Semi-weekly herald., 1908-10-26

Shmes rioIlod, WIN hAo
crossing the starting line at $3.50 a.
m. started the race. in the presence Of
crowd which counting the people
along the course, is estimated at ap-
proximately 100000 persons. NO. q
Knox 40 horse power. driven by
Dennison, followed one minute later,
then came Strickler with his German
Mercedes, and they were followed a
minute apart until all were OH e1
cept the French Renault, No. II, which
did not get off until TIA.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. 24.-Ethei
Logsdon, aged II years. rather than
sacrifice her honor jumped from the
third story Of the Wellington hotel
and will die. She was employed a.
the hotel as waitress. and came
there from Chandler, Ind, a country
town. Her girlish beauty attracted the
attention Of one man who boarded al
the hotel. He tried TO force his at'
tentions upon her, but was repulsed
At 10 o'clock he tried to break the
lock of her room, the door was JUST
giving away when the girl realized
her danger, and chose death rather
than dishonor. The girl leaped to the
concrete pavement below. She was
taken to st. Mary's hospital, where
the surgeons found her skull fractured
The man who attempted to assault
Miss Logsdon escaped from the hotel
and crowds are after him.
| CHICAGO, Oct. 24.-Considerabit
excitement was caused in the medi
cal laboratory of the University o
Chicago last evening by the sndceI
discovery that one of the cadave'i
upon which four studens w"re ois
secting is claimed by woman IRON
California as the body Of her long los
husband. The woman was cn her va.
to take possession of the corpse. FiV'
months ago man. who was apou
so years old, died pauper at TN
county hospital, leaving neither cle'
to his own identity nor TO MS rela
tives. After the body had beea hei'
twenty days-a customary tinie-i
passed into the possession OF the Un
versity of Chicago as do many other
from the county hospital unclaimed u
kin. After keeping the hody In sto'
age thirty days rs the la" requires
1t was placed dpon the di ;sectipg Ia
BILE.
/ MANILA. Oct. 24.-In desperat
fight, prolonged for hours, which OF
| Cured yesterday near iligan, islam
of Mindanao, nine Filipino laborer
!, and their superintendent, also a nj
tive, were killed by the marauders an
four other natives wounded. Whethe
or not the attacking Moros suffere
any loss cannot now be ascertaine'
, The fight took place on the Shel
pard plantation. The Moro band, TO
lowing the tactics usually employe
by the outlaws, attempted surpris'
which was SO far successful that Sc
, eral men were killed in the first rusl
+. The Filipinos then rallied and after
, bloody hand to hand struggle dro'
9 l. the Moros to shelter, after whtc
5 the battle continued for several houi
5 at long range. The bodies OF the dea
r Filipinos were mutilated in a horl
BILE manner.
e CHICAGO, Oct. 24-The first sign
I victory in the crusade of the feder
t authorities against the white sla'
traffic in Chicago u.ss- Wnn- this NOR
g Uchsner and Joseph Keller of Sou
o Chicago. They first come to trial
the nearly thirty pending cases, Il
+ principals in which were arrested
I a series of raids by federal seer
n service operatives last spring and SUI
4 mer. Ochsner Is charged with brin
: ing aliens into the country for IL
! moral purposes. Keller was four
S guilty of harboring alien women
a disorderly resort of a proprieto
{ Motion for new trials will be mao
, and arguments on behalf of Ochsn,
r will be heard next Monday and Il
Keller week later.