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Show jNEAVS SUMMAJIY J During tho month of February sixty now cases of,, bubonic plaguo, wcro reported re-ported In '(luaynqull, of which eleven wero fatal, Tho salaryot tho president has been definitely fixed nt $75,000 per annum, vlthoiitrnny additional allowance for truvcllngfibxpenscn, ' Miss Belle Hagner, socfal secretary to Mrs. Roosevelt, has been 4trnns-ferred 4trnns-ferred to a position In tho bureau of trado relations of the stato department. depart-ment. A number of the women of Coluni-Mis, Coluni-Mis, Ind., liavo been circulating a petition pe-tition asking Mrs. Taft not to permit the serving of wlno at White Houso dinners. The, bill prohibiting free lunches in raloons was killed in tho Wisconsin assembly, and the bill prohibiting treating in saloons was refused engrossment. en-grossment. Tho New York suffragettes havo organized or-ganized a crusado for tho furthering i-f their propaganda among' tho news-I.npcr news-I.npcr men' who work an tho morning l.ubllcntlons. W. H. Tllford, ono of tho vice-presidents of the Standard Oil company, died nt his homo In New York City, March 2. Mr. Tllford wna a former treasurer of tho corporaypn. When Charles Williams, n beggar, was locked up by the police of Chicago, Chi-cago, ho confessed thnt he had reached reach-ed such a stage of thirst for whiskey tha( )ie had pawned his artificial log for $5. While being bhaved,.. In Bromley, Ky., Joseph StolzeV Jumped from tho barber chair, grabbed n razor, and, bo fore anyone could Interfere, cut his throat from ear to ear, .tying nlmost Immediately. Ouy Razor was found guilty of manslaughter man-slaughter nt Medina, 0 by tho Jury trying him for tho murder of his Bwcetheart, Orlo Leo. October 8. The penalty Is from ono to twenty years' In the penitentiary. Miss Fnnnlo Hngeldant, aged 40, was found dead with n bullet hole In her head at her home near Columbus, Ohio. Tho hotly was tlchtly wound shout with bcd-clothlng. The hoii3o had been ransacked. Mrs. Peter Derenbrecher of San Diego, Cal., was fatally burned In tho explosion of u gasoline stove. She was In her room preparing breakfast when tho gasoline utovq exploded, en veloplng her body In names. Tho annual report of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Railway company for 1008, made public last week, shows a decrease In gross earnings compared with tho preceding pre-ceding year of $52,44G,722, and a decrease de-crease In net earnings of $7,4:10,297. Tho anti clgaretto bill was passed la tho house of tho Missouri legislature last week. Tho bill prohibits tho manufacture, man-ufacture, salo or giving away of cigarettes, cigar-ettes, clgarotto papers or wrappers. Tne penalty Is a lino of from $10 to !f200. Dr. G. C. Throckmorton, aged 05 years, of PIqua, O., haB beaten the military mil-itary rldn of President Hoosevelt ot ninety-six miles military gait when ho i ode three horses on the relays 120. miles In thirteen hours nnd rorty-ilvo minutes. Returns Just completed by the foreign for-eign oinco at Toklo show that between Juno and December, 1908, 1,354 Jap-nncso Jap-nncso left tho empire bound for tho United States, whllo 3,500 returned from the United States during tho camo period. A conferenco of prohibitionists of tl:o Now England states was held in Boston last week, tho meeting being called for the purposo of discussing 1'lans for nn active cnmpalgin to bo wnged by the party from now on to the presidential campaign of 1912. Mystery surrounds tho killing of Mrs. JoroniQ Hoover, wlfo of mi Atchison, At-chison, Kans., tanner, who was found dead at her home. Thursday tho undertaker un-dertaker discovered a small wound behind tho right car. Tho wound was probed and a bullot taken from II. Permanent headquarters lor tho National League of Republican clubs, of which John Hnys Hammond is prcsldont, will ho established In Washington In the near futuro, In order or-der to koop tho 3,800 clubs antl 1,200,-000 1,200,-000 members actlvo throughout tho year. What to do with our vice-presidents Is a question which has been solved by at least ono of them for' himself. Adlnl 13. Stevenson according to n Chicago dispatch will rotlro from his law business and his coal mining to establish tho La Hallo Extension university. uni-versity. Two foreign mine workers wore MUcd, unother Is missing and about twelve wcro badly burned by an explosion ex-plosion ot gas In a colliery of tho Krlo Coal company nt Port Blnnchard, Pa. Klro followed tho explosion, and Mxty miners woro entombed back of tho Pro for Boveral hours. Upon tho recommendation of Socio-tnry Socio-tnry Nowborry, tho president has reduced re-duced the sentence of Lleuteniint Prank T Evans, son of Robley D. Ev itns, to it loss of fifty numbers and u roprlmand. Lieutenant Evans was court-martialed for vnrlous offenses whllo in the Philippines. Six young girls woro severely hrulscd In n punlo at St. Stanislaus parochial school, Buffalo, N. Y. Two thousand pupils intended the Bchool, Tho clanging of .a lira onglno called to n near-by llro mudo tho girls nor-otis nor-otis and when, quo screamed "lire" n wild Blnmle ensued,. Tho first fight under Tennessee's now btfxlng law occurred, at tho Ven-tl'omo Ven-tl'omo In Naslivlllb, March 5. Billy JCerr of Now York nnd Eddlo Jontis o! Coorgln wero the principals In n rather fast bout, limited by law to eight rounds. At Ub , conclusion tho tetureo "announced a draw ' |