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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1923)
THE FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN, PUBLISHER. ’ W, ©. TEMPLETON, Editor and Business Manager. O’NEiLL; NEBRASK^ Teaching gymnastics to tho royal children of Rumania Is a troublesome task, report Miss Willis Haynes and Miss Lillian Jackson, Nebraska young women who have returned from two years’ work In Bucharest. The king and queen Invariably entered when the charges were doing mat exercises, and court etiquette demanded tho children should courtesy. They leaped up and did It, then returned to their work. The* Carnegie Gold Medal has been awarded to Professor Bcrgonle of Bor deaux University, a recent victim of X-ray research, whose right arm and three fingers of the left hand have been amputated. Dr. Charles Valllant of La ' ftlholsiefe hospital, who recently under went his 13th operation of amputation mode necessary by the withering effects of X-ray, and Professor Leray, another sufferer from the rays, will receive mon •y grants from the Carnegie Foundation. A method of avoiding the new Portu guese Income tax has been found. The tax varies from 1 to 10 per cent, on all Incomes exceeding 3,600 escudos, that 1s to say about $200. Journalists and men of letters are exempted from the tax. The number of Portuguese journals and of books of verse and prose Issued yearly Is already formidable, hut In the future If Is exported that even the busiest mer chants and richest proprietors will take time to publish a little hook of poems gnd so establish a claim to be considered men of letters. Chilllcothe, Mo., has split over the authorship of the old song, "Ben Bolt.” The commercial club Is sponsoring • nationwide movement to erect a memor ial to Nelson Kneas, with whom It credits authorship. Those opposed de clare the ballad was written by Thomas D. English, and the music Is taken from a German song. Kneas was a strolling actor who died ana was Purled In Chilll cothe. Alarmed over the frequency with which French Juries, after delivering a Verdict, have been expressing the belief that they made a mistake, a group of lawyers no longer members of the French bar have decided to form schools for Jurors. They have invited all per sons who have served on Juries or are likely to be called for duty at the forth coming assizes to attend. Two dozen cars were stopped, two dozen horns were sounded, and drivers aplced the autumnal atmosphere of Central park, New York, with their re marks. it was all because of k squirrel and a pebble. The squirrel mistook the pebble for a nut. and stopped to crack It. He was In the middle of the road. An automobile came along and refused to run over him. Other cars could D*»t pass. A group of *0 families will found a Utopian settlement near Fort Williams, Ont. It will be an experiment In com munism. Crops will be pooled and the return divided on the basis of each fam ily's size. Senator Heed of Pennsylvania was among the group of officers and form er officers of the army decorated with the distinguished service medal by Sec retary Weeks for exceptional service In war time. The rapid cure of Mme. Sarah Barn fiardt, restoring her to health within a /tw days after an attack of syncope, was effected by adopting Coue’s theory of auto-suggestion, an Intimate friend of the actresS says. Martha Blattner, a sophomore In the University of California, went to Jail one day its an alternative to paying a $15 fine for speeding, a# she would have money enough to buy all her Christmas presents, she said. A plan to make the Akasaka detached palace in Toklo, where the Prince oi Wales resided, a permanent dwelling for the prince regent of Japan, Is proposed. It Is suggested to remodel the palace along the lines of Buckingham palace. Christmas has bc"i made cheerful for Frank Haggerty, 52, a leper at Port land. Ore., confined In an Isolation building. A radio set, a phonograph, flowers, fruit, candy and clothing were showered upon him in response to an appeal. Two more movie makers have been Insured for $1,000,000 each. The Coldwyn company has taken out policies for Eric von Stroheim, star and director, and for Miss June Mathis, scennrlo chief. They are at work on preliminary for "Ben Hur." A bear hunting party, which had failed to raise any game, was returning to Milton, Pa. One of the number slipped away and made a noise like a bear behind a