Semi-weekly herald., 1908-12-24
TELEGRApHIC NEWS

CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-Deluded wifi
iear that highbinders were about t.
decapitate her. Mrs. George All Wong
the daughter of wealthy retired Chi
cago merchant, who married a Chi
nese restauranteur and laundryman a
Plano. Ill, nearly hacked off the heae
OF her 3-year-old daughter, gave wooc
alcohol TO her three sons, and the1
hurled herself in front Of a Burlington
passenger train.
Mrs. Ah Wong, beautiful and high
ly educated brunette was the daugb
ter of julius Ehlers, a former whole
SAFE dealer in notions on the west side
She left her father at the time of his
second marriage and since then there
has been no reconciliation.
Eighteen years old and out In the
world in search of her own living, she
met Ah Wong. a well educated and
>hristian Chinaman, was employed by
him. and finally married him. Their
life was happy until few months ago.
sporty after midnight while All
Wong was at Aurora where he has a
restaurant, Mrs. All Wong awoke her
three sons in their Plano home. The
boys are Cressie, IL years old, Walter
10 years and Herbert years old. I'm
der the pretense that they were sick
she made each of them take dose
OF wood alcohol. They were nauseated
but survived. In another room, lola,
the 3-year-old daughter, her head near.
ly severed with a duh knife. On the
blood stained dress was pinned this
note:
"Thahk God, 1t is over. 1t was ter
rible. | can't go on with the rest,
but no one will learn from the girl the
life of misery / have had. l shall not
depend upon the poison. The way
must be sure"
PORTLAND, Ore. Dec 21.-A sys-
tematic investigation by the Western
Unteas Telegraph company, carried on
during the past six months, disclosed
an organized system of theft among
the railroad operators on the Pacific
coast, by reason of which the telegraph
company has been robbed of several
hundred thousand dollars, according to
statement made last night by an Off
cial OF the company in charge of the
investigation.
: MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec. 21-Bran.
dishing heavy wooden cross and ges-
ticulating wildly. an unidentified man
yesterday threw worshippers in two
Roman Catholic churches into a panic
while he struggled to break through
the communion railing to reach the
priests who were officiating at early
mass. In both places the assailant
escaped before the arrival Of the po-
lice. His description is said to tally
closely with that of Gustav Wirth. a
fanatic, who shot and killed sister The
resa at the hospital here last year.
CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-Rev. Joseph A
Auburn, Congregational minister, star
tied his parishioners by vigorous at
tack on certain kinds of music and
prayer said to be prevalent in church
es. Some of his expressions were:
81 have heard music in churches
that made me feel like the devil"
Il have heard prayers in churches
which l think must have wearied God
Almighty"
PITTSURBG, Dec. 21.-John Robb
NNrdoch, "a years old. member of
a prominent east end family, com.
mitted suicide in the private ward In
Mercy hospital early this morning
Mr.. Murdoch, who was engaged in the
zeal estate business, came to the hos
pital a week ago, suffering from nerv
Gus breakdown, said to be due to over
work. He expected to be discharged
as cured within few days. When the
yicttnd htS uftar rnihpfOht
all was well When she made her
next round Murdoch was dead hav-
ing strangled himself with twisted
sheet.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2l.-Porto Ri
CO. through her resident commissioner
in the United States. Mr.. Larrinasa,
and a special commission which came
here for the purpose Of making de
termined fight for the imposition OF a
duty of cents pound on fol eign
coffee. By reason of the fact that
since 1878 coffee has been on the
free list, the Porto Ricans maintain
that their principal industry, now that
the tariff is about to be revised, should
be given proper protection. 1t is
claimed that this would not increase
the production of the island posses
sions of the United States but would
go far toward bettering the condition
of the poorer classes who live almost
entirely on rice upon which there is
duty of 2 cents a pound.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 21.-Harry
Kendall Thaw, the slayer of Stanford
White, now confined in the state hos
pital for the criminal insane at Mat
tewan, cannot be taken to Pittsburg to
testify in the bankruptcy proceedings,
according to a decision handed down
today by the United States circuit
court of appeals in this city, Whether
the case will be taken to the United
States supreme court is not known
BOULDER, Dec. 21.-Charles M. Ste
phenson. carpenter, was instantly
killed by falling under the wheels Of
train OF the Denver & Interurban
yesterday. He attempted TO step from
the motor car to the trailer. and open
ed the door leading to what he sup
posed was platform. but fell between
the cars. and was terribly manglea by
the wheels of the trailer He was "a