Semi-weekly herald., 1910-01-13


champion athletes on the New York
police force. swan half way across the
hudson river and back again, his only
DIFFICULTY being in lodging large cakes
of ice. Seaman had n wager with nm
otner policeman for a swim across the
liver and as his challenger failed 10
appear, Scanlan started without him.
On the hills between Parma and
Piacenza, Italy, an immense landslide
Is slowly moving. It Is two miles long,
half a mile Wide and estimated depth
OF seventy-five feet. On the top OF
the slide is the village OF scopolo. re-
Gently occupied by thousand people,
The village Is doomed to destruction
and the inhabitants have abandoned Il.
transporting their valuables and tho
furnishings and affairs OF their church
TO safer ground.
More immigrants arrived In America
In 1903 than In any previous year, ac-
cording to w. c. Moore, landing agent
at Ellis island. About 775,00O steer.
age passengers are reported to have
entered New York last year. This mum.
ber was exceeded In 1907. but Mr..
Moore says that many Of tho pagsen,
gers two years ago were naturalixed
citizens returning. Italians led in num-
bers last year. An unusual feature
was. a largely Increased Immigration
from Brazil.
A fortune of 100000 in gilt-edged
securities awaits the heirs of Jeremiah
Moynihhn, an aged ragman who died
in st. Louis Friday. Apparently IL
destitute, circumstances he ,y>- "a
but the public administrator f0aad y
his effects key to the safety deposit
vault containing bonds worth $50 900.
Moynihan was so years old and lived
alone having no relatives In this coun-
try as far as known.
The sharp teeth and claws OF Clay.
ton. a trained leopard. nearly cost
the life OF Mrs. Pauline Russelle, his
trainer Saturday. but the length o<
his tail saved her. Clayton was ugly
and would not perform in the private
training quarters In New York. Mrs.
Russelle prodded him with an iron bar
and called to her assistant for aid. Az
she turned her head to call for aid, the
leopard leaped. He bore his mistress
to the ground and stood over her
and lashing his tail. The
assistant. reaching into
the cage, grabbed Clayton,s tail, took
a double hitch around the bars Of the
cage with 1t and rescued Mrs. RusseIle
In safety The woman was badly torn
and at the HOSPITAL 1t was said that
her recovery is doubtful.
Stretching herself on a bed beside
that on which lay her brother, Judge
Edward J. Garvan. the Republican pol.
itician and jurist. Mrs. Nicholas NJ.
Brady OF New York permitted DIR. Jo-
seph Blake Of New York to tap the
large vein in her left wrist and trans
fuse her blood into the shoulder OF
Judge Garvan. The latter has been
Ill for several weeks with q
stomach ailment. the organ being in
an ulcerous condition supcrinduced by
extreme nervousness. A pint and q
half of blood was drawn from Mrs.
Brady's artery and infused into her
brother, with the two results that she
has almost completely recovered from
her brave sacrifice and Judge Garvan
is sufficiently strengthened to under
go very unusual operation, which DR..
Blake win perform.
A conditional and preliminary report
of what is hoped will prove to be a
successful treatment OF cancer has
been presented before the Manila Med
ical society. The treatment consists
In making the patient Immune from
the further progress OF the disease BY
the use OF vaccine prepared from his
own cancer. Experiments have been
made during the last eight months
both In cases where an operation was
possible and where It was not. A Va
riety In the matter Of the progress Of
the disease has been afforded for ex.
pertinent and the results have been
uniformly encouraging. A number Of
patients who apparently had beea
cured were exhibited before the 70
ciety by the orisinators Of the method.
The medical authorities in Manila or
press wish to watch these casss over
an extended period for Z possible ~