Show winning over two male opponents miss katheryn dark clark was chosen recently at a special elec election electious tiou to fill a vacancy in the oregon state senate she is the first woman to be elected to the senate in that state former gov haines who recently retired as governor of main lias has de decided tid on account of impaired health to take up farming and has enrolled as a student in the course of agriculture of the university of maine mrs maggie oleary who has lived alone in a little farmhouse farm bouse near esca naba mich for the past 40 years is dead she i is s declared to be the mrs oleary whose cow kicked over a lantern and started the great chicago fire of 1871 the indiana senate has op proved a bill which provides that all persons seeking a marriage license must first obtain a health certificate the lower house is expected to act favorable on the measure and it is understood the governor will sign it three nightriders night riders who pleaded guilty to having whipped to death jesse snyder a farmer who lived near new albany miss have been sentenced to life imprisonment in the state peni penitentiary ten the cause for the attack on snyder has never been made known on all fours with a pole in either hand to distribute her weight over the frail ice miss josephine hower of locust N y made her way to a yo young ng skater who had bad broken through the ice and was floundering noun dering about in the water she pulled him out and helped him to beet fet coir etaf 1 V fiat 01 yr P J ali v n y the legislature of aej arizona zoni has passed 1 a mothers pension bill which in addition to to providing for widows stipulates that widowers over 60 years of age with children and unable to bearfi earn A a livelihood are to be given a pension of per month for themi themselves cies and 86 6 additional for each child when kate brown of 0 SuDer superior lor wis learned that the officials of that city were employing jobless men in clearing land she attired herself in mans clothing and started out in quest ol of work before applying for a job however she stopped at a saloon became drunk and by pulling off her cap exposed her long hair which discovered her sex she was taken into custody and the judge kave gave her IS 15 days in jail woman suffragists wishing to send through the malls printed copies of a speech recently delivered by representative senta tive bowdle of ohio attacking the woman suffrage movement have requested them whether the unexpurgated speech can be mailed without violating the postal laws concerning the circulation of bf indecent matter their purpose is to inform the public whit what manner of thing was permitted and applauded by the majority of the national congress when the suffrage amendment was under consideration the report of the joint congressional committee on leder federal 1 aid to good roads which was recently submitted to congress urges that the government undertake on a large abarge scale to aid in the im pro provement ent of the nations roads but in insists on a plan that will guard against of pork barrel methods and prevent a bureau it at washington W a sh ington from obtaining I 1 arb arbuary ilary control over local road questions eions s the report estimates that tons of commodities are annually dually hauled over rural roads at a cost of 21 cents per ton mile and presents data to show that a system of first class highways hichwa ys would reduce this cost considerably sider ably more than half both houses of 0 the alabama legislature recently voted by large majorities major aties in in favor ot of a bill providing for statewide prohibition it is believed that gov oneal will sign the bill gov manning of south carolina has issued sin an order declaring void and of no fleet effect the action of former gov blease to in disbanding the south carolina guard shortly before he retired from office while attempting to demonstrate a method of shooting from trenches in the war francis kennedy a hartford conn boy accidentally shot and killed himself with a 2 22 2 caliber rifle a few days ago 1 in a strike stride which occurred at roosevelt t N J some time ago 19 strikers were shot by deputy sheriffs sharif ls and two of them died the grand jury has just indicted 26 of the deputies on charges of murder three boys in the woods wood ne near at shamokin Sharn Sha okin P pa ate a poison root which they thought to be sassafras all were soon afterward after waid seized with violent convulsions one died and the others are in a serious condition A bill has been introduced in the legislature of texas which would divide the state into three parts north texas with a capital at palestine west texas with a capital at abilene and south texas with a capital at austin edward marcu an I 1 11 1 year old phila dilphia d boy thrust a hot poker into the barrel of 0 a toy cannon in order to burn oat a wad of paper paper there was a a dei th oy k I 1 AA his face paid aind endangered e his life I 1 1 in a barbers contest held it at philadelphia recently recent lv joseph in lour jour and a half minutes shaved and cut the hair of one of the hairiett hairiest hai hair riest lest and most heavily bewhiskered men to be found in the city thereby