street crossing, thus preventing the Journal, delivered judgment in the fire department from getting to a burn- case arising out of the shooting accident ing house where the children were which happened on September 28 last, confined. The children were sick in when Mr. Bruce Joy, an English sculp bed at the time the fire broke out, and, tor, was seriously wounded in the thigh. after considerable delay, were rescued M. Emmanuel Siron, Jr., who shot from the building. They died soon Mr. Joy, has been sentenced to a week afterward, and the plaintiff endeavored imprisonment and 16 fr. fine. Mr. to show that fire and smoke caused Bruce Joy was walking in the Melun their death. The defendant's attor- forest in September at about eight neys, in arguing the motion for a non- o'clock in the evening when he was suit, set up the claim that the expert | fired upon by M. Siron. The gun was physicians, in testifying that death loaded with buckshot, and three of was caused from the untimely arrival of the fire apparatus, indulged in guess work. It was contended that the children may have died from the disease with which they were suffering, or from the effects of fire and smoke, even had the department arrived at the scene without delay. these shattered the artist's thighbone. The wound inflicted was of so serious a nature that Mr. Joy to-day walks with great difficulty, and has to make use of crutches. M. Siron stated to the Court that when he fired he thought he was shooting at a stag. Mr. Joy carried a knapsack on his back, and this catching against the low branches of the trees, made a sound similar to the rubbing made by the antlers of a stag. The prisoner was defended by Me. Villeneuve, but his efforts to obtain an acquittal were in vain. 106. Chicago, Dec. 6. 1910. - The contents of a cup of steaming coffee hurled in the face of Charles Erickson stopped his attempt to caress a waitress in the restaurant at Townsend and Locust streets yesterday afternoon. Erickson had ordered the coffee, and 109. London, Eng., Mar. 10, 1894. the waitress, Miss Elizabeth Lindgren, - A remarkable accident occurred on was about to serve it as she usually a piece of land at Poynton, England, serves it to customers when this one's rented by the Manchester and Salford arm, stealing around her waist, caused Co-operative Society from Lord Verher to serve it a la Jack Johnson. non. Under the superintendency of Erickson's face was so severely burned | Mr. Bellies the land was being plowed that an ambulance was summoned to take him to his home, 365 Sedgwick street, Miss Lindgren declining to prosecute him. He is 25 years old, and the police say he was intoxicated. 107. Birmingham, Ala., March 23. - William Ingraham, a young farmer, was married near Evergreen last night. He and his bride were serenaded at midnight by a band of villagers with horse fiddles, horns, and tin pans. Ingraham became incensed at the joke and rushed out of his house with an ax, which he threw into the crowd of serenaders. It struck a small boy named James Dixon and cut his spinal column through. The boy died today. Ingraham has surrendered. 108. Paris, France. The Melun Correctional Court has, says the Petit by the aid of a couple of valuable horses, owned by Mr. Cottam, of Norbury Hall. In crossing the field the horses suddenly disappeared, snapping the chain traces and almost dragging down the plow. The driver was fortunately on foot and escaped with his life, probably owing to that fact. The pit was found to be sixty-four feet deep. It had been covered over for some years and its existence forgotten. 110. Atchison, Kan., July 8, 1910. – A wolf almost broke up a woman's meeting in the First Baptist church here yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Haggett, wife of the minister, was in an anteroom preparing lemonade to serve to the ladies when a wolf came into the rooms. She screamed and other women hurried to her, assistance and chased the wolf away. The church is only two blocks from the main business street, and it is believed the wolf escaped from some one who was raising it for a pet, although no one has reported a missing wolf. remedy." The comma should have been placed after the word "door." 113. Chicago. The next time C. R. Wilhelm cleans his revolver he will take all the cartridges out first and then 111. Chicago, May 23, 1907. (Record- look again to make sure there is none Herald Despatch). -- LIFE INSURANCE CHIEFS WHO FIGURE IN THE COURTS UNDER GRAVE ACCUSATIONS. left. He does n't care to come so near killing little girls in the future as he came near killing 8-year-old Laura Melican yesterday. The child lives at 64 North State street and Mr. Wilhelm [Here follow photographs, with names resides across the way. She was playunderneath.] F. A. BURNHAM. J. J. HAGERMAN. was well spent. Otherwise it would have killed the child, for it struck her in the back, just below the shoulder. ing in her home at 3 o'clock when a bullet came whizzing through the window from Wilhelm's apartments, on New York, May 22.