Semi-weekly herald., 1908-02-03

sumed operations Monday. giving EN-
ployment to 5000 men.
Three hundred employees of the
herresboff boat building plant at Bris-
tol, r. l., have resumed operations on
regular schedule, after working only
half-time for several weeks.
The lower house of the Mississippi
legislature has passed bill proyi ling
the death penalty or life imprisonm. 1t
for attempted rape. This places at
tempted rape in the same class with
murder.
The Kansas insurance department
has bill before the legislature provid-
ing that no insurance company shall
be licensed in that-state until it has
appointed general agent who shall
be resident of the state.
A committee representing the rail.
roads visited the president and asked
him to use his influence to secure a
postponement of the day set for the
law limiting the work of train dis
patchers to go into effect.
Thirty thousand men were given
employment in the Pottsville, Pa. dis
trict yesterday when SS mines OF the
Reading Coal and Iron company re
sumed operations, and in addition sew
eral thousand resumed in thessteel in
dustry.
The Alva Bank of Commerce ol
Enid, Okla, with $4,000 capital stock
is closed and Cashier Lou westfall is
| missing. He is charged with lootlnl
the institution of practically all its de
| posits. The depositors will lose moth
! ing, the directors declare.
Following the Biblical admoDition
IF thy right hand offend thee. cut i
on, Rainsford Ferris of Port Chester
n. Y, nearly severed his right han(
at the wrist with hatchet. He vii
be committed to the Poughkeepsie in
sane asylum. Several years ago Fer
ris had an alteration with his father
| anu iliiii WIN MS H0ts Il' N.i'
afterward seized with remorse, anC
several times has attempted to d,
himself bodily harm.
Secretary Taft, after his visit to tn,
Philippines, recommends four reform
in the government of the island, ant
says that self-government cannot b,
given the islanders until generation
has passed.
Sumner says that the plan to star
local movements for favorite sons il
the canvass for the republican presi
dental nomination will not cause th
Taft managers TO stand aside in ad
ditional states. Taft managers nov
consider the entries closed.
Word has been received of the su
eide OF John Lucero, Taos Indian, a
Taos. This is unusual among the In
dians The man stabbed himself in tn
been brooding over the fact that tn
white men were encroaching upon tn
ancient rights and privileges of tn
red men and grew SO despondent owe
it that he killed himself.
Father IL. +. Fairbanks of St Pat
ricli's church of Milwaukee, a relativ
OF Vice President Fairbanks, says tina
the Roman Catholics of the countr
would support the candidacy of Secre
tary Taft. Catholics feel friendly tC
ward Taft on account of his treatmen
of the church in the Philippines. wher
he has shown himself "a wise aad abl
statesman said he. "Since 1896 Re
publicans have made great gains il
Catholic circles, and l believe that
majority of our confession will vot,
the Republican ticket this fall Shoul,
Taft and Bryan be nominated there il
no question that Taft will get tn,
votes.''
Miss Elizabeth Sohm, editor o
the Storm Lake Gazette, and who re
Gently lost the contract for the count,
printing, has made leap year propos
al to the world at large, the qualifica
tions for a husband being stipulated al
ability to do the necessary swearinl
and fighting connected with her estab
lishment. C. A. Craig, editor of tn,
Lytton Star, in his paper accepted tn,
proposal, but his acceptance has {
string to 1t. If she can make compe
tent repairs to his damaged socks alt
the gable end of his trousers he will
accept the proposal and AYERS that h,
is an expert in plain and fancy profan
ity. The Herald editor learned th'
printers trade on the Gazette thirty
odd years ago.