clump of bushes. He Is recovering In a hospital from a shot In his shoulder. Because Goethe's famous animal poem ’’Relneke Fuchs”, was held likely to breed disrespect for the church and state, the clericals and their friends In the Danzig legislature recently forced through a resolution barring the work from the public schools. Instead of an attendant calling "Clos ing time!" In the library attaehed to the Paris Opera, the # curfew atr from Meyerbeer's •’Hugenots,” ts played on a phonograph.' A modified text Is subsi sted inviting the good people to enter their homes as "4 o’clock has sounded.” Elephants Bounded an alarm and pre vented a fire at the quarters of Barn urn and Balley-Rlngllng Brothers cir cus In Bridgeport. Conn. Study of the blhle for high school credit Is increasing in North Dakota. There urc 672 students who secured credit during the last school year. The first club house opened for ex clusive use of working women is in operation in New Yc-k under auspices of the Women's Trade Union League. Seven tons of assorted foods were nerved at a Hawaiian feast in Honolulu, celebrating the recent election of Will iam P. Jarrell as delegate to congiess. On the night recently when .lohn Bar rymore. in New York, appeared for the first time in ''Hamlet” his brother Lionel we.U to “Merton of the Movies.” A Belfast woman has given birth to five children, triplets being followed at an interval of two days by twins. All were stillborn, says the London Times. Fear that his mother would have him arrested if he attended movies, kept a 22-year-old son out of the picture shows at Muskegon. Mich. He inquired of po lice If It could be done.. Christmas day in Bethlehem will be marked by an unusual pilgrimage of children to the little church of the na tivity. Five hundred Armenian boye and girls from the Near East Relief or phanages in Jerusalem will march with gifts made by them in their industrial school. They will be placed in the grotto where tradition says Christ was born. Several thousand acres rich In coal and ores in Kentucky and Tennessee are to be develope d V a ruction headed by former SeCffctary i Disbar Wilson, Newark, N. polt s fowmJ a coat with a note in It by the Morris canal. After dragging the canal ell day. they discov ered they were providing movie publta Itjr. WOMAN’S LIFE IS SAVED BY BOY At Risk of Beimg Killed, Cozad, Neb., Lad Dashes Across Tracks Ahead of Fast Train Jr.st in Time. Cozad, Neb., Jan. 8 (Special).—One ef the bravest rescues which ever took place here occurred when Curly Lapp, a young boy, saved Mrs. M. y. Johnson from death benealh a train. Mrs. Johnson lost her hat as she started across the track and in chas ing It did not see a fast codling train. The conductor of a freight which stood on the house- track tried to give a signal to the onrushing engineer. This attracted the attention of Lapp who was wheeling a baggage truck along the track. He left the tru£k, extended his arms and ran across the track in the very jaws of the engine, striking the woman back from the track, just clear of the engine as it passed by. Neither was injured. Men Arrested By Federal Agents Are Released By State Court on Writ of Habeas Corpus. Lincoln, Nelj., Jan. 5 (Special).— In a brief filed in supreme court J. C. Klnsler, federal district attorney, de clares that when Judge W. V. Allen released on a writ of habeas corpus four citizens of Tllden who had been arrested by federal prohibition agents, he ignored and disregarded the rights of the federal government and acted contrary to law. Three federal prohibition sleuths captured Robert Hayes, James Casey, Ludwig Wendt and Lloyd Brlttell, and put them into jail, without being in possession of any warrants. Their friends sued out a writ of habeas corpus, and although the federal officers hustled off to Norfolk and got warrants from a federal commis sioner, Judge Allen said their consti tutional rights had been disregarded and turned them free. Mr. Klnsler lays down the legal proposition that the state courts have no authority to discharge pris oners held under the authority or claim or color of authority of the United States, and that any aggrieved person has full right to appeal to the federal courts for release if Illegally detained. -4— THREE ARE HELD FOR DELINQUENCY OF GIRLS Seward, Neb., Jan. 5 (Special).