Semi-weekly herald., 1909-11-29
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TELEGRAPH NEWS.

The Wright brothers have organized
a company with capital of one mil.
lion dollars TO build alrships.
A general strike in sympathy with
the billposters is planned. to close
every downtown theater in Chicago.
Two children were crushed and kill.
ed by falling tree and the mother
seriously injured in a New York for
est fire Monday
William e. Curtis writes of Senator
Shelby NJ Cullom and his record term
of fifty-six years in public office. The
senator celebrated his eightieth birth
day anniversary Tuesday.
A New York woman worth ten mil
lion dollars really married an Ameri.
can in New York Wednesday She
was not willing to sell herself for a
broken down poverty-stricken titled
foreigner.
Samuel Gompers will organize the
10000 girl shirtwalst makers who are
about to strike In New York city.
This is no doubt Just and reasonable
strike as the girls are known to be
poorly paid.
John Nelson, smelterman of Den.
yer. who has been at Worcester, Mass
for the last week, committed suicide
by shooting himself in his room When
his trunk was opened by the police
$1,000 in gold and $3.50 in currency
was found.
Mistaking a roll of bills for shavings
Philip Miller, an aged recluse living
near Atchison, Kans.. cast $500, his
llfe's savings. into his stove Tues.
day. He made an effort to recover the
greenbacks. but all he picked. up was
handful of ashes.
Estimates of the total dividend and
interest disbursements to holders OF
stocks and bonds OF various railroad
Industrial and miscellaneous securities
and of bond Issues of the municipal
ties of the United States for the year
ended Dec. 81. Is placed at nearly ST..
100000.
President Taft's nifty pound Thanks
giving mincs pie was baked Tuesday
in Newark bakeshop. Wednesday
the pie. the largest ever baked in
America. was taken to Washington by
q committee OF the Bakers union. The
pie WAS six hours In baking and half
a dozen experts kept careful watch on
the pastry. 1t is 25 inches in diameter
and three inches deep.
Half an enormous split meteor visi-
BILE in Montgomery about 1880 o'clock
Tuesday struck the earth In east Ala.
bama startling the inhabitants for
miles around. The point Of contact IL
believed to be near Mccullough sta.
ton. The impact was so great that
some people believed 1t to be an earth
quake. The meteor WAS seen to break
one tail travelling to the east and an
other to the southwest.
There were III deaths of human be
ings from hydrophobia reported from
thirty states during 1908 Rabies was
reported in the lower animals from al
least 534 localities In thirty-nine states
and territories. including the District
Of COLUMBIA. Evidence was secured OF
hearty 1.s0o persons who on account
OF exposure to rabid or presumably
rabld animals were obliged to take the
Pasteur treatment.
The jury In the case OF John r. Dob
bins. on trial at Council Bluffs. Ia
for grand larceny In connection with
the loss by T. w. Ballew. = Princeton
Mo-. banker OF $4,000 on a fake
horse race. more than a year ago
returned a verdict OF guilty. Dobbins
case was the first OF several brought
in connection with the alleged fleec
ing Of many victims throughout the
country by J. C. Maybray and his as
sociates. The trial Of Maybray and
others has been postponed until nexI
March.
To forestall the threatened strike
the owners Of the Homestake mine al
Deadwood closed the properly Wed
nesday throwing $500 men out OF EN-
ployment. The trouble Is not ovel
wages but the proposition of the West
ern Federation In the nrst instance
that only union men could be employ
ed and In return the company announc
ed that after January only non-unior
men would be retained. 1t probabl,
means long fight or closing Of the
mine for months - the Hearst inter