The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1909-11-18
The news.
Domestic

TO defraud the government by false
weighing OF sugar.
Arthur Alexander, suspected as an
accomplice of "Froggy" James, in the
assault and murder of Miss Annie
Pelley, was escorted out OF Cairo,
ILL.,, by seven companies OF militia,
to protect him from a mob.
George o. Lamprecht, formerly
manager for the stock brokerage
firm of Lamprecht Bros. & CO.,
Cleveland. o., which failed for
Sl,5OO,000. was found guilty of en-
bezzlement.
More than 700 men were thrown
out of work without explanation by
the sudden closing of the National
Sugar Company's refinery at York
ers. n. Y.
President Taft received the degree
of doctor of laws from Wesleyan
University. Women tainted in a
crush to hear him at Hartford. Ct
Senator Aldrich is visiting the
Northwest to study the financial
question involved in moving the
crops.
Among the speakers at the Con-
ference on Prevention of Infant
Mortality were DR.. j. II. Mason
Knox, of Johns Hopkins Hospital;
DR.. Clemens Won Pirquet and DR.. r.
A. Urquhart, of Baltimore.
Two hundred tank cars were or
dered to the Shamokin Division of
the Reading Railway to haul water
TO towns that have been without
water because of the prolonged
drouth.
Miss Susan L. Davis, hygienic ex-
Pert. of New York, declares there
are ten times as many victims of
hookworm in New York as there are
in the factory districts of Alabama.
Miss Susanna Henning. daughter
OF James w Henning, banker, of
New York and Kentucky, was mar
ried in New York to Marquise An
tome de Charette, q French noble
man.
Lucian Pickett, the convicted biga-
mist, was sentenced to three years
in the penientiary and fined $500
in the United States Circuit Court at
Cleveland
A third woman is involved in the
case of Charles l.. Warmer, default
ing treasurer of the Big Four Rail-
road, according to an official of the
road.
Superintendent of Banks Clark
Williams was appointed state comp
troller of New York by Governor
Hughes.
Two employees of comb factory
ia Manhattan we're killed during a
fire and explosion.
Tie compromise between the
American Sugar Refining Company
and the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining
Company, by which the former was
to pay the latter 100000, has
been enjoined by the United States
Circuit Court of New York.
Mrs. jeanette Stewart denies that
she blackmailed Treasurer Warmer.
OF the Big Four Railroad, out OF
$4,000 of the railroad company's
FUNDS, but that she will expose the
woman who did get the money.
Following the secret divorce
granted Mrs. John Jacob Astor. a
movement is on foot to compel the
New York legislature to amend the
1ivorce laws so as to insure publicity
in divorce cases.
Medical men from all parts of the
United States and Europe attended
the dedication OF the new building
Of the College of Physicians, Phila-
1elphia.
John II. Parks, author of the pool
ng plan used by the Manila and
Fiber Paper Manufacturers Associa-
lion, was fined $4,000 by Judge
Hough, of New York.
Lucian Pickett, whose four alIeg-
ed wives appeared in q Cleveland
court, was sent to the Penitentiary
IN charge of using the mails to
1efraud.
David j. Richardson, former cash
er Of the defunct Cosmopolitan
National Bank of Pittsburg. was sen
fenced to five years in Leavenworth
prison.
An institution or organization for
lighting tuberculosis has been estab- !
ished daily since the information
congress held at Washington.
The New York Central. Lake |
Shore. and Michigan Southern and |
Michigan Central Railroad have de- |
'loed TO pension old employees.
DR.. Anna Hannah Shaw SAYS the |
'uhragettes should promote their
'ause by parades with banners and !
peeches from curbstones.
Maud Daily, aged "a, a beauty.
md handsomely gowned, confessed
o Toledo court that she is a shop
litter.
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy. the
ounder of Christian Science. has set
led $780, 900 on her two sons.
national board of public works
s favored by the New York Board
u Trade and Transportation.