Semi-weekly herald., 1909-12-06

| like 1t In Italy
The refusal of the house OF lords to
| assent to the English budget is the
| first Instance of the kind In 800 years.
Elton Jeffries was fined $500 for
gambling at Pueblo Tuesday. Must
be the authorities intend to stop the
evil.
Former Governor J. Frank EIanly of
Indiana in Saginaw Sunday night
made the opening address in cam
| paign to make Michigan completely
| dry
Walter Wellman says the coming
session is likely to see congress In a
deadlock on Cannonism, and that TAFT
trying to stand neutral, is in danger
from Roosevelt boom in 1912.
The Hartman estate has at last
| been ascertained to be worth just
s149, ,00O,O according to report OF the
board of appraisers. This ought to
keep the wolf from the door of the
widow and family.
A Cheyenne restaurant keeper re
| ceived 25 cents to start conscience
/ fund with. The party sending the
money said he had stolen several
Jumps of sugar and lemon from their
lunch counter and desired to make res
titution.
Near Earlville, Iowa. meteor bur
led itself in the earth, leaving cir
| cular hole six feet in diameter Sew
eral persons saw a ball of fire in the
heavens and heard an explosion before
the meteor fell Its impact with the
earth ratified dishes.
Telegraphers on the Illinois Central
railroad are demanding a wage in
crease and improved working condi-
tions, and the relations between them
and the company have become so
strained that the road is making prep
| arations for a strike.
Mrs. Johr Wright ;-unt the young
Detroit woman who left her 65-year-
old millionaire husband in Paris last
.hay and .an away with Russian ad-
venturer describing himself as a
prince, has now deserted her prince
and returned to America penitent,
All the $500 national banks in the
United States which now hold board
meetings at irregular and infrequent
intervals must have monthly meetings
OF their directors. must appoint exam
| inc nd cntprnittpag and all
the loans and discounts Of each bank
must be approved by the directorate
board at the monthly meeting, such
approval TO be recorded in permanent
form, This is the pronunciamento ol
Comptroller of the Currency Murray
Along tie base OF Jne Rocky noun
tains from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Canon
| City, Colo. is the spot where tuber
culcsis in tae United States can most
feasibly and thoroughly be removed il
the opinion OF DIR. Oscar j. Pfeiffer
Before a large meeting at the free
tuberculosis exhibit at Denver Tues
, day evening he declared that the re
moval of the disease from this coun
try can be effected in the section out
lined by plan which he demonsrtat
ed already to be defining itself.
''At $500 head, the average price
of negro girls on the auction blocl
fifty years ago, the 100000 whit
slaves in the United States today rep
resent an investment of S540,000 ,000
I Each year $1,000, or $120,000000 wort
, of these women are sacrificed in tn
, highly financed districts of vic
throughout this country and an equa
number of recruits are procured eacl
year to take the places of those VIII
. have worn themselves out in sin,
says DR.. Jean T. Zimmerman. pres
, dent of the National White Cros
league.
5 Painless surgery, anaesthesia witt
/, out after effects, is the discover
: which Dr. Jonnesco, dean of the med
f cal board of the University of Buchai
t est. who arrived Tuesday from Ell
; rope. has come to America to demon
strate. Stovalne is drug alread
known to the medical world, but b
< combining 1t with strychnine and di.
3 titled water and injecting it into tn
spinal cord. the doctor has been abb
to produce complete insensibility t
pain without loss of consciousness.
nausea, headaches, disturbances OF IN
heart action, and other familiar e
fects OF ether and chloroform In on
, case, boy with bandaged eyes, o
whose brain the surgeon was at worl
4 asked him when the operation was /
p begin. and then walked to his CO
, after it was over
Gossip in Paris. according to a stor
I brought to New York, mentions Ru.
|. sian nobleman, who subsequently con
b mitted suicide as the slayer c
e Adolphe Steinheil. whose wife recen
ly was acquitted of the crime and
+ now supposed to be in England. A,
I cording TO the story, this noblema
: was trapped in the Steinheil maj
o sion by the husband, and in figh
which followed Steinheil was killed