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strike. Claim six of their leaders were discharged. Cincinnati, 0. Jacob Herrell, 30, confessed he murdered wife, accord ing to police. Did it with a hatchet. Jealousy. LaCrosse, Wis. Carl H:-Wr6bel, 55, wood chopper, frozen to death. Empty whisky bottle beside him. San Diego, Cal. Robt. Harwood and Mortimer Miller, Americans who disappeared from Tia Juana, Mexico, not executed as reported. Will be tried at Ensenada on charge of smug gling. Baltimore, Md. All hope of recov ery of Congressman Robt. G. Brem ner, taking radium treatment for cancer, abandoned. Washington. Members of House committee which took testimony in impeachment charges against Fed eral Judge Emory Spear will give Spear clean bill of health on charge he is habitual drug user, according to report. o o DIARY OF FATHER TIME Although electric railways are now being built in most inaccessible parts of th'e world, and the cities and coun ties of the country are a veritable network of electrically operated lines, electric railroads have only been in use about 32 years. An electric rail way was started as an experiment in Berlin, Germany, on May 12, 1881. The line was iy miles long and was equipped with one car with seats for 12 passengers. Perhaps the earliest hint of the electric railways was that given by a Vermont blacksmith, Thos. Daven port, who in 1835, exhibited a circu lar railway and an electric-magneto locomotive. The first practical trip made by a motor car in this country was that given by Chas. Grafton Page in 1851. Aided by an appropriation from Congress, he built an electric loco motive which ran from Washington to Bladensburg on the B. & O. R. R. on April 29, 1851, attaining a speed, on level places, -of nearly 19 miles an hour. But the car used in Berlin in 1881 was the first to carry, passen gers. , ' ' o o ON STRIKE PROBE Howard. Sutherland' Congressman - at - large Howard Sutherland of West Virginia is a landholder. He is a graduate of West minster college andswas born in Mis souri in 1865. ' He is a Republican. ; o o SOME NAME The other day a bootblack was puffing away at the end of a cigar when a gentleman, thinking to have a little fun at the boy's-expense, ask ed him if he always smoked cigars. "Oh, yes, sir, pretty . often," an swered the boy. "What brand do you generally smoke?" asked the gentleman. "Robinson Crusoe, sir," replied' the boy. The gentleman pondered a while. "I never heard of that brand," he said. ' "It's a name I've given 'em my self," announced the boy. "You see, guv'nor, old Crusoe was a castaway."