FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 170, 4 January 1915, Page 7

FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

A HOSPITAL BLUNDER. Although John Fisher, of 125, Fourth Street, San Francisco, who was taken to the Central Emergency Hospital on the night of November 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 tile hospital and why it was not at once discovered that he had a fractured skull. BACKWARD IN CULTURE. Annite T. Eteinne secured a final decree of divorce hi Judge Sturtevant's court from Victor Etienne, jun., secretary of the (yclops 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, 1!K)0. "SIMPLE LIFE" CURE. Miss Martha Palmer is hack in West Falmouth civilisation to-day after forty- I one days of aboriginal life. She is suntanned and healthy, although she lost 411hB. The headaches from which she suffered for years, and which in a measure which led her to make the unique test, have been cured. "1 had nothing but berries, leaves and acorns to eat," said Miss Palmer to-day, *■' and I never 9lept under a roof. I have not seen a human being since I left, forty-one days ago." For weeks relatives in Sharon andDedham have been searching for her. A BURGLAR KILLED. After firing a shot that killed a burglar in his home, 1835 Thirty-ninth Avenue, Oakland, on November 20, W. ' 11. Howland. conductor of the Key Route, discovered that his victim was William Bacon, a former neighbor, who had lived in a cottage in the rear of the Holand 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, lie I ran to the back yard, and saw a man scrambling out of the kitchen window. Howland fired one shot' 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 Electric Company. Bacon was out of work. BEANS AND DIVORCE. "Spilling the beans" is ground for divorce, under the ruling of Superior Judge Cabaniss, in the case of Amalic Smith, who was granted an interlocutory decree in San Francisco. Mrs. Smith, a pretty little woman'of the blonde type, who confessed to nineteen years of life and a year of matrimony, took the witness stand and said she was the plaintiff in the action. Judge Cabaniss said to the little woman: "What did your husband's acts of cruelty consist of?" "Well," she said, "he called me bad , names, and whertj he didn't like my i cooking, he threw the food at me." "Well, what did he throw at you?" inquired the court. "On one occasion a pot of beans." "Divorce granted," said the court. WORST COLD IN FORTY YBABS. The cold wave, with some snow, which has spread over the South Atlantic States from Virginia to Florida, on : Nov, 20, forced the temperature to the lowest recorded in November for forty years. The cold also extends northwest from Florida through the Ohio Valley and over the plains States. A storm originating off. the Carolina coast has extended to New England and caused heavy snow in the interior of New England and Northern New York. In the first storm of the season, shipping at Boston suffered considerably, and much damage was caused by high tides. •New Hampshire and Maine were swept by a miniature, blizzard. Near Provincetown, Mass., four fishing schooners were driven ashore. Off »Cape Porpoise, Maine, Captain George L. Hardy and the crew of four of the schooner Fannie and Fay reached land after fierce battles with the elements. JAPANESE IN HONOLULU. For a second time, a proposed flight by a Japanese aviator over Honolulu ha* been cancelled on orders from the United States authorities, upon the eve of the day advertised for the exhibit. The aviator was preparing to make his flight on November 21, as permission for him to do so had been cabled from Washington, but Governor Pinkham interjected an executive ban, intimating that lie did so on orders from Washington. Samura, the aviator, was prevented from making his flight when it was first advertised because the German cruiser Geier at that time was repairing within the harbor, and two Japanese warships were hovering outside the port. It was said the precaution was taken to prevent any possible violation of American neutrality. The Geier has since been interned until the end of the war, and the Japanese warships have since disappeared from Hawaiian waters. Sumara is graduate of an aviation school at Los Angeles, CaL, and is a member of the Aero Club of America.