AMERICAN MAIL NEWS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13036, 1 April 1910, Page 2

AMERICAN MAIL NEWS.

INSANE THROUGH STUDY.

An editorial in the Cornell Daily Sun,' headed “The Diabolical Idiocy of the Final Examinations,” brought to light the fact that Thomas .Eollo, a senior in the College of Law at Ithaca, was made temporarily insane because of the strain of preparing for the mid-year examination and the consequent relapse when he found that he was unsuccessful.

Eollo, whose home is in Evanston, 111., had the reputation of being a hard and conscientious worker, and he had been worrying oyer the outcome of certain of bis courses.

After ,the registration for the second term, and the. issuance of the notices-for. the first term, the men in his house, no-1 ticed that he was acting queerly, and his condition became critical one night. The, physicians in attendance ordered his immediate removal: from Ithaca, and in consequence he was taken home by a member of hisMfraternity. It will be some time kefore.he will-be allowed to resume study of any'kind. . •

SEPTUAGENARIANS’ MARRIAGE. It leaked out at Ilion recently that Walter Green, a contractor and builder, who has been a resident of Ilion for more than 50 years, and Miss Maria Westphall, of Eichfield Springs, were quietly married at Eichfield Springs. The bridegroom is 78 arid his bride is 70. The ceremony was performed at the home of the Misses Purchase, where the bride lived, and behind it is an enduring romance. Years ago, in Ms early 20’s, Mr Green was a school teacher, and one of his brightest and most attractive pupils was Miss Westphall. ROBBER IN A TAXI-CAB. The mounted highwayman of other days has given way in Chicago to the woman robber in a taxi-cab. She descended on “Tony” Lonzp one night last Janqary as he was walking under the Eock Island railroad viaduct at Fifty-first Street. Chicago, took bis money, and sped away. The woman was walking when she approached him, said Lonzo. As she drew near she cried out, and t. 1 4£dffik‘ 1 l as if fainting. Lonzo gallanttpsteppedV forward, and stooped down|»o give assistance. As he did so he fouiH himself face to face with a revolver, if he woman laughed and arose, biddin*Lonzo stand still. He did so. She add(|} that it was time that he handed over lis money. “I was a little slow, I thinll,” Lonzo told the police, “and she reached out and searched my pockets with one hand, while still holding the in the other. ‘Now heat it down the street,’ she said, when she had cleaned out all I had, taking my purse and _ watsli. It beat it, all right, not looking' hack until I had gone half a. C clock. Then I stopped and watched her. She hurried to the west end of the viaduct, entered a waiting taxi-cab, and away she went.” LUNATIC WINS PRIZE. One of the best papers on “How Can Clean and Who]esome Milk he Purchased at Least Cost for the New York Market?” in the prize contest conducted by Dr, Thomas Darlington, of New York City’s Health Board, was contributed by Eay Sponenbergh, of Middletown,’ and the second prize, a £4O purebred Jersey cow, was awarded him, It has just been learned that Sponenbergh is a patient at the Middletown State Hospital •fcff.ilm.jinsane, and has been an inmate of, the institution for several years. He entered the contest for his own amusement.

A BROKEN HEART. The Eev. Dr. John W. Sproull, one of the best known ministers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America, and for the last 30 years pastor of the Central Eeformed Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg, died last January, according to his physicians, from a broken heart. Because of ill-health he had been forced to give nn his church duties and retire to private life. For two years Dr. Sproull had not been in the best of health, but it was not until two months before his death that his congregation decided that the time for his retirement had,come. TO RAID EUCHRE PARTIES. President Laird, of the St. Louis Police Board, which recently- approved Chief Creecy s order to raid public euchre games, subsequently announced that a test case would be made. The Eev. S. U. Wainwright, presiding elder of the Methodist* Episcopal Church .South, alleged that women church members at St. Louis have, been violating the moral law -ry participating in nnblic euchre parties ter; charity. Archbishop Glehnon said ■ l, at he did not expect to address priests about the matter, although Chief Creecy’s order, may affect euchre parties for the churches benefit. The police, explain that women’s craze for playing euchre for , china and other prizes in halls hired by promoters for that purpose has spread ilarmingly throughout St. Louis.