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Show I SHORT STORIES A blizzard, tho most sovero In soicral vears. raged throughout. Ohio, Saturday, and has brought with it death and a long series of accidents. Tho fifty-acre farm, near Lnporte. Ind., of Mrs. Hello Gunncss. tho murderers, wan sold .Saturday to tho .superintendent of a boys' school, of which it will bo-come bo-come a part. Henry T. Coatcs. editor nnd nuthor, for many years head of ono of tho leading lead-ing publishing firin.H in Philadelphia, died Saturday. He was G7 years old. In Sc-ydlKfjord, Iceland, three severe car.thc(uul0 nhocks wero f'-It at 7:15 o'clock Saturday morning. The. tremors were felt elsewho.ro In Iceland, hut so far as reported no damage was done. In Reading, Pa,, fiirmcrH and dealers today reported an increased sale of vegetables vege-tables In conscquenco of the meat boycott boy-cott Inaugurated by worklngmen. Confirmation Is had of the report that at a meeting of tho directors of the steel trust next Tuesday, an extra dividend divi-dend of 'I per oeitt will bo declared, in addition ad-dition to the regular 1 per cent quarterly quarter-ly dividend. Three hundred students fioni Columbia Colum-bia and other New York colleges will t:ikc the competitive examination for census onumcratuj- in Now York. Passage by tho common council in Trenton. N, J., of an ordinance providing provid-ing nil persons who cannot get seats on trolley ears, need pot pay fare, has given rise to an unusual miction situation. situa-tion. Crowded cars have suddenly become be-come popular. |