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EVERYWHERE'STMEWS IN TABLOID FORM Springfield) Mo. Smudge pots be ing used in Ozark orchards to pre vent freezing of ungathered fruit Los Angeles, Cal. Miss Harriet Verndon, 21, found dead in her suite in Mission Apartments. Marks on throat indicate she was strangled. Little Rock, Ark. Teaching of sex hygiene in. public schools condemned by Arkansas state health conference. Milwaukee, Wis. Gas that ac cumulated under coffee urn exploded when Paul Volz lit it Volz will lose eyesight. Austin, Tex. Great damage fear ed for small grain crops from cold est weather of season. New Orleans, La. Henry Leuker arrested for writing love letters to Jane Addams, Chicago.. Room re sembled small arsenal. Buffalo,. Y. Fire caused $30,000 damage to Mount Mercy Academy. Rock Island, III. Wm. Haak, who was to have been married this even ing to Miss Laura Schmid, South Rock Island, killed by heavily-charged guy wire. x Washington. 800 invitations will be, issued to White House wedding of "Jessie Wilson, president's daughter. c New Haven, Conn. Pres. Elliott, New Haven Railroad, announces that by Dec. 31 every Pullman car will be of all-steel. Detroit. "They tickled me until I -was crazy," was defense offered by Henry Perry, barber, .to charge of jnurdering Al McGregor, proprietor of roadhouse. - New York. Edward Mulry had cneedle he swallowed 50 years ago re moved by surgeons today. Detroit. Too .much ice cfeam and ice water are fast ruining digestion of Americans, according to Dr. Adolph Schmidt, professor of internal medi cine at Halle University, Germany. I Washington. Postoffice plans stamp book containing 24 one-cent rand 24 two-ce'nlr stamps to 'sell for 73 cents. Albert Lea, Minn. Martin Reiber fatally shot his father,- Fred Reiber, 60, in quarrel over will of mother. , Washington., Treasury officials state ex-Pres. Taft.is success as lob byist. Plea to Sec'y McAdoo resulted in award of postoffice and courthouse building Contract at New Haven o Chas. MpCaul Co. of Philadelphia. Trenton, N. J. U. S. Judge Joseph Cross dead. Ray, N. D. D. T. Dillon, farmer shot down last Tuesday by murderer who killed Dillon's wife and daugh ter, died last night. Washington. Big .financial inter ests held responsible for mismanage ment of railroad enterprises by Na tional Ass'n of Railway Commission ers. Passaic, N. J. Avenging, loss of wife's affections, Jos. Puigala shot and killed Louis Potanti. Hammond, jnd. Gertrude Hunt was granted absolute divorce from James Hunt on assertion that, he hadn't taken bath since their mar riage, four years ago. Sterling, III. Jos. Knox suinig family doctor for $20,000, alleging doctor left yard of gauze in his inter nals after operation. Danville, III. John Savage fatally wounded fiancee and killed himself because girl insisted for fourth time on postponing wedding. Rome. Duke of Abruzzi, former suitor of Miss Katherine Elkins, cabled congratulations when, inform ed that she had married "Billy" Hitt of Washington. London. Policemen have formed union known as Metropolitan Police Trade" Union. Paris. Peasant plowing at Mou lins uncovered two viper's, nests and killed 400 of reptiles in fight for- his life. London. "Aboard the ship they call me Batty," Prince George of Bat tenberg is said to have told embar-i rassed matron ata function-who:con- '-' . T. .,,-AJ-.. .. - -J j- :.ilv,-Ji, .li..! u, i. . w. ;& liMilHiMtfi IB frnfc ffUTirr niiiir