, largely on account of the use of auto mobiles, according to l.. F. Loree, president of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad company. Howard Chandler Christy, New York artist of note, filed suit to divorce Mabelle Thompson Christy.
 
 ven (Mich.l dentist, drank large quantity of poison about 10 hours be- fore his brother. F. P. Cummings of Lansing, shot and killed himself in a Chicago hotel. Ira Jones, constable at Christopher, III, was shot and killed by Cles Smith, a miner, in saloon.
 
 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 While police were searching the home of Dr. H. Brooks of Memphis, Tenn, for burglar, the 15-year-old son, Henry P. Brooks, mistook Police man w. Gresham for a burglar and shot him.
 fingered over his wife's suit to di- vorce him and forced to pay alimony while it was pending William Brown, meat cutter at Losand, H., entered his wife's boarding house, shot her twice and then killed himself.
 
 By the substitution of white for red | tape in government offices, the Brit 1 ish cabinet has effected a saving of | S7,000 year. A general increase of pay of em- 1 ployes of the American Smelling and Refining company became effective l April 1. 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 (Ind.) reform newspaper, was either thrown or jumped from sec ond story window of his office build ing following an attempt to kidnap him.
 | Owing to rumors of President Yuan Shi Kai's resignation, Pekin is in veritable state of panic Marines from the gunboat Wilmington have been l landed at Swatow. 1 Edward Monohan married Miss Yer nie McHe enry March 13 at Kansas l City. Two days later they separated, and he has brought suit for divorce. 1 Walter H. Page, American ambassa- dor to England, announced that an analysis of the fragments of torpedo found in the hull of the channel liner l Sussex proved conclusively that the device was of German origin. | The French bark Bourbaki, which left San Francisco on Oct. 26 for Ips- wich, has arrived in tow and leaking, having struck mine. Strong gains for the drys were 1 made in many Nebraska towns and villages at the recent election Re l turns indicate that 12 places changed from wet to dry and three from dry to wet.
 1 The senate bill for an armor plate factory was favorably reported by the house naval committee by vote of l 16 to 6.
 Clarence Hudson, alias Ernest Schil- Ter, the German sympathizer, who sin gle-handed captured the British liner Matoppo at sea and compelled the crew to do his bidding, has been de clared insane. One thousand miners employed by the Ellsworth Galleries company and by the Pittsburg gWestmoreland Coal company. at Acme, have quit work. They demand an increase of 10 per 1 cent.
 pr. Pierre Roux, director of the Pasteur institute, announced to the Academy of Science the discovery of a serum for the treatment and pre- | 0@