The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-09-18
Some Stray Topics Gathered
In Gay American Metropolis
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New York. Sept. 17.-Mrs. Ida NJ.
won" Claussen, author. militant suf-
fragette. member of the Joan of Arc
league. ETC., VINO, abou. a year ago.
achieved considerable notoriety by
threatening President Roosevelt with
a 100000 suit because he had fail
ed to comply with her demand to re-
call the American minister to Swed-
en-, Mr.. Graves, who had aroused the
ire OF the belligerent lady by his re-
fusal to present her to King Oscar,
gained additional notoriety the other
day by making disgraceful scene in
the offices of the United States Mort
| gage and Trust company. Mrs. Won
Claussen is one of the heirs OF the
Michael Byrne estate held in trust by
| the company referred to and has been
paid the interest on her share in regu-
| lar installments. But. that did not
| suit the woman. The other day she
| wanted $500 on account, but under
the rules of the trust company her de.
mand was refused. Then the woman
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when this failed to have the desired
effect. she went to the office of the
company herself and proceeded to
lick the tar out of the president
and other officials of the institution.
After that stormy episode things
were patched uo in p conference be-
tween her lawyer and the lawyers OF
the trust company and 1t was decided,
to avoid further trouble with the pu-
gilistic suffragette, to let her have the
$500. Mrs. Won Claussen who. to make
sure of notoriety, had invited repre-
sentatives of the daily newspapers t.
see her after the encounter at the
bank. expressed her delight over her
victory.
| There is a prisoner in the Tombs
prison, awaiting his hearing on the
charge of carrying concealed weap.
ons, who is devoting most of his time
to bordering over the dangers arising
from the foolish habit of talking too
much. The man had an important
appointment-he had arranged to
meet man in Brooklyn at a certain
time with the intention of shooting
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all because he did not have sense
enough to keep his mouth shut. On
the way to the meeting which was to
be fatal to the other man, the Italian
met stranger. The latter, noticing
that the Italian seemed to be in a
state of unusual excitement, asked
him what the trouble was. The Ital-
ian. thinking of nothing but the deed
which he intended to commit, told
the stranger that he proposed to kill
a man. In answer to other questions
the blood-thirsty Italian betrayed the
whole secret of his plan and, as the
stranger happened to be a detective.
the son of sunny Italy was promptly
arrested. A big and fully loaded re-
volver was found in his hip pocket.
One of the magistrates in Brooklyl
was arrested the other day on the
charge of having Rugged and kissed a
pretty girl who had come to him with
a request to send her mother to some
public institution where she could be
cured of her tipping propensities.
The arrested dispenser of justice
strenuously denied the truth of the
charge and asserted that the whole
matter was merely scheme of his
political enemies to injure his reputa-
ton on the eve of the primaries. He
declared that he had never seen the
girl in his life and had surely never
kissed her. This is the first time that
New York magistrate has ever been
arrested for kissing a pretty girl and
the other magistrates are awaiting the
outcome Of the case, which will estab-
lish precedent, with considerable in
terest. The alleged osculator has
quite a record for eccentricity and
gained considerable local fame at one
time by ruling that 1t did not consti.
tute an assault under the law to nit
an ''end-seat hog"
1t is a matter Of almost daily occur
renee that one or more horses are in
jured by automobiles running into
them. The other day. however. a
skittish horse turned the tables on the
automobiles by seriously damaging an
auto which had INSTRUCTED its way
The horse baked and reared, paving
the air with its forelegs. when an auto
came along. Just as the machine had
reached the horse. the latter lurched
forward and dropped into the vehicle
soaring and slightly injuring the oc.
cupants and smashing the machinery