Semi-weekly herald., 1908-03-16
TELEGRAPH NEWS.
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Frederick Warren Freer. widely
known as painter of beautiful wom-
en-. died suddenly in Chicago Of heart
disease.
John Mitchell retiring president Of
the United Mine Workers OF America.
is doomed for the Democratic nomina-
tion for governor.
The police ousted 200 members OF
the Social Science league from the
Masonic Temple. Chicago. TO prevent
the league from holding a meeting at
which Emma Goldman was to speak.
By greatly extending the powers of
the public health and marine hospital
service 1t Is proposed in bill intro
duced by Representative Hepburn OF
Iowa to make special Investigations
into the prevalence of typhoid fever,
tuberculosis and other diseases.
Methods by which the spread of dis
eases most fatal to mankind may be
curtailed OF prevented are to be de
termined If possible.
An ideal waiter who will represent
IN his looks. his dress and his deport
ment all that science and culture can
produce and who, by his suavity, dex-
terity. agility, elegance and eloquelce
viii reflect the finest traditions of the
aristocracy OF table service. is to be
chosen by the International Geneva
association 10 represent the American
branch of that organization at the
coming annual convention, which is to
take place at Dresden, Germany, in
April
Miss Eleanor Greene, daughter Of
Major Frank Greene, L. s A.. fell and
slid 1.2oo feet over a precipice on Mt.
Wilson in California, about a week
ago, and sustained injuries OF such
seriousness that for time her life
was despaired Of The story was sup
pressed until the physicians declared
her out of danger. Miss Greene went
out alone from Alpine Tavern on the
mountain. She chose the Rim" trail
for a walk. When she reached a dan
gerous spot known as "The mob" she
slipped and fell about 100 feet to the
deep snow on shelving rock. Here
she lost consciousness. She was fin
ally found 1900 feet below on the
mountain side and was rescued by
friends at the Tavern.
After serving thirty DAYS in tho
county Jail for violating the Sunday
liquor law, Daniel Conway, one of the
seventeen saloon keepers sentenced
by the circuit judges of Port Huron
was given his liberty. Conway, who
is proprietor of the Happy Home" sa
loon, notified his daughter to get the
best spread" ready that money coult
buy. and he invited Sheriff Davidson
to help him partake of it. At the din
ner. to which Conway had invited
lmany friends. the saloon keeper said
Gentlemen, that thirty days in jail
did me lot of good have got al
the alcohol ont of my system now
and I'm going to be a teetotaler from
now on. | thank Judge Law for send
ing me there, because he has made {
man of me-
That the Nebraska penltentiary il
not "a reformatory, but a huge opium
den: that of the 412 prisoners at pres
ent confined in the institution there
are between 100 and $50 addicted tt
the morphine habit; that morphine is
being regularly supplied to the pris
oners by outside persons whose iden
tity is unknown, and that he favor'
the establishment of a strict quaran
tine of the prison as the only method
of stamping out the evil, are the state
ments made in a report submitted by
DR.. r. 70. Giffen, prison surgeon, tc
Governor Sheldon two weeks ago, the
details of which, however were not
made public until Monday.
Special policemen in st. Louis ar
est each other, charging violation OF
the ordinance forbidding splitting.
William Allen White OF Kansas, ed
ltor and author. says Bryan will be
president if the Republicans nominate
= reactionary to oppose him.
A committee of the Illinois Teach.
ers' association holds that the law for
the teaching of physiology including
the moral effects Of stimulants and
narcotics, should be repealed
Walter Wellman says Washington is
flooded with letters from business
men demanding real currency reform
and protesting against the do.nothilg
policy.
General d'Armade, commander of
the French forces in Morocco. has fel-
lowed mp his previous advantages
against the tribesmen by innicting a
decisive defeat on the Madral,as. the
MAIDS and force of Mulai Hafid's
adherents.
Insane from worry over the esca-
pades OF his two daughters, one Of
whom is Mrs. Howard Gould, and the
other Mrs. Sun Yue. wife of poor
Chinaman in San Francisco. Sheldon
Perry Clemmons, old. blind and help.
less. was Iaken to the Jacksonville
asylum and. unless help which has
so often been refused in the past.