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Berlin, N, j.
Robert Taylor, who was shot dur
ing a quarrel in Detroit March 6, has
confessed that he shot and killed Alva
Johnson at Nashville, Tenn, Labor
day.
The proposition of changing the
government of the city OF Anna, H.,
from aldermanic to commission form
viii be voted on at the April election.
Willet Fisher, Chootaw Indian Of
Hugo, Ok, was sentenced to be cleo
trocuted for the murder Of his father
and mother last November.
The voluntary contributions of post
office workers throughout England
are bringing in an income OF $3.50, 900
year.
William Roberts, SO years old, be-
lieved to be the last Of the survivors
of the Twelfth royal lancers, the he
roes of Tennyson's poem, Charge of
the Light Brigade" is dead at Joliet,
Ill.
Mrs. Anna Hess, 20 years old, of
Canton, o., pleaded guilty to a charge
of bigamy in police court and admit
ted that she has three husbands.
Caught under a falling folding bed
that she had just made up, Mrs. Aida
Shain, so years old, Of San Francisco,
was pinioned in such manner that
she was choked to death.
Mrs. Laura Payne, IA years old, has
been granted divorce fIBm w. w.
Payne, So, in Jackson, Tenn. The cou-
pie had been married AZ years.
Ten Mexican generals in command
of only 100 men recently raided San
Juan Guadalupe, in Zacatecas, and
captured a German named Weiner,
whom they held for ransom at 10000
pesos. They got the money.
According to statements made by
the French minister OF war. Gen. Cal
lieni. the French casualties up to
March /, 1915. amounted to 100000
dead and 100000 wounded.
J. s. Jones, convict in the federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth. was
bound over to the United States SUI
preme court, charged with the murder
last January Of Henry Schmidt, anoth-
er convict, who was beaten to. death.
Carl Gustav Engholm, who was ar
rested on the steamship Lapland at
Liverpool. was sentenced to six
months for making false statement
regarding his identity.
The senate passed bill appropri-
ating $S25,OO0 for three new coast
guard cutters and S25O,O0O for three
river steamers to relieve flood suf-
ferers on the Mississippi.
According to official German cas-
ualty lists which have reached Lon
don, the total German casualties for
February were sS,19S. This brings
up the total for the war TO 1857 .372.
win Crittendon and Emmett Comp
ton were identified by persons who
were in the First National bank at
Wan. Ok. as the two men who robbed
the bank of $780,
The monthly statement Of the
United States Steel corporation places
unfinished orders to Feb. 30 at $685.
s66 tons, an increase of 646.IsS tons
over Jan. 81.
NJ. Maleysky.Maleyitch. Russian am
bassador to Japan. has been recalled,
owing to reasons of health.
A. d. Guthrie. head OF the Interna-
tional Merchant Marine, announces
that the liners Lapland. Adriatic and
Baltic OF the White Star line have
been Withdrawn from passenger serv-
Ice for this month.
Caught under slide Of rock and
earth in the plant Of the sandusky
Portland Cement company's plant, at
Dixon. H.. Thomas C. Godt. 1s-year-
old employe, was crushed to death.
Ffre destroyed the engineering
building Of the Michigan Agricultural
college. causing a loss Of $500. 900.
vico Serisko, an Austrian, was
murdered as he entered the gate Of a
friends home In Kansas City. Kan.
No cause is known for the attack.
With the jury complete and accept
ed By both the defense and the prose
eution. the trial Of former Senator
William Lorimer as q bank wrecker
has been postponed.
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4 split IN Taylor's comet Il an
nounced IN message % the Harvard
observatory from the Yerkes observa
lnry.