Baltimore, Md.—Mrs. Matilda Tyler, sixty-six years old, was arrested charged with unlawfully receiving a government pension by representing herself as the widow of a veteran of the War of 1812. Her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Mary B. Poskelly, also is under arrest on a charge of conspiring with Mrs. Tyler to defraud the government of a $90 quarterly pension payment. Mrs. Tyler was alleged to have accepted payments since 1916, and her husband, who died in that year, was said to have received vouchers since the death of his mother, the rightful pensioner, in 1898. When questioned, Mrs. Tyler told authorities she thought the money was due her as a widow of a Civil War veteran. The arrest of Mrs. Tyler was the outcome of an article in a New York paper several months ago on the occasion of a war mothers' parade in New York.

FARM WAGES SHOW DECREASE Declines for Day Workers Range From 3.1 to 6.4 Per Cent, Says Survey. Washington.—Farm wages are lower than they were three months ago. Declines ranging from 8.1 per cent to 6.4 per cent for various parts of the country are disclosed in the survey of the Department of Agriculture for the three-month period of October to January. Day farm laborers for the country as a whole averaged $1.98 a day without board and $1.47 with board, while by the month the average wage was $40.30 without board and $27.81 with board.

Descendant of Columbus Admitted to English Bar I London.—Dr. O. J.  Columbus,
direct descendant of Christopher Columbus, was called to the English bar in the Middle Temple. The doctor is a descendant of Diego, son of Christopher Columbus. 