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ping trust feels when, he is, ar
rested. China advances! A number of
its more progressive legislators
demand that gentlemen sentenced
to be. shot shall be chloroformed
before being plunked full of lead.
Doubtless the day will soon ar
rive when shooting a person, or
separating him from his head,
without first chloroforming him,
will be the Chinese idea of the
height of barbarity.
Mississippi river again has
turned 'Cairo, 111., into an inland,
which, according to the diction
ary, is a "piece of land entirely
surrounded by water." '
Several striking stevedores hot
and killed by Baltimore police.
Stevedores were picketing docks
where steamer Bulgaria was be
ing unloaded by scabs.
Body of Lawrence Runzman,
wealthy farmer, which was found
in river near Joliet, 111., identified
by prayer book, which was given
him by mother fifty years ago,
and which he3alwayf had carried
Since. '
German government has for
bidden any woman to cross new
bridge across Rhine at Lustenau,
which joins Germany and Aus
tria, because women are so clever
at smuggling.
' Hasn't the German govern
ment got wise to the necessity of
setting a woman to catch a
woman yet?'
Express train from Calais to
Paris, France, derailed .at .St
Denis. Several passengers badly
injured.
Great Britain preparing to pro
test against Turkey's action in
keeping the Dardenelles closed
against all shipping. Five hun
dred ' British merchant vessels
bottled up in straits.
If war interferes with business,
why givevup war, Turkey!
Government . prosecution, .of
Harvester Trust will be in hands
of Edwin F."Grosvener, whoever
he is. i
Thomas Stratton, 72, Evans.-'
ville, Ind.,"ill and out of work,
borrowed money from friend,
bought carbolic acid and com
mitted suicide.
. Three hundred new saloon li
censes granted in Indiana durjng
1911, bringing total number of
saloons in. that Hoosier state up
to 4,033.
Because property owners of
Gibson City, 111., did not pay;
drainage taxes, alleging a techni
cal error, the whole 1) looming city;
is in danger of being sold for de
linquent taxes.
Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, di
vorced wife, of the late John Jacob
Astor, arrived in New Yorlc to
day to comfort her son, Vincent,
and see to it that the property
rights of her daughter are pro
tected in the division of the Aston
estate.
Mrs. Ave Willing Astor never
has met Mrs. Madeline. Force As
tor, the girl who took her'place as
wife of the richest landowner in
America. She has Expressed no -desire
to do so.
President Taft is going to
nominate District Judge Carpen
ter forjudge of the TJVS. Circuit
Court of Appeals to take the
