The Pulaskian., 1916-06-09
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Robert H. Ingersoll & Bro. and the Waterbury Clock Go. of Chicago, are converts to the more daylight" movement
 William J. Bryan said Col Roosevelt would not be nominated by the Repub- lcan convention. He predicted that Justice Hughes would get the nomina- ton.
 According to Reginald McKenna, chancellor of the exchequer, the de- ficit for 1916-17 will be met by borrow ing an amount estimated at 21,323,- 10b,00O (s6,615,525,000).
 A big mountain fire in the Glass Mountain district, near Marathon, Tex. has destroyed 30 sections of timber and grass lands.
 W. B. Stone, 58 years old, mayor of Sapulpa, Ok, died from injuries suffered when he was run down by an automobile.
 The house of commons agreed to a motion made by Premier Asquith for adjournment to June 20.
 The federal trade commission an- nounced that it will hold meetings June 12 and 13 to investigate the rise in the price of gasoline.
 The Tennessee railroad commission ruled the the present Scent passenger rate of the Illinois Central Railroad is too high and the company was given 30 days to reduce the rate to 27a cents.
 General Federation of Women's Clubs postponed action on the elec- tion of city in which to hold the next convention. It is said that Hot Springs is favored.
 Phenomenal cold for this time of the year prevails throughout Russia. The street cars at Kazan have been stopped by snow. The temperature at many points is below freezing.
 
 
 Byron J. Sanford and J. F. Kelley of San Francisco and the Rev. Rich ard Fysh of Calwa, Cal, 61 years old. were given jail sentences after plead ing guilty to using the mails to de fraud in land settlement scheme.
 British casualties in May from all fields of operations, as compiled from published lists, is 1,707 officers and 28,470 men.
 Prof. John MacNeil, president of the Sim Fein volunteers, who was found guilty of complicity in the Irish revolt, has been sentenced to life imprison- ment and the sentence confirmed.
 
 J. D. Carnahan, news agent on the l.. E. & w. railroad, became violently insane just as the train was leaving Tipton, Ind, and fought the train crew and passengers all the way to Peoria, where he was arrested and locked in a cell
 President Wilson has presented the diplomas to the graduating class at the naval academy at Annapolis.
 Frank Battson of New Westmin- ster, B. C., was drowned when he attempted to rescue four friends in capsized boat.
 Italian soldiers may insure their lives for $1,OO0 each, according to a new rule of the National Institute of Insurance
 Norway is sending 35,00O tons of grain to Poland and other Scandinav- ian countries are expected to follow Steps have been taken by the war department to hold the army to it's present strength iii view of the Mex ican situation.
 Mrs. Hattie E. Oakley of Woonsock- ct. R. l., pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to 20 years in state prison.
 The state convention of the Prohibi- tion party has opened in Peoria. A conference of women as an adjunct to the convention was called.
 The house adopted all amendment to the naval bill appropriating s6,000.00O to equip the Puget Sound, Philadelphia, Norfolk. Charleston, Boston and Portsmouth, N. H., and New Orleans navy yards to "build such ships as may be assigned to them'
 Announcement has been made of the purchase of the Robert Palmer & Sons Shipbuilding Go by Charles w. Morse and associates of New York. Dispatches from Budapest report that the officials of the Hungarian gun works intend increasing the capital of the company from 13,o00,00O to 40,- 00O GOO crowns