The Pulaskian., 1916-02-25
NEWS IF THE WEEK
 FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES
 BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News condensatIcns Re- viewed Without Comment-All Nations Find Something to
 Edify and instruct

Details related by passengers from Chihuahua tended to confirm previ- ous reports that Francisco Villa was looking for two Americans when he held up a train recently.
 Suit to construe the will of the late Charles Edward Kohl, theatrical mag note, was filed in the United States district court at Chicago by John P. Kohl of Boston, Mass.
 The production of 35 1-3 pounds Of butter in seven days by a registered Holstein COW owned by Dr. J. G. Whitney was declared by officials at the Vermont state experiment station to be a worlds record for a one-week test.
 A quarter keg of beer slipped from the grasp of several men who were carrying it up the stairway at Phila- delphia and killed John Strang, 26 years old.
 l Two minutes after Mrs. Mary Doc ley's death baby was brought into 1 the world by Caesarian operation. It was performed at the city hospital in Jersey City.
 Lawrence Ginter wealthy insur- ance man and grandson of a million aire tobacco magnate of Virginia, was l founde dead in the basement of his mothers home at Sedalia, Mo.
 
 Acompromise proposal between the Republicans and Progressives of Cali fornia in the nomination of California delegates to the Republican national convention was rejected.
 David R. Francis has not notified President Wilson whether he will ac- cept the post of ambassador to Rus sia.
 Because she did not like the ser mon and accurately hurled six eggs at the preachers head, Annie Me kanus, 19 years old. was before Mag istrate Saylor in the Baltimore West ern station. She was freed.
 
 Necessity is the mother and the manufacturers are the father of new style in hats. Owing to the great shortage in dyes, several hat factories are getting out samples of undyed hats for spring wear.
 w. A. Lawler, former finance com missioner of Emporia, Kan, was found guilty on charge of embezzle- ment by jury in the Lyon county district court
 The military authorities of Canada have given authorization for the rais- ing of an American battalion.
 Mayor J. E. Lightfoot of Ash Grove, Mo, 34 years old, is dead of heart trouble at his home in Ash Grove. The Brazilian steamer Tropeiro re- gently has been purchased by Brit ish company and will be renamed the Edith Cavell, in memory of the Eng fish nurse executed by the Germans in Belgium.
 Sweden has warned her citizens not to embark on armed merchant ves- sells, the state department was noti- fled.
 s. A. Walden, a Confederate vet eran of Murfreesboro, Tenn, who wrote that he was 50 years old, but not too old to fight, sent President Wilson sword made of cedar from the Stone River battlefield, as evil dence of his interest in preparedness.
 Five Swiss delegates to the Ford peace conference at Stockholm were named.
 Mitchell Dallas, clerk in the Lon don home office. pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey, and Joachim Altani was found guilty of conspiring to obtain money in connection with the issue of passports to aliens.
 San Mateo county, Cal, which for three years has placed women on grand juries. went back to the old or der of things and drew a list of 30 men,
 The senate passed the house bill for the coinage of 100000 gold dollars bearing likeness of President Mc- Kinley, which the Mckinley Memo rial association expects to sell at a premium to derive fund for a per manent memorial. The first call for the married men who enlisted under the Derby scheme, the London Daily. Mail says, will be issued in about month.
 The body of Adolph Pegoud, the brother of the celebrated aviator who was killed in action six months ago, was found hanging from tree in the l vicinity of Versailles.