STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 67, 18 March 1916, Page 15

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

aSXUJOK&XRE IN GAOX» Jofcn D. Sprcckler, Jan., member of a weal tli j- California family, spent January 15 and 16 Iα gaol at Bedwood City. Ecrrtng sentence for not bavlng' dimmed the lights on hie automobile "when passing through that municipality. George Seoley, justice of the peace, said that monetary fine would be absurd, and made the sentence two days In gaol. A CONSISTENT PLAYGOER. Herman Erb, president of the First National Bank ,iat Appletoo, Wls., saw "Uncle Tom's Cabin"' for the sixty-ninth time recently. •Hβ.has not missed seeing a performance In over thirty-five years, and, although he is 72 years old, declares that the play "grows ou him"- each time he sees it. . The attention cf-the Carnegie Hero Commission Is respectfully directed to; Banker Erb. ;' ' ,•'.... MISTAKE WORTH £550; 1 Mr. A. Gamer, a dry cleaner,- of Parsons, Kansas; is chuckling over one of the effects of the present European rvar on his own fortunes. Two years ago be ordered ten gallons of carbon tetrachloride .from a wholesale' drug houss.; The house sent 100 gallops by. mistake, and threatened, to sue if he did not pay.- He paid's£2.per gallon. . Then-,came the. war, which made carbon tetrachloride senrce. Up and "up went.the; price. Air. Gamer eventually resold to the wholesale house for' more than £6 per gallon, netting a clear- profit of more than £530. ■""'■.' ■ B AJfDIT IN A CHICAGO OFFICE. .A sensational,outrage has taken place at Chicago, where an armed bandit, • after dangerously woandlng Mr.,. Walsh, the cashier.at-Messrs. Cook's tourist office, and reordering a policeman, succeeded in a euro of £200. The h.indit arrived- in a motor-car, with-a blonde woman, who waited In the automobile while he entered the office. The. cashier ■was.at the moment counting up hi* money. The bandit, held' up the .whole staff, and then shot the casojer as he reached for a revolver. ■ " . ■ ' / ■ h lJ "' l 'n*T* FIGHT ABOUT WAB. . Washington. society circles have been deeply .moved'by., a scene, ••which ■ occurred at one pf'th.e imost exclusive dubs In the capital. •.""Mγ. George, voi; Meyer, formerly. Secretary of the .Navy, and Mt. Truiton.Beale, formerly-Ame.rijcan-Minister in Greece, cairie ,to .-.fisticulis. over, the question, of American Mr. •Mexer lost blood. . In point of age the combatants were, on fairly equal term*. Mr.-Beale being' sitty end -Mr..'Meyer fiftyretght... . ' '.- . ' CEOWB OF, MARRYING VEX. . iiiss 'Dorothea Jones,. eshop}mi|itress In the kanaka Park district, has resigned because so'many of men living'ln the neighbonrhood wanted - to-marrj-lier. She held on white flf teen. bachelors jirpposeu, bat when they iaade it sixteen-.she declared <Jhe ( ' won] d not stay. "X ajwiays was opposed, to sixteen to ' one," - said 'Miss Juries.. "Besides, these men do";.n'ot wint a ' wjfe; tljey ititt' a'cook*" "However, school • will be tMight" -In."-Kanaka -Peak' theieaiQe". ,Tbe twtees> ari/overwhelmca with applications. Whether -ft''is becaase of Miss' Jones' many proposals or for'th.e reason that many.teachers are out of work remains'?to be-determined.' BSXXICC6E QUAY StnCDtAY. "Colonel William A. Snnday." How does that..6ound? ' if, America Is uofoVtiioate'.enpugli' to UaVe. war the title :.wUl."Tje a.; reaUly. . Ivor..Billy Sunday' eaid the other.; day:, fit 'any of ,the.,nations'. actoes the sea jstarted winie'd to ;be af; colonel in the af my." "J'm' not! a Bemocrat, out I'm for.; President in his.'preparedness. policy,V.he, said.' "We must fight as"well as pray.. We muer.be militant as.:w«ll,as. pereuaeive.'. .-,i believe in arbitration, bot spmetimes. a strike: is the only way to eetfle- , things. ■ War gave ns.th.e-United Static,. ' War freed the slaves. _ War' broke the..handcutfs Spain put on Cuba. ■ If.it hadn't Jbeen for war Mexico might, own Tesas,, Xfw Mexico, .^evada,.,and .California, .if .any of the Buropoaii.niitions (Jon't think the American people, believe'in the Monroe; Doctrine.; let .them; start. Epmethiae, and if eometiinj atwti.'X .wad* to be it cploneL ,, ' T •''