AMERICAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 103, 4 January 1915, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS.

A HOSPITAL BLUNDER. Although John Fisher, of .125 Fourth Street, Sail Francisco, who was taken to the Central Emergency Hospital on the night of Mo vein Iter 17. was treated at that time for alcoholism and exposure. he died following an operation for a fractured skull. The police are now trying to find out who took him to the hospital and why it was not at once discoi cred lhal lie had a fractured sk nil. BACKWAKD IN’ CULTURE. Anno T. Til icnne secured a final decree of divorce, in Judge Sturtevanr s court from Victor Etienne, jun., secretary of the Cyclops Iron Works. The divorce complaint of Mrs. Etienne alleges that her husband’ found fault with her because she had not progressed with him in culture following the marriage in June. 1900. ‘•SIMPLE LIFE” CURE. Miss Martha Palmer is back in West Falmouth civilisation after forty-one days of aboriginal life. .she is suntanned and healthy, although she lost forty-one pounds. The headaches from which she suffered for years, and which in a measure led her to make the unique test, have been cured. “1 had nothing but berries, loaves and acorns to cat.’ said Miss Pam or, “and I never i slept under a roof. I have not seen a human being since 1 left, forty-one days ago.” For weeks relatives in Sharon and Dedham had been searching for her. A BURGLAR KILLED. After firing a shot that killed a burglar in his homo, 18.35 Thirty-ninth Avenue, Oakland, on November 20. \\ H. Howland, conductor for the Key Route, discovered that his victim wasWilliam Bacon, a former neighbour, wiio had lived in a cotage in the rear of the Howland residence. Returning from dinner down town with his wife and daughter at about 8 o’clock, Howland was surprised to find a light in his house. He ran to the back yard and saw a man scrambling out of the kitchen window. Howland fired one shot j and the man fell dead. Upon investigation, Howland was astounded to find that the burglar was Bacon, formerly a ’ lineman for the Pacific Gas and Elec- i trie Company. Bacon was out of work.