Show LOCAL NEWS for the past nine months there lias has been a steady increase in tools at the panama canal and it is now believed that by the end of june when the first year of its operation will close it will have earned moner to pay for its operation and in addition leave a surplus sufficient to wipe out the deficit incurred during the first eight months ol 01 0 its oper tion it should bo be remembered that in figuring his profits uncle sam sain usually takes no account of the interest on all his investments secretary daniels has determined to make the submarine branch of the navy thoroughly enic and capable of perform ink the functions for which it is is designed to this end caal A A W grant formerly comar commander ander of battleship texas has been submarine flotilla ile ho will make a 11 careful study of existing defects of submarines and these will bo be remedied as far as possible improvements ill prove ments will bo be worked out and every effort will bo be made to make out our underwater craft and more serviceable I 1 the language used by hazleton pa baseball players in criticizing tho the work of umpires is often anything but polite and mild and this threatens to break up tile the league seavole because tile the rules of tho the organization provide for the dismissal of men who play ball on an sunday or who use foul language and some of tile the managers insist that rules should be strictly en an forced I 1 within an hour after the first between 11 M collins of oklahoma city okla and miss mary messner of milwaukee the couple became engaged and a short time afterward were married collins lately inherited inherit ad an e state estate of but his bride know nothing oi of his wealth until atter after tile the ceremony john sarando St rando a foreign miner arrested in connection with the murder of a wealthy farmer barme r at johnson city III was taken from the jail by a mob at that place recently and hanged in a nearby ice house follow fellow coun thymen of the minor miner attempted to rescue him and a clash resulted between tile the lyn chers sand and members of the foreign colony governor dunne dispatched several companies of militia to the scene to quell the disorder by bv a new process originating in england afteel a ideel is produced which is said to be pr proof against rust stain and lai nish among the indian boys who participated in a three cornered field meet with white boys from pierre S dak and nearby schools were pretty weasel bald eagle spotted crow dear bear running and standing elk the indian boys are said to be very much like other boys having a like keen desire to excel but as a rule being better losers than the whites at last a use has been found for tho the pestiferous english s sparrow this now new use has its disadvantages though as a recent experience of two now new york men shows they drove over into passaic N J with a number of these birds dyed to look like canaries after they had successfully disposed of part of their stock they were arrested and fined filled 45 bac each b on a charge of peddling without a license A check for w i ozer over believed to be tile the largest over ever drawn there was wag drawn on a now new york bank recently by kuen loeb and co payable to the pennsylvania railroad company it represented the sale of bonds issued by the pennsylvania company and sold gold by tho the above named farm it has been announced that in case t this his country should become involved in war with a foreign power the coast guard would be consolidated with the navy and that tho the lifesaving life saving crews stationed along the ilia entire coastline coast line would be provided with powerful glasses and with wireless and telephone connections by means of which the land and water forces could bo be the approach of a hostile fleet i from any direction president wilson recently received at tt tile the white bouso alouse the delegation of financial and industrial leaders from china who are touring this country in welcoming them he assured them of the friendly feeling which bilich all americans bear toward china and congratulated them on tile tho adoption of a republican form of government the visitors gave hearty assurance of a reciprocation of the friendship ot of the united states frightened by an electrical storm horses intended for use of tho the british and french armies broke out of a stockade at east alton ill a few days ago and overran tho the surrounding country tile tho stampede resulted in delaying two trains adauto an auto mobile party was halted by the the animals and a t horse borso kicked one of the automobilists break ing several of his ribs employees of the treasury department part ment in washington have been notified that those who fail to pay their personal debts or who patronize loan agents or practice making loans to fellow employees will be dismissed from their heir positions although they help to manage undo Uncle sams Sains business many government employees employee s are unable to manage their own affairs and find their salaries which are arc relatively high insufficient for their support dr 0 11 rhode of brooklyn declares the women and children of the united states are injuring their health by the Ili inordinate ordinate use of soft drinks procured at soda fountains these drinks would be relatively harmless it if they were always what they purport to bo be but very frequently they contain poisonous ingredients used for coloring or havering flavoring soap bark is often used to cause the mixture to foam dr rhode also asserted that women are the chief users of highballs high balls cocktails and other fancy drinks it is reported that one of the most potent influences that have operated in favor of italy joining the allies against germany and austra was that of queen helena wife of king victor emmanuel and daughter of king nicholas of montenegro the pleadings of ministers for the count rys