The Harrison times., 1908-10-10

George Washington.
In the hope of prolonging the life
of Marquis lnouyO, who is seriously i'll
at Okitsu, fukumora Takoho, a girl
of II, and an orphan, stabbed hersen
to death and gave her blood to the
fast sinking nobleman, according tC
advices received from Japan. The girl
died in the belief that her blood could
be used to help the marquis to re
coyery.
Three million persons are shelter
less, facing starvation and threatened
with a fever pestilence, as the result
of the food that has devastated the
city Of Haldarabad and the entire
Musi River Valley in Indian.
Thomas Richardson, aged barely
IA, married three weeks ago to Min
ME Deskin, aged y, at lmmalina,
KY, committed suicide by hanging in
the absence Of his child wife. A note,
addressed Minnie Dear read when
you read these lines l will be at rest.
BE good Tell papa and mama by by.
Yours, Tom" His parents protested
against the marriage.
Jessie Bouterie, 19 years old, daugh-
ter of a lumberman at Patterson, La,
is in Jail while Sidney Bouterie, editor
of the New Era, of Patterson her
husband of two days is lying at the
point of death in a sanitarium with
five bullet holes in his body
Gerald Fairchild of Fort Sill, who IL
serving a twoyear sentence for de-
serting thearmy at Fort Leayenworth,
has fallen heir to an estate at Duluth,
Mimi, valued at $150,O00. Young
Fairchild enlisted at Boston a year ago
and since that time has deserted
twice and once since Imprisonment
has made an attempt to escape
William r. Hearst carried his fight
against the junior senator from Texas
into his own state, when he read in
the course Of a speech at El Paso
letters from j. W. Bailey to H. c.,
Pierce, a copy of a note for $4,000 and
extracts from a speech by Bailey in
defense Of Joseph Sibley.
After so years James Sherman OF
Bristol, Eng, has received the medal
for service in the Indian Mutiny and
also a special campaign pension
Patrick j. Shea, vice-president Of
the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees
of America; President w. V. Lock
hart Of the Chester (Pa) union, and T.
strikers of the Chester Traction Com
pany were indicted by a grand jury
for alleged conspiracy and dynamiting
20 cars Of the company.
Ohio is going after the saloons with
vengeance, Already 1G counties
have held elections under the Rose
local option law, and all the 16 coun'
ties have gone dry" driving several
hundred saloons out Of business
Wilbur Wright made a crushing
answer to his critics of the last few
days by a marvellous flight of one
hour thirty-one minutes and twenty
seconds, during which time herayeled
an actual distance of ninety-eight xii.
ometers, or nearly siXty-one miles
BY this feat he established a new
worlds record, beating his brothers
best performance by more than a
quarter Of an hour, and demonstrating
the enormous superiority Of the
Wight aeroplane over all others yet
tried.
"Locomotor ataXia,' hinerto con
sidered incurabe, has at last surrend.
cred to the advance of science, accord
ing to claims made before the New
York Academy of Medicine by DE-
Legrand N. Denslow, which are oc.
casioning wide comment.
President Roosevelt will give all the
trophies collected in his African hunt
next spring to the National Museum,
This was the official announcement
made together with a few other details
regarding the presidents forthcoming
trip,
Heno'forth one ounce letter to
England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales
will need only a 2.cent postage stamp,
instead Of a scent one, to insure de,
livery. This remarkable reduction in
rates has been agreed upon between
the two governments as the best
means of promoting commercial and
friendly relations between the United
States and Great Britain
At the Chldren's Hospital in Wash
ington, 10 little patients have been in.
oculated in the interests Of science
and humanity with the deadly germs
Of both human and bovine tubercu.
losis The experiment, which is to de.
termine the value of new method OF
diagnosis advanced by Dr. Las2ios De-
tee professor Of bacteriology at the
University Of Budapest, Hungary Is
being watched with keenest interest
by the delegates to the international
Congress Of tuberculosis.
Thousands have been drowned,
towns wiped out an area many miles
in extent turned into an inland sea,
and the bodies of food victims found
lodged in the branches of trees and
lining the banks of the terribly swol'