STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 13 March 1915, Page 15

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

—; — -~~ :. SLAYER RE-WEDS FIRST WIFE. A climax to the action of Governor Hays.' of Arkansas, In pardoning Thomas Boyd after Boyd had served' four years of a ' twenty-one-year term for -murdering his second wife, came when Boyd and his first wife, Etta Boyd.- were re-saarried. This was one of the conditions of -the pardon. CURED BY PRATER. Mrs Charles' Norrls, of Akron,' Ohio, has Just walked for the'first time in eight I years. Twenty years ago she fell downstairs and injured her'knee. In 'time she became a helpless Invalid. Several specialists told her she never'would walk again, i Mrs Norrls prayed she might'walk,- and by f degrees she has " gained the use- of ■ her I limbs. J MODERN CHILDREN'S GAMES.! Schoolboys of to-day get their recreation j in baseball, motion picture shows, reading i and kite flying, and the school girls indulge I in motion picture shows, jumping:the rope, j roller ' skating - and hide-and-seek. This Is i shown by an investigation in the schools of | Springfield, 111. Only one boy in a .thou- j' sand confessed to a liking for leapfrog, j. bnll in the ring or dock on the rock. I FIVE ETNCBINGS IN TEN DATS.] At Shrevenprt, two negroes were hanged i nn til dead, and another, burned at." the!: stake a few. weeks ago, by lynching parties , made up of white men. The occurrences marked the eighth illegal killing which has occurred there within twelve months. Seven of the negroes were put to death foralleged murder of white men, and one for attacking a white woman. Five of the lynchings took place within ten days. SOME " FREAK " DIVORCE SUITS Declaring that her health had been shattered by the conduct of her husband, who, she alleges, has made a pet of a tarantula, Mrs Grace B. Wallen has filed suit for divorce from C. E. Wallen, of Minneapolis. Sued for divorce on the ground that lie padded his shoulders to conceal a humped back, Jacques Roderiz, of Portland, Oregon, filed a counter complaint, alleging that his wife added to her charms by padding herself ' "elsewhere." The couple , had been married only three weeks. The i day after the wedding they separated. Roderiz is a wealthy ranchman. At -Wllkes-Barre, Pa., Isaac Klsbangh i placed a market value of'3s dollars on his wife, Clara -Kisbaugh,' and because he did so the court granted' her ■ a divorce. Mrs . Kisbaugh was married- May 30, 1902, and i lived-with her husband until October, 1908. I Recently she started a divorce action L against her husband, and in September . Kisbaugh wrote her to the effect that she ,• had a cash value of 35 dollars to him. • Part of-his letter reads: "If you" don't ', want to do that, all right, you can'suit | yourself. I had ought to get something , for eight years' work." I Because of the difficulty of determining , whether a woman was justified in flesert- « lug her husband because she was afraid j of rattlesnakes, which. she believed to i abound near .her husband's residence in Imperial Valley,"California, Judge Guycon--1 tlnued the application of Mrs Hattie M. t Scott-.for a divorce from Charles R. Scott, i The original complaint charged Scott with . desertion.- He also alleged that his wife , deserted him, stating!, that he moved from . San -Diego to Imperial Valley and 'estab- . Ushcd a home there, to which she refused : to come. Numerous letters' were Introt duced, in some of which Mrs Scott said . sbe understood that Imperial was infested . with rattlesnakes, and that she woa.'d ■ rather die than live there.