Semi-weekly herald., 1908-09-21
TELEGRAPH BREvITIEs

TELEGRAPH BREvITIEs
A dispatch from Acapulco, Mexico
says that the British bark Simla, Capt
e. Nixon, was burned in the harbor
there. Her cargo of coal was de.
stroyed.
Mrs. Mary Pardy, an inmate of the
Northern Illinois Insane hospital,
strangled herself by means of man
acles placed upon her to prevent her
committing suicide
Dave Newton. negro charged with
being implicated in the murder of
John Buchtrin, white man who was
shot and killed at his home near
Brookshire. Texas. was taken from the
Jail by a mob and hanged.
The 19-months-old child of Mrs. Ed
ward Ritter of McComb. Ohio, was
scalded to death when the woman slip
ped while carrying a painful of hot wa
ter, which was precipitated over the
infant
Two colored men were killed, an.
other was injured and a white man is
missing as the result of wreck on the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railway, which made kindling wood of
| fourteen freight cars, between Huron
and Vermilion.
| In full view OF their frantic father,
who was pulling to the rescue In a
rowboat. Jesse Desmeulen, aged %,
and Willie Desmeulen, aged 16, were
drowned while bathing in the Sioux
river two miles southeast OF Sioux
City.
NJ. G. Littlefield and C. H. Housings
two prominent residents of Freeport
Ill. were severely bitten by a mad
dened mongrel pup while attending the
First Baptist church. The dog rushed
in during the sermon. biting right and
left when attempt to catch him was
made. Physicians fear hydrophobia
may develop.
While giving performance at fair
at Fort Plains, N. ", with troupe of
six trained bears Miss Beatrice Woods
was attacked by the largest of the
animals and painfully injured before
the brute could be driven away from
her. The bear bit her In the shoulder
and clawed her face. There was a
panic among the spectators and sew.
eral women tainted.
A can of oil standing near the stove
In the kitchen in the home of John
G. Rousch in Mason county, w. Va,
| exploded. and as result one child
was burned to death and Mr.. and Mrs.
Rousch and three other children we're
SO badly injured that they are not
expected to live. The house was en-.
tirely consumed.
For three days during the voyage of
the steamer Minnehaha from Europe
her crew fought a stubborn fire which
had started in one of the coal bunkers.
1t was not extinguished until all the
coal which had been stored in that
bunker had been removed. Few of the
lT3 cabin passengers on the steamer
knew anything about the fire until
after 1t had been extinguished.
There was great sorrow among the
parishioners of the Roman Catholic
church of Our Lady of Solace at Coney
Island when, through the filing of the
| official report by Coroner's Physician
DR.. Emil F. Hartung of Brooklyn 1t
became known that Rev. Father Jo-
seph Francis Brophy had died by his
own hand in the parish home last
Wednesday.
Fourteen negroes arrested In Lin.
coin, Neb.. and charged with selling
liquor without license, told the city
attorney that they were being perse
cuted by the police because they would
not joint an antiTaft club. Chief p
NJ Cooper. who is an appointee of
F. w. Brown, a close personal and DO
litical friend of Bryan, says the asser
tion is Ridiculous.
spectacular attempt at murder
and suicide was made at the crowded
corner OF Monroe and Third streets
Memphis. Tenn. when Nose Cook.
At years old. an insurance clerk, fred
three bullets into his wife and at.
tempted to kill herself. When his car.
tridges were exhausted Cook coolly
started to reload the weapon. when
bystander felled him. The woman is
in a precarious condition.
On technical grounds the circuit |
court ct Grand Rapids annuilsd the or