THE UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 14 December 1907, Page 4

THE UNITED STATES.

INTERESTING NEWS SUMMARY. NEW YORK, October 12. As a result of keen competition a New York tailor lias decided to keep lus establishment open day and night. Hcmvill employ three shifts of men.' Tho American battleship Virginia has just accomplished tho remarkable ieat of coaling at sea at an average rate of 233 tons per hour. This is the best performance yet achieved in the American Navy. Census returns for New York show that there are in tlio city 10,776 drinking saloons. There were 52,300 arrests for drunkenness during last year. A destructive tornado passed over Alabama on Tuesday, fifteen persons being killed and many injured. Great damage was dono to property and stock. Six men were on Tuesday entombed in a caisson of the Hudson Tunnel Co. at Fulton and Church streets, Now York. If not already dead, it is feared they cannot survive unless relief reaches them. A telegram from Augusta, Maine, states that 72,000 householders met together on Thursday and pledged themselves to abstain from eating fresh meat for ten days, in order to break the prices, which they considered were not warranted by the conditions of the market.

Juliet Horn, a young Creek girl, will shortly bring an action for breach of promise of marriage- against M. Annibal Zcl-yn, son 0 f tlu , p rosi( ] nnt of Nicaragua, at present a medical student at Columbia University. The plaintiff claims £20,000 damages. An official report rereived from the Oovernor of the Panama Canal Zone states that during September over 1,500,000 cubic yards of material were excavated, constituting a record. Tho groat steam shovels, it is added, are doing splendidly, and the work is everywhere proceeding satisfactorily. A telegram from Chicago states that the wifeof a millionaire citizen of Milwaukee has confessed to being concerned in six robberies. She further stated to the police that she had as an accomplice a. negro who is an ex-convict. The police have succeeded in recovering diamonds valued at 5000 dollars, the proceeds of a recent jewel robbery, and are now searching for tho negro.

FLOOR COLLAPSE. "While a political meeting, at which 000 men were present, was being held in a small hall at Watorbury (Conn.), the floor collapsed and 150 persons were precipitated into a brook beneath. The debris of tho building ignited. One man was fatally injured and many others were seriously hurt.

THE JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. The Administration may soon take control of tho Jamestown Exposition, with a view to recovering the £200,000 [cut by Congress. Secretary Cortelyou lias power to seize the gate receipts whenever he thinks it advisable. Only about £20,000 lias yet been paid on the loan, and as the Exposition ,s announced to close on November 30, Mr Cortelyou is naturally dissatisfied with the situation.

WIRELESS TELEPHONY. Mr Do Forest, tho inventor of a system of wireless telegraphy, lias been conducting tests in wireless telephony on hoard tlie battleships Virginia and Connecticut. It is announced that the tests proved so satisfactory <l,-t the Government will cause all battleships to bo equipped with the system before they begin their cruise to tho Pacific on December 15. It is stated also that a new system of fire control will bo installed oh all the. battleships.

STEEPLEJACK'S GIDDY CLIMB. A thrilling sceno was witnessed by many thousands of persons when Ernest Capellc, a steeplejack, seated m a boatswain's chair with bowlines, climbed the steel flagpole on tho top ot the Singer Building, America's loftiest skyscraper. Tho flagpole rises 708 ieet above tho street. Capello coolly adjusted tho gilded ball on tho top of the flagpole, which swayed gently when he painted it. Capelle was paid 200 dollars for his task, which occupied two hours. He declarl "-a that he thoroughly enjoyed his ex-iK-rience. ADVERTISING AS A GAME. Mr Thomas W. Lawson, the prominent copper capitalist, whose newspaper advertisements have been a picturesque and frequently a disturbing feature in the American financial world during recent years, informed tho niombers of tho Sphinx Club hero last night that 1m had spent £1,600,000 in advertising during Ins curious campaign. "The game of my life," Mr Lawson declared, is advertising. I p l ay it f or fun and to get rid of constantly increasing, gams that come in from other sources." BOLD BANK ROBBERY. An audacious robbery is reported from Sedden, Alabama. Four men completely marked, entered the locXl

we™ ™m%~zwwmmmi!gmF were observed land a nujnbor of workpeople. The robbers were well armed, and, after keeping the orowd at bay with their revolvers and shooting the sheriff dead, succeeded in getting into a dog eart and escaping. The value of tho securities and bullion stolen is estimated at 500,000 dollars.

MR HEARST'S LATEST PROPAGANDA. It is announced by the papers controlled by iUr Hearst that the GermanAmerican entente which he is striving to establish will be organised on a much broader scale than the Pilgrims' Societies of London and New York. The entire expenses of the delegates to Germany next spring will bo paid by Mr George Hearst. He will also meet tho bills for tho banquets and other public functions which tho visiting commission will give in Berlin. It is proposed to build a largo museum at Harvard, and also to organise a German art exhibition here. Messages advocating the proposed alliance have been addressed to tho Kaiser and President Roosevelt.

I MR ROOSEVELT AS A COTTONPICKER. When he finishes his bear-hunting Mr Roosevelt will spend a laborious day working on tho plantation of Major Lee Richardson, near Vicksburg, Mississippi. At Washington, on tho eve of Mr Roosevelt's departure for tlie south, he dared the President to don the blue overalls, broad-brimmed hat, and homespun suspenders, and to become the first President to act a* a cotton-picker. Mr Roosevelt immodil ately accepted the challenge, 'an™ agreed to spend ten hours in the fields picking cotton. He will pit himself against some champion pickers in the delta.

A NOVEL FROM THE PT'UTI'. 'flip latest novelty designed to stimulate church attendances Ims been introduced by the Rev. J. Jamieson, Rector of Stephen's Episcopal Church Tottom-illc, Staton Island. Mr Jamieson has written a thrilling novel, which ho proposes to read in instalments each Sunday evening, instead of delivering a sermon. The first instalment caused considerable sensation, as it was filled with slaiiß. The preliminary announcement by the rev. gentleman of his method to prevent the emigre-Ration from dwindling resulted in the church being crowded. Mr Jamicson's novel is really an attack upon drinking and gambling.