The Pulaskian., 1916-05-26

The town or Moark, Ark., was de- stroyed by fire. The blaze is sup posed to have been of incendiary origin. Moark has 700 inhabitants.
 
 Premier Asquith will move a new war appropriation of $1,500, 100000 Tuesday. This will bring the total war appropriations to $11, 900, ,OO0, 600.
 Miss Jennie Jones, woman golf champion of Iowa, was killed at Sioux City, la, when her automobile was hit by the police patrol.
 Mrs. Priscilla c. Dodd, 83, and the only woman who witnessed the hang ing of Mrs. Mary F. Suratt as one of the plotters of the assassination of Lincoln, is dead at Washington
 The Jews of Chicago raised $35O. .OO0 for the relief of sufferers in Europe at one mass meeting. The c committee hopes to raise more than half million
 The tract of land near Munich re- gently purchased by the Krupps, will be used as the site for a cannon fac tory. The guns manufactured at this plant will be sent to Germany's allies.
 Corporal Kiffen Rockwell of Atlanta, Ga, member of the American flying squadron, attacked and destroyed a German aeroplane operating near Hart manns- -Wellerkopf.
 Gen. Chen-Chi-Nei, high official of the Chinese revolutionary party, was assassinated by three Yuan-Shi-Kai supporters in Shanghai.
 Members of the crew of the Cymric on their arrival at Liverpool reported that the White Star liner had been sunk by an explosion of her boilers.
 King Christian of Denmark was op- erated on for intestinal trouble simi- lar to that which necessitated an op- eration early in 1915.
 The $20,000 home which Eugene E. Schmitz, three times mayor of San Francisco, built in the heyday of his political power is to be sold by the sheriff
 Eight Hindus were injured on the Durst hop ranch at Wheatland, Cal, in a riot which started with a re- hgious discussion
 Two troops of cavalry of the nation al guard of Pennsylvania, the last to be on strike duty in East Pittsburg, have been withdrawn.
 Washington was chosen by the United Confederate eVterans for the 1917 reunion and Gen. George P. liar rison of Alabama was elected com mander-in-chief, to succeed Gen. Ben nett Young of eKntucky.
 A motion to reconsider the vote by which the nomination of George Rub- lee of New Hampshire to the federal trade commission was rejected has been passed by the senate.
 The destroyer Benham has arrived at Norfolk to make tests with new type of mines designed to permit mine-laying from a vessel going at high speed.
 Miss Marion Blakelock, daughter of R. A. Blakelock, the painter, herself an artist, may soon be released from the Hudson river state hospital in Poughkeepsie if her friends are sue cessful.
 An equestrian statue of George Washington, the gift of an anonymous patriotic citizen and veteran of the civil war" was unveiled the West Point plain.
 Mexican paper currency amounting to $46,000,000 was burned in the court yard of the national palace. The money is being supplanted by the new uncounterfeitable bills.
 Camp woodrow Wilson" came into existence when more than 500 high school students arrived at the Culver (Ind.) Military academy.
 President Wilson has asked John w. Westcott. attorney-general of New Jersey, to make the nominating speech at St. Louis.
 The United States submarine K-2 collided with the steamer Aragon 14 miles north of Cape Delaware, slightly 1rjuring the bowcap
 The senate has rejected the nomina- tion of George F. Rublee of New Hampshire to be member of the fed eral trade commission.
 The steamer Monterey, from Mexi- can ports and Havana, arrived in New York with Rafael zubaran, newly ap- pointed minister of the Mexican de tacto government to Berlin.
 William Jennings Bryan will attend Rhe Democratic national convention, mi na dele9afe hut aa | raportnr