Niece Elopes

FROM the Subscriber on Saturday morning, last, a white girl named WINIFRED CHAPMAN, my niece, about 15 years of age. All persons are forbid harboring her, and Captains of vessels…

Brewer Boiled in Beer

Troy, N. Y., May 10. — Samuel Bolton, jr., a millionaire brewer, and one of the most prominent and Influential business men of this city was found dead in a…

Appeals to Kruger

THE WAR—APPEALS TO KRUGER—RESISTANCE HOPELESS—MRS BOTHA VISITS HIM LONDON, Wednesday Night. Mrs Botha, the wife of General Louis Botha, is about to pay a visit to Europe. Her object in…

Drinking at Funerals

This was a general practice in the olden time. The practice is mentioned so far back as 1635, in an account of the funeral of the Rev. Thomas Cobbet of…

Local Boys Return from Service

postcard showing ruined buildings, titled "The School and Belleau Woods"

Arthur Kief and John Shea, recently returned from overseas service, have received their honorable discharge, and arrived home yesterday. Kief wears a wound stripe. At Chateau Thierry, on July 18, in the battle of the Marne, he was blown up by a high explosive shell, and laid for thirty-six hours unconscious in the shell hole where he fell, supposed to be dead. It was a week later that he regained consciousness in a hospital. He spent seven months in different hospitals, and when be returned to his company in January last, the fighting was over.

Wire Trolley — The Progress on the Haiku Sugar Plantation

HAMAKUAPOKO, Maui, May 4. — Haiku Sugar Co. are putting in a wire trolley to transport their cane from the upper fields to the mill, and expect to have the same in working order within a month. This has been found necessary owing to the scarcity of water, coming just when most needed, and will leave them a greater supply for irrigation on the maufka fields.

How Chaplin Learns

A small, quiet man paid his admission fee and entered the Alhambra theater of Los Angeles where “A Woman of Paris" was 2 being shown to a crowded house. After…