winning the 1000 prize over six other competitors john wallace of porterville calif gave a sour orange to an elephant which so angered the animal that it seized him with its trunk and hurled him headlong into nto a pile of boxes he was knocked unconscious and re calved numerous cuts and abras abrasions lons none of these however are considered serious the custodians of the liberty bell at philadelphia have steadfastly refused to allow the famous relic to be shipped across the continent to the panama pacific exposition because they fear it would noi no t stand the journey arrangements have lately been made to transmit the sound of its vibrations by telephone to officials of the exposition in california the war in europe appears to have caused only a slight falling ailing oft off in this count rys exports A report of the department part ment of commerce for the calendar year 1914 shows that the exports amounted to over as compared with in 1913 the imposts amounted to against in 1913 I 1 president stryker of hamilton college clinton N Y declared deckler aled to his students recently that the ft ing at the college had suffered d a se serious ri decline and that the students stu students lents in ia coasting steered like eke calves calve he then undertook to demonstrate demon strite how it should be done and was hurled through the air a distance of 25 feet fetching etching up against a fence he suffered eredA a number of severe bruises because an artist employed to reproduce the yale motto filled failed to observe the distinction between certain hebrew characters the phrase blis blas chemers and farmers fan ners appeared in the motto instead of light and truth hind and several yale alumni associations proudly used it in that form belore before the mistake was discovered because they had abandoned their children aged four and two and a half years respectively frederick haeffner and his wife residents of c new york city hate hae been sentenced to prison terms of from two and a half to five and a lull hall years from evidence given at the trial it was shown that the couple had abandoned two younger children previously and that one an 18 months old girl cirl had bad died after being deserted during a recent probe of the doun coun arys great philanthropic organizations by the federal industrial relations commission I 1 samuel a new york attorney proposed as a remedy for existing industrial evils the establishment lish ment of federal labor exchanges and compulsory state regulated inaura ance against unemployment sickness sick ness and accident R W babson a statistician declared that existing social un reit and labor trouble were largely due to industrial plants being controlled by a board of directors at a distance in stead of by persons on the ground capitalists he sa said lid have no grudge against labor but are simply india indifferent icrene to it collop monday is the monday before shrove tuesday the name refers to the dinner which in some parts of england is almost universal on that is c Z omary havo collott 0 basss bAss wega rs for 5 4 MO some districts is t kf 3 1 I in n england englana at dinner I 1 time an on collop monday and ad you ou will be sure to be saluted by the smell of fried slices of ol bacon and eggs the english cuckoo like th the american cowbird leaves its single egg in thefts the nests of birds much smaller than itself like the hedge sparrow the pled pied wagtail and the asadow pipit when the young cuckoo a veritable giant in comparison with its nest mat matsa 3 Is a few days old it pushes its companions out ol of the nest and then bec becomes omes the sole object of the care of its tiny foster parents wonderful chanies changes have ave been wrought in in the thoroughfare ough fare in Inthe the state ol of washington in seven months the tortuous narrow darrow path across the cascades has been transformed into a splendid 16 foot highway with a maximum grade of 5 per cent th tha a state of washington pion has spent approximately on the 28 miles from north bend to lake Kee chelus diphtheria germs which had lurked for halt hall a century in the walls of the house occupied by raymond miller york pa health authorities and attending physicians declare caused the death of three of millers children fifty years ago several members of a family that lived in the house died frum I 1 diphtheria shortly before the present out cut break miller had some papering dote doce and a heavy coating of whitewash which was scraped sway away wai w thrown in a heap near the hoise e warm damp weather physicians say revived the germs which had been imprisoned under the whitewash i F r A very noted i is s the one ol of sapphire blue tint known as the hope diamond alch Is s valued at about it is thought to have been eat cut rom a 21 blue blite stone which was waa once owned by louis XIV and which dis appeared speare d during the french revolution A button famine is said to be threatening this country on account of the war but the buttons the supply of which i is s threatened are mostly of the ornamental kind if the worst should happen people could again use the wooden toden buttons covering thern them with cloth for the salic sake of appearances |