The Pulaskian., 1916-11-03

out to beat Almet M. Jenks for the place of chief justice of the court of appeals in New York.
 The question of wages and hours of labor will be the first thing taken up l by the joint subcommittee of congress when it meets Nov. 20 to take up it's ] inquiry into the railroad situation, Senator Newlands, chairman, has de clared.
 Jens Jensen, fisherman, residing at Blind Slough, Ore, was burned, probably fatally. by the explosion of coal oil at his home. With his clothes in flames, Jensen rushed from the house and jumped in a well, from which he was rescued.
 Two young women were killed in a fire which wrecked factory on East Houston street, New York, causing property damage estimated at ] $100,000.
 | When lazy Weisman told the judge that he did not steal the duck found under his coat the duck said "quack, quack." And, as the judge felt that way about it, too, lazy was held for l trial in New York i Edgar w. Foster was found guilty of l the murder of Bertha Kubevisz and her 5-year-old son, of whom he was the father, and his punishment was fixed at life imprisonment w. D. Synman, a commandant in the Boer army in the war with Great Brit ain, who came to this country shortly went to Mexico, is dead from appendi- citis.
 Ninteen dead is the result of an ex- plosion in the Marvel (Ala.) mine of the Roden Coal Go. One was killed by fall from a ladder while doing rescue work.
 United States mail will be carried from Chicago to New York by aero plane, it was announced.
 A. J. Johnson, who shot and killed street car conductor in Jasper coun- ty and who was secretly brought to the Barton county jail, tried to kill himself in his cell by eating ground glass and drinking disinfectant. His condition is serious.
 The three-story colonial residence on the Hayfield farm, in Fairfax coun- ty, Va, which was built in 1772 by George Washington, was destroyed by fire.
 The semi-annual meeting of the board of bishops of the Methodist church, the administrative body of the denomination, opened in Minneapolis, Minn., and will continue in session for a week.
 Twenty Chicago firemen were over- come in a fire in large grocery and meat house on Madison street, in the loop district. The loss is placed at more than $10,000.
 A WOIhSI III d 1OuuUu nuulIlOu ldC- tory on whom one match was found was fined $5 or IA days at Gloucester.
 Louis Horowitz, whose hair was burned off while he was getting a crude oil" shampoo in New York City, charged the barber with assault. Magistrate Corrigan, however, ruled that Horowitz was not assaulted.
 Convicted of selling liquor, Will Bishop of Atlanta, Ga, asked for new trial on the ground that he is blind and could not see the witnesses against him or gather evidence in re- buttal. The court sustained the sen tence.
 What this country needs is moro pennies, according to the treasury de- partment To this end the Philadel- phia and San Francisco hints are working "A hours a day and the Den- yer mint 16 hours a day to turn them out.
 Loss of part of the central Illinois corn crop is now threatened through an unprecedented shortage of farm hands. The husking crews which usually flock from Indiana, Kentucky and southern Illinois into the corn fields at harvest time are missing.
 
 Eighteen men lost their lives in an explosion in the Roden (Ala.) coal mine.
 Sir Joseph Beecham, the patent medicine manufacturer, was found dead in his bed at Hampstead.
 Sixteen of the crew of the steamship L. Edward Hines were drowned when the vessel was sunk in the Caribbean sea 45 miles east of Belize, British Honduras.
 It is reported that Dr. Bull has been sentenced in Belgium to six years on oh of nv