The Caucasian., 1911-06-01
GEN ERAL
NEWS
NOTES..


NEWS a forty-day fast by
NOTES. eating an orange. He
is telegraph oper-
ator and voluntarily undertook this
prolonged fast to cure himself of deaf
ness and rheumatism. He expects to
be back on full diet in few days
Patrick declsres that his hearing is
now perfect and that all traces of the
rheumatism have disappeared. He lost
thirty pounds since he began fasting,
tipping the scales at the end of the
forty days at lis pounds.
Six persons were saved from death
by gre in four story uptown tene-
ment at New York by long slide
down a clothes line The flames cut
off the escape of the six and they were
marooned on a balcony overlooking
the street. Flames were shooting out
above them when one of the party, a
boy six years old, cut down long
piece of clothes line which was hang
ing from pully over his head, usinD
jack knife. He died the slender rope
to the edge of the balcony and one by
one the six slid to safety, the boy go
ing last.
After fire months chase through
the states of Alabama, Florida and
Georgia, W. E. Boatwright, an Ala
bama farmer, overlook his wife and
her alleged affinity at Boykin, Ca,
near Albany, and took possession OF
his two children, a boy and girl.
The participants in the strange chas '
rode in buggies and camped out at
night. Boatright carried a rife, but
stated that he would only use it in case
of necessity, as he merely desired to
recover his children. Boatwright
passed through Albany a number OF
times while in pursuit of the party,
but each time missed them by a few
hours. Upon recovering his children
Boatwright drove away, leaving his
wife and her alleged affinity.
The State bank of Albany, Okla !,
twenty miles southeast of Durant, was
the scene of bold and successful
daylight robbery. Two masked rob-
bers surprised President P. L. Cain
while he was at work alone in the
bank, forced him into thevault, locked
the inner door, took all the available
cash, about 81, 600, and fed. Cain was
in the vault nearly forty minutes be.
fore his pounding attracted passers.
by. Nobody saw the bandits enter the
bank and none saw them depart. I.
is not known whether they were or
foot. Both were attired in jumpers
and overalls. All wires leading int
Albany were cut. The Albany Stat.
bank was established last year. Thf
robbery took place at $50 O'Clock i
the morning. One bandit was slendeA
and tall, the other heavy and short '
Jewish charities benefit to the extent
of 81, 600, 900 by the will of Charles
Wetheimer, the we'll known collector
of pictures and objects of art who
died at London April Is last, leaving
an estate worth So, $40, 600.
James Coleman, conductor on the
Rock Island railway short route be-
ween Ardmore, Okla, and LehigE
while standing on refrigerating ca
experimenting switching in the yard..
at Ardmore was thrown to the groun
by the impact of cars and his left les
was manfled uuder the wheels. Cole
man is resident of Ardmore.
Workmen were kept busy no little
time repairing the town lookup a
South Northwalk. Conn, as the re
suit of an attempted escape of Thomas
Nottley, a dwarf, who was under ar.
rest. Nottley tried to make his way
to freedom through an aperture seven
inches square. which is used for pass
ing food to prisoners. He was lodged
when half way through and it needed
the services of a physician, black.
smith and a boilermaker to liberate
him. The operation Ia ted seyera
hours and steel and concrete mad to be
cut. Motley was unconscious when
freed.
Daniel J. O'Reilly, foemerly assist
ant district attorney of the District OF
Columbia and we'll known as crimi-
nal lawyer in the case of Harry K.
Thaw and Nan Patterson, was found
guilty in court at Washington on the
charge OF receiving stolen goods.
An official note issued by the Portu-
guese government declares the orth-
ern frontier is absolutely secure, the
garrisons of the border provinces
having been strengthen BY troops thai
are in every particular faithful to the
government.