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51 OUTSIDE NEWS FROM WIRE, AND CABLE r Dallas, Tex. Woman and little girl suspected of being Julia Krususky, nurse and the daughter of Harry H. Gerhard, St. Louis, taken off M., K. & T. train by police. Nurse supposed to have abducted child. Niles, Mich. State inspectors an nounced that 166 herds of infected livestock have been discovered in Berrien and Cass counties. Petoskey, Mich. Suspension of nearly every member of senior class of Petoskey High School followed ap pearance in assembly room of boys wearing "middy" blouses and girls in shirts, vests, collars and ties. Granite City, III. J. B. Travis, stockman of Shipman, HI., killed, V. 'R. Leonard, Des Moines, la,, injured. Chicago & Alton passenger train struck rear end of stock train. Springfield. Charles E. Church, BallingBr, Tex. Negro cotton pickers have been ordered by "white cappers" to leave Runnels county. Negro camps shot up. Cotton grow ers who imported the colored hands declare they shall remain. Trouble feared. Washington. Part of channel and Thames river has been closed to shipping presumably because of mines, according to dispatch from Ambassador Page. Washington. in effort to relieve cotton situation postoffice dep't awarded contract amounting to more than $106,000 for string 8nd twine made of cotton instead of jute. Detroit Alderman Thos. E. Glin nan declared not guilty of accepting $1,000 bribe for his vote. North Tonawanda, N. Y. Third lumber yard fire of incendiary- origin formerly parole officer Joliet prison, within 17 hours discovered late yes suicided. Despondent. Newton, la. Pres. Lou Sherman, Sully, la., bank, arrested at Calexico, Cal. Charged with fraudulent bank ing. Freeport, III. Fred Dahmes, Mon roe, Wis., killed; J. J: Schneider of W. P. Truckenbrod, Ionroe, seriously injured. Auto turned turtle. Liberty Center, O. Engineer W. A. Brumfield and Fireman W. R. Ruby, Toledo, badly injured. Wabash freight train wrecked. Washington. Ceo. B. Roberts, di rector of mint, resigned. Will enter private business. New 'York. Cunard Libe offices have received no word of giant liner Lusitania, due to dock early today from Liverpool. No anxiety felt as yet Rome. Francesco Tomassetti, son of Italy's most famous archeologist, and Mrs. P. Marion Crawford, widow of noted author, married. Van Wert, O. E. R. Kretiz, 30, agent for Lozier Auto Co., killed, and Edw. Zimmerman injured when their auto side-swiped smaller-machine. terday. Washington. Prisoners' bureau, by means of which information of rsick and wounded prisoners of all countries is transmitted to their fami lies, organized by international Red Cross committee at Geneva. Washington. Belgium relief fund now $55,000. Ardmore, Okla. Cotton growers alarmed -over increasing activities of night riders' organization. 15 ar rested in Love county. New York. 32,000-ton battleship California will be built at Brooklyn navy yard, according to announce ment made by Commandant Nathan iel Usher. Philadelphia. Characterizing U. S. steel corporation as "colossus be striding commerce," Special U. S. Att'y J. N. Dickinson completed plea before Circuit Court of Appeals that organization be dissolved under Sher man anti-trust law. Chariestown, W. Va. State offi cials .fear riot on election day" as re sult of killing of negro taken to I Logan courthouse for registration. . --'-.-.- iMnm-m &if .