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George Zeller is in the hospital at Decatur, III., from a bullet wound inflicted by a holdup man. Winston Churchill was elected president and Theodore Roosevelt vicepresident of the Authors' league at the annual meeting. Miss Martha H. Andrews, a member of an old New York family, who died in February, bequeathed the bulk of her estate, valued at $1,500,000, to religious, educational and charitable institutions. Mrs. Julia C. Marsh, whose divorce proceedings against her husband, Forrest Marsh, an investment broker of New York, are in charge of a referee, committed suicide by inhaling gas. May 21 is to be observed by hundreds of churches throughout the country as "Humane Sunday." The week of May 15-20 is to be known as "Be Kind to Animals Week." Determined to aid in checking the theft of automobiles in Illinois, the state board of pardons has announced that hereafter such offenders will be required to serve the full time of any indeterminate sentence. The losses by the Bulgarian army during the war are estimated by Bulgarian reports received in Athens to amount to 87,000 killed and 50,000 wounded and missing. Two fugitives Joe and Dave Smith, who resisted arrest by a sheriff's posse, were slain when they opened fire on the officers at Murkogee, Ok. "I kill myself because I have stooped to kiss the degraded woman who has wrecked my life," wrote Ralph Lane, 23, who committed suicide at New Orleans. A robber held up and bound Cashier A. Walter Koehler of the Copperfield (Utah) State bank and took $4,500 in cash. The Postal Telegraph company was fined $1,000 in the criminal court in Butte, Mont., on conviction of transmitting information on which racing bets were made. To test the new Florida law making it illegal for white persons to teach negroes, three nuns were placed under technical arrest. The charges were brought by several negroes. Contraband cocaine valued at more than $5,000 was found in the coal bunkers of the United States army transport Logan. Senator Shafroth of Colorado made a strong plea in the senate for action on woman's suffrage during this ses sion. Military training will be an elective course next fall at Throop College of Technology, in California. A British coal and oil station is to be established on Fanning island, an English possession in the mid-Pacific. The New York police are searching for Miss Doris Ponty, a Sunday school teacher, who has been missing from her home since April 2. The Japanese government has repaid to the American Red Cross $365 expended last summer for the relief of the destitute on the island of Rota, in the Pacific Ladrone islands. There were at least 683 industrial accidents in New York state in every working day from July 1, 1914, to Jan. 1, 1916, according to Commissioner Archer of the state Industrial commission. The state department was advised that British Ambassador Spring-Rice had received an anonymous letter threatening his life if Sir Roger Casement received ill treatment at the hands of the British government. A petition asking the appointment of a receiver for the Guardian Trust company, capitalized at $2,500,000, has been filed in the Kansas City federal court by attorneys representing minority stockholders of Chicago. Fred Bissell of Lansing, Kan., who confessed to the murder of the 10-yearold Dinsmore girl, seeks to justify his crime by the statement that the mother of the little girl had refused to marry him. Scores of letters have been received from residents of Florida at the state department telling of attempts of alleged German spies to obtain information regarding the coast fortifications of the state. War bread has just appeared on breakfast tables in Holland for the first time. Flurries of snow fell in central Texas on the 28th, when the temperature reached 40 degrees. The army bill, the first of the administration's