The Pulaskian., 1916-01-14


 William Durst, 76, said to be the sole survivor of the crew of the Moni- tor, which engaged the Merrimac in the historic battle at Hampton Roads, is dead at Philadelphia of pneumonia.
 Arch Eckersall, his wife and four children were burned to death in fire which destroyed their home at Salmon, Idaho.
 A wage increase approximating per cent will go into effect in the Lockwood cotton mills at Waterville, Me, Jan. 17.
 Fire destroyed the plant of the Tex as Oil company, at North Birming- ham, Ala, causing a loss estimated at $250,000.
 The national prohibition convention will be held at the Auditorium in St. Paul June 19, instead of at Mime apolis, the place originally set by the national executive committee at Chi cago.
 President Wilson was asked to set aside day as a Jewish relief day, on which contributions should be raised for suffering Jews in the war zone
 The will of the late Thomas l.. Shevlin of Minneapolis has been filed for probate. The entire estate of $S,g00,000 is left to the widow and two children.
 w. ". Venable, Democrat, has a comfortable lead over his five oppo- nents in the special election of Tues day in the Fifth Mississippi congress sional district for successor to the late Representative Samuel A. Wither- spoon.
 B. w A. Henson, a retired farmer near Wichita, Kan, was arrested on a charge of staying his wife and his son who went to his mothers assist ance when she was attacked.
 Twenty-Five laborers had hard time easing Giovanni de Blaze, weigh ing 500 pounds, into his grave in New York after 10 pallbearers strained to get the casket there.
 
 Eli H. Redman of Terre Haute, Ind, who served several months in prison, was formally disbarred from the court in which he once presided
 
 Eleven Chinese members of the British freight steamer Veturia mu- tinied at the dock at Hoken, N. J., and drove the chief officer from the ship.
 Matthew w. Pinkerton, for 34 years head of the Pinkerton United States Detective agency, is dead at Chicago He was born at Mount Eaton, O., in 1852.
 Fearing punishment because they had played hockey, Toney Delay and Dominick Antonacci, each Il years old, of Riverton, H., kept secret for day the fact that their playmate, Jack Jannessee, had fallen through thin ice in Mud lake, near Riverton.
 Hundreds of popular periodicals have been withdrawn from news stand sale at Spokane, Wash, because of the statewide prohibition law forbid ding the advertising of liquors.
 Paris reports that another Italian liner has been sunk by mine or sub marine in the Adriatic. It was load ed with foodstuffs on the way to the starving Servians.
 A Harlequin duck, on one leg of which is a metal tag bearing the words "22, Berlin zoo,s was killed near Heavener, Ok.
 Miss Catherine Goggin. secretary of the Chicago Teachers federation, was accidentally killed by an automobile truck
 Henry Ford has returned to Detroit, but he avoided a delegation of citi- zens who had planned to welcome him and present him with a floral piece.
 Under the terms of the will of To masso Salvini, the actor, who died at Rome, sums ranging from $1,000 to S4,000 are bequeathed to institutions of charity and art of Florence.
 
 The board of army engineers in report to congress recommends the improvement of the Missouri river from Kansas City to the Mississippi. The project calls for total appropri- ation of about $20,0O0,000. Miss Anna Franklin of Paris, H., inserted an ad in a matrimonial paper for the right kind of a man and a wealthy Michigan farmer seemed to fill the bill, as she married him at l first sight.