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OUTSIDE NEWS FROM WIRE AND CABLE Philadelphia, Pa, Caspar Knobel, 70, last of $he 14 cavalrymen who captured Jefferson Davis, found un conscious in gas-filled room. Hos pital; may recover. Despondent over finances. Springfield, III. Dr. C. C. Windsor, mayor of Mt Auburn, shot by Fay Slate, editor Mt Auburn Tribune. Windsor in hospital; Slate in jaiL Quarreled over article in paper at tacking Windsor. Anderson, S. C. Gov. Blease fired all South Carolina state constables. Useless, he says. Springfield, Ml. Gov. Dunne urged to stump Chicago and tell'why some Democrats failed to vote for initia tive and referendum. People of South Side sore at Reps. KHens and Hilton. Springfield, III. Chicago streetcar men won victory when sub-committee reported favorably on law forbid ding employment of street car crews more han ten hours. Patterson, N. J. W. D. Haywood, of I. W. W., says silk workers will win 8-hour day this year and strike for 6-hour day next year. New York. Protestants and Cath olics will spend $4f450,000 here on new churches this year. Kansas City. Jas. M. Greenwood, public school superintendent 39 years, resigned Boston. Dr. H. Lincoln Chase wjll go to live in farmhouse with his wife and Hartley Dennett, her soul mate, and also the two Chase children. Dennett married man too, but both husbands love Mrs. Chase. Seward,, Neb. Work of recon struction and general clean-up be gun here atter Wednesday's tornado. Sight-seers pouring into city. London. German contractors got two big English dock, contracts. Bids were lower than home concerns. London. Marcel G. Drindejon, French aviator, who landed at Hen don, after flight from Bremen, ar rested for landing on British terri tory. Lima, O. Citizen of Ada, Q walk ed into railroad station in "birthday clothes." Women fled, Man arrested. New York Man police said wa3 "Pittsburgh steel man" walked into hat stores here and smashed hats with his fist. Amusement Paid for hats. New York, After finding and re turning wallet said to contain papers worth $8,000, porter at public library was given check for $50. Check proved worthless, Portsmouth, N. H. Dewit Crosby, son of millionaire lumberman, tried to enlist in navy. Father was abdut to protest when son was rejected be cause of his big flat feet New York Ex-VIca Pres. Levi P. Morton is 89 today. Cleveland. Minnie Williams, 35, said to be Chicago pickpocket found guilty of robbing J. B, Moore of $630 wew YorK hntzi schaff, comic opera star, divorced from John Fox, Jr, Philadelphia. Mayor Blankenberg says city and private citizens will care for women driven out of tenderloin by vice quarantine. St Paul. Disorderly houses will be abated June 1. Women organiz ing to aid inmates who need it Springfield. Gov- Dunne appoint ed Nellie Carlin, Chicago, public guardian of Cook County, San Francisco, Miss Nellie Grant, granddaughter of General Grant, married Lieut. Wm. Piggott Cronan, U. S. N., before. Justice ofpeacer London Trades Council have protesfed against appointment of Walter H. Page as ambassador from the United States. Springfield, III. Senator O'Con nors bill enabling railroads to build Union Station in Chicago at cost of $50,000,000 advanced to third read ing. New York Carolina-White sfnm .'i.Sm-. T -i-.-''W'. -,"- J?- ----.- fc ,- A