The Nevada County picayune., 1908-10-22
NEWS BREVITlES.

l oiii oad Tor bejne compelled to ride seven miles ;u Jim Chow car with negroes 6, asked for s1.000 This is tbo -, l7 case of that sort ever trioa Virginia. The jury allowed ber ,.n ni a minute for actual riding time w
 The Japaneses report tha ,, covery of previously unknown land about 2S0 miles east of Formoas The discovery is somewhat surnris,~~ at this late date. The Japanese aae has been raised over it. and tho r..1e
 Nishigawa has been given to the ,s land.
 Land owners and club organ;.. tions in the Illinois river valley m". at Havana, in Mason county ans formed permanent organization ba object of which is to furnish who, ever protection may be neeessarv <. guard their respective properties from trespassing. poaching and on croachments of every character h. | hunters and fishermen
 A correspondent to the Iorao. Times recently mentioned that s,o, row pudding was an excellent di.h and that only ignorance or preiua,oa prevented us from eating it. perb.n. so. In any case, many things ara eaten in foreign countries which would seem to our readers mnoh more repellent than the ebeenino perky sparrow.
 In the presence of a hundred nor. sons David B. Howell. of the fire, criminal court of Newark, N. I twico shot himself in the head in Branch. brook, Park, inflicting wounds from which he died in hospital two bo,rs later.
 Indictments charging Captain P c Hains, Jr and T. Jenkins Hains with murder in the first degree were hand. 1 ed up by the Queens county grand jury at Flushing l.. I The indictments are based upon the killing of William 1 E. Annis at the Bayside Yacht eluh in August last
 The chemists of the departmen, of Agriculture believe they have soly ed the problem of cheaper paper that will dispense altogether with the use of wood fiber. The new material from which five grades of paper al. ready have been made is the ordn. ary cornstalks. and the officials predicted when the manufacture of l the new kind of paper is started on large scale it will be at least 50 | per cent cheaper than the print paper now made from wood pulp
 The body or Charles Mcconnell, wh two years ago died at hospital at | Wheeling. w. Va. has turned to | stone. The body has been kept since death at the city morgue, in hopes that relatives might claim it. IL is believed | that this is the first case of body that was never buried under ground turning to stone.
 May Yohe, formerly Lady Francis Hope, is living quietly in Portland. Ore, to establish residence before be | ginning proceedings for divorce from Bradlee Putnam Strong, her latest | husband. If the proceedings are sue cessful she will marry a wealthy re sldent of British Columbia, 1t IS said whose name she will not divulge. rrN of found that the fire which swept the business portion of Kingston, Jan li of last year, the day of the great earth quake. was not caused by the earth quake, but preceded 1t. The lhsu' ance companies will, therefore have to pay several million dollars to Kings ion policy holders.
 Charles B. Roberts millionaire VII. was shot mysteriously on the poa's walk at Atlantic City, while Tn TUT ing chair with Mrs. William 5. t. WIT jams, also of Baltimore, is at the noH'' of his sister-in.law, Miss Mamie ohaa near Lutherville, suburb ol pau more.
 Five men were blown to atoms anu from 15 to 20 others badly ihJui'1 some fatally, by a premature plosion of dynamite at the ''e, Western Sugar companys liiiie wv quarry near Fort Collins, Colo
 Boldly stopping the motor o' .s. , aeroplane while 60 feet apo'e - earth Wilbur Wright proved 'ii' " tention that accident would not io"' The big machine glided distance ..a 65 wards with wonderful eaSe .,A steadiness, alighting on the '" without even a serious jar.
 Twenty-three persons were Kllieu Y mortally wounded and 4O "efe hs. ously hurt in a riot at AzamDuJa ,m tween the Monarchists ana Hep e,,on cans. during the munlcipal | primaries ,,reed Japan and China, 1t was ai'H0 ot have reached a basis of se''lenea ."out the difficulty arising out oi 'he 's .,.ou clash between the Japanese sa. at Kantao. Northern Korea r.nau ,l fn