The Pulaskian., 1916-01-28
NEWS IF THE WEEK
 FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES
 BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News condensations Re- Viewed Without comment-Ali Nations Find Something to
 Edify and Instruct.

The 54 convicts who escaped from the Arkansas penitentiary, are said to have been found barricaded in the hills near Moscow, heavily armed with guns and ammunition stolen from gun store.
 The Texas branch of the Congress sionaI Union for Woman's Suffrage was organized at a gathering of prom inent Texas women. Mrs. Harris Mas terson of Houston was elected presi- dent.
 Julius Levy of Pittsburg, Pa, said to have been 113 years old, is dead. He never required glasses and until last October had never been il.
 The half yearly statement of the American Locomotive Go. shows an increase in gross earnings of $9,039,. 630 for the last six months. The com- pany had unified orders amounting to s52,240,O00.
  ! The nomination of z. M. McCarroll as postmaster at Walnut Ridge, Ark, was rejected by the senate. He was opposed by Senator Clarke.
 A resolution calling for the submis- sion of woman's suffrage constitu- tionaI amendment in the South Caro- lima general assembly was defeated by vote of 61 to 51 in the lower house.
 The total booty of the Teutonic allies during IT months of war is summed up in Vienna as follows: sNearly 100000 prisoners, 10000 guns, 40,000 machine guns, while 470,- GOO square kilometers of enemy ter ritory has been occupied"
 Mrs. Edward Payne, 26, hanged her 4-year-old daughter, her 2-year-old son and herself with pieces of clothesline in Alloway, N. Y.
 China's poppy growers, whose busi- ness soon will be wiped out, are re- sponsible for the recent outbreaks, ac- cording to Wang Shin Young, editor of the Shanghai Shin Wen.
 Seventeen oil experts have left Pittsburg for Colombia, South Amer ica, to explore in the interior of that country, which is said to be the rich est in oil in the world.
 Prince Eitel Friederich, son of the kaiser, is reported by Swiss newspa- pers to have been sent to Athens by the German government on a special mission to King Constantine.
 Frank Quinn and J. J. Beal, Okla homa farmers, who were convicted in the federal courts of intimidating ne groes and preventing their voting, were pardoned by President Wilson.
 
 The house of representatives has adopted resolution revising the "cal- endar Wednesday rule" so as to speed up its work.
 Two American women are being de tained at Monastir by the Bulgarians. They are Mrs. Walter Farwell. Chi cago newspaper correspondent, and Miss Mitchell.
 An increase in pay for 22,00o opera fro in. yiys&t 11xr oil If tbN f1v 1n ters of Rhode Island is assured.
 The Greek vessel Vasilefs Constan- tinos has arrived at New York from Athens with 300 Servians and their families on board
 Irving Updike. 38, and Herbert Up- dike, 21, sons of Furman D, Updike, millionaire Chicago Board of Trade man, were arrested, charged with plot ting the murder of their parents.
 Mrs. Betty Bird was shot and killed on the street at Sullivan. IL. as she was leaving the courthouse after be- ing granted a divorce from Charles Bird
 Martin w Ross, who until year ago lived with his parents at White hall, Ill, was killed under load of oats which overturned on the way to market.
 Edith Forman, Belle Forman and Alma Godby, young ladies. were killed when Rock Island passenger train struck Forman's automobile at Alva, Neb.
 Because the building is believed to be unsafe, 400 pupils of the Henry Clay school, at Hegewiseh, H., went on strike.
 A report compiled by the harbor master and just made public. shows that Seattle's export trade to vladi- vostok in 1915 was s9,312,5S3, com- pared with s152,231 in 1914.