STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 49, 26 February 1916, Page 15

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

BOUGH ON - ONE-ABHED KESE. At Sf. ■ Lools, 80., one-armea ' Michael ■McCarthy was shot and killed by two , men who held tip a saloon because,' at their command of "Hands op! , ' 'he raised-the only arm left him. One sleeve of McCarthy's coat hung empty,-its end In'tie coat pocket. The • robbers" apparently thought'he was reaching for a revolver. ' XESS BEER—MOKB BOMCBS. The Benwopj' brerrin;;. Comptiij plant, whlcu.Jras teen.idle elnce West Virgiala went "dry" more tlran a year ago, Iβ being converted -:£or r tlie • niaxrafectnre of"" "wax. monitions. The National-Salt and Chemical Company, lessees, •will mannfactnre-cx- ■ plostvevchemicaJa there for the. Allies; ' BOIJ> WOMEN BANTWTS. ■Attacked t>y two -women bsndlte, ~W. J. Ketterman, a- Canadian toodet, was rdbbed 'of OOOdols. In * hotel at • Los Angeles, on December ' 6. Ketterman said he entered the. place, and .was met .by £ big woman, who,posed as.the landlady. She -escorted him to the rear, he asserted, and there.choked- him'-fcalf Insensible, ■ wßle another -woman -threatened Urn ■with a'gun. After searching Ws pockets Uhej^-teft-Mm lying In thertsllway.. " EX-BLAVE ' CEBTENABIAK*. ■-rait easan-Qffilee.AM>ott,;or_'«andina Abbott," cc £tie mas lmown_to\ her nelghibonre end cteiwren.in the - Tieinity, died at 571, ciasson Atenue , , Brooklyn, at the age- of-115 years. (For sixty-three.; years the-negro <woman, 'who <was-4>onrin Peter•borongh, Va.j,-was a slave. She lived for the last:, twentyyears- of her life iwith Mrs Julia -Tlidinaj, ejgbty-four years old, a daughter. '.The dead "woman's-memory iwas ■remarkably;-'clear;,;' She often told of her early life. and.'.never-tired of. relating Incidents of IWar. . "Yes, mother and ■I -were Blares," said-Mrs -Thomas. 'IBnt ■we- ihnd-: a good'- master and mistress in Colonel Peterson and "'his wife. Ktoere -was no flogging or' other cruelties on hie estate." .Dirs. Thomas said that President Monroe iwas a frequent visitor at the i. Peterson home. Five generations attended lilts Abbott's t uneral. - j

AFTER THE * FAIL. J. F. Whitman,' a structural Ironworker, fell from the" top "of- a sewt- wafer tower iv Chicago,-105ft high, and escaped with two bruises 'in the' region of his ribs. A few moments after his lofty tumble he was enjoying a good'cigar.' "WIFE : TT.TJ . HXrSBASIX Tie preliminary examination.of- Jeensta d'Agostlnl,-who-Iβ charged' wfth. the mnrder of her husoand, wae lieldat Alameda 'on; January -W,- before Police- Jodge Weinms.tm. Dr C-. A. - iilcQuesten.testified taat when he arrived.-at the "house on the evening' of January 1 ih« found \Mrs.d'A«ostlnl jprayisg in ' Spnnieh heside ■ the - body' at her dead'husband. She-told'the physician her 'Jtusbsnd, was.' about to etrike'.tier, - ene took a pistol off the bureau to-intimidate .fc-tm. The pistol'.wftnt off ejnd killed tier' r> - . . V WRONGED WATTBESS -SHOOTS .-.._ .... • -LOyEB.:-, - . 1 John ißobart, head of the IRobsrt Welding iWorks at Joliet, ■ Illinois, • was - shot and seriously .wounded on- January 10 by 'Lillian Piper, - waitress,. 24 ! years old, who then shot herself to death. The young 'woman had asserted she had teen wronged by Bobart and that lie bad cast her off. A .note pinned toiler underwear said: "The •wages of sin 1 is death." , *• some rEcuAurrx." , One twtw isn't in mambtiaSag ffurprise. Two pitrsof twins, «U «tthm a year and «-ha3f—wrJl, that «ppro»chee a record. Bomolo Oelttdl, cashier .of the Beeux Arts Cafe. New-'Tark, isthe-jcoud father. In Jane,- 1913, twin boys -were born. On (December 32, 1915 two more boys Joined «he. household. Mrs. Gelajffl and the twine-are doing well «t the»lTew Tork -Medical- College . and Hospital—if or Women*-- \ ' ! ?J "^-

'• " I 'A, xbne huht. ':' Tilrtyitwo years ago Fatten Sttelff, then 29 yeara old, toTd,hls relatives At Monroe, Wisconsin, that ie -was 'going-to fcnnt wolves. As lie did not ■- return : home, searching parties- ivrere eent-oiit, and Us parents offered rewards.. No trace of the man was fonnd, and it was believed h e had been killed.by -wolves. A few days ago ■word was- received of ■ tie from Stockton, 111. u e hae been brought home to .Ilye the rest of Wβ life with hls> BlatlTM, , .. : ~ •