Semi-weekly herald., 1909-07-05
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Chicago reports many deaths, due
to the extreme heat.
| Over forty deaths so far from heat
! in Philadelphia. And this in the town
where people move slowly.
The mother of Elsie Sigel is report
ed to have become violently insane
over the shock caused by her daugh-
ters murder
A New York man is suing for df-
yorce naming ChiDaman as core
spondent Really, this is becoming Sc
rious. Are the Chinks to rival Pitts
burg millionaires.
The worlds record for attendance
at baseball game was broken yes
terday at the opening of Pittsburg's
new million-dollar park. There were
30,33S paid admissions. Chicago won
the most exciting game seen for years
by to 2.
A cable dispatch from Nome, Alaska
. describes a bloody outbreak of Rus
sian political prisoners in the Yakutsk
. district, Siberia. and the flight of the
mutineers across the wilderness to-
, ward Behring strait in an effort to
I reach Alaska.
II Chicago aldermen have issued an
order permitting the parks and play
grounds OF The city to be used for
: sleeping purposes during the summer
fpaCb a
for thousands who have no comforta-
bile place at home--or have no place
n Of habitation.
Joseph Junette, who farms one OF
i, the Job ranches on the Alton, H.,
q bluffs, thinks he will engage extensive
\ | IL In duck" farming and educate the
:. fowls to eat potato bugs at 81 day
4 per duck Just now Junette is enjoy
ing an income of SIS day from il
. ducks which he trained TO clear potato
patches of bugs.
. Warfare. vigorous and unrelenting
, has been declared by Roman Catho
II lie temperance advocates against the
b, liquor traffic. A call to every member
q Oh Tue AdluOllt III -
Join in the fight for a dry state" de
notation of Catholic societies which
. tolerate the sale of intoxicants at pie
=, lnics and at Saturday night dances held
n by them. and an appeal for rigid
enforcement of the Sunday closing Law
i, these were contained in resolutions
adopted Sunday by the Catholic Tota
Abstinence Union of Illinois.
:. After trip around the world, which
involved extended visits In both China
and Japan because of an official gov
ernment mission with which he was
charged, Colonel James Hamilton Lew
is of Chicago, has arrived in New
- York City. and, as result of close
ent today emphatically affirmed the
necessity of the United States seeking
= commercial alliance with the Chi
= nese empire. He will proceed to Wash
ington Tuesday to confer with officials
of the state department relative tt
: the results of his official mission. OF
=. which he maintains silence.
A band of temperance advocates
made Carrie Nations hatchet blush
for shame when they suddenly appear
ed on horseback, rode into two sa
looms at Ende, n. NJ, and shot up TIL,
!, bar fixtures with unerring precision
When the supposed prohibitionist.
:, had departed the discreet bartenderi
- peered cautiously from under the ia
bles where they had taken refuge ant
:, saw the militant rum destroyers rid,
:, madly into dance hail. whence ther,
was an immediate exodus of male
l.. ners to faint on the polished floor
The raid on the saloons and dance
halls is the result of long continued
+. effort TO stamp out the liquor traffic
do you see it," he cried to nobod,
in particular. Don't tell me you don
see it," They all saw "it" And there
/, was the widest kind of scramble il
brokers' office in the Waldorf-Astoria
hotel. at" was Kara, the pet snake Of
Mrs. Evelyn Thaw, placidly gliding
q along and ever and anon shooting out
=, its little forked tongue after fly
u Clerks and porters and bellboys came
and everybody took a hand in shoe
y ing Kara out. Policeman Conway stun
ned the ten-foot reptile with rap on
the head, but before he finished the
n snake, Mrs. Thaw's maid claimed the
@ pet and carried 1t home, a few doors
away.