The Harrison times., 1911-02-04
III NEWS
OF THE
WEEK

mer used a Farman biplane Two
of the passengers sat asuide the
sklds.
In Wheeling, W. Va, the jury in
the trial of Mrs. Laura Farnsworth
schenk. charged with attempting to
poison her millionaire husband, John
o. Schenk, was discharged by Judge
Jordan, after making a second report
that It's members were hopelessly di-
vided The jury had been out 80
hours,
Harvey Wadleigh, a wealthy farm
er living near Kansas City, No. went
insane suddenly and murdered his
neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Bales, also
farmers. Wadleigh went into the
Bales yard and, calling them to the
door, shot them down without saying
a word. A boy who was chopping
wood in the yard saved his life by
running and gave the alarm, Wad-
leigh was taken to the Mankota jail
where he raves in an incoherent man
ner of fancied wrongs, He surren-
dered without resistance.
Owing to the existence of the
plague, railroad traffic in the north
of China has ceased, except from
Tien Tsin to Pekin and between Pc
kin and Hankow.
Seven men were killed in the mine
OF the Erie Coal company near Pitts
ton. Pa. when a miner smoking a
pipe, contrary to rules, shook
live spark into a quantity OF black
blasting powder, causing an explosion
which destroyed a portion of the
mine Fifteen other miners were en-
tombed by the explosion, but were
rescued.
David Graham Phillips, the novel
ist, who was shot six times by Fitz-
hugh Coyle Goldsborough, in Gra-
mercy park, New York, died at Belle
vue hospital. Mr.. Phillips had been
vomiting blood all during the day
This symptom told the physicians the
perforation in the lung, caused by
q bullet which had entered the right
chest and had passed out of the body
near the left shoulder blade, was not
healing,
Lee Christmas, the American sol
der of fortune, in command Of the
Honduran revolutionary army in the
field, and General Bonilla have come
TO the parting Of the ways. An old
quarrel is declared to be responsible
for the breach that may lead to the
abandonment Of the campaign by
Christmas just as he is on the point
OF winning a decisive victory for the
insurgents.
At Wellsville, Mo-, Fred Lahr, so
years old, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the heart with a
shotgun Lahr had been in Ill health
for some time. He had been a resi-.
lent of this county 30 years.
Capt. Charles Barr, the noted
American yachtsman, died suddenly
Of heart disease in Southampton, Eng.
Denjiro Kotoku, his wife and ten
pther anarchists, upon whom death
sentences were passed by the supreme
court were executed in the prison in
Toxic, Japan.
In Anderson, Ind, Frank Ricketts,,
20 years old, pleaded guilty to the
murder of two women, one OF whom
was his wife, and was sentenced to
prison for life.
Albert J. McAdams of Superior and
John Gordon of Mellen, Wis., are
dead, following a street fight Martin
Miller, a woodsman, is charged with
the killing.
That Secretary Nagel Of the depart
ment of commerce and labor has sup
pressed much of the reports of the
agents of the labor bureau because
of their revelations concerning the
private lives Of people in North Caro-
lima and other southern states was
assorted in the senate by Senator
Overman.
Four hundred miners were en-
tombed alive and 40 instantly killed
by an explosion in the Casimir coal
mine at Sosnowice, on the Russo
Prussian frontier Of Poland. Fire
broke out following the explosion, cut
u1g off escape by the main shalt
but $50 cut their way through a wall
separating them from a cross tunnel
and came out alive. Rescue parties
that were able TO enter the mine after
the fire had ragged for several hours
found 40 men dead, their bodies ter
rlbly mutilated. Negligence Of the
mine owners to apply proper safety
devices WAS responsible for The dis
aster
G. w. Hall. a contractor was found
dead at the door of his home in Gin
cinnati. Evidently he had been MUIR
dered, for his body was hacked to
shreds. He was known to have car
rled a great deal Of money This was
missing,
A countrywide investigation which
the treasury department has started