-John R. Hege- the other side of the street. It had man, who to-day pleaded not guilty to penetrated two panes of glass and travindictments charging forgery and per-ersed such a distance that its force jury, and Frederick A. Burnham, whose trial on charges of grand larceny and forgery has been postponed, are prominent insurance men, Hegeman being president of the Metropolitan Life, and 114. Independence, Mo. J. P. Burnham to-day resigned as head of Letherman, a telegraph operator of the Mutual Reserve Life Company, Independence, was fatally shot SaturHegeman is a native of this city, and day night by Fred Gibbs during an is 63 years old. . . . amateur dramatic performance at the May 24, 1907. [Record-Herald Local opera house in Lee's Summit. Both Item.]-Through a mistake the pic-men were in the cast of the play. The ture of James J. Hagerman appeared shooting was accidental. Gibbs, who yesterday morning in The Record- took the part of a detective, was reHerald, when the intention was to quired at one stage of the drama to publish the picture of "John R. Hege- shoot at Letherman, who was acting man," a New York insurance president, the villain of the play. A property who has been indicted on serious pistol loaded with blank cartridges charges. Of course Mr. Hagerman has was provided for this act. At the right no connection whatever with the in-moment Gibbs rushed behind the scenes surance official thus involved, or with for his pistol. It was gone from its the company of which Hegeman is the place, but Stage Manager Mott of head. Mr. Hagerman is a distinguished Independence was standing there and citizen of Colorado. . . . Mr. Hager-handed him a loaded revolver, telling man also has engaged in extensive him it was all right. Gibbs leveled mining operations, and in general has this pistol at Letherman and shot him proved himself to be a master of financial and engineering ability. 112. Mansard, Mar. 1, 1902. — It is said that a patent medicine firm has sued a newspaper owner for omitting a comma. In a testimonial sent to the proprietor of the medicine, the comma was left out when printed in the paper, greatly altering the sense. The sentence ran: "I am now quite cured, after having been at death's door through taking five bottles of your in the forehead. Letherman died yesterday morning at 5.40 o'clock. 115. Evanston, Ill. - Charles Cameron's spite against Conductor M. C. Schmidt of the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric line cost him $10 and costs last Saturday when he threw a stone at Schmidt and struck Motorman Charles Brace. The performance took place at Central street, just as the car Schmidt and Brace were operating pulled out of the Llewellyn Park station for Church the same city and got his dinner. He street. Henry Patch, an employe of the street car company, who was on board, jumped off the car and seizing Cameron put him on the car and took him to the police station. Cameron explained to Police Magistrate Boyer that he was not trying to injure the electric road, but that he had a grudge against Conductor Schmidt. 116. Emporia, Kan., Gazette. —I shot an arrow into the air, It fell in the distance, I knew not where, Till a neighbor said that it killed his calf, And I had to pay him six and a half ($6.50). | I bought some poison to slay some rats, And a neighbor swore that it killed his cats; And, rather than argue across the fence, I paid him four dollars and fifty cents ($4.50). One night I set sailing a toy balloon, And hoped it would soar till it reached the moon; But the candle fell out on a farmer's straw, And he said I must settle or go to law. And that is the way with the random shot; It never hits in the proper spot; And the joke that you spring, that you think so smart, May leave a wound in some fellow's heart. 