STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8190, 3 August 1912, Page 9

STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

TATE OF ATOM AX MAYOR The death is announced, ns the result of an accident, which occurred while, sbu was cooking the family dinner, of Mrs Man- 1). 1/owmann. tho first woman to be elected Mayor of an American town. Mrs Lowmanu has twice boon Mayor of Oskaloosa, Kansas. due was a faithful and accomplished housewife and mother, and as an administrator furnished an example to the wholo country of tho beneficial effects of eUicient and honest municipal government. ■She and her subordinate officials, who arc ,all women, made Oskaloosa—and on this all tho Kansas newspapers agree—the ■cleanest town in tho United States. It was while preparing dinner for her children that her dress caught fire. Sho had received fatal injuries before help came.

DOCTOR HYDROPLANES TO PATIENT.

Dr Alden, of Arammondsport, NcW York, is the first American medical man to use an aeroplane or hydroplane to convey him to the bedside of a patient. The doctor was summoned- to attend a boy named Petrie, who had been badly injured bv a fall, at a small village on Lake ICcuka. one of tho string of ioke.l below Lake Canadigua. and there being no boat handy, ho at first declared that it was impossible for him to reach tho spot. A telegram from tho boy’s parents showed that tho case was urgent and that the patient was at death’s door. Thn doctor then remembered that ono of his neighbors had been experimenting with a hydroplane, and ho asked him to convey him across tho lake. This the owner of the hydroplane readily agreed to do. and tho doctor was transported across the sheet of water, over two miles in extent, and arrived just in time Iff operate and save the boy’s life.

SPANISH TREASURE SWINDLE AGAIN.

At tho hands of tho proprietors of H fashionable hotel in Valencia, where ho was a guest, an American has very nearly fallen a victim to tho buried treasure swindle.

The story of tho proprietors was that » certain French banker had fled from Franco after defrauding Ilia clients of ,£Kh>,(KK). Ho had, however-, quarrelled with another banker and killed him, and had been condemned to imprisonment for life. The American received ' some spurious documents relating to tho place whore the treasure was hidden, and, eventually tho swindlers stated that, in exchange for 0000 pesetas, tho supposed banker would disclose the whereabouts of a box containing £160,000. Tho swindlers were cleverly caught by tho police, who sent them a telegram icned by tho American, accepting their offer, and tho same time making- au appointment BOGUS MINES SWINDLER. W. T. Wintemute, a prominent New York brokcr ( was charged on Tuesday, Juno 4th, with swindling 700 people by selling them valueless mining stock. The accused man was arrested by tho Post Office authorities nearly two years ago on tho charge of using the United States mails in this fraudulent stockbroking business, and he has been fighting the indictment ever. since.

The majority of the victims are Drib ish, and include the Countess of Tanker, villo, who with a friend lost SO.OOOdoI, (.£10,000). Altogether Wintemute j.e alleged to have obtained nearly 1,500,000d01. (JS300,000) from confiding investors who did business with him at his different offices. The Post Office inspectors raided his office on. Battery place on receipt of complaints from these people.