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about as fine a thing as -possibly could happeq. "Big Tim" Sullivan, of Tam "many Hall, N Y., kidnaped for mer Congressman Whaftofy of Chicago) when that gentleman l in judicious remarked that he was glad he wasn't going abroad with,any such gang of highbind 'ers asrthat with "Big Tim's." Mr. .Wharton will go abroad with just such a -crew on the steamer Rotterdam. . Plaster of pans hoofprints of horse owned by H. O. Jeffries, e,ditor.Nowata, Okla., Advertiser, have led to arrest of Jeffries for murder of Mrs. Irene Goheon. His was only horse In county fit ted with racing shoes. I Fever and spinal meningitis are added to the woes of the people of "Mississippi valley made homeless hy floods. , Northern Iowa .farmers offer ing $35 a month and board for farmhands, and cannot get them. Crops being delayed. R. F. Garrett, 94, Washington County, Ark., walked .140 miles from his home to Stillwater, Minn. Says walk did him good. Christopher L. Gates, jr., stu dent at tPurdue university, went canoeing on Wabash riyer at La fayette, Ind., during flood. His .body"has been recovered. Cleveland, O., has offered boun ty of one cent for every ten. flies delivered dead at city hall. l ' WhaHsit a new graft? The Inter-Ocean again used up 'good space this morning to try and show that" the shoQting of Judge Massie by the" "Aliens,-of Virginia, was an instance of the recall of the judiciary in actual operation. Spine newspapers are edited by gentlemen. who write is if they thought their readers had com monsense, and then, again, others are not. 'Rev. Father Wm; H. Lynch, Lambertville, N. J., has offered' to' perform all marriages during 1912 free of cost, and, in addition, to give bride a present. Commissioners C. N. O'Hare and Fred Tomlinson, Superior, Wis., first selected under commis sion form of government, tossjed coin to see whfch should fiaye the four year and which the two year term. Tomlinson won. Job is worth $4,500 a-year.'' " 'Nothing could be more hu miliating than the spectacle of tliis city holding out its hat to Carnegie." Edward R. Taylor, former mayor ancLptesent mayor of library board, of San Fran cisco, protesting against acpept ance of Carnegie offer of $750, 000. ' ' Norman R. Innis, Cambridge, Mass., wants a divorce. . Norman eloped with wifey dear, and then she told him she "just , .married him' to spite another fellow." , ' Our most sincere sympathies are with Norman. Our idea of no sort of occupation is that of be ing husband to a girl so the girl can "spite"some other gink. Mrs. L. C. -Hafsberger, who, against all advice, located on JB0 acres of "worthless" Wyoming land, is now drawing dpwn $10, 000 a day, from a few "worthless" xmmmmMmmmmiM