The Washington herald., 1911-05-27
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS

Louisville. Ky, May 26.-The steamer
Peter Lee, bound from Cincinnati tc
Memphis, Is fast on a sand bar in the
Ohio River off here to-day. The shiI
grounded last night.
Boston, May 26-Charged with sending
a Black Hand letter demanding a large
sum Of money from Alden B. Sleeper, Of
Swampscott. Charles Bachelor. seven
teen years old, was arrested to-day. The
boy was caught as he was taking g
pocketbook that had been left by Sleeper
at the place suggested in the letter.
Bar Harbor Me. May 26.-The munici.
pal garbage plant, woodworking mill
skating rink. and about twenty small
houses are in ruins to-day following a
fire that swept along the water front
last night. The loss is estimated at si5,-
900.
London, May Ain fear that another
Of England's priceless relics might &c
to-day in the auction sale at Sothby's
where John Bunyans copy Of Foxs
Book of Martyrs was to have been put
up, and the sale was stopped on order
of the attorney general. The book was
the property of the Bedford Institute.
New York, May "a motion to have
the cotton pool suit brought by the
government against R. NJ Thompson and
others, in which it is charged that the
lafa toll ha
trust law by attempting to corner the
cotton market. was denied in the United
States Court before Judge Lacombe to-
day.
London, May 25-A second warning to
the members of the International Union
of Seamen to be on the alert for the
signal which will call a great interna-
tional strike and tie up marine traffic
was issued to-day
Reno. New, May GA large band of
Shoshone Indians have gone on the war
path near Little Canyon, 80 miles from
Reno. to get revenge for the extermina-
ton last February of Red Mike and his
eight marauders by the State police.
Charleston. w. Va, May 26.-The first
real oil well has been struck in Kanawha
County. The well is on Porter's Creek
and is producing seventy-five barrels a
day. 1t is owned by l.. V. Koontz, the
Clendennin banker.
Buffalo. N. Y, May 26-Twelve per-
sons were injured, one fatally and the
others seriously, when a work train on
the trolley line of the International Rail-
way Company crashed into Pullman
passenger car on the Lehigh Valley at
Tonawanda this afternoon.
Tangier. Morocco. May 26.-It was re-
ported from Llaito to-day that large
force of rebellious tribesmen. had met a
convoy detachment under Col. Gourad on
Monday and in the engagement five
soldiers and 120 tribesmen were killed
Twenty soldiers were wounded
Chicago May 24-PasquaIe Labriola
stabbed and fatally wounded his wife,
VINO Is twenty years his junior, and his
two daughters, Lucia, sixteen, and Jen-
ME. thirteen, and then stabbed himself
seven times in the abdomen. The women
were taken to the county hospital where
it is said they will die.
New York, May 26.-John c. Lumsden,
the Southern inventor, who shot and
killed Broker Harry B. Suydam, in 1909,
in Suydam's Wall street offices, was
sentenced to four years in Sing Sing to-
day by Justice Mccall.
Columbus. Ohio. May 2s-E. E. Cooke.
editor of the Columbus Citizen, and J.
Pretzman, former president of the
Chamber of Commerce. were bound over
for the grand Jury to-day In bonds Of
$500 for refusing to testify before the
senate committee appointed to probe the
legislative scandal.
Vancouver. British Columbia, May 26.-
Prince Leopold, a grandson Of the late
Queen Victoria, reached here from Japan
to-day. and is on his way east to visit
Toronto and to be the guest of Earl
Grey at Ottawa
London, May 2s.-William Grossman, a
New York lawyer, was to-day granted
Judicial authority by Judge Neville in the
Civil Court TO search the trunks of 1.-The
Great Lafayette which are at present
held by an American express company,
n hope Of finding the missing will dis
posing of the So0o.00o estate.
Boston, May 26.-The New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad was to-
lay indicted by the Federal grand jury
or allowing rebates on milk. Individual
Members OF the Boston milk trust were
llso indicted for violating the Elkins and
Sherman laws.
Utica, N. Y. May 2s.-while en- route
o the Adirondacks to-day In the hope
hat he could get relief from consump-
ion. William Manheimer. Of this city,
lied in Pullman car of a New York
CENTRAL train here early to-day.
Cincinnati. Ohio. May 26-w. Cooper
'rocter. the Cincinnati millionaire, who
ecently gave 10000 to Princeton Uni-
'ersity. and his wife were painfully In
ured when their automobile turned tur-
IL hara CARLY t0>dav