— Thomas McCormick, Darrel Brainerd and Carl Kuhn, all of Goehner. have been arrested by Sheriff Richmond, charged with contributing to the de linquency of two young Seward girls, aged 13 and 16. The trio waived pre liminary hearing and were bound over to-d (strict cour^ Kuhn only was able to give the TT,000 Dond. McCormick and Brainerd are said to have taken the girls to the home of the former, nfter picking them up on the streets after church, Sunday night, and to have held them until Monday, when they sent them home. McCormick's parents were away on a visit. Kuhn’s offense is said to have been that his car was used to transport them to Goehner. Bmlnerd’s home is at Davenport, la., andi he has been working in this vicinity for some time. He gave his age as 18. McCormick is 22. STATE SHERIFF HYERS GIVES UP HIS PLACE — ■■■■——» Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 6 (Special).— Gu» Hyers, state sheriff and the hero of many a newspaper yarn, turned in his star Thursday and quit, along with his chief, Governor McKelvle. Some time ago it was announced that he had agreed to stay for awhile until the new governor could devise some other method, and his sudden departure from the office is unex plained. Governor Bryan proposes to be head of the law enforcement bureau himself, and plans to avoid the ex pense of having officers traveling all over the state by appointing district agents to enforce prohibition, chase auto thieves and run down hank rob bers. _i._ ORANGE CITY WOMAN WRITES OF JAPAN Orange City, la., Jan. 5 (Special).— Miss Jeane Nordhoff, who was born and grew to womanhood In Orange City and who is now ft teacher in a mission school for girls in Yoko hama, Jaj an, writes interestingly of a recent flip she and a number of friends made to the Temple of the Fox The j >urney to the temple was made on ti e Day of First Fruits, when the first rice of the harvest la offered to the gods, and a day that is generally obsered as a holiday in that land. Miss Norohoff has been a mis sionary in J*h(>an for the past 10 years and is supported by the Dutch Re formed churches here. FARM BUREAU HOLDS ITS ANNUAL SESSION LeMars, la., Jan. n (Special).—Over 300 persons attended the annual farm bureau banquet here Wednesday night. The program Included com munity singing, musical recitals and speaking. The farm bureau has been in exlstance in Plymouth county for about five years now. Reports of committees were approved, among which was a report by the road com mittee recommending that more pow er should be given the local authori ties in the matter of road mainten ance as Opposed to the state highway | commission. ! cm THIEVES HT NEW MEIN TRICK Closely Pursued They Attempt to Wreck Officers’ Car by Reversing Own Into Full Speed. Falls City, Neb., Jan. 6 (Special).— After a thrilling chase, two young men who stole a car from the streets of Falls City were captured near Troy, Kan., according to word reach ing here. The Troy sheriff riddled the gas tank of the stolen car with bullets. The boys threw the car Into reverse and jumped out. The auto shot back down the hill but the sher iff evaded it and after a short run captured the yOuths. The car was not badly damaged and has been re turned to Its owner. —♦— SHE REFUSES TO SLEEP IN FOUL SMELLINQ BED Columbus, Neb., Jan. 6 (Special).— Because her husband insisted that she sleep on a filthy, foul-smelling mattress and when she refused to do so, told her she could get out if she did not like the bed, Mrs. Louise Shuler, has applied for a divorce from Delbert Shuler after less than two months of married life. She also al leges that he is penurious and violent tempered over money matters, that he became angry when she visited her brother and failed t<\ provide proper support for her. POTATO GROWERS A8K FOR REPEAL OF LAW Alliance, Neb., Jan. 6 (Special).— A Box Butte county farmer who is ■ circulating a petition for the repeal of the potato grading law has secured 17 signatures from a group of 20 farmers. The law provides that the potatoes be examined by one inspector whd grades them. It is declared by its op ponents to be responsible for much of the loss sustained this season by farmers. BISHOP ROBERTS SPEAKS FOR ROSEBUD COUNTRY Pierre, S. D., Jan. 6 (Special)s— Stating that he was not making a political talk nor attempting to in fluence legislation Bishop Robertson, bishop suffragen of South Dakota, Episcopal, recently ordained In Sioux Falls, made an address to the lower house at the Invitation of Speaker Frescoln on the needs of the Rosebud