The Caucasian., 1911-08-29
GEN ERAL
NJ EWS
NOTES.


NOTES. land is declared to
haxe been almost en-
tirely the work of hoodlums, who have
obtained a strong foothold in those
places because the forces of police are
small The Jews who suffered the at
tacks are among the most respected OF
the townspeople and they Indignantly
deny the charge of demanding high
rents, and so far as can be ascertained
the complaints made against them OF
exacting exorbitant prices are without
foundation
While thousands of persons gazed
in amazement, Samuel Hughes, who is
a steeplejack, and his son Edward,
seven years old, gave daring exhi-
bition of gymnastics halfway up one
of the fagpoles on the New York city
hall. For ten minutes the father, as
he chung to the fagpole, swung and
tos ed his son about in the air. When
the exhibition was ended John Ryan,
custodian of the city hall, declared 1t
was the most thrilling attraction city
hall park has had in many years. The
exhibition was given fnllowing the
completion of a job of repairing the
fagpoles. Before beginning the exhi-
| bition the father had knotted about
| the boys waist small rope that was
suspended from the top of the pole,
| While mob of 500 men was search
lug for negro charged with assault
ing a young married woman by name
of Stagner one mile from Purcell,
Okla, officers captured him and spir-
! tied him away in time to prevent o
! lynching. The negro is also accused
OF leaving the lady unconscious in the
burning house, and she would have
perished had not her husband and his
farm hands been attracted by the fire
md rescued her, as the dwelling was
destroyed.
/ The biggest boy born in the history
1 of the New York maternity hospital is
the infant of Mrs, G. A. Fritzer and
he weighed fifteen ponnds. The wom-
an married when she was but seven
teen years old and this is her seven
j teenth child The family live in ten
ement of four rooms in the heart OF
the East Side.
i OF ten men who we're working at the
10. 40-foot level of the new five com
partment shaft of the Giroux Consoll-
dated mines near Ely, New, when 1t
caught fire, six soon died and other
four also fatally burned after running
i the gauntlet of the flames to reach the
{ surface.
/ At meeting called by Assistant
Surgeon General r, M. Grimm, act
ing under orders of Surgeon General
Wyman of the United States health
marine service, stationed at Savan'
nah. Ca, held at Corbin, KY, about
fifty cases of pellagra. which is epi-
demic in that section oil Kentucky, were
examined. Belief that the disease il
contracted from eating diseased corr
was expressed by many of the attend
ing phy hysicians The buffalo gnat il
also said to have been the cause of tht
spreading of pellagra. The situation
is alarming in the Corbin- section
Several deaths have occurred. with M
relief in sight
II The constituent assembly of Portu
gal. in session at Lisbon, by III vote
elected Senior Arriaaa president OF th
republic.
+ Plans for establishing a training
school for stewards, to cost $500, ,000
/ were considered by the Internationa
i Stewards association in annual con
Q vention at Chicago. Nearly 5000, 90
!. has been pledged for the p4oject.
. commission of thirteen of the bes
: known chefs in the world will stud
d the subject of food preparation with
d view of adopting certain standar
rules for use in the course of instrue
tion to be given in the proposed train
ing school.
s.i Miss Louisa Neff. aged thirty years
. Que of the most prominent Cincinnat
! society women. was found dead in he
! bed Dr. Robert Steward declare
= that her death had resulted indirecti
# from golfing Miss Nef was men
,e ber of several Cincinnati golf clut
b and it was her custom to spend eac
If morning on the links She had
.r weak heart and DR.. Stewart said Il
, exercise was too much for her.
g Five hundred Jews are to be q
= pelled from Russia. all from one di'
s srict.