Semi-weekly herald., 1907-12-12

was dragged through the streets OF
the negro settlement.
4 Chicago girrs negro assaIant was
dlsenarsed ny Municipal Judge scovel.
VINO held that because he was drunk
a. the time Of bis crime he was IRE.
sponsible.
Refusing to accept a reductiop ~,
% cents day in their wages. the "a 4
borers engaged in laying the eond,r
for the Home Telephone companv ~
san Francisco, went on strike
Three indictments for ra,,,r''
against John II. Hesenan. presidant ),
the Metropolitan Life Insurance oo,,
pany, are sustained and seven ina,ct
ments for forgery are dismissed ia
New York
Henry Gassaway Davis, former ser.
ator and candidate for the vice presi
lency multimillionaire. is reported to
be engaged to wed Miss Maud Ashford.
poor girl and former society editor
Of Washington newspaper
1t was announced at the plant OF
the National India Rubber company at
Bristol, II. l.. that beginning Decem-
Der Il the plant win be shut down aud
that operations Will be resumed Iaun
ary l. About 400 hands are affected.
Caruso destroyed the clock in his
room in a New York hotel thereby
putting the whole time keeping sys-
TEN on the bum. A cheap method OF
gaining notoriety, and not so disas
trous rs the monkey house incident.
Thousands of mill operatives
throughout New England, most OF
wnom are employed in textile manu-
featuring establishments, resumed
work after curtailment, shntdowns va
rying from three days TO t. week or
more.
The death sentence passed upon
Karl Han. formerly a profession in
George Washington university, Wash
ineton, d. C., for the murder. No
yember >. 1906 Of his mother-in-law
Frau Molitor, in Germany has been
cummuted to life Imprisonment.
The supreme court Of the United
states decided the case Of the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad compaa,
against Marcus r. Bitterman and 9th
re involving the right of the defend
uts to engage in scalping the tickets
If the railroad company. in favor OF
the company. the decision Icing hand
ad down by Justice White.
In an effort to prove tina. thoTn1--A
cactus, as IN article of diet. contains
properties sufficient to enable man
continue working eighteen hours a
day, Dr. Leon Elhert Landone, of Los
Angeles, well known as scientific
lecturer, has been since Friday last
3ubsisting exclusive upon cactus. sup
pemented by a few nuts and small
quantity OF celery The leaves of the
oant are eaten green or fried. and
the fruit is raw or cooked
Among the con steu tiection cases
that have been filed with tie clerk of
the house are two from Illinois. One
comes from the fourth congressional
district in Chicago where Anthony
Michalek, vino was in the last con
sress, charges that he defeated Adolph
j. SABBATH, the Democratic member
VINO now holds the seat The other
comes from the eighth congressional
district in Chicago and is brought by
Stanley H. Kunz, who charges that
'ho defeated Charles McGayin.
a decision Of the New York supreme
court prohibits every kind of Sunday
shows, theaters. lectures and concerts
alike.
Secretary TAFT at a banquet in ST.
Petersburg, denied that his present
trip has anything to do with possi-
| BILE war in the far east.
The Great Northern railroad has
ordered cut in the wages of section
men and boiler wlpers amounting to
between So and So a .month.
A reduction in wages that will aver
erage 10 cents day from each work
men has gone into effect at the blast
| furnaces of the f. and G. Brooke Iron
company at Birsboro, Pa.
Judge Crosby OF the superior court ap-
pointed Fred 7. Francis receiver of ihe
Rerkshire Motor Car company of Pitts.
field Pa. The liabilities are stated
as $4,000; assets, $4,000.
The body of D. r. Rankin. cashier of
the defunct Merchants and Planters
bank of l.awton Okla. who mysteri
ously disappeared month ago. was
found in Cache creek near there.
A bag Of iewelry worth 10000 was
reported stolen from a sleeping ca
between Jersey City and Richmond.
Vt. The valuables were the property
Of the wife of DIR. Edward Friborrg
of Paris.
Count de la Vaulx of Paris saws
he hopes within ten years to undertake
to cross the Atlantic in three DAYS IN
balloon having capacity of 5000
cubic feet of gas. He would select
the season of westerly winds.
Hundreds of foreign worlomen in st
Louis and suburbs who have been dis