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wmmmBmmmmmmmmmm i- 'discovered that for two year she has been wife of Chas M. D. Knowles, 28, farm laborer. President Taft today signed joint resolution of Congress rati fying his action in abrogating treat of 1832 with Russia. Shanghai report says Yuan Shi Kai, imperial premier, has offered to agree to republican form of government provided he be elect ed president. Heavy fighting is taking place between Russian and Persian at Tabriz, Persia. John W. Dougherty, 23, Min ,nequia, Wis., forest ranger in jured by falling tree in the exe cution of his duty, died today. -D.pugherty's aged mother, who was' dependent on him, will re ceive $3,000 under the workmen's compensation act, the first in the state'to benefit under the act. Kansas City bulletin says snow storm which raged through Ok lahoma, .Western Missouri and Kansas yesterday, Is headed for Chicago. Franz Josef, emperor of Austria-Hungary, reported .to be sinking rapidly, and his death is expected any time. Franz Josef's death is likely to bring Europe to verge of gener al war. Committee of London physi cians has asked City Council to employ widows, instead of girls, as telephone operators, tp pre vent nervous breakdowns that are occurring so frequently. Mrs. Wm. Wiggn:s,N. Y., left, $1,500. worth of rings in dressing room of Brooklyn's most exclu sive euchre club. They disap peared. . John Harkins, former pitcher for Brooklyn -and Cleveland, has nine all his own. Ninth son was born to him this morning. Cardinal Gibbons received Christmas cards today from' King and Queen of Spain, Franz Josef, King of Belgium, Prince Regent of Bavaria, and the Czar of the Balkans. Maurice Maeterlinck, philoso pher and author, is coming to America on Olympic. Has bet up with H. M. Russell, director of Boston Opera House, that he can avoid all newspaper inter views. We're sorry for Maurice. Cardinal Falconio took formal possession of his titular church, Santa Maria In Ara Coeli, this afjernoon. Commission form of govern ment declared constitutional by Illinois Supreme Court today. Man giving name of Tommy Murphy, Chicago, was shot by policeman Mahoney, Joliet, 111., today as he was attempting to es cape from Santa Fe railroad sta tion, Joliet. Green Bay, Wis., voting on commission form of government, and polling heaviest vote in its history. Farmers of Colorado, Kansas and Oklahoma, value snowstorm that swept states yesterda' and last night at millions of dollars. Tomorrow will be the shortest day in the year. Official figures from Washington say it will be just 6 seconds sliorter than today.