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Tokio. Government has cut duty on rice because of suffering from crop shortage. Do 'you think anything like that would ever strike our govern ment. Novr there was plenty of evidence of the suffering at Law rence, Mass., on .account of the wool tariff. Cincinnati, O. Mrs. Stanley McCormick, relative of wealthy Chicago McCormick family of Harvester Trust fame, acted as "sandwich man" for suffrage league here. She wore a dia mond necklace, as well as bill boards. Rome. Pope has ordered new palace to be built on site of old Italian mint, next to Sistine chapel, for cardinals. Will be big enough to accommodate en tire sacred college. Cherbourg, France. Mme. Marcelle Navratil landed -here to day with her two children, the orphans o fthe Titanic, Momon and "The Lump." Columbus, O. Ohio constitu tional Convention, by votfe of 65 to 42, passed resolution abolishing death penalty for murder and pre scribing life imprisonment. Will go to people next November. New Brunswick, N. J. 4) of 65 of graduating class of Rutgers' college suspended for "beer keg party." S. P. Smith, president Rutgers' Prohibition League, and Rudolph Steier, of Y. M. C. A., among them. London. Reported from Fez, Morocco, by way of Paris, that Sultan Hafid has abdicated throne and fled to Rabat - Washington. Secretary of War Stimson has broken all pre cedent by issuing bitter statement- denouncing Army Bill as prepared by House committee. This is the bill with the "Wood joker'' in it New York Mildred and An na Hunt, 12 and 9, climbed into freight car on N. Y. Central' to "play house." They were sept back home from Ossining. Boston. John A. Malloy, chauffeur, who ran down and killed two elevated employes last month, pleaded guilty to man slaughter. Five years. Reno, Nev. Isabelle A. John son, given decree of divorce and right to resume maiden name. Husband, 'Charles A. Johnson, 450 Center street, Chicago, is draughtsman for General Fire Extinguisher Co. Brussels, Belgium. King Al bert seems to be following in footsteps of his gay uncle, the late King Leopold. Mile-. Bour guinon, governess of Princess Marie, latest woman ordered to leave Belgium "because Albert's attentions to her to6 -obvious. Cheyenne, Wyo. Fourth field artillery, Ninth cavalry and Elev enth infantry held in instant read iness for dispatch to Cuba. Santiago, Cuba. General Es tenoz, leader of revolution, re ported to have 1,500 men, 500 well armed. Davenport, la. Pat Danner, who has been trying to break in to jail here for-vagrancy for 6 months, at last has succeeded. Only. 10 day sentence. -'