country. “What I am going to say,” said Bishop Bobertson, “I am going to say at the risk of being misunder stood andi it being said that I am going into politics. I have lived In the .Rosebud many years and I want to see it united with the rest of the state. Now I am not talking bridge, but I do want this section brought into connection with the rest of the state. It's legally part of South Da kota. The people there pay their taxes to South Dakota, the schools are under the South Dakota educa tional department and the churches there are a part of the South Dakota jurisdiction, but economically, it is tied h"art and soul with Nebraska and Iowa, “Out of all the millions of dollars In products produced in the Rosebud not a dime goes into South Dakota. Nebraska and Iowa marchants Ttre getting rich on South Dakota pro ducts. South Dakota mills, stock yards and creameries do not get a pound of grain, a head of cattle nor a drop of cream from the Rosebud and they might well benefit by this rich section of the state. There are no South Dakota newspapers there, the Rosebud people being interested only In the markets of Omaha and Sioux City and when it ct/mes to traveling from that part of the state to the rest of it it is a long way around and much time and money are expended.’’ •—♦— PARK PROPERTY AT YANKTON IS STOLEN Yankton, S. I)., .Tan. 6.—Yankton's park board took an Invoice of eify property to start the new year right, and made the discovery that no less than 32 of the new juirk benches had been “removed" from the various parks of the city during the past season. The board has reached the conclusion that citizens will have to sit on the grass the coming season or authoiize the purchase of more benches. These seats have been re moved from the river front, the old park, Forester park, etc., and weherever the park board thought Yankton people would appreciate a few seats to rest upon. STONE NAMED POSTMASTER AT LEAD, S. DAKOTA Washington, Jan. 6.—Postmasters nominated by President Harding in cluded; Benj. R. Stone, Lead, S. D. —♦— LIEUTENANT ROBINSON WEDS RAPID CITY GIRL Pierre, S. D., Jan. 4 (Special).— Lieut. Will U. Robinson, aneuttorney of this city and, a son of Dr. Deane Robinson of the state historical de partment, was married Monday in Rapid City t«> Miss Martha Siatterly, who has been bookkeeper in the rural ciedits department practically since tlio organization of that department. —♦— NEW OFFICERS TAKE CHARGE IN GREGORY Burke, S. D., Jan. 4 (Spoclal).-5' Incomlng officers of Gregory are: W. A. Davison, sheriff; Kdward Prchal, state’s attorney; S. S. Cooley, county treasurer, and H. K. McKee, county commissioner. Ludwig Trautmunn, elected county auditor, and K. H. Gressman, incoming superintei^ent of schools, will take office on March 1. Fred Hines, register of deeds and Hugh Vallette, clerk of courts, were re-elected. POUCH OF FIRST CLOSSJI CONE Its Mysterious Disappearance From Depot at Harrisburg, Neb., Brings Flock of Detectives. Harrisburg, Neb., Jan. 5 (Special). —The disappearance of a sack of first class mail Tuesday evening has oc casioned a mystery here. Night Op erator Morrison was unable to find the sack when he went for it immed iately after the fast train from the west, had left. He telegraphed the Pine Bluffs operator who was told by the postal clerk that he threw off a sack here. Postmaster Eastman and Night Marshal ^Atwood spent several hours searching vainly for the pouch. Next morning two Union Pacific detect ives joined the search. The only in formation made public regarding the sack is that it contained first class mail. "STOLEN" PURSETFOUND AFTER WOMAN’S ARREST Scottsbluff, Neb., Jan. 5 (Special). —Mrs. Lindell of Mitchell, Neb., charged with the theft of a purse from Miss Lucile Wilcox of North Platte, a school teacher at Deadwood, S. D„ was proved Innocent when a woman on the train which Miss Wil cox had left found the purse with its contents intact. Suspicion was directed against Mrs. Lindell and another woman by Miss Wilcox in the station'here, when she discovered her loss. One woman submitted to search, but Mrs. Lindell indignantly refused to be searched and to be arrested without a warrant until an officer threatened to use force. Shortly after the woman’s ar rest news came that the purse had been found. —f ALLEGED CATTLE THIEVES ARE BEING HELD Springview, Neb., Jan. 5 (Special). —Charles Hamer and Clyde Luckett lie in jail here, unable to furnish $1,500 bonds each, charged with the theft of a calf from ^Albert Lowe, October 30. Hamer is said to have pleaded guilty to the charge and to have declared he helped Luckett butcher the crlf In the Lowe pasture. Luckett declares the calf belonged to him and had strayed into Lowe’s field. — +—. — ORDERED TO ISSUE ELECTION CERTIFICATES Stanton, Neb., Jan. 5 (Special).