Fair play., 1916-02-12
M. Willem Frederick Treut, min
lister of finance in the Netherlands
cabinet, has resigned.

M. Willem Frederick Treut, min
lister of finance in the Netherlands
cabinet has resigned.
Senator Lewis introduced bill for
establishment of a S1,000000 naval
academy at Chicago.
Locked out by his negro congrega-
ton at Norwich, Conn, Preacher John
Dennis crawled through a window and
conducted services which ended IN
free-for-all fight and police court fines
for ali.
It's Sc cold l Minnesota that rail-
road locomotives freeze to the tracks.
The Crookston local passenger
stopped at st. Hilaire for water and
had to be Jared loose before it could
start again
Miss Ida Clark, 1S years old, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Clark or
New Britain, Conn. died from ap -
jury received recently in a playful
tussle in bed with her roommate at
the Baypath institute, in Springfield,
Mass.
A wireless from the steamer Prin-
cess Masquinna of the Canadian Pa
cific railways fleet stated the vessel
went ashore in Seymour Narrows in
a snowstorm.
Miss Gaby Deslys, prima donna, has
received a cable message from Mar
settles, France, announcing the death
there of her father, Hibbylite Caire.
Charles B. Munday, convicted vice
president of the La Sale Street Say
ings bank of Chicago, was sentenced
to five years in prison
Twelve robbers entered the Nc
Comb (Ok.) State bank, bound the
cashier, ]. ]. Tripe, to chair and
escaped with $4,000.
The American steamer Moreni, from
Philadelphia for Copenhagen, with
petroleum and naphtha, has been
taken into KlrkWau.
Through mediation conducted by
King Alfonso of Spain, the German
government has released Leon Theo-
dor, member of the Brussels bar, on
condition that he shall reside in Swift
zerland.
According to Dr. Henry K. G.. Car.
roll, the number of church members
in the United States and its terri.
tories in 1915 was 39,3S0,71S, a gain
over 1914 of 653,64O.
The Japanese foreign office issued
statement denying the report that
Japan and England have signed a
treaty recognizing Japan's superior
rights in the far east.
Denmark is threatened with serious
labor troubles, according to Copen-
hagen correspondent, who says that
strikes involving $4,000 men will be-
gin.
A navy department dispatch from
Charleston said that a steamer had
reported sighting what appeared to be
the missing submarine K-5 off the
Florida coast.
James Irwin, 60 years old, one OF
the four persons shot in the back at
Albany, N Y, by madman who i'm
mediately fled, died at a local hos
pital.
Highwaymen held up an undertak-
er's wagon containing the body of
Aleksian Agopoffs, former Du Pont
employe, on the Hopewell road, near
Petersburg, Va.
The strike of ZOO employees of the
Union Drawn Steel company, which
was called for Feb. 1, was settled.
The New York Central railroad,
formed in 1914 by merger of IL mi,
nor companies. in the supreme court
won its fight against the opposition
to the combination
The bundesrath has ordered a re-
striction in the allowance of malt and
barley to breweries and also outlined
an ordinance limiting the production
of canned meats.
Mrs. ], A. Stout was sentenced to
serve 30 days in the Memphis work
house for violation of the state liquor
laws. Mrs. Stout is the first woman
to be sentenced for such an offense.
Sadie Ostorff, ~ years old, failed OF
promotion from the seventh to the
eighth grade in the New York public
schools and, returning to her home,
jumped out of a window to death.
Rioting occurred in Lisbon, Portu-
gal, in demonstration against the in
creased cost of living. Attacks were
made on many bakeries and provision
shops in different parts of the city.
Gov. Martin @. Brumbaugh of Penn
sylvania was married to Miss Gloria
Belle aPrks, his distant cousin, ward
and housekeeper.
Mrs, Daniel Weingart. Miss Emma
Harbaugh and Mrs. John Myers of
Chambersburg, Pa, were killed when
milk train struck their automobile.
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An increase of from 1914 to 22 cents
an hour for common labor was an
nounced at the general offices of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company.