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WORLD'S NEWS
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ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FRESH FROM OUR DAILY NEWSPAPER SERVICE.
GATHERED OVER THE GLOBE
Happenings National, Historical and Political and Personal Events Herewith Selected for Our Many Readers.
Lord Kitchener has called on Canada for a second expeditionary force.
Two cases of bubonic plague and one death at Havana were reported Sunday.
Peter S. McNally of Boston, formerly widely known as a long-distance swimmer and life saver, died of heart failure Saturday.
Pope Benedict has issued a decree for the recital of prayers for peace in Roman Catholic churches over the world during the month of May.
American shipbuilding during the nine months ended March 31 has not kept pace with construction during the same period of the previous year.
The purchase of a site upon which to erect at Niles, Ohio a $300,000 memorial to President McKinley, who at one time lived there, took place Monday.
Six thousand bales of American cotton aboard the steamer San Guglielmo were destroyed by fire in the Naples harbor recently. The loss is estimated at 1,000,000 lire ($200,000).
Carranza authorities in Nuevo Laredo announce that all danger of an early Villa attack upon the border city had been removed by the retreat of Villa forces in that territory.
Salt Lake's 5-cent fare automobile service was discontinued Saturday as a result of the inability of the operators to obtain the surety bonds required by the city ordinance recently enacted.
The British steamer Harpalyce, the first relief boat of New York state and under charter to the commission for relief in Belgium, has either been torpedoed or sunk by a mine in the North sea.
Coney C. Slaughter, until recently cashier of the Mercantile National bank of Pueblo, Colo., now in the hands of a receiver, has been indicted by the federal grand jury on a charge of falsifying the books of the bank.
Jean Herail, an officer in the French cavalry, was acquitted by a court martial, which tried him for killing his wife at Compiegne last November because she persisted in following the army in order to be near him.
The Iowa senate has passed the Klinker bill, which provides that absent voters may send their ballots to their home precincts by mail. It was designed primarily for the benefit of traveling men. The bill now goes to the governor, having already been passed in the house.