Semi-weekly herald., 1907-12-12
TELEGRApHIc RREvITiEs.

scores its first important victory when
the court decides that the secrets
contained in the banks private books
shall not 20 to the jury.
Three trainmen were killed and a
boy who was stealing a ride was ia.
tally injured in a rear-end collision
between freight trains on the Phia
delphia and Reading in the northeast.
ern section of Philadelphia.
At the age of 90 years, Charles w.
Chace, a well-to-do farmer of Fall
River, Mass, decided that life was not
worth living and committed suicide by
taking paris green. He left a note
saying that he was tired OF life.
Horace S. Davis 63 years old.
prominent business man of Kalama-
zoo, Mich, was shot -nrough the heart
ana killed by burglar Davis had
giappled with the intruder when the
latter threatened to kill Mrs Davis
Governor Deneen of Illinois submits
hot message to the legislature show
ing that the Des PLANES river is a
nevigable stream and charging that
TIE deeds and leases under which the
Economy Light and Power company
claims rights are invalid.
one hundred foreign laborers at the
tioosier quarries at Bedford Ind. had
their wages cut from 10 to 121a cents
an hour. The angry men marched to
The machineshops and had two and
nne-half inches cut from their shovels
tc meet the reduction in wages They
say short money, short shovels
Governor Dawson of West Virginia
has issued call for an extra session
Of the legislature to meet January 81
for the consideration of measures reg.
ulating and limiting levles by county
courts. the adjustment of the fee sys-
TEN for county officers, the enactment
Of new election law and amending
the law concerning the salaries of as
SCISSORS 1t is also asked to pass n
local option law.
Suffering from a blow with a hatch
ct, which the physicians say. frac
tnred her skull. deliver, it is claimed
by her husband, Mrs. Mary Murray
walked through the streets of New
York ten blocks to the police station
behind the officer who had arrested
her husband, coal cart driver and
pleaded with the lieutenant at the
station not to lock him up. When
her plea was denied she collapsed and
was taken to n hospital The sur
seons say she cannot recover.
Abe" Hummel, once famous New
York lawyer, is dangerously i'll in the
Blackwell's island prison. New York.
Chicago packers and retailers dis
agree as to the price of meat to the
consumer and meanwhile the public
suffers.
Commissioner of Public Works Han
berg will ask the mayor OF Chicago to
curb so many special Investigations by
the city council, which he regards as
useless.
States Attorney Healy is prepared
to prosecute Chicago milk dealers who
have been selling bogus buttermilll as
soon as the evidence is placed before
him by the pure food commission
Sumner writes from Washington
that Secretary Cortelyou finds the ne
cessity for temporary financial relief
is over, and that the matter of pro.
viding permanent currency reform is
now up to congress.
William f. Curtis says the dowager
empress of China has honored Sir
I.iang Cheng-tung for bringing the
news that the United States would
waive its claim for the $4,000. .OO0
Boxer indemnity.
Despondent, 1t is said. when she
learned she had been made a party
to mock marriage. Miss osie Pierce
committed suicide at Powhatan. o.
The authorities are searching for the
man, who has disappeared.
Lord Fairfax an American. who
went to England TO accept the title of
Raron Fairfax, returned on the steam
er Adriatic. He is a member of firm
OF bankers in New York. and will re-
sumo his business in that city.
Judge c. F. Templeton of the North
Dakota district court decided that the
liquor imported into the state to be
used as beverage is unconstitutional.
He held that the law violated the com.
merce clause of the United States con.
stitution.
Turning on the gas and phono. |
graph at the same time, Mrs. Georgis |
Tuttle. aged 20 years, committed sui
eide at her home in New York to the |
strains of IN the Wild Woods Where
the Blue Bells Grow" her favorite air
she was dependent because of i'll
health.
Louis Larsen. II years old. was near
ly trampled TO death by hungry cat.
tie. The hoy went into the barn to
feed the cattle with pumpkins. The
at the sight of food made a
rush and trampled the little fellow