The Pulaskian., 1916-03-31


 tropical diseases.
 The price of beer in Austria-Hun- gary has been raised for the third time since the war started
 
 Four babies were burned to death last week in a fire in New York day nursery.
 Bodies of the sailors of Admiral Cervera's fleet who were captured during the Spanish-Ameriean war and died in the naval hospital at Ports mouth, N H.. will be removed to Spain as mark of respect to the Spanish government.
 During the mine-sweeping practice by Greek naval vessels in the bay of Eleusis this week, obstacles were en- countered which are thought to be the Persian galleys of xerxes' fleet.
 
 Two thousand panes of glass were shattered when a mine which drifted ashore off Gudhjem exploded.
 Military training for boys in the public schools of Hoboken, N. !, will begin immediately.
 The house education committee voted unanimously to take no action on pending bills to reopen the north pole controversy. Dr. Frederick A. Cook asked the committee to investi- gate his claims.
 A romance ended in Chicago court when Charles Robinson divorced Val aja Bernieia Winton Robinson, daugh- ter of former Mayor 0. R. Winton of East St. Louis, and heiress to his $500,0 estate.
 Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, editor of the Los Angeles Times, is seriously i'll with pneumonia.
 Mrs. Thomas Nelson and her sister, Miss Clara Matthews, are dead at Vi- enna, Mo, as result of poison mys- teriously administered.
 The first Submarine strike" on rec ord has occurred on a Batavier Line steamship when the crew refused to sail because the ship was not con- yoyed for protection from submarines. The Prince of Wales has arrived in Egypt on appointment as staff cap- tain.
 James F. Walker, 61 years old, and his wife, 50 years old, were asphyxi- ated at Springfield, Mo.
 Musical instruments as means of inspiring sub-normal children soon will be tried in classes for such chil- dren of the Chicago public schools. David Lloyd-George, minister of mu- nitions. speaking in the house of con- mons, confirmed the report that Japan had been invited to take part in the Paris economic conference.
 The death sentence imposed upon Mrs. Ida Ball Warren. the first wom- an ever sentenced in North Carolina to die in the electric chair, was com- muted to life imprisonment.
 Because of extra expenditures for the Mexican expedition and the cost of recruiting the army up to 120,000, Secretary of War Baker submitted urgent deficiency estimates of $8,87O,- 094 to the house.
 In telegram sent to President Wfl- son the Aero Club of America offered for army use in Mexico two high power aeroplanes, which the club says excel in every way the army flying equipment.
 Judge Brewer, at Danville, H., sen- fenced Big John" Murphy, alias Wal ter Murphy, to hang April IA for the murder of Louis Roumas, Big Four track laborer, Nov. 9, 1915
 Turkish soldiers have evacuated Err zingan, according to information re- ceived here.
 Daniel c. Patterson, formerly rail- road man at Greensboro, N. G., shot anu HttIeu HIS lUuF CHluTen WuttS they slept and then killed himself He is believed to have been temporarily ineane.
 Daniel s. Hoan, SocialDemocratic candidate for mayor of Milwaukee, leads Mayor Gerhard A. Bading, nen- partisan, by 5,S67 votes.
 
 James Howard Grace of Fl Paso and his mother and sister of Chicago will receive the bulk of the estate of s1,790,000 of Edward Grace, according to the terms of the will just filed.
 Two hundred public schools in the City of Mexico opened after being closed since November. owing to the epidemic of typhus
 Three motor water wagons, said to be the first ever used by the United