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Show NEWS SUMMARY During the month of February sixty new cases of bubonic plague were reported re-ported in Guayaquil, of which eleven were fatal. The salary of the president has been definitely fixed at $75,000 per annum, without any additional allowance for j traveling expenses. Miss Belle Hagner, social secretary to Mrs. Roosevelt, has been transferred trans-ferred to a position in the bureau of trade relations of the state department. depart-ment. - A number of the women ol Columbus, Colum-bus, lnd., have been circulating a petition pe-tition asking Mrs. Taft not to permit the serving of wine at White House dinners. The bill prohibiting free lunches in caloons was killed in the Wisconsin usse-mbly, and the bill prohibiting j treating in saloons was refused engrossment. en-grossment. The New York suffragettes have organized or-ganized a crusade for the furthering of their propaganda among the newspaper news-paper men' who work on the morning publications. W. H. Tilford, one of the vice-presidents of the Standard Oil company, died at his home in New York City, March 2. Mr. Tilford was a former treasurer of the corporation. When Charles Williams, a beggar, was locked up by the police of Chicago, Chi-cago, he confessed that he had reached reach-ed such a stage of thirst for whiskey that he had pawned his artificial leg for $5. While being shaved,., in Bromley, Ky., Joseph Stolzer jumped from the barber chair, grabbed a razor, and, be fore anyone could interfere, cut his throat from ear to ear, .lying almost immediately. Guy Razor was found guilty of manslaughter man-slaughter at Medina, O., by the Jury trying him for the murder of his sweetheart, Orie Lee, October 8. The penalty is from one to twenty years ill e penitentiary. Miss Fannie Hageldant, aged 40, was found dead with a bullet hole in her head at her home near Columbus, Ohio. The body was tightly wound about with bed-clothing. The house iiad been . ransacked. Mrs. Peter Derenbrechea- of San Diego, Cal., was fatally burned in the explosion of a gasoline stove. She was in her room preparing breakfast when the gasoline stove) exploded, en veloping her body in flames. The annual report of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Railway company for 1908. made public last week, shows a decrease In gross earnings compared with the preceding pre-ceding year of $52,446,722, and a decrease de-crease in net earnings of $7,430,297. The anti-cigarette bill was passed in the house of the Missouri legislature last week. The bill prohibits the manufacture, man-ufacture, sale or giving away of cigarettes, cigar-ettes, cigarette papers or wrappers. The penalty is a fine of from $10 to $2-00. Dr. G. C. Throckmorton, aged 65 years, of Piqua, O., has beaten the military mil-itary ride of President Roosevelt, ot ninety-six miles military gait when he tode three horses on the relays 120 miles in thirteen hours and forty-five minutes. Returns just completed by the foreign for-eign office at Tokio show that between June and December, 1908, 1,354 Japanese Jap-anese left the empire bound for the United States, while 3,500 returned from the United States during the ame period. A conference of prohibitionists of ike New England states was held in Boston last week, the meeting being called for the purpose of discussing plans for an active campaign, to be waged by the party from now on to the presidential campaign of 1912. Mystery surrounds the killing of Mrs. Jerome Hoover, wife of an Atchison, At-chison, Kans., tanner, who was found dead at her home. Thursday the undertaker un-dertaker discovered a small wound behind the right ear. The wound was probed and a bullet taken from it. Permanent headquarters for the National League of Republican clubs, of which John Hays Hammond is president, will be established in Washington in the near future, in order or-der to keep the 3,fc00 clubs and 1,200,-000 1,200,-000 members active throughout the year. What to do with our vice-presidents is a question which has been solved by at least one of them for himself. dial E. Stevenson according to a c'hlcago dispatch will retire from his law business and his coal mining lo establish the La Salle Extension university. uni-versity. Two foreign mine workers were killed, another is missing and about twelve were badly burned by an explosion ex-plosion of gas in a colliery of the Erie Coal company at Port Blanchard, Pa. Fire followed the explosion, and sixty miners were entombed back of the fre for several hours. t'pon the recommendation of Secretary Secre-tary Newberry, the president has reduced re-duced the sentence of Lieutenant Prank T Evans, son of Robley D. Ev ans. to ; loss of fifty numbers and a reprimand. Lieutenant Evans was court-martialed for various offenses while in the Philippines. Six young girls were severely bruised in a panic at St. Stanislaus parochial school. Buffalo. N. Y. Two thousand pupils attended the school. The clanging of a lire engine called to a near-by fire made the girls nervous ner-vous and when one screamed "tire" a wild st ami le ensued. The first tight under Tennessee's new boxing law occurred at the Ven-dome Ven-dome in Nashville. March 5. Billy Kerr of New York and Eddie Jones ot Georgia were the principals in a rather fast bout, limited by law to eight rounds At Its conclusion the releree announced a draw |