The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-08-16


year-old twins, of Birkenhead,
Eng, convicted of theft were sent
enced to six strokes of the whip.
Henry Coleman, of Lambeth,
Eng, after suing his landlord for
won a verdict that al
lows him to live rent-free for six
years. -...
Though she confessed to a PEN
sion fraud, Mrs. Eunice Calston, Of
was saved from prison be-
cause she has nine children to sup
port.
James Horton, of London, refus-
ed a wedding gift of $500 from
an uncle in Australia who said he
was a fool to marry"
David Searles, of Glasgow, who
said it was his ambition to live to
be 100, died two days after he at
tanned that age.
To gain possession Of his own
house from tenants James Allen,
of plymouth, Eng, swore his three
sons had been compelled to sleep
in a pig-sty. --
Miss Ethel Payton, of st. Louis,
sawed off two of her fingers while
saving a board to make a shelf.
"This man cursed me five min
utes without stopping" Miss Edith
Jensen, of Chicago testified against
Hans Rydam and he was fined
$50.
Miss Mary Patterson, nurse of
J. c. Lorman, of ondon, was left
5000 a year in his will.
A dog that fell into an old we'll
in Davenport, Iowa, was rescued
alive after being without food for
10 days.
When Elmer Mann, 20, of Mum
Gle, Ind, tried to rescue a woman
from two boys who were throwing
tomatoes at her, he knocked one of
the boys down and was fine 81.
Two automobiles were wrecked
in Nice, France, when their drivers
were stung by wasps and lost con-
troll.
Cigarette smoking by women is
frowned upon by Mrs. Ida Pratt,
81, of Denver, who prefers cigars
or pipe. II,
A week after the death Of Mrs.
Alice Hayden, at Eau Claire, Wis,
$S1. 900 in old currency was found
hidden in her home.
When Mary c. He'll, Of Des
Moines, Ia, filled petition for di-
vorce from George p. Hell, she
charged the use Of profanity.
In order to gain entrance to a
store in Toone, Tenn, thieves bored
81 auuger holes in wooden door
and removed the panel.
Because she said she made beer
to keep her husband home, Mrs.
Mary Cruz was freed by Judge
Lellan Tuck in Pawtucket, r. I.
Herbert Johanson, of Racine,
Wis, tossed a lighted cigarette butt
into a pile Of leaves, starting a fire
that destroyed his $4,000 home.
Numerous children were found
wearing bracelets and other jewelry
dropped by burglars fleeing after
robbing several houses at Oak Park
in Chicago.
The New York. fire department
has a new water tower which is
capable of discharging $4,000 gal
Ions of water minute from four
nozzels. ~
Unique among radio features is a
weekly broadcast by Uncle" Simon
Phillips, 86-year-old ex-slave, over
a small station in Birmingham,
Ala. His offerings consist Of remin-
iscences concerning the Old South,
the Civil War, and reconstruction
days.
A new machine gun can fire 800
bullets minute and has a range of
nine miles.
Mohammedans have at least one
signal virtue in that they never
ask Els it hot enough for your"
Their religion forbids them to COM
ment on the weather, lest it appear
that they are critical of Allah's
meteorological arrangements.
The story is told that about 100
years ago the British Admiralty de-
cided to defy superstition with q
ship named Friday. Her keel was
laid on Friday, she was launched
on Friday and her captain was
named Friday. She started on her
maiden voyage on Friday-and was
uovor haa ri from AGAIN