Semi-weekly herald., 1908-09-17

she was to kill the man and then xii
herself. but her courage failed and she
says a man was secured to take hel
place.
After lying with his body terribi,
mangled. his shrieks and groans un
heard for nearly nine hours before dis
covered, Charles Counter, yount
farmer. who was struck by an iii
nois Central freight train near Free
port, Ill. died.
The body Of Robert NJ. Patterson
postmaster at Tonti. ILL.,. who had beer
missing a week, was found In an or
chard near his home. He committed
suicide by shooting himself In the
head with a shotgun during At OF
dependency from I'll health.
District Attorney Jerome said that
he is not Interested enough in the
| Thaw matter to care whether they
take Harry X. Thaw to Pittsburg OF
not. and added that he knows OF nc
law by which his removal to another
| o'A'S hiSht oC
Evidence OF murder was revealed
when the body OF Mrs. Anna Mauro
20 years old, was found In her apart.
ments In East Forty-flfth street, New
York. The woman had been rendered
unconscious by blow on the head
strangled with veil and her hands
tied to her waist by another veil
H. II. Smock. oklahomas state bank
commissioner. Mt the direction of Gov.
G. N. Haskell has taken an appeal to
the state supreme court from the de-
cision of Judge A. H. Huston OF the
district court, who denied the power to
the bank commissioner and the state
banking board to dictate the number
of banks town or city may have.
Warrants have been issued at Jop
lin. Mo, for the arrest OF three white
men on the complaint of Bud Jones,
negro. who claims they were members
OF forty armed night riders who visit.
ed his home in the suburbs of the city
Monday night. Jones recently had n
difficulty with one OF them over a
saw
Very few persons refuse an Increase
Of salary of $500 n year. but Rev. Ii.
Wing ii. Berg, pastor OF Catskill Re.
formed church, at Catskill, N. Y, has
that record. In August, while MIR. Berg
was on vacation. the church officers
voted to increase his salary from So.
900 to S2,500. When Mr.. Berk return.
cd and was notified he refused to ac
cept the increase.
DIR. William Osler. who attracted
worldwide attention by jocularly ad.
yocating the chloroforming of aged
persons. has been made lord rector of
Edinburgh university. Scotland. ac
cording to private dispatches. DR..
Osler is regius professor OF medicine
at Oxford university, to which post
he went from Johns Hopkins univer.
sity. where he still holds the title Of
honorary professor of medicine.
The proposition OF consolidating the
German Methodist schools at Warrens.
burg. Mo-. and Mount Pleasant. Ia,
has long been considered by the st
Louis German Methodist conference
which is now holding its annual meet.
ing in Quincy. Ill. A motion favoring
the question was adopted. causing
members to arise and sing the dox-
ology. 1t is probable the school build.
ings In Iowa will be abandoned and
those at Warrenburg will be enlarged
and retained
Ernest. alias "Slim" Humphrey, in.
dicted for the murder OF William Don.
negan, one Of the victims OF the recent
riot at Springfield. H.. must stand
trial. This decision was given by
Judge Creighton in overruling the mo-
tion to quash the Indictment. Hum
phrey will be arraigned next week.
The court denied the application for
a change Of venue of Joe James, the
negro accused Of Staying Clergy Bal.
lard. The case against James will be
called next Monday.
The death of Mrs. Angle Manley OF
Excelsior Springs. Mo-. removes wo
man Of remarkable ingenuity and en-.
ergy. Losing both hands in cider
mill when she was 10 years old, she
learned to sew, wash. iron and do other
housework by which she made her
own living and from her savings
bought her small home in this city
Injuries to her arms. caused by con.
tinuous work, made amputation neces.
sary several times. and finally caused
her death.
Bertha Claiche. chief figure in one of
New York City's recent notable muir.
der cases. q convict in Auburn prison,
had her application for liberty favor
ably acted upon by the prison parole
board. Berthe Claiche was tried for
the shooting Of Emile Gendron In New
York City on June 6, 1906. She was
convicted and sentenced to serve an
fndeterminate term In the woman's
prison In Auburn. Much sympathy
was manifested for the young French
woman at the time Of her trial, al
though the evidence showed the mur.