Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-31

is fifteen inches lower than it WAS a
week ago.
Col and Mrs. Cody have kissed and
made up again and are said to he as
loving and cooling as any young eou.
pie could possibly be. Wonder how
long this will last?
]. C. Lyons OF Oregon, ILL.,. was fined
5000 for violation OF the anti-saloop
law. He was convicted on forty.six
counts. The fine is the largest ever
imposed in Ogle county.
| A Tacoma man accumulated about
100000 importing women from France
for immoral purposes. He will now
\ spend some years behind prison bars.
Sentence should have been for life.
| According to an itemized statement
as to where the $lO2.5 800 went to in
| Pittsburg We notice sl.750 set aside
for newspaper men. Can 1t be Pitts.
burg papers are so easily purchased? :?
Two persons were killed aud three
Injured at Sterling. Kans., Sunday
when big touring car collided with
buggy The four occupants of the
buggy had IL miraculous escape from
death.
Six Pittsburg banks charged with
aiding in the bribery charges to Sc
cure city funds. have been ordered to
turn over the amount they are carry.
ing. something In excess OF three mil
lion dollars.
John A. Newstedt, contractor, aud
| Henry Jacobs Of Chicago are working
on an airship OF their own contrivine,
which lhey believe win enable them
TO fly across the Atlantic at the rate
of $50 miles an hour, or in a single
day.
When the book beer signs made
their appearance at Beaver Falls, Pa.
Joseph Bout. a fish dealer made a
wager that he could drink 250 glasses
OF beer In three days. He won the
| dying.
| Mrs. William H. Welch of Avon,
| Mass, gave birth al 3 o'clock last
| Monday morning TO a baby girl which
weighed six pounds. Wednesday fore.
noon following ~ 1880 o'clock, sixty.
eight hours after the first child was
born. Mrs. Welch gave birth to am
other baby girl. which weighed eight
and one-half pounds Both babies viii
live, 1t Is believed
| movement has been started among
the social leaders In London TO com.
bat the Socialist propaganda II is run
In connection with the Woman's Anti
Socialist union OF Great Britain. and
II Is said that the propaganda will
be one of the great things OF the sea
son. The society leaders will In turn
organize meetings In their drawing
rooms. Indeed. two of them have al
ready been held
The people of the entire country
have the sympathy of J. Ogden Ar
mour, president of the Armour Pack
ing company, in the trouble they are
having to obtain meat at living prices
Mr. Armour says he Is very sorry tha
meat prices are so high. but he real
ly can see no prospect of reduction
in prices until the new crop of mea
producing animals reach the packing
house.
Pittsburg boy thief confessed hi,
crimes and then bitterly complained
because the officers would not let hin
go. You are letting the grafters 20.
said the boy There Is much truti
in this. We know of grating cas-.
where a newspaper 1uggled Its figure,
and obtain $3.50 and nothing Is belnl
done. II a poor boy was To steal {
dollar for his sick and starving mother
he would be sentenced to Jail or the
reform school. This Is indeed strange
world when we stop to consider.
Adrian Clips. general agent OF the
Holland-American Steamship line In
the United States, pleaded guilty be
fore Judge Holt in the United States
circuit court Saturday to indictments
charging the receiving of rebates from
| ''t''D"No O'po PiCuutu Eullt1 W
count in each OF two Indictments
which charged the acceptance OF re
bates from the Wabash and the Cen
tial Vermont roads In violation OF the
Hepburn law. Judge Holt imposed q
fine of $1,000 In each case. making
$4,000 in all. The maximum fne was
$50. 900.
wondering world stands agape
while wealthy Americans give away
vast fortunes. but In Grand Rapids
Mich. a little fortune of $1,000 left
by an obscure scrubwoman. is now
being given away. according to the
conditions of her will, 10 religious aud
Dhilanthropic institutions. Mrs Marie
Heydlanff left this estate and the sl7,
900 presents the earnings and savings
Of lifetime BY the terms of her
will bequests ranging from $500 to
$4,000 are made to orphans homes
Christian Science churches and state
public schools. The Christian Science
Publishing society of Boston, the only
bequest made outside of the state
gets $1,000. Her only bequest for her,
self was that she be given small