117. Springfield, Ill., No. 17, 1894. A novel claim against the state has been filed by Jan Stepnycka, of 4229 Hoyne avenue, Chicago, who asks for $5,000 as damages for injuries sustained from a bullet wound in his left hand, received July 11, during the railroad strike. The claimant states that he was on the street, going from his residence to a neighboring saloon on business[!] with a tin bucket in his hand, and that a bullet, which he believes was fired by a member of Company F, Second regiment, Illinois National Guard, went through his hand. He returned to his residence with the bucket and has ever since been under the care of a physician, unable to resume his daily avocation. He alleges that he was not a striker, but was employed by a manufacturing firm. 118. Chicago, June 23, 1897. Patrick Donahue of Pittsburg went into the restaurant of John Kelly of finished the meal and came to the cashier's stand to pay his bill. The cashier was absent and Donahue waited to settle. There seemed to be some commotion in an alcove near the cashier's corner, but Donahue did not know what was the nature of it. He presently found out, for a waiter jumped out of the alcove with a burning lamp in his hand and hurled it toward the street door. Donahue was struck with the fiery missile and was injured. He sued Kelly for damages and added a count for negligence. But the court held that the proximate cause of the injury to the customer was the result of the throwing of the lamp and not any negligence of the waiters in endeavoring to extinguish the flames in the recess; that the throwing of the lamp, under the circumstances, by the waiter, was an act of self-preservation. The doctrine was enunciated that one who, in a sudden emergency, or who, because of want of time in which to form a judgment, omits to act in the most judicious manner, is not chargeable with negligence. Though a mistake, such faulty act or omission is not carelessness. An innocent third person who is injured by an act done in self-defense, or self-preservation, has no higher right to recover damages than for accidental harm proceeding from a lawful act. 119. New York, Dec. 2. - The general term of the court of common pleas to-day sustained the verdict of $2,500 obtained by Mrs. Kate Lawler against Theatrical Manager T. Henry French. The plaintiff's husband was employed by French at the American Theatre as a stage hand, and on June 24, 1894, he was kicked by a horse used in the play "The Prodigal Daughter," from the effects of which he died. Court finds "that in an action for injury by a vicious animal the keeper of the animal is the responsible party. When such animal is used in the business of a corporation, the president or manager who hires such animal is responsible. To fix the liability for keeping a vicious animal actual notice of its mischievous propensity is not The necessary, but it suffices if in the exercise of due care the keeper would have known of that propensity." 120. Chicago. Takes man for Goose, Shoots. Mistaking the partly hidden body of Charles Neal of North Chicago behind a fence near Five Points for a goose or some large bird, William Leudke shot two barrels of goose shot into Neal's body yesterday, and the young man now lies at his home in a serious condition, but it is believed he will recover. Leudke has been released from the Lake County jail, where he was placed shortly after the accident. 122. Atlanta, Ga., May 18. A performing lion escaped from its cage at a local theatre about 10.30 o'clock to-night, made its way through the stage entrance to Marietta street, in the center of the city, and caused wild excitement on that street for a distance of two blocks before it was finally driven into a basement and captured by its keeper. After escaping from its cage the lion appeared on the stage and then made its way out through the stage entrance. Reaching the street, the animal set out at a lively pace, roaring as it went. The street was crowded, and people fled in panic, one man shooting at the beast and slightly wounding it. The lion was finally driven into a basement at the corner of Peachtree and Marietta streets, where its keeper captured it. The audience at the theatre knew nothing of the 121. Chicago, 1894. The address delivered by Father Thomas Sherman, son of Gen. W. T. Sherman, at Central Music Hall Monday night in defense of the order founded by Loyola, as escape. published in The Herald yesterday, concluded with the following passage: 123. Danville, Ky., Nov. 8. — Dr. "For my own part I have no apology W. A. Wall, a well-known physician, to offer for the acts of Catholics in vigor-late of Morristown, Tenn., while ous protest against these wholesale walking down one of the streets of venders of infamy. The father who slays the corrupter of his child must be left to the Almighty; the man who shoots an anarchist at sight is a public benefactor. These ex-priests are anarchists of the worst sort." Father Sherman, on being shown the report, said: "Why, sir, I did n't say those words in my lecture last night, and, in fact, never uttered them from a public platform. There is a mistake here." "But the lecture, as it appears in the paper, is just as it was in your typewritten manuscript, word for word." "Yes, I know that, but I see that this last is a portion of an