The News In Brief

The Canadian Pacific railway earnings for the week ended April 21 were $453,000; samè period last year, $366,000. Mlle. Marie Van Zandt, the celebrated opera sínger, wlll be married at Cannes on Friday to a Russian gentleman, M. Descherinoff. She will retire froni the stage. The New York Evening Post's London correspondent cables that he has Information that. the plague has broken out in Calcutta. The Greek néwspapers declare that the United States made an offer of L1.800,000 ($9,000,000) for the entire Greek navy. Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith has entered upon his new duties. Williara Sexton. formerly professional Champion b'flliard player, dropped dead at New York. The cause of death is not known. He was 50 years old. Johnson & Wheeler, Wholesale grocers of Detroit, have fllei a chattel mortgage for $10)0,000 upon the entire stock and assets Sof the firm. Chief Justice FÚller has given notlce that the TJnite41 States supreme court will be suspended, for the term on Friday, May 'ii "' John a wealthy farmer near Coldwater, Mtrih:, i:ommitted suicide by hanging. No.,cause is assigned. It is said that.-Crozier, who invented the disappearirig un carriage, got his idea from a TCansas prairie dog jumping into lts hole. '■■