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NEWS OF THF WFFK.
A new parliament is to be elected
this month in Spain.
Gov. Stuart has approved the Penn
sylvania two cent fare law.
There were three suicides over
Niagara Falls on Saturday last.
The English revenues increased
nearly $6,000,000 last year.
Brigadier General Richard Combe,
retired, is dead at San Francisco.
The heir to the Spanish throne is
expected about the middle of April.
Secretary Wilson says our crops will
save the nation from financial disas
ters.
Sydney Oliver is to be the new gov
ernor of Jamaica in place of Swetten
ham.
Secretary Taft has returned from
his quickstep trip to the Panama canal
zone.
General Dioniso Gutierrez is expect
ed to become the new president of
Honduras.
Col. Goethals is now in command of
the Panama canal work. He took hold
on Saturday.
Dick Mansfield is sick. And not for
advertising purposes, this time. It is
the real thing.
The remains of Pope Leo XIII. will
be moved from St. Peter’s to St. John
Lateran church.
John A. Lewis, a native of Alabama,
now becomes the head of the Dowie
people at Zion City.
Jennie Burch, the baby killer, has
been sent to the insane asylum for
criminals at Matteawan, N. Y.
The interstate commerce commis
sion has begun an investigation of the
express companies of the country.
Orders have been given to the
guards of Abe Rues in San Francisco
to shoot him if he tries to escape.
THE AMERICAN ZOLLVEREIN.
Geographically and industrially the
United States, Canada and Mexico are
joined together. American capital to
the extent of more than $1,000,000,000
is invested in Mexico. Yankee facto
ries are springing up in Canada. Rail
ways of this country are extending
their lines beyond our national bounda
ries, in keeping with the movement
which, without waiting for the consent
of statesmen, is making North Ameri
ca an industrial unit. —The N. Y. Amer
ican.
“THE MEAN THING.”
The Darien Gazette wants to know
did this really happen to an Atlanta
woman? A woman sat up till one
o’clock the other night waiting for her
husband to come home. At last, weary
and worn out with vigil, she went
upstairs to retire, only to find her hus
band in bed fast asleep. Instead of go
ing downtown he had stolen upstairs
and crawled into bed, which made his
wife so mad she didn’t speak to him
for a week.
FARMER, PIPE AND LOAD OF HAY.
Next time Farmer William Fox of
Burlington, N. J., takes a smoke he wil]
carefully note “where he is at” when
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
Oscar Hundley will be the federal
judge of the new district court set up
in Alabama. He is a Republican.
The president is expected to dis
cuss railroads in his opening address
at the Jamestown exposition, April 26.
Failure to receive an order wrecked
a train in Texas and added six more
lives to the railroad murder roll of the
year.
Nashville authorities stopped the
exhibition of moving pictures of the
Thaw tragedy, but Atlanta stands for
them.
The American residents of the Isle
of Pines say they will never be con
tent with Cuban control of their
island.
King Edward has employed an
American punch-mixer for Windsor
Castle. We have had one in our White
House for nearly six years already.
King Edward will leave Biriatz
April 5 for Toulon, whence he will pro
ceed the following day on board the
royal yacht for Cartagena to meet
King Alfonso of Spain.
The hearing of the petition of the
Farmers’ Union for two cent fares in
Georgia came on Tuesday. It is be
lieved the railroad commission will
turn down the request.
Michigan elected five state officials
Monday, including two justices of the
supreme court, two regents of the
state university and one member of
the state board of education.
Talking about the “prophetic psy
chical projection of possible profits”
will you please gaze on that extra
$2,500,000 of watered stock of the
Georgia Railway and Electric Compa
ny in Atlanta?
W. W. Russell, the American minis
ter at Caracas, had an interview with
the minister of foreign affairs con
cerning the claims pending against
Venezuela by American citizens. Mr.
Russell believes that these matters
will be arranged satisfactorily through
diplomatic channels.
he strikes the match. Recently he
filled his pipe for a good puff. It hap
pened that he was on top of a load
of straw on the road. The match ignit
ed the straw and the farmer had to
scramble lively to save his life. The
blaze quickly enveloped the dry straw
and Fox, in order to save his wagon,
unhitched the horses and overturned
the load, which was consumed in a
jiffy.
HOW SHE CAN DO IT.
A young lady in Chicago applied to
a court for permission to wear trousers
and was denied it. Let her get a
husband, and she will soon learn the
art of wearing them without the aid
or consent of any power on earth. —
Washington Times.
CRIMINALS ARE GENIUSES.
The expert criminal must be a ge
nius. The New York Sun tells of
a gifted rogue who was a safe rob
ber. He shaved all the cuticle or outer
skin off the fingers of the hand so that
the nerves were almost on the surface.
Then when he turned the combination
of a safe his sense of touch was so
delicate that he could actually feel
when he had reached the right com
bination.
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