—A writ of mandamus has been issued in fistrict court here forcing the county clerk to issue efection certificates to Paul Kingsley and Sonke Peterson as legally elected county commissioners. They alleged that the county clerk re fused to issue the certificates to them and that a conspiracy was on foot to keep them out of office. HIGHER EDUCATION IS HAVING CLOSER ATTENTOIN Pierre, S. D., Jan. 5 (Special).— Some advanced ideals are being worked out by the ,fjj;ate board of regents, in conjunction with the state budget board, in relation to institu tions of higher education of the state. One action of the board of regents was the passage of a resolution sup porting the stand of State Superin tendent Fred L. Shaw that only high schdol graduates be admitted to Nor mal schools. The plan, however, is not to be put into effect im mediately, but to gradually institute it, making it completely effective in 1925. The practice of admitting students not graduates of high schools has been a matter of contention for some time especially at Springfield Normal and some more at the Normals at Spear fish and Madison. The budget board has been meeting every day since its return from the tour of inspection of institutions and Is conferring with heads of institutions and boards of regents. Reorganiza tion budget board has been com pleted with the retirement of former .State Auditor Jay Reeves, Aberdeen, his place being taken by E. A. Jones the new state auditor. L. E. Oldaker has been retained on the board as accountant and former Deputy State Auditor Milo Drake is retained as representative of the governor. The executive board of the league of women voters is meeting in the city. It is believed they have plans to present relatft'e -to state institu tions, especially relating to segrega tion of boys and girls at the state industrial school at Planklnton. This change is likely to be made at this session of the legislature and will probably be recommended by the budget board. This probably means change at the school for the blind at Gary. DANBURY PAIR WEDDED FIFTY YEARS AGO Danbury, la., Jan. 5 (Special),— Married at Rock River, Wis„ January j, iS73, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Bierce, of Danbury, last Monday celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. During nearly all of the intervening years they have lived on farms near Battle Creek and Danbury. Cor eight years they have lived in Danbury. S39Vyj.no $IHdW3iAI HOd TWO NEGROES SOUGHT Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 4 (A. P.)— Police searched today fo rtwo negroes one of whom seized a white woman as she alighted from a street ear near the city Tuesday night, dragged her to a ravine nearby, cut, beat and attacked her. The other held up Mrs. Thelma. Cunningham, a young widow and her fiancee in an auto mobile and shot and wounded har, probably fatally. 4444444444444444444 4 4 4 DARED WEAR DRESS 4 4 SUIT AT INAUtlllRAL 4 4 4 4 Plerr®, S. D., Jan T (Spe- 4 4 cla!).—Secretary of State C. E. 4 4 Coyne, who halla from the 4 4 ‘‘short grass” country west of 4 4 the Missouri river, was almost 4 4 given a vote of censure by the 4 4 west-river folk for appearing 4 4 at the inaugural reception in 4 4 a dress suit. 4 4 Col. Chet Leedom, of the 4 4 highway commission, tried to 4 4 get Mr. Coyne to modify the 4 4 situation by wearing a phir of 4 4 spurrs. Mr. Coyne readily 4 4 consented to the compromise 4 4 but his wife objected. 4 4 Impelled to protect his for- 4 4 mer Stanley county compat- 4 4 riot to the last, Colonel' Lee- 4 4 dom told some of the west- 4 4 river visitors that the secre- 4 4 tary belonged to the Fort 4 4 Pierre band and that his in- 4 4 augural night garb merely was 4 4 the uniform of that organiza- 4 4 tion. 4 4 “The suit did not fit him 4 4 very well, anyway,” said Col- 4 4 onel Leedom, “and I hope the 4 4 incident will not be held 4 4 against him.” 4 4 4 **+4444444444444444 ■*- .; South Dakota Lawmakers Pro pose Distribution of Loans Through County Com missioners. , Pierre, S. D., Jan. 7 (Special).