News from All Quarters.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 10 November 1917, Page 4

News from All Quarters.

Detachments of troops have been sent into the forests of Oregon with orders to shoot 011 sight any persons caught setting fires. For attempting to buy an automatic pistol without a permit, Arnold Walker, an engineer, of Whitley, Yorkshire, was at West Hani lined £100 with the option of two months' imprisonment. Two youths in Oklahoma, after seeing a film version of "Beating Back," the story of the adventures of A 1 Jennings, ex-outlaw and present uplift preacher, went out and robbed a store, incidentally killing the arresting officer. Fearing premature burial, thy late Mr E. Halkyard, of Alderlcy Edge, Cheshire, left thirty guineas as fees for three surgeons to make every known test to discover if he was really dead, and in case of doubt his body was to be cremated. £25 FOE TWO TEETH. A not fully qualified dental practitioner in Berlin has been fined for extracting two teeth on a mistaken diagnosis. 111 addition to the line he had to pay the patient £25 damages. ANOTHER SCRAP OF PAPER. As reported in the New York Press, a man who was sued by his wife recently for non-support replied, when she introduced her marriage certificate as evidence: "That, after all, is a mere scrap of paper." AN INDIAN CHORUS GIRL. Miss Lilian Hehner, a Sioux Indian, is a chorus girl with a Chicago show. Miss 1-lelmer was bom in the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in Montana, I and the translation of her Indian name I is "Kind Heart." She was formerly 1 KILLING BRITISH INDUSTRY. The German Press is lamenting the death of the famous chemist Baeyer. He was the man who found out how to make the manufacture of synthetic indigo a paying industry. This chemically produced indigo was turned out by his process cheaper than the vegetable indigo that came from India. '' In this way,'' says '' Yoss' Gazette,'' "He had the satisfaction of killing GIANT FLAGSTAFF FOR PEACE. The flagstaff lying in Kcw Gardens is not to be erected until after the war, says the '' Daily Mail.'' It came from Vancouver early last year as a present from the British Columbia Government. It is believed to be the largest flagstaff in the world, 215 feet long, IS tons weight, but San Francisco Exi hibition claimed one 251 feet long. The old flagstaff at Kcw, 159 feet, decayed and was taken down in 1913, after standing 50 years.