NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 November 1924, Page 7

NEWS BY CABLE AND MAIL.

NEGRO SEIZED AND SHOT TO DEATH BY MOB. CLARKSDALE, Miss., Sept. 22. Herbert Taylor, negro, trust convict of Parchman State convict farm, was lynched by a mob near Lambert, Missouri, for an alleged attack upon the small daughter of a convict guard. The negro was taken from Sheriff McCarthy, marched into the woods and shot to death. NIB SWALLOWED 31 YEARS AGO EMERGES FROM TOE. TORONTO, Sept. 8. Thirty-one years ago Mrs W. A. Cottrell swallowed a pen nib, and it was extracted a few days ago by Dr. ,G. B. Wilson from a swoollen portion of her- foot. The nib, which was embedded in the tissues, had not caused Mrs Cottrell any ill effects or pain at any time. CUPID IN THE CHOIR: MARRIAGES WORRY PASTOR. The pastor of a Ballarat (Victoria) Methodist Church has been greatly depressed over the inroads of Cupid among the choristers. He recently said it was hard to keep the choir up to its usual high standard because of the frequent vacancies caused by lady members getting married. The conductor deepened the pastor’s gloom by adding that he knew of half a dozen engagement rings now possessed by lady choristers. CHICAGO HAS NEW 7 SKYSCRAPER CHURCH. CHICAGO, Sept. 13. . Dedication of the Chicago Temple, the skyscraper Methodist Church in the heart of the downtown business section, has been set for September 28. A golden cross, topping the spire of the steeple, Chicago’s highest building, will be illuminated at night. For miles around it will he visible, an inspiring symbol against a background of black sky. Lights trained on the temple will make it stand out in an imposing contrast to the drab commercial surrounding. A £IO,OOO organ and chimes costing an equal amount will be heard over the roar of elevated trains, surface cars and other street traffic. COCHRANE LOST ON VARIOUS VENTURES. EVEN CARPENTIER-DEMPSEY FIGHT. LONDON. Sept. 23. Charles B. Cochrane, the theatrical magnate, met his creditors and gave evidence as to his losses. Proofs of debts amounting to £54,000 were .considered. He estimated that strikes caused him to spend £66,645 in decorating the new Oxford Theatre instead of £25,000 he had agreed to, and that he also lost £6393 over contracts with artist*. Over the Carpentier-Dempsey fight in the United States he lost not less than £SOOO. He made two journeys to America in an endeavour to induce Dempsey to appear in London. He was, however, unsuccessful, and he made arrangements with Tex Rickard to stage the fight m New Jersey. He was to and did deposit one-third of £25,000, but he withdrew that just before the fight, exchange in the interim having gone against him. Through-the default, of a collecting agency in New York he lost another £6OOO. His revue, “London, Paris and New York ” said Cochrane,/had brought him £3500 m a few weeksrin 1920, hut he fell ill and receipts dropped, and the last two months showed a £2065 loss.