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**Bartmoor Shephard” Agala. At the “Liverpool – Semtione recently, David Davies, aged 74, the natacions Darkmoor Shap bard,*****was sentenced" to TRÈS mantha for theft from an offsetory bez at a church in Liverpool,
Temperature Variations in
BeeFormoER.
In Taipeh, Farrooss, the tan perstare. remained at about 80 degrees F. until the 23rd ultima, when a sudden 'change cama about and the temperaturs fail.so 42 degreen. Snow fall to a depth of over an inch.””. It is stated that such a low temperature has not been recorded för over ten JOLTS.
*A Chinese Amateur Detective..
Detective work by Louis Lee, à Chinese merchant in Philadel- phia resulted in the arrest of John Faro, a negro, on a charge of baring chloroformed the China- man's wife, Mrs. Florence Lee, and robbing her of several dis- mond rings. The merchant said *he met a negro coming down the stais before the discovery of the robbery
on December 21. Since that time Lee has been on the look-out for him ører since. { Accused was remanded.
Antiquity of the Salety Pla
Thas the Hittites were in con- stans communication with other
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The San Diego Flood. A San Francisco despatch to nations is shown by the fact that the Amhi reports that over 3,000 Egyptian scarabs and amulets, people have been rendered home- Phoenician pottery, and Greek leas owing to the San Diego fixod. terra cosa figures are found in Thirty bodies of those who were the tombs of different periods, drowned have been recovered, Bronze daggers and jewellery are including those of some Japanese fairly common, and I was shown A party of bluejackets has been afety pin, three thousand fanced from an American man-of- years old, that would will work war and is giving sesistance to the Some Stone Age pottery, with the Tery ancient emblem of thunder or of the weather god, was found in its original kiln-Corres pondence of the Christian Herald.
Trouble In Haiti. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January
municipal workers for the relief of the sufferers. The low is ee timated at $2,000,000.
Nepotism at the Bar. The nepotism of the bar is, of
wine.
A YEAR AGO TO-DAY.
LEADING EVENTS IN THE
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Silly German Threat Repeated.
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socarding to the Tuskegee re-infant daughter of Mee. Vyroar which statee-As Great Britain WELLS FARGO & CO
New York Theatre Robbed.
cords, innocent persons were pat Brooke, says the Globe. The says that he is justified in huisl to death by moba. Lynching by baby is a Princes of Sarawak, ing neatrai flags, and moreover, States in given: Alabams, 9 and her mother, until a few years according to a reliable sKIDA, Arkansas, 5; Florida, 5; Georgia, ago, was Mize Sylvis Brett Mr. British merchantmen have been 18; Illinois, 1; nentucky, 5; Oliver Brettmarried an American. armed in order to destroy German Louisiana, 2; Mississippi, 9: Mr. Maurice Brett married Mise submarines or ram them, these Missouri, 2; Obio, 1; Oklahoma, Zena Dar, and Lady Esher, mo-ships become war vessels. Ger- 3; South Carolina, 1; Tennessee, ther of them all, was the daughter many, therefore, urgently warns 2, Texas, 5; Virginia, 1
of Mr. Sylvain van de Weyer, stall nentral ships entering the Vancouver's Red Cross Record, one time Belgian Minister at the English or Irish cosat waters
The Vancouver Central Red Court of St. James E. Croes depot has established s
after the 18th inst., that Germany splendid record for the year 1915 New York, December 27. mesta in her power, and neutral will prosecute the war by all and it is doubtial if any city of Masked men bound four persons ships will run the same risk as if the sixs in Canada can show a band and foot at the Star Theatre, they were steaming through ses better report. From Dec. 1, 1914, Lexington Avenue, early this battles between England and to date the central depot has morning, prised off the door of shipped 1,583 cases, weighing the sale in the ticket-office, and German Feeling against America,
Germany. spproximately 111,000 pounds took the receipts of the Friday The total number of garments i
The American Note has greatly 1,019,403. When it is taken into Saturday and Sunday perform embarrassed the German Govern
Ances. The janitor, his wife, thement, and it is reported that Dr. consideration that a quantity of watchmen, and a scrabwoman, von Bethmann-Hellweg is going hospital supplies has also been who were in the building at the to East Prussia to consult with shipped through other sources time, ware told by the intruders the Kaiser. such as the Daughters of the that if they made an outcry they German people against America The anger of the Empire, the public may grap would be killed. The burglars rising, and being energetically the extent of the Red Cross work got $700 0: in Vancouver, Winis no figures Preliminary to Abolishing Lida. Ingved that the German reply will fanned by the Press. It is be for comparison are obtainable for
As a preliminary step to the be apologetic, but will not guar- the whole year, reports up to the abolition of likin two special com-antee the safety of American, ships end of September showed that missioners, Tien Chung-yu, and the total number of case shipped Chao Chun-men, were appointed prohibits belligerents from flying unless the American Government from Canada was 18,182 Van o investigate conditions in the couver and its wards and outside provinces, but owing to various Garman Version of the Air-raid.
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for the south on their tour of that hostile airmen have investigation. These officials have bombar now established an office in the
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