The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-09-26
THE NEWS m BRIEF.


Col. William Goddard, chancellor ol
Brown university, and one Of. the best
known residents of Rhode Island, died
at Providence
George G. Hazfeton, lawyer and
playwright in New York, has secured
the Shakespearean productions Of
Richard Mansfield from the estate.
A dispatch from Progreso, Mexico,
says the entire coast Of Yucatan, ten
miles seaward, is strewn with dead
fish, presumably from submarine
eruption.
The First National bank of Gary
Ind, organized year ago by Elkhart
men and established at Gary last
March, has been sold to steel men at
a handsome profit.
News has reached the Vatican of
the death of Frederick Zadox Rocker.
the first American Roman Catholic
bishop of Jaro, Philippine islands,
from paralysis of the brain.
Joseph Labriola, said to be the las,
murderer to be put to death in New
Jersey by use of the moose, was hang
ed at Cape May. N. j.. for the killing
Of John Buiglio, his brother-in-law.
A fast mail and newspaper train on
the New York Central road was par.
TALLY wrecked near Utica when the en-.
gine struck a portion of a wrecked
freight. The engineer was injured.
Nine. Emma Calve, who arrived in
New York on the Pannonia, devoted q
large share of her time during the
voyage from Gibraltar to making rag
dolls and hats for children in the
steerage.
The new law providing an eight
hour day for telegraphers has beer
declared unconstitutional by the cir
cult court OF Cass county, Missouri
The court ruled that the law is class
legislation.
President Roosevelt announced the
appointment Of Walter c. Noyes OF
New London, Conn. as United States
circuit Judge to nll the vacancy
caused by the death Of William X
Townsend.
DR.. Charles A. Whitney. q wealthy
New Yorker, and his son Lloyd be
came reconciled when the latter had
been arrested on begging charge
The young man left home year age
and was taken back.
Trouble has arisen over the extra
dition Of w. H. Adsell, accused OF
murder at Hongkong. He took refuge
on the American warship Galveston al
Chefoo and the American authorities
insist on trying him themselves.
Capt. James r. Lindsay and Capt
Henry s. Wygant, both OF the Thir
teenth infantry, have been arrested BY
their colonel for indulging in a fis,
fight while on board an army trans
port en- route to San francisco from
the Philippines.
The board OF directors of the
mother Christian Science church. a,
Boston has issued new bylaw In
spired by Mrs. Eddy which permits
the holding Of autopsies on bodies OF
followers of the faith who have met
with sudden death.
DR.. II. l.. Getz, former president o.
the International Association of Rail
way Surgeons and city physician Of
Marshalltown, Ia, attempted suicide
at the railway station at West Liberty
by stabbing himself over the heart He
is believed to be insane.
The American government has In
vestigated the ill-treatment of Hindoo.
at Bellingham and Everett, Wash, In
response to a note from the British
government, and the local authorities
insist that they are entirely capable
Of dealing with the situation.
Secretary Of the Navy Metcaii
awarded the contract for the con
struction Of Ave torpedo boat destroy
ers to William Cramp & Sons, two
ships 36S5,000 each; the Bath Iror
works, two ships at $685.. 900 each; and
the New York Shipbuilding company
one ship at $645.O00.
w. p. King. a Chicago railroad man
who was sent to the asylum for the
insane at Jacksonville. ILL.,, was being
taken from that city to Bloomington
on a Chicago & Alton train when he
leaped through a car window while
the train was going at full speed and
escaped. He had been discharged
from the asylum for shamming insan
ity.