Semi-weekly herald., 1908-02-17
TELEoRAPHIc BRevirIEs.


intendent Carter of the city school.
TO Washington to attend the nationa
superintendents' meeting this month
Among other things, he is asked tc
look into the subject of medical in
struction in schools, and also that ali
teachers be required to take a phys
ical examination to show them free
irom infectious or contagious disease
Secretaries to congressman who or
ganized labor union for self-protec
tion, say they do not contemplate a
strike for higher salaries, but they do
propose in bringing pressure to bear
1 upon the congressman that they may
obtain all of the salary appropriated
by congress for them. Under the law
congressman draw $500 year for
clerk hire. This money is paid them
on a certificate that the clerical as
sistance has been employed. In many
Instances the congressman draw all
they are allowed and then pay a clerk
$50 or $75 a month. In other in.
stances congressman keep all the
money in the family by employing
wife or child as clerk.
With the verihcation of the report
that Charles G. Gates had sold his
seat on the stock exchange there is
chronicled the last element in the
withdrawal OF the Gatses from active
participation in the affairs of Wall
street, Mr.. Gates sold his seat for
| s5l 900. which makes another new
level in the low price of seats. the last
previous sale having been at $4,000
Mr. Gates sold his seat for the same
amount for which in 1901 he had pur-
chased it. Since then seats on the
exchange have sold as high as $4,000.
When the firm of C. G. Gates a. Co.
was dissolved last year the quoted
price was $4,000. This sale by MIR.
Gates drops the final curtain on the
stock exchange career of himself and
his father. John W. Gates.
That j. Pierpont Morgan is mod.
ern Napoleon is the view of Alexan-
der Ular, editor of lie Petit Journal OF
Paris. after an interview with the
lnancier.
Frank w. Gould. president Of the
Union Malleable Iron Works at Mo.
line ILL.,. and head OF the Western Hos.
pital for Insane. has committed sui.
eide.
Vincent Nogga, an Austrian laborer,
walked 500 miles from Lynn, N. NJ,
back to Kansas City, to sue an en-
ployment agency for 50 which he paid
to get a job.
Because his wife kissed her former
husbands picture Alvin Newly. a.
prominent farmer of Valley View, KY,
shot her five times, killing her instant.
ly, and then killed himself
And the saloon closing wave is
spreading. Detroit saloons closing for
SO hours over Sunday, being the first
time the saloons have been closed on
Sunday in the history of that city.
And II was no hide-and-seek closing
game. either.
CALIFORNIA;. attorney general says
1000 cases of rebating have been per
fected against the Southern Pacific.
should conviction follow and the full
penalty prescribed the road would
stand to pay ssO,O0O00O.
Worry because of his dismissal af
ter he had served the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway company for 40
years, is believed to have caused Con
ductor George Goodwin to commit sui
eide at Clinton, Ia He was 73 years
old
Walter Wellman declares public
sentiment is with President Roosevelt
on the necessity for curbing, If not
killing, Wall street gambling. and he
says leaders in New York financial
circles are making attempts to regain
confidence.
Miss Margaret CARING, young tel
ephone girl at Las Vegas. was way
ihAh anu hoohhiS'h ~ wv mon
day night. The woman fought desper
ately but was finally overpowered and
assaulted. A Mexican and ha1f-breed
Mexican have been arrested. II iden
titled they will be lynched.
The Wind River stock association of
Wyoming has decided to offer a re-
ward OF $40 head for grown wolves.
and s5 for pups. In addition to this
the Wind River Livestock company Of
fers $3.50 for pups. Wolves are be-
coming more destructive every year
and the stockmen are driven to take
steps to prevent their increase.
Traffic conditions on the Reading
railway are not improving. according
to a comparative statement made pub
lie recently of locomotives in reserve.
The company now has 1863 good loco
motives idle. az compared with las in
January and 2S on the first of last De-
cember. The company on Monday put
into effect a new order whereby the
trainmeD now In the service will be
put on a four-day- -perweek basis.
America is the great corrupter OF