The Pulaskian., 1916-05-12

Eight thousand miners at the Pan ther Creek Valley collierfes of the Le- high Coal and Navigation company quit work, following a disagreement over the time of starting work.
 
 The best instrumental musicians and singers in Illinois gathered at Jacksonville for a four days musical convention.
 Two vessels under charter by the Belgium, the Swedish steamship Frid- land and the British steamer Tendon Hall, were sunk within two days. The town hall at Lille, France, one of the most famous structures of it's kind in Europe, was destroyed by fire. Derailment of train by crocodile l lying across the tracks near Tela, Honduras, caused the death of Henry Kinard Smith, civil engineer, g, con of the late Bishop Coke Smith of the | Southern Methodist church.
 
 | Sheriff White of Murphysboro, H., refused to say how many persons he would invite to the hanging of Elston Scott and the governor has granted fourth reprieve to Scott to July IA. Forty-three persons were killed by automobiles and automobile trucks in Philadelphia since Jan. 1, 1916. | The postoffice and general store at Lakenan, Mo-, was entered and robbed of small sum of money | Frank B. Thayer, a graduate of l Oberlin college, Oberlin, O., and Wis consin university, has been appointed an instructor in journalism in Kansas university.
 From Dec. 31, 1915, to March, 1916, deposits in national and state banks increased $15,718,81723, according to W. W. Bowman, secretary of the Kan sas Bankers association.
 Dr. E. H. Trezona, 29 years old, of Gibson City, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Mclean, 50, and Miss Gertrude Shaw, 40, were instantly killed at Garter, H., when Wabash train struck their au- tomobile.
 Passport" chaimpion Jersey milk CT of the United States, owned by former Congressman Joseph c. Sibley of Franklin, Pa, is dead. Her record was 19,694.8 pounds of milk year.
 Edward M. Hall, a stockman, is dead from burns received in an un- successful attempt to rescue his mother Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, and her maid, Miss Alma Shaw, when the Hall country home at Carthage burned.
 
 Reilly M. Smith, former deputy United States marshal at East St. Louis, who was convicted of murder in the second degree in the Omaha courts, was released under parole to his wife.
 Plans for the second annual mill tary training camp for high school boys at the Culver military academy, which will be held May 15 to 29, have been announced. Six hundred boys | from the high schools of the central west states will be admitted this year to the camp, which last year was linn ited to 200 boys from Indiana.
 
 | Suicide is only death, but a good cigar is a smoke. So thought Richard Kuhlman of Chicago, who postponed his jump from third-story window when Leroy T. Steward asked him to have a smoke.
 Miss Sophia Brauer, 31 years old, of Murphysboro, H., burned herself to death. She touched match to her clothing, which had been saturated with coal oil. She had been lame since | childhood.
 Notices were posted in the mills of J. & P. Goats, Ltd, thread manufac- | turers at Pawtucket, R. l., announc- ing an increase of 25 per cent in the wages of 2,500 employees, effective | May i.
 This week will see the beginning of work on the long-talked-of mine near Bush, H., on the 15,O00 acres of coal lands owned by the Western Coal and Mining company.
 The Postal Telegraph company was fined $1,000 in the criminal court in Butte, Mont, on conviction of trans. mitting information on which racing bets were made.
 A new searchlight was tried out in the New York navy yard. The lens is five feet and the range is 10 miles. 1 | President Wilson has received an | onnao1 fn ipfaruana {y, tho coeoc 1e