The Pulaskian., 1916-09-08
NEWS IF THE WEEK
 FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES HERE
 ARE BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
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In the face of the threatened strike the Great Northern announces a fund for pensioning veteran employees and officials.
 Harry Lima, New York chauffeur, cranked his automobile and immedi- ately it jumped onto a sidewalk and killed Hyman Silyerblatt, a pedes- trian.
 About $1,000,000 worth of the J. P. Morgan art treasure have been taken to Hartford, Conn.
 John Muller, a youth arrested at Palatka, Fla, accused of killing his father and mother, is said to have confessed.
 One dead, two dying and several seriously burned is the toll taken by fire which swept the three-story Romeo Apartments.
 While Thomas Bambrick, one of | the three men sentenced to die in |. the electric chair at Sing Sing, re- joiced in a two weeks reprieve, Joe E. Hanel and Jan Trybuss went to their death.
 Hereafter the employment of chill dren under IA years in mills and fac tories in Alabama is forbidden. Child labor laws, enacted by the last legislature. have just become ef- fective.
 In spite of the fact that Georgia is "dry" state, A. C. Blalock, col lector of internal revenue, reports $41,411 collected from persons manu- featuring or dealing in wines and fer mented liquors. Skookum Jim Madon, the Indian discoverer of the Klondike gold fields, died in poverty recently at Carcross, Yukon Territory. Former Governor Lon V. Stephens of Missouri Init the sawdust trail' at a revival in Ashbury Park, N. J. The meeting are being conducted by Billy Sunday.
 Postmaster General Burleson re- moved from office William Firsten- berger, postmaster at Kansas City, Kan, for alleged gross irregularities in the conduct of his ofice.'
 CIauoJand'c tmo Enolich o,ornin Q dailies, the Leader and the Plain Deal CT, are selling for two ceato instead of 1 cent everywhere outside of Cleve- land and Cuyhoga eauuty.
 The Aetna Explosive Go. closed it's plant at Gary, Ind, because of the em- bargo of the railroads of shipments of explosives.
 The Panama Canal commission has received report that slides at Cucaracha have blocked the water way.
 Twenty-two persons were killed and forty injured when an allied air squadron bombarded Ghent, says the Echo de Beige.
 Eccentric millionaire Edward w. Morrison of Chicago is said to have been fleeced of $6,000,000 in the last few years by underworld associates.
 Miss Henrietta Michaelis, for 23 years confidential clerk for a big New York firm, has been indicted for holdingsout $75,000 on payroll manipu- lations.
 New York jewellers report that plat mum has advanced from $65 to s80 an ounce.
 Edmond McGonn of Kansas City holds the U. S. fleet record for marks manship with four hits in four shots in 2S seconds.
 Miss Jeanette Rankin of Missoula Mont, led the state ticket in the re- cent primary. She is a dry" Re- publican running for congress.
 
 President Wilson signed the new child labor law before group of men and women interested in the vel fare legislation.
 The Delaware state board of health forbids the opening of all schools to children under 16 years of age until Sept. IS, because of the prevalence of infantile paralysis. The order applies to churches and Sunday schools.
 A tie-up of freight shipments out of Chicago was threatened by strike of freight handlers at the O., B. & O.. freight depot.
 Three Austro-Hungarian seaplanes have bombarded Italian patrol steam CTS in the Ionian sea, sinking one os them.
 Two firemen were killed and four