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,..--- Ti.rM Mt idtmmltaw Mm ill hi i irmn pw5Bpi t xwTtpff k'uAsiatic Russia, today en route for America. J. Ogden Armour declined in vitation to banquet on account of his trial now going on in Judge Carpenter's court. Even one's trial has its uses. Mrs. Margaret Anderson Wheeler -Miller-Kountze-Fauser, N. Y., seeketh divorce from her fifth because he made love to her 19 year old daughter. One talks of second cousins. Is the 19 year old daughter of Mts. So-and-so, a fifth step-daughter of Fauser? Queen Mary will refuse to per mit American women not married to British subjects to be present ed at her court hereafter. Mississippi river suffered the indignity of being crossed by au tomobiles for first time in history yesterday. Between Davenport, la., and Rock Island. J. C. Lavin, N. Y. engineer, put card inside whisky bottle and threw it into Atlantic off Long Island coast, August, 1909. Pick ed up on coast of Wales by cler gyman two weeks ago. Now what do you think made that Welsh clergyman so inter ested in a whisky bottle that he salvaged it and opened it? Violet Buehler does not seem to be properly appreciative of the efforts of Willie Randolph Hearst in her behalf. Violet is an ingrate. Saloon of Chas. Kasten, St. Louis, caught fire this morning. Volunteer fire brigade said build ing could not be saved. So of course there was no use in allow ing liquor to go to waste. Augusta Meyers, 18, Highland park, .N. J., wants marriage to Harold Ashen annulled. Augus ta says she thought marriage ceremony was just part of en gagement. Kentucky senate has abolished committee "on religion and mor als." Chief use of this committee in past was to help politicians kill inconvenient liqour laws, and things like that. Edw. Wilmot, Connecticut farmer ,advertised for cook who could cook "pancakes what am pancakes" two weeks ago. Hilda Sping proved to him she knew, how. So they were marired yes terday. Ralph I. Jardine, 17, Webster, Mass., pined for excitement. Stole locomotive. Ran it wildly down tracks until passenger train inter fered. Now to trying to explain it to judge.. Rockford Gas Company's plant destroyed by fire. Loss $200,000. Otto Graeff deposited $1,000 in Cincinnati bank, one year ago and forgot about it. Graeff is an artist. Perhaps this explains it. Defense wanted X-ray used on Buster Thomas, negro charged with murder at Kansas City, to determine his age. Thomas try ing to get into juvenile court. Be quest refused. In Hutchinson, Ka'n., it's a crime to talk back to a copper. In Chicago, 111., it's sheer folly. Fred Kiler, Santa Cruz. Cal., left $10,000 by Chinaman, Lem Kow, .whom he saved from drowning. r- - -.-. 4 vrrntieirfl. Al ,avi U. y1" ' T"V VmMMM mimammammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm