Semi-weekly herald., 1909-04-12
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MiCHiSuu went htpuuilcaH ucs-
day by the usual majority, about 100,-
900.
William E. Curtis writes that the
prohibition law in Mobile, Ala, seems
to be enforced against the blacks. but
not against the whites.
The law under which United States
District Attorney Sims prosecuted the
white slave" cases is declared in
valid by the United States Supreme
court.
Activity of federal office-holders in
the National Civil Service Reform
league. given out in New York and
the south is declared the greater Of
fender.
More than 100000 women have en-
listed in the fight against the Payne
tariff on gloves and hosiery. according
to the New York World. which has
made canvass of the chief cities Of
the country.
Her awful experiences as political
suspect in Siberian vividly recalled
the lash, Miss Helen Mandelsteiii. an
intellectual young Russian, tried to
commit suicide by swallowing nitric
acid at the home of her brother III
Newark, n j.
Fathers and mothers who have even
mild cases Of sore throat must not
kiss their babies, unless they wish to
run the risk of communicating to their
children scarlet fever or measles. This
was the statement made by DR.. VIII
bur NJ. French in a free lecture on
these two children's diseases in Chi
cago.
The death of Mrs. Fanny Friedman
at the age of liz years was reported
to the health board In New York Sun.
day. She was born in Hungary Jan.
3, 1897, and had been i'll only a few
days. 1t was her boast that she never
had doctor in her life and one was
not called in until Friday. Five chill.
dren, fifty-four grandchildren and eigh.
teen greatgrandchildren survive her.
Btween $4,000 and 10000 women
and girls from the knitting mills of
Pennsylvania will parade the streets
of Washington In a monster demon
stration in favor of an increase in duty
on imported hosiery. according to
plans formulated here today by mem
bers Of the National Association OF
Underwear and Hosiery manufactur-
ers. 1t is estimated that twenty ex.
cursion trains of twenty cars each
will be needed to convey the paraders
from Reading. Easton and Philadel-
phia to the national capitol
A company has been organized at
Copenhagen to insure and reassure
young women who dread becoming old
maids. The scheme was devised by
Frau Wiehl Bereny. A girl who takes
out policy pays fixed sum every
year. If she finds husband before
she reaches 40 she is presumed to
have received her moneys worth and
the policy lapses. the sum she has
paid going to general fund for the
benefit of her less fortunate sisters. |
II she is unmarried when she is 40 |
she begins to receive an annual pen
sion. which continues the rest of her
life or until she marries.
Big Horn county, wyoming. is hor.
rifed over the most atrocious crime
ever committed within its borders,
and one OF the most cowardiy in the
history OF Wyoming-the assassina.
Ion of Alleman and Joseph Emge,
prominent sheepmen, and Joe Lazier,
,erder, by gang of fifteen raiders
Who descended on the Emge camp on
spring creek near Tensleep the night
" April 2. The Emges and Lazier
we're shot down in cold blood and the
'odies of Alleman and Lazier were
burned. TWENTY-FIVE
heep were killed and $500 head STAN.
'eded over the range. that they might
all easy victims to coyotes and
wolves. The raiders. to prevent the
ews of their crime becoming known
cut the telephone wires '
lding 10 Tsuslssp. Probably sick.