The Nevada County picayune., 1908-09-10
NEWS BREvITIEs

"o' H. hSoi iS' the leper, signed his pension certificate without toncbia except with the point of the no,, ~ without seeing it. The panar covered when it was handed to Ean'' little spaces just large enough for tbs signature being exposed. In tha1 spaces Early wrote his name. ana tse covering was then removed by tbe health authorities and burned
 Not only will Mrs. Peter c t..;. the wife of Captain Peter c. Hajns IT, who, with his brother, T. Ien,,na Hains, is prisoner in Long ys,ans City Prison, charged with murdar;.. William F. Annis, at the Ravsise Yacht Club, be called on to tesfifv =. her husbands trial, but it is expectos that the mother of the brothers win take the stand in their behalf
 The city authorities at Spring6o,a H., have agreed to make good tha TO cent losses by fire, due to the riots ir that town, for which the cgmnar,oa were not liable on account of tho rio. clause in their policies. It is und., stood that an agreement has noe, made to have the city pay 75 per con, of the total damages. and the ownars will have to lose the remainder
 Governor Cummins has issuad statement to the "standdpatters" On. position element, declaring that if be is elected for the short term and ;s not the choice of the Republicans at the November primaries he will rA sign and take the stump for the sue cessful candidate.
 A three and half inch needle was found in the stomach of a 2.year-od child of John Ingram of Eureka Springs, when the child was operated on for appendicities. The digestive organs were perforated by the needle which ran into the body as the child was crawling on the floor.
 Going in direct opposition to His Majesty, King Edward, who had ex pressed the hope that she might wed member of royalty he had picked out for her, Mrs. Marshall Field Jr.. ot Chicago became the wife of Baldwin A. Drummond, second son of the late Edgar A. Drummond, at the registry office.
 Frederick NJ. Stoller. alias Prof kyro, barber-hypnotist after win. ming hearts and money of number Of South Chicago women, is in the county jail awaiting action by the grand jury. He is held under S250O bond.
 That Helen Maloney, daughter ot Martin Maloney. is preparing to enter convent as the solution of the matrl- monial complications into which she has plunged herself Is now virtually assured as the result of recent develop ments at the Maloney summer home a, Spring Lake. N. J.
 Editors of official publications of in ternational trade organizations met and formed permanent asso- citation. l.. w. Quick of St Louis, secretary of the Order of Railway Tele- graphers, was elected president and ]. F. Mulkey of the Brotherhood Of Maintenance of Way Employees was chosen secretary. The meeting adopt ed a lengthy set of resolutions pertain ing to labor questions.
 In addition to remaining in the air 10 minutes and 40 seconds in the most successful flight that he has yet made in France, Wilbur c. Wright succeeded in making his aeroplane rise by its own mechanism, discontinuing the weight and derrick arrangement.
 A negro who had attacked Mrs Wiley Foster, residing near Wesson. Tenn. was shot and killed by the husband of the woman. Foster was at work in filed when he was attracted to the house by hearing his wife screaming.
 Emery Storrs. 23, who says he Is son of Emery A. Storrs, Chicago lawyer, now dead who was the frieno of Grant, Garfield and Mckinley, IS in jail the confessed burglar of number of Harlem flats.
 Smothered in dense fog. an ah known ship was pounded to pieces on the Point Arenas rocks. 100 miles north of San Francisco, and It IS De- lieved every soul on board perished'
 The Sultan of Dunaharra, leader oi the raid on Parang, Mindanac. m Ja"' uary, two years ago. must hang. ihe territorial supreme court decided HIS fate. J. w. Mcdonald, an American was slain, and the court ordered 'ne sultan to pay his heirs 1000 pesos,