Semi-weekly herald., 1908-09-28

United States also. takes precautions /
TO prevent the spread Of the Russian
malady to this country.
The open hearth furnaces Of. the Car.
negie Steel works at Homestead and
two departments of the Howard Man
tie works started to run on double turn
for the first time since last October.
Several thousand men are affected.
Twenty-Five bulls escaped from the
arena at Moita and ran amuck through
a crowd that was assembling to wit
ness bull fight. Seven persons were
killed and twenty wounded. Troops
were summoned and shot the animals
For swearing falsely as to the age
| Of his child bride. Frank Ellsworth Of
Bloomington, Ill, was fined $500 and
sentenced to one year in the Dewitt
county jail yesterday. The girl. Carrie
Zortman, also Of the same city. who is
but 16, was fined 800.
vermilion county, Illinois, is threat
ened with a water famine. Creeks
have gone dry and the vermilion river
ia dry for the first time in many years.
| No rain has fallen in that locality
| since July 20, and unless the drouth is
broken soon there will be less than a
third crop Of corn.
Waterbury. Conn, physicians are
puzzled over remarkable case Of sus-
pended animation. Mrs. B. F. Carpen-
ter of Bethlehem, pronounced dead by
the attending physician, and with the
undertaken already in the house, sat
up in bed with the indignant announce
ment: II am not dead yet" She Is
so years OF age.
Governor Hoke Smith has signed the
convict lease bill, which hereafter pro-
hibits the leasing of felons in Georgia
except by the consent of the governor
and the prison commission. The bill
was passed by the legislature after
$4,000 had been spent in an extra
session and nearly month used In
discussing the legislation.
Canadian Pacific Railway engineers
have notified the company that they
will not run engines longer than an,
other week If the strike is not set
tied. In a letter to the company they
state they will lay the facts before
the railway commission at Ottawa.
The company is preparing another ul-
timatum in which 1t will offer to re-
instate strikers under certain condl-
tions.
Mrs. Emma Ballard, widow of Clergy
Ballard, who was slain by Joe James
at Springfield, H.. filed suit against
the keepers of the resorts in which
James is alleged to have secured Ii.
quor. She asks $4,000 damages. The
bill alleges that James visited the re-
sorts conducted by the defendants and
secured large amount of liquor, and
while under its influence killed her
husband. The defendants named in
the bill are now out of business, their
places having been wrecked by the
rioters.
While helping to dress doll for
the 3-year-old daughter Of the woman
in whose house he boards and telling
her how he hoped soon to bring his
own little children over from their
home in Paris. Joseph Perischweig, a
designing tailor, was shot and instant
ly killed in his room in New York.
The man who did the shooting es-
capped. but the police are looking for
Louis Morgenstein, a brothere- in law
of the woman who keeps the house.
According to the story told by the
child, who was the only witness of the
MURDER Perlschweig was killed be-
cause he refused to give money to the
man, whom he scarcely knew.
(From Saturdays Daily.)
Get your mouth fixed for the barbe-
cue. q
Now for clear weather the coming
week.
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George Grebbles is down from Sill
verton.
Mrs. D. E. Kight and son returned
to their home in Hesperus this morn
ing.
| The mountains were good and white
this morning. Winter is fast ap
preaching.
The Smith. lecture at the M. E.
church last evening was surely inter.
esting.
Hot air is about the only thing the
Democrat will be able to peddle this
campaign.
j. t. Graham is in from the Kirk
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