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Show TOLD IN FEW WORDS. Plans for starting In every state of the union branch organizations to promote pro-mote uniform legislation have been concluded con-cluded in New York, The work Is to bo conducted simultaneously from five centers. cen-ters. In New York tho prediction is made that Governor Judson Harmon will be tho next Democratic nominee for president nnd Governor Marshall of Indiana will probably occupy tho second placo on tho ticket. In Cleveland, O., 3-cent car fares went into effect Friday night, marking the end of tho traction war begun by Tom L. Johnson In 1901. . Tho long list of decapitations of city officials which has marked the brief re-glmo re-glmo of P. H. McCarthy. San Francisco's new mayor, was swelled Friday night, when eighteen employees of tho health department were lot out. "Clean your sidewalks of snow or you'll got no mall," is the edict of Postmaster Postmas-ter John A. McKee to residents of New Castle, Pa. Sevoral carriers have been : taken ill by exposure to the severe storms this winter. At a meeting of the Hamilton club of Chicago Friday night it was decided to send a delegation of 100 members In a special train to New York to meet Colonel Theodore Roosevelt when he lands. In San Francisco Courtland S. Benedict, a merchant and banker, has filed suit to break the will of his son, Egbert J. Ben- edict, who died there February 3, leaving leav-ing an estate valued at $1,000,000. Tho dead son's widow is tho defendant. Tho first payment under the new corporation cor-poration tax law was tendered to Internal Inter-nal Revenue Collector Anderson of New York Snturday. It was a check for $125, accompanied by blanks carefully filled out to show that this was the amount due from tho corporation. An old statuto of Kansas which empowers em-powers county offlclnls wllh authority to call out all men, women and children from 12 to fi5 years old to fight noxious Insects may be Invoked this summer when the chintz bug. tho great destroyer of growing corn, makes its appearance In Kan sas. |