address that I had prepared to deliver against certain organizations opposed to Catholicism. It must have accidentally got mixed with the manuscript of my last night's address. That is just what happened, because I believe the two addresses were placed close together on my desk during their preparation. I wish you would please explain this to the public as I have explained it to you. I never intended to make a statement anything like that last night. Now, please make the explanation." Crab Orchard Springs, was run into by James Jones, a citizen of that place. A pistol fell from Jones' pocket and was discharged by contact with the sidewalk. The ball entered the lower part of Dr. Wall's body, penetrating the heart and causing instant death. idea of its being a famous painting or anything not legally in the hands of the person from whom he bought it. were Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Lemmons, fine piece of work in oil, but having no a young couple just married. The train was passing through a tunnel, and Mr. Lemmons, who had left his wife's seat, just behind Mrs. Robbins, returned to it (as he thought) in the darkness, and proceeded to kiss his newly wedded bride. About this time the train emerged from the tunnel and disclosed that his supposed bride was Mrs. Robbins, who is a young widow. She has sued for $10,000 damages for the mistake, and will not admit the act was not intentional. 126. Romeo, Mich., Jan. 2, 1910. Mr. E. Lavene was thrown from a buggy, 31⁄2 miles northeast of the village, on Monday afternoon and was severely shaken up. Mr. Lavene was riding with a young man by the name of Homer Ebeling, a pupil in the public school, and Miss Hattie Zimmerman, who also attends school here. horse became frightened at the bright red delivery wagon of Sparks Bros., furniture dealers, which was being driven by Mr. J. B. Sparks, and approaching from an opposite direction. The 127. Boston, Mass., Dec. 21, 1910.To purchase a painting for $40 and then find that it may be worth $50,000 to $75,000 is novelty. K. Koopman of Koopman & Co., art and antique dealers, has experienced the novelty. He bought a painting while travelling in Europe last summer and sent it to Boston, along with some other effects, on the steamship Bohemian which arrived last week. The other effects were received in due order, but the painting was withheld by the customs authorities, on the possibility that it might be a famous Van Dyke painting that was stolen from a gallery in Berlin two years ago and for which the German Government has requested of other governments to keep on the watch. The painting which Mr. Koopman bought corresponds to the description of the stolen painting, and so it will be held until the German Government is notified. Perhaps it will be held until a German expert comes to examine it. Mr. Koopman bought the picture in good faith, seeing in it an exceptionally 128. Philadelphia, Dec. 21, 1910. — "A prize fighter takes the same chance of death as a football player when he enters a contest," said Coroner Ford yesterday when he discharged John Kalme, a young pugilist, from custody and exonerated him from all blame in the death of John Emhof, whose skull was fractured in a bout at the Nonpareil Athletic Club last Friday night. "We don't hold a football team responsible for a death and I see no reason to hold a prize fighter," added the coroner. The bout, which ended fatally, was between Emhof, who is better known as "Kid Gardner," and Kalme, known in the prize ring as "Johnny Kain." In the fifth round, when both boys were apparently on even terms, Kalme struck Emhof a straight arm blow on the jaw. Emhof fell like a log, and his head struck the floor. He was carried from the ring and after attempts to revive him were made he was hurried to a hospital where he died the next day. 129. Chicago, Ill., Jan. 6, 1911.The girl who “just could n't make her eyes behave" has nothing on Ethelbert D. Hunter, 1129 Lill Avenue. Ethelbert is troubled with incorrigible fingers, and yesterday was sued by George E. Hartman of Moline, Ill., for $10,000. Both are deaf and dumb. Two years ago they were working in silent amity at adjoining "cases" in a Lexington (Ky.) printing office. Hunter is said to have accused Hartman of obtaining a fraternal sick benefit by fraud. Hartman says also that Hunter went to a meeting of the Pasa-Pas Club at 77 Clark Street and made a number of passes in the air with his fingers, which, however inconsequential they may have seemed to the ordinary citizen, completely wrecked his character. Hartman learned of these passes through friends. He immediately came to Chicago and started suit against Hunter for what he calls "manual slander." |