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sicians the laws governing mar riage. This would not be right." Rev. C. G. JDixon, pastor, Aus tin ave. Baptist church. Charles W. Morse, the banker convict, whom Taft pardoned be cause he had "only a few days to live," is spending the Easter holi days in Rome and having a good time. Will of late Clara Ide, wealthy spinster of Rochester, N. Y., leaves income of $2,500 a year for care of her pet parort, "Qaptain Flint." This ought to prove a godsend to the lawyers of Rochester, any how. Wedding party at Atlantic City N. J., busted up when some one whispered that Max Kirsht, the groom, had mumps. Lola Gaskill, the bride, stuck it out. Attendants held sterilized hand kerchiefs over faces during cere mony. Adoption of railroad work men's compensation and em ployes' liability bill, drafted by joint committee of senators and representatives decided upon "by senate judiciary committee. The Washington railroad lobby will now get busy to defeat the bill when it comes up for passage. Henry Johnson, Houghton, Mich., committed suicide. Left note for widow: "Now that you have a chance to get a third hus band, for God's sake don't talk him to death." "One month from today enough delegates will have been elected to assure Mr. Taft's nom ination, so I sec no reason for en.- Ttering Into a controversy with Mr. Roosevelt as to past events," John W. Hutchinson, jr., direc- tor of Taft's Bureau of the East. Senate judiciary committee has recommended for passage bill providing that federaL judges shall not reverse or set aside judgment on legal technicalities. Three companies of Washing ton National Guard in readiness to rush to Grays Harbor, where violence is feared in connection with lumbermen's strike. 250 strikers were "strong-armed" out of Raymond, Wash., and feeling is running high. Chas. Schomalla, who assault ed U. S. Senator Gore at Wau kesha, Wis., under the impres sion that Gore was Roosevelt, is described in press dispatches as an "eccentric character." Eccentricity of the sort indulg ed in by Schomalla sometimes gets a man into real serious trou ble. - " Rev. James Larry Smith, -for whose "murder," the Rev. Ern est Lyon has served 3 years of an 18 year sentence, has returned to his home at Suffolk, Va., having enjoyed a pleasant vacation. Ly on will be freed. J ' Arlie McCoy, St. Louis, Mo., became so peeved when he could not raise enough money to buy newly patented cork leg that "he liked better than the one he had, that he committed suicide by hanging himself. The mind of a gentleman who committed suicide because he couldn't have, the particular kind, of cork leg he had set his heart iftiritfitifiaMtoafitififetiiki