Semi-weekly herald., 1907-12-12

partment He attempt to commit sui
eide when arrested. The charge is en-
bezzlement and he win be sent to
Germany for trial.
The Bible is barred from the public
schools by action of the school man
agement committee of the Chicago
board of education.
Charges of cruelty alleged to have
been practiced by attendants upon the
inmates in the state hospital for in
sane on Wards Island, New York, may
be investigated.
Bostonis finance commission discov
ers the city's debt is Si3,0OO,00O more
than shown in the auditors report.
and scores recklessness. CT the mu-
nicipal authorities.
In a feud battle between the Miller
Jones faction of left fork of Beaver
creek at Whitesburg, Ky, John Miller.
reputed leader Of the Millers, was kill
ed and andy Jones and Merrill Jones
Of the Jones faction We're mortalIy
wounded,
Thomas p. McCutcheon, a well
known manufacturer OF Philadelphia,
dropped dead in the grand stand at
Franklin field while cheering his alma
mater in the Penna-CorneH football
game. MIR. McCutcheon, who was Il
graduate OF Pennsylvania. was accom-
panied by his son, also a graduate
Of the university.
An alienfst who has examined En-
sign Charles b. Ulmon of the French
navy, who was arrested at Toulon
charged with being SPY and who
confessed that he had been in com
munication with a foreign power for
the sale of official documents reports
that he is mentally responsible.
The kidnapping of Marquic Giuseppe
Cito, cousin and aid of King Victor
Emmauual who after being tortured
and forced to give up $500, was re
leasedhy his captors. has caused great
establishment through the discovery
that the organizer of the plot is in
reality a Naples policeman on being
arrested he confessed.
The extraordinary rush Of aliens to
Europe continues undated and eight
steamships viii carry over 1000 steer.
age passengers. Nearly all rans-At-
antic liners scheduled to sail within
the next two weeks have been booked
rp because of the food of applca-
tions. The steamship President Lin.
coin win break all records for the
NUM- If steerage passengers carried
by one ship. This steamer win take
5000 passengers in the steerage for
Mediterranean points,
John Whitley. a prosperous business
man of Brooklyn, known as the chin
ney man expert" shot and killed his
wife, Elizabeth, while she lay sleeping
in her room on the tenth floor of the
Hotel Belleclaire at Broadway and
Seventy7seventh street. New York.
Then he took the revolver in one hand
and a mirror in the other so that he
might the better shoot himself by the
reflection, changed his mind, crawled
| ont ON a narrow ledge bordering the
tenth floor windows on tine Seventy
seventh street side of the hotel. and
leaped to his death on the asphal
| below
Eighteen Chicago gamblers were in.
dicted by the recent grand jury.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell lighted a
cigarette in the Plaza hotel in New
York. The guests We're shocked and
Mrs. Pat was asked to stop it
Chicago retail meat dealers declare
that the packers have not reduced the
price of meats and are making big prof.
its from the low price of live stock.
Compelled to make &c changes o.
| attire on matinee days, Anna Held.
the actress. suffers nervous break
down and cancels her engagements.
MIR. Dooley humorously gives his i'm
pressions of the football season. and
says "it looks as though Yale, nestlin'
nndher tn ellums iv Moo Haven. has
priiooced tn most vicious band iv
scholars
Paris society is divided by the ap
proaching marriage of the Due de
Chaulnes to Miss shonts, one faction
considering it brilliant match. and
thco ther looking on it "a a mistake.
Miss Shonts mistake, undoubtedly.
William B. Marshutz, state manager
oi the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance
company, announced that on January
the company will cease soliciting
new business in that state. The ac.
tion is taken in order tha5 the com.
pany may obtain a clear understanding
Of the new statutes affecting Insurance
companies.
Charles l.. Ferguson. jr, was drown
ed in a bath tub at his home in Os
shining. Ferguson was married two
months ago, He was bathing when mis-
wife retired It was several hours
later when Mrs. Ferguson awoke and
found the body of her husband. The
coroner decided that Ferguson had
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