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IN A NUTSHELL San Francisco-Brigadier General Frederick Funston has arrived here from Manila on sick leave. Frankfort, Ky.-James B. McCreary has been nominated by the democrats to succeed United States Senator Deboe. Calumet, Mich.-The Standard Tie company of Detroit, Mich., has purchased 14,000 acres of cedar lands near Munising for $67,000. Laramie, Wyo.-A divorce was granted to Mrs. Belle Donkersley-Busk from George Busk, an Englishman, on the ground of nonsupport. Mrs. Donkersley-Busk was one of the belles of Laramie. Muskegon, Mich.-C. F. Bidwell of Toledo, Ohio, gave the first practical demonstration of his father's invention of a telephone system whereby it is possible to call up and talk from one electric car, going at full speed, with any one who is located in another car on the same line, running in either direction and at any distance. Williamsport, Pa.-Sympathy for three girl strikers at Reynoldsville culminated in a run on the First National bank. Only $30,000, hastily borrowed, saved the institution from going down, because its president is the burgess who sentenced the girls to six days in jail, after convicting them of disturbing girls who had taken the strikers' places in the local silk mill. New York-A virtual settlement of the bitter struggle for shorter hours between the garment cutters and the clothing manufacturers of the United States for months, has been reached. The question involved about 40,000 men. The settlement was reached through the medium of the committee of thirty-six appointed by the conference of the National Civic Federation in this city. The garment workers agreed to eight and a half hours.
