STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 16, 16 July 1910, Page 15

STOR IES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

ILABORATOST TRAGEDY. (EEMAKKA-BLB DEATH OF A (NEW YOKE BANKER. CNew York to-day lost one of Its most promineat 'bankers (says a. New York correspondent on June 2), Mr Charles Courter Diekerson, formerly president of the Carnegie Trust -Company, as the result of a laboratory experiment a few days ago. uktr Dickerson, who was a millionaire, and was not yet 40 years of age, was an enthusiastic amateur chemist Visiting the laboratory of a friend in Pennsylvania he there inhaled some poisonous gases. Pneumonia developed, complicated by heart failure. He died early to-day in hospital. iMr Dickerson was noted for doing extraordinary things. 'Wihen president of the ■Carnegie Trust Hie sauntered out of his office one afternoon, and, hailing a taxi-cat), said to the astonished chauffeur, "Drive mc to Ha-con, Georgia." "Jump in," replied the driver. "First stop, Philadelphia!" shouted Mr Diekerson. How much the 900-mile drive cost the banker he never confessed. WOES OF THE "MONEY QUEEN." The loss of ler first lawsuit has profoundly discouraged Mrs Hetty Green, America's "money Queen." though the mnoiißt involved was only about a hundred guineas, the old lady, who is now In her seventyfifth year, takes the most despondent view of her defeat, says a "Mail" correspondent, which she apparently regards as proof that her brain is losing its cunning, accompanied by a nurse, and rumours of her failing health have been strengthened by the announcement that she has summoned her 6on, Mr E. H. R. Green, to New York to assist her In the manipulatlra of her Investments, amounting, so it Is eald, to £15,000,000. Mrs Green is living Just now with her married daughter, Mrs Matthew Astor Wilks, but still retains her humble fiat In Hoboien at a rental of £4 a month. Her son, who is president of the Texas Midland Railway, states that tie expects to take up his duties as his mother's financial adviser and assistant in July. .GRAFTS NERVE TO CURE PABALYSIS. Physicians of the King County Hospital, New York, are anxiously awaiting the result of an unusual operation, which, was performed in the hospital by Dr. Norsted, the house surgeon, on Nlcolo Fiario, nineteen years old, of No. 716, Liberty-avenue, in an effort to cure a paralysis of the entire left side of his face. The operation, which was extremely delicate, was termed one of "nerve grafting." Dt. Norsted cut In two a facial nerve on the left side of Fiario's face and tied one of the split ends to a nerve at the end of the patient's tongue. By this means Dr. Norsted is not only hopeful of curing the paralysis, but Is hopeful of restoring the man's hearing in his left ear, which has been destroyed. In April last Fiaxio attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the left ear, but only succeeded in badly wounding himself and destroying tie hearing of that member. Though the other "physicians stated that the man would forever be deaf In his left ear, Dr. Nonsted determined to try and cure him, and to this end resorted to an operation. Four weeks ago the operation was decided on, but Fiario's ear became infected slightly and it was postponed. Wheu it was again decided to go ahead, he was seized with pleurisy, and once more the operation was postponed. The operation has now been proceeded with, and though, it is too early to know what the result will be, the physicians think that it will be successful. Heanwhlle Fiario is still a prisoner on the charge of attempted suicide and will be arraigned in court when strong enough to leave bis cot.

JUDGE PLANTS YABD FTJXiI/ OF. BOMBS. Feeling that his only hope of protection is in fighting his enemies with their own weapons, Judge Harris, of Texas, has planted bombs about his home, TiptonvlUc, Texas, connected -with an electric battery Inside the house, and which can be exploded by pressing one of many buttons in different parts of the house. Judge Harris has also appealed to the federal authorities, asking for their assistance against his enemies. The enemies in question are the friends of the eight men convicted of the murder of Captain Quentin Rankin, who was killed at his summer home, at Eeel Foot Lake, by night riders two years ago. Judge Harris presided at the trial when the eight men ■were convicted of murder. Later the Supreme Court of Tennessee reversed his decision, and committed the men to gaol. Their friends have sent' various notices to Judge Harris, warning him to take care, and saying that they are going to kill Wm. He returned to his home from Memphis, and found that many outrages hud been committed about his home during hie short absence. The men who have warned him say that they have bombs which will blow him to eternity.

GOULD HEIR ON TRAMP. After a three days' agonised search, Mr and Mrs Edwin Gould discovered in a ragged, dirty, eollarless lad on a bench in the police station at New Britain, Connecticut, their slxteen-year-o'd son, who had run away from school. Tlie boy, who will one day Inherit a large share of the £15,000,000 left by the late Mr Jay GonW, arrived at the police station at three o'clock in the morning, and asked for assistance, after having tramped over seventy miles and slept for three nights In outhouses, farm stables, and common lodg-ing-houses. He was starving, and when, footsore and bedraggl-ed, he crept to the police station and announced "I am Edwin Gould, grandson of Jay Gould," the sergeant in charge suppressed an inclination to laugh, and ordered food to be given to the wanderer. This the prospective millionaire simply devoured, and then, with his spirits revived, he told the sceptical policeman that he was well acquainted with "the gay white way," as Broadway is known. "Father sent mc," tie proceeded, "to a boarding school where there were 125 other boys. The teachers were terribly strict, and I decided to leave. "While a baseball game was proceeding I left the school grounds and started to walk to New York. 1 had 3/2 in my pocket. The first night 1 slept near the railway station at Willimantlc. All next day I tramped along until I reached Hartford, where I found a eevenpenny lodginghouse. It -was horrible! On the following day I lost my way, and must have wandered in circles until night, when I iay down to sleep at a farmhouse. Just as I was comfortable the farmer discovered mc. He called mc a tramp, and ordered mc to s°." [ After eighteen hours at tie police station young Mr Edwin Gould was piacod in Iho custody of M 3 father, who, despite bis heir's tearful entreaties £ sternly conveyed him back to school,