— There is a definite prospect that a serious attempt will be made at this session of the legislature to make a radical change in the South Dakota rural credit system. The change un der discussion provides for the elim ination of the rural credit board and the central state system entirely, with a substitute plan for handling the loans through county commissioners. The state would obtain the funds bn bond issues, as at present, and Would immediately make a distribution among the counties on gome equitable plan. Then the county board. In turn, would handle the loans in each county and be responsible for all of the de tails. The proposed change would apply the same principles in rural credit affairs which have existed in the state in the handling of school land* loans. It Is claimed that the system as to school land loans has worked ad mirably. Farm loans aggregating $27,000,000 have been made through the various county board* without the lossTJf a dollar In either principal or Interest. That is more than half of the amount which has been placed under the rural credit system, in fact, about 70 per cent. of. the amount which actually has been placed on farm loans by the state board. Discussion Under Way. While the attitude of the governor as to the proposed change Is unknown. It Is being discussed, studied and worked out by Individuals whose in fluence in state affairs Is fully es tablished and recognized. There is a strong probability that the proposed change will be put before the legisla ture In the form of house and Senate bills shortly after the mid-session re cess. The lineup Is expected to de velope some surprises and will have important bearing on state political affairs in general. Tentative figures collected by those Interested in making the proposed change are said to show that tho “overhead” and general administra tion of rural credit affairs under the county boards would not be one fourth as heavy as under the present state system. This matter of admin istration economy, which would be reflected in direct benefits to bor rowers, is merely an argument added to other arguments In regard to the greater safety and efficiency through the close touch of the county board. Has Operated Five Years. The rural credit bureau, which has been in operation five years, is one of the big departments of the state, both in volume of business anad in cost of maintenance. The move to abolish it in favor of the county loan plan, with strong backing for the proposed change, bids fair to be the sensation of the session. Slet’erai other inquiries into rural credit anaij-s are in preparation, but have no connection with the forego ing plan. They are based on the as sumption that the present plan will stand and upon a desire to apply remedies which seem to be needed. One legislator will ask for an inves tigating committee to go into certain details. Cigaret Tax Prospects. While the first announcement as to a possible cigaret tax manifestly was put out as a "feeler” by somebody, the Indications are that the proposal is backed by serious designs. One motive for something Of that kind is the propsectiVjfc loss of $260,000 a year now derived from the mortgage reg istry tax. Under the general theory of applying taxes in a manner to arousJJ the least resistance, exper iences In other state3 have shown that cigaret taxes fill the bill in a very satisfactory manner. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY ALLIANCE TALK REVIVED Budapest. Jan. 6 (A. P.)—The ex pected arrival here tomorrriv of Chancellor Igiiace Seipel, of Austria. Is calling forth expressions in favor of a renewal of the Austrian alliance. It Is felt here that there should be closer co-operation between the two ctatee of the old dual monarchy in Uew cf what Is believed to be the '■..tie entente’s menace of interven l.on. L HAS FARM CREDIT I PLAN FDR IOIHA Storm Lake Man Proposes to Governor Kendall That South Dakota Law Be Followed. Des Moines. Ia., Jan. 3 (Special^.