Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-14
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

milliners are holding conflab III
The association says that milliners
have raked ancient paintings ana
sculpture. the catacombs and ancient
tombs of Greece and other countries
for IDEAS Hideous as the "Merry
Widow and that tribe of headeear
was. it will be outdone by the new
cart-wheels. Everything will be gay
in the extreme, brilliant colors in flow
ers and ribbons superseding the sub
dued colors in vogue last season In.
cidentally there will be corner" in
Leghorns.
Chicago is TO have special police
force composed entirely of women.
The real object is TO enforce the anti.
splitting ordinance.
Two hundred women, headed by
Mrs. Emily NJ. Hill. president of the
W. c. I. L., marched to the county
Jail Monday in Chicago and asked
Sheriff Christopher Strasshein to use
his power to stamp out vice in the
levee district of that city.
A baby girl born to Mr.. and Mrs. l..
A. Miliner al Des Moines, Ia, started
ont in life with a well developed case
of smallpox, according to City Ply
stcian Losh, who attended the mother.
Eight weeks ago the mother recovered
from a severe attack of the disease.
The babe was badly broken out when
born and it is feared she cannot sur
vive.
One of the largest pearls ever i'm
ported into the United States was re-
ceived at the appraisers warehouse in
New York Tuesday and turned over
to Michael Latham for examination.
The pearl is pear-shaped and although
no official figures were given out, it
is said to weigh more than any simi-
lar ornament brought into this coun.
try for many years. 1t is said to
have been appraised at about 500 900.
The family of the Rev. Thornton NJ.
Niven of New York was pleasantly
ma Gray, who died recently, after serv-
ing the Niyen family for thirty-two
years as maid had left about $4,000
in her will to the members ri The
family Out of her small earnings she
had saved nearly three tip,5s this sum,
willing the remainder 10 various char
tiles.
A gay lothario OF so years was as
sassinated in Kansas Monday of this
week. The old man has figured in
sensational episodes in the courts ev-
cry year for upwards of thirty years,
mostly for breech of promise suits and
similar acts. These affairs have
brought him several bitter enemies,
and his life has been threatened more
than once by some male relative of
his women victims, and in consequence
his terrible ending was not a surprise.
Within the year Mr.. Shirley has de-
tended a suit for breach of promise
for $4,000 brought by a woman in n
prominent family, and at each of sev-
VI al htiliHSS lheit W as IL iIlistlldi
With the declaration that the ad
ministration expects TO cut down this
years budget by s12,130,270, Comp.
troller Prendergast of New York is
sued a statement setting forth in de
tail New Yorks present financial
standing and the outlook for next year.
1t is preparatory TO the announcement
of the S50,000,000 bond sale to he ad.
vertised within a few days, Comp
troller Prendergast states that the net
funded debt of the city al present is
S64S,S7S,999, and the legal borrowing
power when he came into office was
sos, 164, ,207. Against this sum it is now
planned to issue s5O,G00,0OO in bonds
for immediate relief. With the pass
ing of the constitutional amendment
taking dock and subway bonds out of
the debt limit, about Sf00,000,0 900 will
he added to the borrowing capacity.
There will also be added s26.000,000
by the natural increase from taxes
Both sums become available July |,
which will be in time for subway
building.