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Show Condensed Telegrams By Associated Press. v Professor Jacques Loeb of the University Univer-sity of California has been appointed head of a department of experimental biology created yesterday by the board of directors direct-ors of tho Rockefeller Institute of New York for modlcal research. Representative Burleson of Texas appeared ap-peared yesterday before the house com-mltloe com-mltloe on nRrlculturo In behalf of his bill rcpoallnp the tax on oleomargarine, which tax he asserted was responslblo for tho high price of butter. The Cunard liner Campania, which was due at her New York dock yesterday, reported re-ported hor position last night by wireless at fifty miles east of Nantucket. Failure to hear from the vessel previously had created some alarm. With astory of hardship and narrow escapes from , death, Captain YV. A. Griffith Grif-fith and the twelve members of the crew of the British ship Alexander Black, which was totally wrecked on the coral reefs of Kahulaul on January 4, arrived In San Francisco yesterday on the steamship steam-ship China from Honolulu. Cloar weather and a doclded drop In temperature have saved eastern and central cen-tral Pennsylvania from disastrous floods. Tho snowfall has been the greatest in many years, nnd the warm weather of tho Inst few days with heavy rains caused streams all over the stato to rise suddenly and pverllow their banks. Judge John F. Philips Issued an order In the United States circuit oourt at Kansas City yesterday temporarily enjoining en-joining tho Missouri, Kansas '& Texas Railroad company from refusing shipments ship-ments of liquor consigned to points In Oklahoma 'and KansnH, "dry" states. Tolograms received at the stato department de-partment yesterday Indicate that there-has there-has boon a great revival by President Mndrlz of Nicaragua of tho old Zelava policy of Imprisonment 0 respectable people peo-ple for alleged political reasons. In one case 11 house Immediately across the street from tho consulate was entered by soldiers without warrant.' Tho big government dirigible sent to Los A'ngcles by tho wan department for exhibition during tho aviation meeting, has been found practically worthless. Not a single flight was made by It, an It was found that It could not hold gas. The big envelope is said to leak badly, nnd ns a result of tho discovery an Investigation Investiga-tion has been ordered. Richard II. Rushton, president of tho Fourth Street National bank, one of tho lurgeat financial Institutions of Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, died last night from a complication of diseases. Mr.-. Rushton was vice president presi-dent of tho Tononah & Goldfleld railroad, und was a moinber of the Wbltney-El-klps syndicate which somu years ago secured se-cured control of the Tonopah Gold Alining Alin-ing company. The 530,000,000 suit brought), undor the Sherman anti-trust law against the American Sugar Refining company In connection with Its abfaorptlon of tho Pennsylvania Sugar Rellnlng company, was formally discontinued yesterday by Judge Lacombe In the United States circuit cir-cuit court, in New York City. The court upholds the Philadelphia courts In tho approval of the private settlement reached between the two companies. Judge Lacom.be In tho United States circuit court in Now Ydrlc vestorday denied de-nied the application of the four men now serving a sentence of a year's Imprisonment Imprison-ment on Rlackwoll's Island for conspiracy to defraud the government In the weighing weigh-ing of sugar in the docks In Brooklyn, to b released on ball pending the hearing-of hearing-of the motion for an appeal. Judgo La-combo La-combo said tlib appllcntlpn may be-heard at tho'Fobruary term of court, when tho motion for an appeal Is argued. After sitting almost continuously for the last thrco days, tho senate committee on territories yesterday perfected the Boverldge measure to create a legislative council for Alaska. The proposed council was Increased by tho subcommittee so that It will be composed pf a govornor, on attorney general, a commissioner of Interior In-terior and mines and eight others, two .from each of tho four Judicial divisions |