— Bonding of the state for $50,000,000 to establish a farm credit bureau along the lines followed in South Dakota is proposed to Governor Kendall by Scott Bradford of Storm Lake, mem ber of the commission recently named by the governor to investigate farm credit plan feasible for Iowa. IOWA MAN LEADS IN WAR FRAUD. PROSECUTIONS Washington, Jan. 3^»-An Iowa man has been the chief factor in bringing about the indictment of Benedict Crowell, former assistant secretary of j war, and <ix others, all wartime of j flcials of ,the war department, on ' charges of conspiracy to defraud the government and delaying and defeat ing the administration of law. C61. W. T. Chantland, who is one of the special counsel in the department of justice running down the waj fraud cases, has had the leading part ! in digging up the evidence and pre paring the cases against these de fendants. He was formerly counsel for the trade commission. He went from there to the department of jus tice to take up this work of hunting down those responsible for war frauds. The indictments, which have Just been made public, are the first against $l-a-year-men. Colonel Ohantland is from Fort Dodge. He was long prominent in the Iowa Na tional guard. — M’CLENAKAN HOLDS ONTO SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE Des Moines, la., Jan. 3.—Miss May Francis, recently elected superintend ent of public instruction, called at the office of P. E. McClenahan, Incum bent, Tuesday and demanded the of fice. McClenahan refused to be dis placed. “I’m too busy to turn it over today,” he said. Miss Francis was accompanied by her attorney. A modification of the injunction which McClenahan has ob tained, barring Miss Francis from taking the office, was obtained by Miss Francis in order to permit the demand which was made. The contention now' goes up to the court where a hearing will probably be held Thursday on the Injunction sought by McClenahan to keep Miss Francis out of the office until July 1. AMES ARMORY FIRE BELIEVED TO BE WORK OF INCENDIARY Des Moines, la., Jan. 3.—Evidence Indicating ethat the fire which de stroyed the $200,000 armory at Iowa State college at Ames, several weeks ago, was the result of arson is said to have been discovered by State Fir© Marshall J." A. Tracy, and representa tives of the bureau of {nvestigatlon. CHILD CRUSHED TO DEATH BETWEEN STREET CARS Davenport, Ja., Jan. 3.—Lynn Hum phrey, 9, was brushed to death be tween two street cars at the car barns. He was playing about the cars, put the trolley of one on and it started up. He W'as crushed. When Patti Heard Herself. From the Milwaukee Journal. Sir Landon Ronald, symphony orches tra conductor and head of the Guildhall School of Music, who is credited with having been the first to induce divas to record their voices in the talking ma chine, tells in his book of reminiscences just published how Patti first heard her self sing. It had been hard to persuade her at 60 -to sing in the machine at all and all the apparatus had to be installed In her castle in South Wales. Sir Lan don says: • sue sang divinely, we eve all quite overcome. * * • When she had finished her first record (Mozart's 'Voi che sa pete’) she begged to be allowed to hear It at once. This meant that the re cord would be utiable to be used after wards. “She hnd never heard her own voice and when the little trumpet gave forth the beautiful tones she went into ec stasies! She threw kisses into the trum pet and kept on saying, ‘Ah, mon Dieu! malntenattt je conprends pourquol je suis Patti.' Quelle vlx! Quelle artiste!’ ('Ah, now I understand why I am Patti. What a voice What an artist!’)" JEWS IN PARLIAMENT. London—Britain has 11 Jewish members in its newly-electea parlia ment. Six of them are Conservatives three Lloyd Georgians, one Asquith ian, and one Labor* The Labor mem ber, E'. Shinwell. is the first Jew to ever represent a Scottish constituen cy He is, further, the 51st Jevtf to be elected since Jews were first per mitted to enter the house of com mons in 1853. This calculation ex cludes Jews who left the faith. NEW COMET FOUND. Hamburg—Another comet has been discovered. Dv. W. Baade of the Hamburg Observatory announces his find declaring the comet may be seen in western skies headed in a southeastern rtirectfon. This makes the third comet of the year, the other two having been discovered in South Africa—the Comet Beid on January 24 and the Comet Skjellerup on May 17. NOTED CHARACTER IS DEAD AT NORFOLK Norfolk, Neb.. Jan. 3 (Special).— Dick Beswick, 80, Nebraska home steader, hero of the civil war with the 14th and 17th Illinois infantry and for 20 years acrobat with the big cir cus organizations and once world’s champion leaper, is dead at his home here. Burial will be made at Council Bluffs, la.. Wednesday. Sho 'Muff. From Life. Aunt Dinah (to little daughter of the household)—Bawdy, honey, yo* sho’ done put de muss In Chris-mus!"
