The Washington herald., 1916-09-18
Telegraph Tips

Toledo. Ohio. Sept. 17.-Frank Reic, of
Ann Arbor. sold a perfectly good touring
car for 500 to pay his fine. Reic had
been arrested for driving the car while
under the influence of liquor and was
fined s100 He could not pay, and when a
local man offered him 500 in a Joking
way for the car he took II. paid his fine
and left.
Berlin. Sept. 1.-THE headsman's axe
was used here today in the execution of
Johanna Ullmann, one of two partici-
pants in shocking murder here last
March.
Poughkeepsie, Sept. I7.-LuciIle Tomp-
kins won verdict yesterday of 1900 in
| her $4,000 breach of promise suit against
! Edward Yale. A sealed verdict was re-
turned last night and opened this morn
ing.
Wheeling. w. Va, Sept IA fatal
/ duel was fought in the fountain of the
city hall by two alligators that had made
their home there for seven years A
l4-year-old alligator was chewed to death.
The alligators were brought here from
Florida seven years ago by W. S. Nc
Elroy, then city treasurer.
! Morehead, KY. Sept T.-Mrs. Eliza
Fyffe, aged 50 years, OF Morgan County.
passed through Morehead the other day
on her way to visit relatives at Scioto-
vile, Ohio. This was the first time the
aged woman ever saw a train or rode
on one.
| Westvtlle, n. j.. Sept. IA freight
| train hit an automobile here today. kill
Ing man. who has not yet been identi-
fed, and causing injuries to Harold
Chayles, Of Swedesboro, which may cause
his death.
Chicago, Sept IA club is the solu-
tion of the eugenics problem among the
Zulus of Africa, said ]. H. Balmer, for
| thirty-two years a resident of that coun-
| try, before the International Lyceum con-
vention here. when a baby in born to
Zulu parents and it appears to be below
the Zulu standard it els given a gentle
wallop over the head" he explained
After that there is a funeral"
Chicago, Sept. 1.-THE Progressive party
/ in Illinois is not dead. The canvass of
the vote Of the State primaries developed
Il Moose ticket. No Moose party appear
ed on the ballots. but four men who re-
fused to be delivered. wrote out a ticket
headed Progressive" and wrote in a
full State ticket and part Of Cook
County ticket. and four votes were cast
| for 1t, all in Chicago. The ticket will not
appear on the November ballots.
Clinton. Mass. Sept. I7-Martin J,
Kane, former superintendent Of streets,
and James r. Connery, former road COM
! missioner. have been arraigned in the
District Court, each on a charge Of brib-
cry and the larceny of 1915 of town funds
Kane pleaded not guilty and was held in
1850 ball for the October grand jury
Denver, Colo, Sept 1.-THE claims of
the Rocky Mountain region TO one Of the
Federal farm loan banks to be located at
Denver have been presented to the Fed
eral board at hearing here. Statistics
presented set forth that the aggregate
valuation of farm crops OF the FIVE
States proposed for the Denver district is
s.. .Ooo. 100000 annually.
Charleston. w. Va, Sept 17.-startIing
conditions have been revealed here by
DR.. Morris Mendeloff in the deaths Of al
most whole colony OF Russian Poles
employed in the grinding room Of a local
axle factory. The foreigners, who located
here few years ago, are dying of
monthly of tuberculosis as a result of in
haling emery dust.
Ottawa. Sept 17.-Approximately 5000
samples of Prussian and Austrian indus
trial products will arrive in Canada next
week and will be placed on exhibition in
Montreal and Toronto. The purpose is to
ascertain whether Canadian manufactur,
ers are making or can make articles of
the kinds and at the prices shown, for
foreign and home markets, as part OF the
allies program to take from Prussia and
-
hold it after the war.
Bar Harbor, Me-, Sept. 17.-Ralph Pull
liter, jr., whose illness was diagnosed as
infantile paralysis, is now convalescing
and full recovery is looked for. He suf-
fered a light attack of the disease August
20, but its real character was not fixed
until last week
New Orleans La. Sept 17-Miss Phyl-
lis Neilson-Terry and Cecil Frank King
Ogden, her manager, will be married to-
morrow morning in the office of the
British consul here. Both are British
subjects and in the British consulate will
be on British soil.
New York, Sept 1.-THE grand jury at
New Brunswick, N. J., discharged Mrs.
George Kish. who has been held in jail
there with her 9-months-old baby since
Tuesday on a charge of numbering Anton
Bucsah. She shot and killed him when
he entered her home in the absence of
her husband and, according to her story
assaulted her.
San Diego, Cal, Sept. 1.-THE cruiser
San Diego, with Admiral w. B. Caperton
on board. is under orders to leave port
today for the Gulf of Fonseca. Orders for
the Pacific Fleet flagship to proceed to
Nicaraguan waters we're received from
the Navy Department. The San Diego
will survey the islands Of Sagate Grande
and Mianguero as a site for proposed
naval base.
New York, Sept. IA mutiny which
amounted to a strike for higher wages,
was reported by officers of the American
tank steamer Gargoyle, which arrived
early yesterday from Alexandria. On
August IA, during the outward voyage.
nine firemen and three coal passers quit
work, one of the fircmen attacking the
chief engineer with a shovel.
San Francisco. Sept T.-Louise Davis,
fourteen-year-old heiress to a 100000 es-