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12 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. 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