Semi-weekly herald., 1907-11-25
TEuEeRAPHIc RREvITiEs.

Mount Carroll and other cities in the
Sterling. Ill.,, district have passed reso-
luticns asking Congressman Frank O..
post law in congress.
Working together. Thomas A. Edi-
son. wizard of East orange. n. j.,
and Henry Phipps. New York mil
lionaire. believe they can solve the
tenement-house problem. They plan
tn do this by erecting an entire city
of concrete houses in New Jersey. Mr..
Edison perfected plans recently where
by, he says. he can build within twelve
hours and at cost of from $1,000 to
sI20O beautiful nine-room house.
suitable for two families. Each apart
ment Of these double houses can be
rented proftably at $3.50 month. ac-
cording to Mr.. Edison.
The first attempt of a lawyer to
collect for services in connection with
the award of Carnegie hero medal
was overthrown at Bellevilie. Ill. when
a jury In the circuit court found
verdict for Theodore Boettcher, hero
miner. who was sued for $3.50 by At
torney Thomas r. Mould on the
ground that Mould secured for him
medal and $3.50. The verdict was rem
dered on the testimony of Frank NJ.
Wilmot of Pittsburg, Pa. secretary
and manager of the Carnegie hero
fund commission. who said the $3.50
was paid Boettcher 10 liquidate a
mortgage on his home. and that paid
attorneys We're not recognized by the
commissioners.
BY far the greatest winter exodus
ever known of aliens from these
shores is now in progress. Every YES
ael sailing to Mediterranean ports dur
ing the past two weeks has carried
hrd-class passengers to its full ca
pacity. and those scheduled to sail be.
tween now and Christmas are fully
booker with many thousands of would
be ticket purchasers left without
means of transportation. Including
the first week in November, 102,677
more third-class passengers had left
this port during 1907 than during the
same period of 1906; the excess of sec
ond-class and first-class was 14,252 and
G,729 respectively. Steamship men be-
lieve that a large percentage of the
day laborers. scenting let-up in in
lustrial activity and with an eXas
gerated idea of the present financial
stress, have no Intention of returning
In the spring.
Property worth 10000, 900 occupied
ly business concerns on the river front
have been found TO belong to the city
of Chicago.
j. 3. Thomas. cashier of the Bank o.
Albany Mo-, committed suicide with
out apparent cause. His accounts ar,
found In good condition.
The torpedo boat destroyer Mohawk
| IN its speed trials, ran forty miles al
hour for six hours, proving 1t th'
fastest lighting vessel in the world.
Thousands of small investors in New
York are bringing out their boarded
cash and swapping up bargains which
the low prices for stocks make pos
sibe.
A pear necklace worn In London SO
clety by Mrs. Frank J. Mackey AM
valued at $4,000 figures in a lawsui
brought by the gem dealers agains
Mr. MackeF.
| Fire of incendiary origin at the Ral
tic shipbuilding yards at st, Peters
burg destroyed two gunboats and dan,
aged several other vessels. The los
was 100000
The successor of President Barne,
Of the Knickerbocker Trust company
who killed himself, lays the banker
downfall TO the wildcat schemes O
Charles W. Morse.
The sale of the jewels of the lat
Queen Henrietta has been set fo
November 20, at Brussels, the offe
Of Princess Louise to give her moth
cr's creditors $4,000 to prevent II
having been rejected.
The Paris chamber of deputie
adopted resolutions tending to pre-
vent the erection of great plants a
the French seaports by American pack
| ing companies having designs on mo
noppiizing the trade.
| Demand for the new clearing hous,
checks in Chicago were so heavy 1
could not be met. and sl4.oo0.o0 Il
new medium is ordered prepared quick
" as possible; bankers find currenc,
tension is relieved; gold is given free
ly for large supplies.
Just before Joseph Ullman, book
maker and race track gambler. he
came mentally unbalanced last sprins
he plunged into the stock market with
an abandon that his friends now be
lieve was the result of his derange
ment but which has brought to him
1t is said, greater wealth than he
ever before possessed
With sister and bride of foui
months at his side. Ernest f. Slocum
a resident of Gryme's Hill. Staten is