The Washington herald., 1911-06-15
TOLD In PARAGRAPHS

London, June Alt is stated that the
Prince Of Wales win follow in his
fathers footsteps and will serve as a
Eidshipman IN the navy after the COR
\ onatiou ceremonies next week.
Beacon Falls, Conn, June 14-Because
they obJscted to the supervision of their
work by Assistant Superintendent Flem-
/ ing, Of the Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe
Company, 100 cutters to-day went on a
strike. The company employs about 600
hands.
| Mexico City, June 14-onicial figures
given out by the police department to-
day state that between 1,45o and 1.5o0
persons were killed in the recent Mexi-
can earthquake. One hundred and sixty
seven dead are accounted for In Mexico
City alone
Harrodsourg, KY, June 14-Following
the discovery of William NoePs corpse.
riddled with bullets, in his home, his
stepson, Harry Cunningham. was ar
rested to-day, charged with the crime,
and a warrant was sworn out for Mrs.
Noel as an accessory.
Gaffney, S. c., June 14.-''wild john
starnes, the Confederate soldier who is
said to have shot and killed "Stonewall''
Jackson by mistake during the civil
war, is dead. He had lived the life Of a
hermit IN the forests near here ever
since the war.
Chicago, June l4-Diplomas or titles
were awarded to $50 graduates at North
western University, Evanston, at the an
nual commencement, which was held
there to-day.
San BenIto, Tex, June A-Suits OF
] clothing manufactured from the first bale
of cotton ginned from the 1911 crop will
be presented to President Taft and King
George.
St Louis, June 14-Scattered showers
were reported to-day in Missouri, Ne
braska, Illinois, and the Northwest but
it remained generally dry in most other
] sections.
! Boston, June H.-Miss Jane Adams, OF
Hull House, Chicago, delivered the ad-
dress to the graduating class Of Sim
mons College at the annual commence
ment exercises which were held this
morning in the Church Of the Disciples.
New York, June 14-Mayor Gaynor is
opposed to selling water by meter. as he
thinks it would cut down the number Of
baths.
New Brunswick, n. J.. June 14-sa-
lone, one Of the elephants of Forepaugh
& Sells Bros circus, rescued the taxi
! cab of John Carr, when 1t stuck in the
mud at the circus ground.
Martinsburg, w. Va, June 14-Reports
received to-day from practically every
large orchard in Berkeley, Jefferson, and
Morgan counties indicate that the crop
OF apples peaches, and pears will be un-
usually large.
London. June 14.-Owing to the idiosyn-
cracies of George Bernard Shaw, who
writes plays. Arnold Daily, the actor. will
close his season at the Criterion Theater
June "a without producing the promised
repertoire of Shaw plays.
Boston, June l4-The Elm Farm Milk
Company was fined 5000 and costs of
$3.50 by Judge Dodge, in the United States
District Court, this afternoon on plead
ing guilty to two counts out OF sixty of
accepting rebates from the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
New Haven, Conn.,, June A.-Mery's,
the little cottage in Temple street known
to Yale men for generations. and which
has just changed hands, will be owned
| by Mansfield Ferry, of New York, class
of 1903, who desires to keep the place
open for Yale men.
Delaware, Ohio, June H-Twenty-fve
years after being expelled from Ohio
Wesleyan University during their senior
year for attending a theater performance
at Columbus in violation of rules, five
men to-day were granted degrees at the
| sixty-ffth annual commencement.
Tarrytown, N. Y, June A.-Mr. and
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller will leave here
tomorrow afternoon for Cleveland.
where they will spend the summer. 1t is
expected that the Lake Shore Limited
will stop to pick them up.
Paris, June 14-The senatorial commit
tee to-day approved the La Marzelle bill,
prohibiting the fabrication and sale of
absinthe. Statistics show that in 1873
l4T 6s6 gallons of absinthe were consumed
In France. In 1910 the consumption had
jumped to 5.246,274, but decreased to
8, ,7S6,552 in 1910.
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