Stores From American Papers

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1915, Page 3

Stores From American Papers

Paul G. Grayer, of llialto, whose- bvuvery fourteen yeans ago in stopping a runaway at Kiaua, Wash, saved ono lives oi' It. T. 13rown, ol Denver, and his family, lias just learned that lie has been left a bequest of £'2WO in the will of the man lie rescued. PRAYS HIS WAY TO LII3EIUV. James Witwer, aged Uo, arrested on a charge of loitering, prayed himself out of the Police' Court, at Akron, Ohio. Witness listened to the story of the officer who had arrested him. Then he dropped on his knees in silent prayer. When he rose Judge Vaughau dismissed the case. PREACHER .CHARGED WITH murder. The ltev. E. H. McCart, is in gaol at Covington, Georgia, charged vvith killing Monroe .Smith, near Oovingtou, more than forty-live years ago. Smith, it is alleged, struck McOart's mother, and was killed a tew days later. McCart then went West - , where he became a minister. xie returned on a visit to relatives and his - arrest followed THE MODERN GAVE MAN Peter Gunn, of Chicago, will not j play cave man with fourteen-year-okl Clara Parsons again. At least, lor lour years. Judge JJolan sent 'he seventeen-year-old boy to the House of Correction to remain until he is twenty-one. The .trial of Peter in the Hoys' Court att&cted a large crowd. The hoy were found living like on the bank of the Des Plaines river, west of Cliicago. .For two weeks they had lived carefree lives, eleepihg beneath an old blanket, eating berries and running 111 and out among the thick underbrush that" skirts the river. The girl was sent home. FRUITS OF PROHIBITION. Enforcement of the prohibitory laws which became operative a year ago have cut the number or arrests in thir-ty-live i s towns and cities ithroughout West Virginia more than one-half, according to statistics of the Department of Prohibition. .In the fiscal year of 1914 arrests in these communities numbered 14,000, approximately one-hilf for intoxication. In the fiscal year lUlo, the first in which th"c saloons • were prohibited, arrests numbered (J986, of which 2,300 were traceable to the liquor traffic.