STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 61, 11 March 1916, Page 15

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

_ _j " SOME" FAMILY. - •J 1 A Lexington, , Ky., woman has presented 1 Uer husband with nine children in eighteen 3 months—flTe at one birth and four at a 0 second. HORDES OF CRIMINALS. s Hundreds of confidence men, "de luxe" [ safe crackers, penmen, and crooks of other r classifications have been driven to the United States by the European war, according to a statement made by Captain 1 , . D. O'Brien, chief of Chicago detectives. * O'Brien said hordes of Europe's most expert and 'best educated crooks are either v already in 'Chicago or on their way there. P Many, he said, according to re-ports from New York officials, only stop in the East c long enough to get a stake, and then head for the Middle West. "The influx of European gentry of suspicious profession," said O'ißrien, - 'has been especally notice--1 able since the threat of drafting army i- recruits in England." f ■ '-' L , ANOTHER GALLING j RESTRICTION. 0 * c The official frown of the Supreme Court - of iMinneosota has been placed on "didoes" , or "cut-ups" of the old style played in saloons, such as setting five to papers under a sleepy patron's chair and playing jokes on unsuspecting persons when such caprices work an .injury. When a bat- * tender plays a trick on a customer, and injury results, the saloonkeeper can be ' sued for damages, according to "an opinion 'of the Court. The case originated at 2 Ranler. The Court n;led that where the 1 person in charge of a saloon pours alcohol [ upon a guest and then sets fire to him ' there Is a violation of the condition of the ' bond that the licensee will keep a quiet 5 and orderly house. i A MARRYING MAN. "W. D. ,'Davis, 01 years old, the fatiiiei of forty-one children, thirty-three of whom I are living, married airs llason, 39 years . Qld, at Plymouth. North Carolina. Twentyi six children of the bridegroom witnessed . the ■marriage ceremony. This is Mr Davis' fourth venture in matrimony. He says a ( man is never too old too marry, aud that old men should marry young women. Mr DolvLs has 192 grandchildren and a Dumber i of great-srandcihlldrcn. Most of both wit- . nessed the ceremony, and they almost tilled tlic eboreb, 'to tU& exclusion of lrleoils of the principals. Mr Davis is a farmer, and is in good health. Despite his numerous relatives, he said he was lonesome and wanted a wife. ; DIAGNOSIS BT TELEPHONE. \ For the second time a 500-mUe diagnosis of disease was made recently when Dr. , 4ibert Abrams, millionaire physician and . Inventor, of San Francisco, and Dr. James j T. Fisher, of Los Angeles, made eleven , long distance telephone tests of germs. ( Representing Dr. Abrams in the oxperi- . ment was Earl Rogers, San Francisco . business and mining man. Rogers made the connection with email electric wires that were linked to the telephone. Dr. Fisher held the receiver to his ear, with two other witnesses in the room. When the signal was given, Rogers inserted an : electric wire into the top of a glass vial : which held tuberculosis culture. Three ■ seconds later Dr. Abrams, In Saa Fran- : Cisco, announced "tuberculosis." The wire was then removed to another cnlture, the correct diagnosis from San 1 Francisco following after four seconds. ' F.leven experiments were made in all, and 1 nine correct diagnoses were made, accord--1 ing to the experiments and witnesses. 5 A PARROT AS WITNESS. Are statements by a poll parrot admissible as evidence in a divorce suit? This , is the novel question which has been put ; to Snperior Judge D. M. Young in an action . brought by Nettie E. Gayou against Jnsn 5 Gayou, detecttve on the Stockton police t force. California. The attorney for the plaintiff introduced a witness who testified t that she had frequently visited the Gayous, r and that they had a .parrot, t "Could the parrot talk?" asked tie att torney. 1 "Yes, it could." "What. If anything, did you ever tear 5 the parrot say?" t "Well." replied the witness. "I frequently i heard It say. 'Oh, Jack, doa't strike mc. • Jack, don't beat me.' " 5 The objection of the attorney for the 5 defendant was lost in the confusion of the i moment. The case has been taken under : advisement. ENGLISH SPEECH IN CHICAGO. 1 Even though Edward Jones spoke f plainly on the witness stand in a Chicago i Police Court, his evidence failed to coni vict. For, 6ald he: "These mugs is Btandin* on the corner ' ■when they lamps this queen comin' along f and then two of 'em Wows' after her. i When the queen hits the ajlcy they bounce r her for her poke and do a forty down the i alley." >'ow a "mug" is a human being, a J "queen" is a pretty girl, to "blow" is to ) hurry along, to "hit the alley" is to reach 1 it, to "bounce" Is to snatch, a "poke" - is a purse, and a "forty" is considerable . speed. t But. nevertheless. Miss Mary Prc-hal, ! 10 years old, the "qneen" who was robbed of ISS dollars belonging to her employers two months ago, was unable to identify Paul Labriola, alleged to have been one of the "mugs," and he was rej leased. ' RACIAL CRIMES AND 1 OUTRAGES. Excitement caused throughout Blakely 5 district, Georgia, by dashes between ■ white possemen and negroes on December I 30th, to which seven negroes were killed • and two whites seriously hnrt, had not 5 entirely died down on the 31st. Influential white citizens expressed the belief, ■ however, that there would be no more ■ tiSuble. Five of the negroes were shot > and killed and two others .were burned to ■ death, as a result of thfee pliched battles 1 between the negroes and various bands of ' whites seeking to capture Grandlson ! Goolsby, a negro farmer, and his two - sons, Mike and Ulysses, accused or ' assaulting HeDry J. ViUlpigne, an overf seer, who had thrashed one of the younger Goolbys. Villipigue was shot in the back, i his wife narrowly escaping death from sev- ) eral other shots fired after he fell.. The ' negroes reported dead were Grandlson » Goolsby, his two sons, both of whom . were burned in a cabin in which they ■ sought refuge; Hosh Jewell, Charles ' Holmes, James Burton and Early JUghi tower. It was estimated that there were 1 several hundred whites In the various i posses, and It was said that pTobably half a dozen were wounded.