neutrality or for her to join the aus tro german alliance in the war were counteracted and alced by the queens pleadings for the love of humanity of the patria of national justice tile the queens sentiments known to all the people of italy are said to have endeared her bar to them more than ever when sheriff hood with several deputies brought jules charged wi with ns as ansboro S C for trials trial a mob I 1 which had tin thi to lynch the ilia prisoner attempted to seize him when the officer warned the mob to desist they opened lire and smith fell dead his body riddled with bullets the sheriff and another man were killed in try in ing g to disperse the ilia mob an and a eight officers were wounded the local militia could give no aid because the soldiers were without ammu much of the machinery used in ili digging the panama canal is to bo be used in ili the construction of the alaskan railroad and many of the workers at the canal zone who have li 1 ave tired of life in the tropics are e eager ager to obtain positions on the ilia governments now new have given warning however that but few positions tiong will be open and that life in alaska will be much less pleasant than at the canal zone owing to the rigors of tile the climate it is also explained that work can be carried carrr on only for a part of the year and many workers will probably be obliged to return to the states during the coldest lis thinking to stimulate the demand for his papers joe herman berman a new york newsboy began shouting on the ilia streets the other day that venice venica was captured when some of the crowd which quickly assembled had bought papers they found th that at venice was only attacked and one of berman berrians Ber roans s patrons remonstrated at the deception because beeman resented the interference ho he i was arrested and was given a 2 fine for mislabeling labeling mis inis his wares members ol of the british parliament can not be attested rested ai for debt during session or for 40 dayi day i before or after mrs W M hangen of st louis has bas brought suit against a st louis hotel for P damages alleging that sho she suffers from tuberculosis which was brought on as a result of a waiter employed in the hotel accidentally spilling hot soup down her back at a banquet witnesses declare that in addition to tile the hot soup some cocktails were spilled upon her when the tray upset charles dove of md convicted of beating his wife was sentenced to havo have 15 lashes applied to his baro bare back with a whip judge maco mace who had charge of the case is of the opinion that husbands in that part of the country are arc too cruel and brutal in their treatment of their wives and has made it clear that all such offenders convicted be fore him in the ilia future will be punished at the whipping post although provisions of the law sternly refuse to allow a mother serving on a jury to retire from the jury room and go to her baby there is no legal prohibition against against the baby going to the jury room to tho the mother so when it came time for baby margaret hacketts hackette Hac ketts dinner a few days ago her father carried her in to mrs Hackett who was serving on a jury at spokane wash when the youngsters hunger had been appeased her father carried her home and her mother continued her deliberations speakers Speaker sat at the midyear mid year conference of woman suffragists from all parts of them the country which met recently at chicago deplored the heckling tactics of a few woman suffragists in their attempts to worry president wilson and denounced the congressional s union for its attack on individual members of congress arid and on the democratic party because of their failure to support the suffrage cause just two years ago the british ab slap 1 onar helpless in a storm was abandoned in mid ocean since that time the derelict has drifted some miles finally becoming stranded in the society islands of the south pacific men from a small trading schooner recently boarded the onar and found a bla black C k cat on board which presumably has drifted with the shi ship ever since its abandonment the cat and the ships bell were carried off by the men john mitchell a 14 year old boy living near evansville evanov ille ind climbed to the loft of his fa fathers theis barn a flying machine which he had constructed and undertook to test the machine by jumping with it to the ground the wings collapsed and he fell to the ground sustaining a broken arm and slight internal injuries after victimizing a wilkes barre pa man a swindler attempted to make his getaway get away by train to scranton the wilkes borre chief of police requisitioned acda a high speed automobile and by exceeding the speed limit all the way beat the train to scranton where he nabbed the as he stepped from a coach the trains running time was 35 minutes and the automobile had bad to go a little more than a mile a minute to overhaul it I 1 A blind man at westbrook me has built an ell to his house laid the hardwood floors and installed a hot hoi water system william marconi je be wireless wizard claims to have invented a device by means of 0 which it is pcs risible sible to see sec through a solid wall persons or objects near the wall can be seen almost as clearly as it if no wall interposed but when some distance away from it they appear blurred and indistinct marconi hesitates about makine the secret 0 of the discovery di dir covery known because ol of the possibilities for evil which if involves A british officer who was a prisoner on board the german raider Kron prinz eitel friedrick reports blat although the germans wireless outfit was limited to a mile radius they sent up eight foot kites connected by a fine wire with their wireless re receiver ceide and in this manner picked up ri messages eis i ages from points 2500 miles away between them australia and argentina pasture one third of the worlds sheep |