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arrived in Paris to confer with French
senators and deputies.
Three Bulgarian officers and forty
soldiers have been killed or wounded
by the explosion Of the chief ammuni-
ton store at Nish.
The parish church at BEAUFORT
near Quebec, was destroyed by fire.
The fire started in the eacristy. The
loss is estimated at about $500, 900.
The American steamship China,
which LETT Shanghai for San Francis
co was held up on the high seas by a
British auxiliary cruiser and thirty
eight Germans we're taken off.
Premier Aristide BRAND, who heads
Frances bachelors as Lord Kitchener
does England's, is soon to be married
in Paris to Mademoiselle Munier,
daughter Of a multimillionaire French
ship owner.
The Philippine commission has
named II. p. Willis president Of the
New Insular bank, the founding Of
which, capital S1O.O OO 900. was author.
lied by the last Legislature. The
salary fixed for the position is $12.-
900.
At Manchester, England. Albert
Holt. managing director, and Diony
sius Cooper, secretary of the firm Of
Messrs. w. A. Holt, cotton spinners
have been sentenced to prison for VIC
lation Of the Trading With the En-
envy act.
The London proprietors of the week
ly journal Bystander were fined e109,
the former editor, Vivian Carter, ESQ,
and Lieutenant Bernard, ~cartoonist,
ESQ, for publishing a cartoon de-
picting a British soldier lying intoxi-
Gated beneath a tree and clasping a
bottle of rum.
A mutiny of Hindu troops in Egypt
is reported by the Berlin Cologne
Volkes Zeitung as quoted by the
Overseas News Agency. 1t is said an
entire regiment mutinied, killing
twelve officers. including a major,
and that other Hindu troops went
over to the mutineers.
Sporting News
At New Orleans Joe Mandot Of New
Orleans was awarded a referees dect
sion over Johnny Dundee Of New
York at the end Of a twenty-round
boxing contest
r. Lindley Murray Of California
and A. H. Man, Jr., former Yale cap.
tain, won places in the final round Of
the national indoor tennis champion
ship singles at New York.
Mrs. Virginia M. Arson, wife OF
Adrian G. (Cap.) Arson, former man.
ager of the Chicago National League
baseball club, died at her home in Chi
cago. She was sc years old.
Jack Dillon of indianapolis floored
Wick Hanson Of Los Angeles six
Times in the third and fourth rounds
Of their eight-round bout at Memphis,
Tenn, and won an easy decision.
March 3 is the date set for the hear
ing in Denver of the suits of Lorean
v. and John f. Coffey, who ask 500.
900 damages each for an attack they
allege was made last August on Mrs
Coffey by James c. McGill, Denver
baseball magnate.
Charles Barrett, captain Of last
years Cornell varsity football team,
twice chosen a member of the all.
American team, and regarded as one
of the greatest players in Cornelrs
gridiron history, has been dropped
from the university because of poor
scholarship, according to a statement
made by Dean A. W. Smith of sibley
College.
General
A slight e%arthshock vas felt
throughout the Carolinas, Georgia and
Tennessee early Monday evening.
Hans Schmidt was electrocuted at
Sing Sing prison at Ossining, N. Y,
for the murder of Anna Aumuller,
Sept. 2, 1913.
Billy Sunday left Trenton, N. J., fol
Winona Lake, Ind, leaving behind him
nearly 1900 "trail-hitters" and TAX
ing with him about $50,
Princeton University has been be-
queathed between $4,000 and $780,.
600 by the will of Mrs. Marie An
tonette Fiske, who died recently in
Pasadena, Cal.
Leo Crane, Indian agent at Keams
Cahon, Ariz., was killed by Indians
according 10 unconfirmed reports re
ceived at Flagstaff, Arig., from Gallup
N. NJ, and Holbrook, Ariz.