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NEW YORK. March 18.—The newspaper polls on prohibition continue to attract an increasing number of votes daily as the largest unofficial referendum ever taken on a public question approaches its close.
With the climax of the balloting set for Saturday, reports to the United Press today showed that within 24 hours 416,591 votes had been cast in the polls being conducted by more than 400 newspapers throughout the country.
Stirring news may be expected from the lower Mississippi, by the way of New Orleans, shortly. Correspondents at that city state that preparations have been made for an immediate attack on Port Hudson, troops and munitions having already been moved in that direction. The attack is to be made by land and by water. General Banks commanding in person. He left New Orleans for Baton Rouge on the 7th instant, in company with General Grover.
A skirmish occurred near Bolivar, Tennessee, on Monday, the 9th instant, in which the Confederates were defeated, and eighteen taken prisoners. The official report of General Rosecrans of the recent scouting expedition states that one hundred and fourteen prisoners were taken.
Ex-Soldier Declares He Acquired Gallic Appetite With New Set of Digestive Paraphernalia, and Can’t Stay Sober in Spite of Inhibitions.
LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 17—Local physicians have become intensely interested in the strange case of Victor Murdock, former soldier, who claims a French stomach which he secured as the result of an operation following serious injury in the World War has given him a desire for liquor.
They have asked Murdock to enter a hospital, where he can lie carefully observed and possibly treated so that he will have less trouble in living with his “light wines” digestive organ in this Volsteadian country.
Italy Will Have No Election Until Then, When an All-Fascist Group Will Be Named.
By the Associated Press.
CREMONA, Italy. March 12.—Italy will not have political elections until 1929, when an all-Fascist Chamber of Deputies will be elected. This announcement is made by Secretary Farinacci of the Fascist party. The present chamber, he said, has carried out its work so well that it will be continued until 1929.
Camden, N. J., Mar. 9.—(AP)—Suit to force a husband to pay more “table money” for his board was argued today in the chancery court here. The case was regarded as without precedent in this tribunal.
Mrs. Aida O. Smith, Palmyra, N. J., complainant in the suit, testified she demanded a minimum of $20 weekly from her husband, Walter E. Smith, a druggist, employed at Roebling, N. J. The husband testified his wife threatened to consider him “only a boarder” if he fell below her minimum. Smith declared his wife owned their home and possessed property.
The facilities offered by the great building and extensive grounds of the Crystal Palace have many times, since its primary employment as the domicile of the first Great International Exhibition of all Nations in 1851, been turned to good account in fostering the industries of this nation.
There exists at the moment in this country an industry—that of the manufacture of self-propelling vehicles for use upon common roads—which is scarcely yet beyond its nascent condition, but which is far more advanced, and indeed has assumed considerable magnitude, in other countries, and in regard to which proper publicity and demonstration cannot be given in this country under existing legislation, except in extensive private grounds such as those attached to the Crystal Palace.