The Washington times., 1913-07-08
WORLD NEWS TOLD IN BRIEF

WORLD NEWS
DOMESTIC.
south Omaha.-Morris and Com
pany's South Omaha Packing plant,
valued at s1,500,0OO. was threatened with
destruction by fire. Thousands of dol
lars worth of beef and sheep carcasses
were loaded into refrigerator cars and
taken away.
Trenton.-Assistant Attorney Gen
. eral Gaskill rendered a new opinion to
Senator Edge, of Atlantic county, presi-
dent of the economy and efficiency
commission, holding that Assemblymen
Walter L. McDermott, of Hudson coun-
ty, and William E. Mount, of Mon
mouth county. both Democrats, appoint
ed by Speaker Taylor, are entitled to
their seats on the commission.
MnivfIle, n. 1.-THE bodies of Helen
Rice, seventeen, and Archie Popagin,
twenty-one who were drowned in Little
Mill stream, have been sent to Phlladel-
phia, their home.
Newark.-Gen. E. B. Grubb, SUPER
intendent of the Home for Disabled
Soldiers, Kearney, is dead at ST. Mi
chaePs Hospital 1t is believed that the
strain of the recent legislative investi-
cation of affairs at the home FASTENED
the generals death.
Peoria.-Three men were fatally
injured in a fire that broke out in a
warehouse of the Clark distillery.
Cincinnati.-Thep police here do not
place any faith in the sensational story
told by Simon P. Helfinstine, who is in
Jail at Los Angeles, to the effect that
he killed Pearl Bryan, and seven 9TH
ers.
Pensacola, FIa.-An unidentified col
ored man who had assaulted a six
year-old white girl at Bombay, Fla,
was taken from a railway train at Mil
ton by a crowd of men and hanged to
a telegraph pole, .-- % -.- .s
Chicago.-There will he NO more VI
visection of dogs by students of the
Chicago College of Medicine, as re-
suit of decision by DR.. odeon Borque,
superintendent of the institution.
PfttsburKh-A well equipped gamb-
ling den beneath the street, the main
entrance to which was a big city sewer,
was raided by the police. twenty-five
men were captured
Chicago.-An unexpected dive into
Chicago harbor today wrecked Glenn
Martins hydroaeroplane, and spoileS
his chance of getting away tomorrow on
the water and air to Detroit
Huntington, w. Na.-Chnrging the
board of city commissioners with
fraudulently abusing their powers as
public officials, injunction proceedings
were instituted in the circuit court to
enJoin the sale of a bond issue OF 500 0O0
Springfield, ,Mass.-George III. wrenn,
of this city. was nominated as their
candidate for governor by the State
Socialist conference. Mrs. S. c. Roberts
of Springfield. was nominated for secre-
tary Of state.
Fort Worth, Tex.-A woman's voice
saved John A. Sullivan from being run
over by a street car five months ago
Today he obtained a license to wed the
possessor of the voice, Mrs. Vernis Bag
well, after having searched for her
ever since.
day sentenced Leslie Humphries to cleo
trocution at the Ohio penitentiary on
October % for murder in the first degree
in killing Samuel f. Kelly, Of Berkeley,
w. Va, in the preparation of a rob-
bers.
Martinsburg, w. Va.-CharIes Sfrfb-
ling, who was shot through the alb
domen by Robert Woods died in the
city hospital. Woods, who afterward
turned his revolver upon himself is not
dangerously wounded. and is charged
with murder.
BuffaIo.-Five young men, members
of prominent families. of Niagara Falls
and La Sale, y. Y, were drowned in
Lake Erie Sunday evening when a sud
den gale overturned the canoes
Newburgh.-Justice TompkIns in the
supreme court, has signed an order to
the medical superintendent of the Mat
teawan State Hospital 10 permit Harry
K Thaw to swear to an affidavit that
his father left trust fund, from which
he has received no income for five
years. which is in charge of the Fidel-
ity Title and Trust Company, of Pitts
burgh, and amounts TO $4,000.
New York.-John l.. PaItrowitz, of
Baltimore, ana Barbara NJ. Ackerman
Patrowitz. to whom he was married
June II, drank bichloride of mercury
dissolved in grape juice Both are at
the Englewood Hospital. and are likely
to die.
Chicago.-Ten pOIicewOmen will be
appointed here at once, in accordance
with a special message sent to the
council by Mayor Harrison. They will
be assigned to the bathing beaches and
parks.
Norfolk, Va.-Governor Eberhart and
Adtt. Gen. Wood. of Minnesota, and
their staff officers and wives, spent
day in Norfolk and at neighboring sea-
side resorts.
New York.-BenjaminG Goldberg and
Julius Verban were held up by high
waymen, who got $4,000 in bogus money
and overlooked sl10 in real bills.
FOREIGN.
Johannesburg.-Rep that the
strike of the Rand miners was ended
were vigorously denied after q fiery