The Alaska citizen. (Fairbanks, Alaska) 1910-1917, 1911-09-11
ODD BITS OF news

BUFFALO - Attacked by heart
disease as he was running his auto
fun speed. NJ l.. Young. wealthy
retired grocer, shut off the engine
and applied the brakes As the car
stopped, he dropped dead.
BRUIE. Neb. Herman Rosser
asks $500 damages of Nels Fergu-
son, charging him with causing his
prize rooster to become drunk. The
rooster, while drunk" killed its
cOOpmate and lost its plumage.
NEW YORK - The board Of health
has announced that il will not con-
denim the common communion cup
in local churches under the anti
drinking cup law. The board leaves
the matter up to the preachers.
NEWARK, y. J. 1900 George Sapko,
who became violently insane because
of fear induced by many recent thun-
derstormS, will recover his reason.
NEW YORK. - When Henry Zuc-
ker awoke to find burglar rummag
ing his bureau drawers. he fright
ened the intruder so that in his haste
10 escape he left all the booty he
had secured in a robbery next door
CHICAGO. - Brass bands and
vaudeville have failed as drawing
cards at the First Congregational
church of haywood, and Rev. PEREZ
val Y. Baker will sever his connec-
tiCn there October /
CHICAGO. - During the last two
weeks GS Chicago boys have disap-
peared from their homes. The two
10
is called wild Westiis" and army
thera."
CHICAGO. - The inheritance of
$1,000 has not turned the head of
Henry Wise, a chauffeur. He proves
there is something in a name by say
ing ne will continue driving and salt
the money where it can't get away.
BALTIMORE. When William
FitZ, 10, and weighing $50 pounds,
fell i'll and had to be taken to the
hospital. the ambulance horse baked.
The sufferer had to be taken to the
hospital in furniture van.
TRENTON. - The feminine pop
ulation of New Jersey is revising its
head-gear because the anti-bird plum
age law becomes effective at once. All
fine.
LYNN, Mass. - Rev. A. f. Harri-
man has asked the police to find a
man who has been breaking up
church services by proposing to
young women during the preaching.
After proposing the man invariably
fees.
MIDDLETOWN. n. Y.-After using
scraps of paper to kindle fire. Mrs.
II. C. Mason found that she had
burned up three 10-dollar bills and
a twenty. She rescued some charred
fragments.
FORT COLLINS -Attired in his
wedding clothes and with the license
in his pocket. Purl Hutcheson, a
young farmer. found that his sweet
heart had changed her mind and gone
to LongmOnt to marry another ad-
mirer.
CHICAGO. - p d. Riedinger
heard one time that it was unlucky
to walk under ladder. but never
believed it. Two buckets of black
paint descended on him and now he
is converted to the superstition.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A blunder
in sending a letter directed TO Mrs.
Cecile O'Brien to her husbands bus
mess address is the basis of di-
vorce suit. O'Brien was so angry
he turned the hose on his wife.
NEW YORK - Daniel J. Riordan.
congressman from the Eighth New
York district, testified in legal pro-
ceedings that after eight years in
congress he had no bank account and
no money.
NEW YORK. - Mrs. Mary +. Haw-
ley, an immigrant, was held for de-
portation at Ellis Island because she
suffered from rheumatism. Uncle
Sans doctors cured her and now she
insists upon entering the country.
CHICAGO. - DR.. Homer F. Web
ster, a surgeon, says his wife often
interrupts his operations to telephone
him about a neighbours new hat. He