The Chitina leader., 1911-05-13
NEWS
 TOLD IN BRIEF

the education of stage children. Los Angeles. May 12.-The libel
 charge against General Otis, editor
 of the Times, who has been unmerci-
 fully f1aying the labor unions. was to-
 day dismissed.
 Chicago, May 12.-The demurrers
 have been overruled in the cases against the beef packers and they must go to trial.
 Philadelphia, May 12.-A heat wave is passing over the middle At- lantic states, resulting iR many pres trations.
 Washington. May 12.-At cabi-
 net meeting today it was decided
 that the rebels can ship arms and
 food from Texas to Meyico. New York. May 12.-A new train
 record for a 175-mile run by a regu-
 lar passenger train in the East is credited to the New Haven railroads
 Colonial Express, as the result of its performance yesterday when it cov- cred that distance between Boston nd New Haven in 182 minutes, mak ng all the required four stops be- ween the two cities. The speed for most of the trip was close to 70
 miles an hour.
 San Antonio. May 12.-General
 Madero. flushed with his recent vic
 tory at Juarez, declares that he will
 lead an army of 10000 to Mexico City unless President Diaz resigns and peace is restored immediately. New York, May 12.-A dental
 bridge found in room in Brooklyn
 cdging house that had been occu- lpied by a man who committed sui eide at Dover, N. J.. two years ago l has just served to identify the sui eide. A dentist in Stockholm, Swe- den, to which the bridge was sent the Swedish Consul in New York, ecognized it as a piece of work done
 or Berent Edward Collander, son lci wealthy manufacturer of Stock 1olm. A representative of the Swed- sh Consulate had the body exhumed
 his week and clinched the identifica- ion by locating a small scar describ- 1 by the dentist. Collander's rela- ltives say that he left Stockholm with $6O.O0O in cash. It Is supposed that he may have been robbed.
 New York, May 12.-By rushing his fight for ten rounds and then de- livering a knockout blow, Brown won a popular decision over Tommy Mur-
 phy.
 New York, May 12.-The oldest pupil in the New York public schoolA
 Mrs. Martha Harmon, has just receiv- ed from the board of education two
 gold medals, one for merit in study and the other for regularity in at
 endance. Although 70 years old and 8 grandmother Mrs. Harmon
 throughout the winter term has been a diligent and exemplary pupil in the primary department of the night school at public school 157. She is a negress and was born a slave in Kentucky.
 New York, May 12.-Maiden Lane importers of diamonds have just
 earned of the finding of diamond weighing PA carats in Johannesbu g, South Africa It will ranK as one of the half dozen largest and most
 valuable jewels in the world. Reports have also reached Maiden Lane of a rush to a new diamond field in the Western Transvaal section of South Africa. The new field, called the Bloemhof, already has a popu- lation of 300 whites.
 Windber. Pa., May 12.-Two own CTS of the leading foreign banks here are missing and two towns are com
 pletely tied up financially and on the
 verge of bankruptcy so far as the
 foreign population is concerned. A
 pail hangs over Windber. The streets
 are damned with a woe-begone but
 determined and sullen aggregation
 of broken men and women. They
 have lost their all through having
 placed implicit faith in Andrew Be-
 many, head of the zemany chain of
 banks and steamship agencies. and
 M. F. Korlath, owner of the Magyar
 banks of Windber and Scalp Level,