The Pulaskian., 1916-01-07
NEWS IF THE WEEK l FROM OVER WORLD
HAPPENINGS IN OUR OWN AND OTHER COUNTRIES
 BRIEFLY TOLD.
SHORT ITEMS FOR BUSY MEN
Weeks News cOndensations Re- viewed Without comment-All Nations Find Something to
 Edify and Instruct.

A. K. Patterson of Sale City, Ga, was shot by friend named Strick- land, following quarrel over a dog.
 Orange growers of California have received approximately S500,000 more this year than last year for their crop, according to an announcement made by H. Harold Powell.
 Harry P Connolly, 28 years old, of New Orleans, held up a negro at the point of a flask of whisky, but was interrupted by patrolman, who took him in custody.
 Tom Ames of East St Louis and Chicago, bridegroom of A hours, is in jail on charge of perjury in con nection with procuring license to marry Ethel Stone, IT.
 Designs prepared by the navy de- pertinent for two seagoing subma- rines authorized by the last naval ap- propriation act contemplate the use of steam turbines in surface propulsion.
 A decree establishing a minimum wage of $50 per week for 10000 women and girls employed in retail stores in Massachusetts has gone into effect
 Al Ringing, 66 years old, is dead of Bright's disease Ringing was the oldest of the Ringing brothers, circus owners.
 Cold and hungry, Harvey Seals, who escaped from the Christian county, Mo-, jail with Frank Kosmato, re- turned and gave himself up to Sheriff John Turner.
 Ten thousand persons gathered at the Trenton station to welcome Billy Sunday, evangelist, who has begun seven weeks campaign in huge tab ernacle
 Frederick J. Clarke, clerk in the branch of the Canadian Bank of Com merce, at Admiral, Saskatchewan, is under arrest on charge of theft of $500 of the banks funds.
 Henry A. Muessel, a millionaire owner of the Muessel Brewing com pany, and Frank Chobot, an employe, were murdered and MT. Muessel's two sons seriously wounded when they re- sisted the efforts of two bandits to rob the office of the brewery at South Bend, Ind
 Six negroes met death at Blakely, Ga, at the hands of posse which was trying to arrest them for the al legged murder of a plantation owner last week.
 New proposals from Germany for a settlement of the Lusitania contro- versy, which the Berlin foreign office hopes will be acceptable to the United States. are expected to be presented to the state department this week.
 With the consent of Cardinal Gib- bons, the prayer committee of the Billy Sunday campaign management will send letter to the Catholic clergy of Baltimore asking for their cooperation.
 Theodore Roosevelt was allowed $1.442.52 against William Barnes, Re publican leader, as costs and dis bursements in the recent trial il Syracuse, N. Y.
 Secretary Lansing denied the state ments that the purpose of the visit tc Europe of Col. E. M. House was to settle differences between our ambas sadors at the European capitals.
 Two Austrian torpedo boat destroy CTS have been sunk in the Adriatic by the naval forces of the allies in those waters.
 Reports come from German sources that mail from the German foreign office to Ambassador Bernstorff had been seized and retained by the Brit ish
 Eighteen German soldiers were killed and AT wounded when train filled with troops who were on fur tough jumped the tracks at Bent schen, near Posen.
 Miss Margaret Curtiss, IS, daughter of J. w Curtiss of Greenwich, Conn. got up from her bed recently and wan dered into the night storm and was found dead in the morning.
 Increases in wages ranging from : to 5 cents an hour for Boston long shoremen become effective Jan. 1.
 A bulletin issued by the Diamond State Fiber company, at Morristown Pa, announces that hereafter the company proposes to pay a dividend every three months to employees based on the wages earned