APPENDIX B PROBLEMS FROM CURRENT NEWS ITEMS1 1. Trimble, Tenn., Sept. 20.- Yes- | to have the disease, which in its earlier terday Jim Harber and others were stages is very difficult of diagnosis. A sitting in front of Simpson's grocery. Bob Jellow drew a sun glass from his pocket and focused its lens on Harber's uncovered head. The glass did more than was expected. The concentrated rays did not reach Harber's scalp, but suddenly his head was a mass of flames, caused by the ignition of the bay rum on the hair, he having just come from the barber shop. To-day he brought suit against Jellow for $15,000. 2. New York, Dec. 28. - Annie O'Brien, aged 17, to-day swore out a warrant for the arrest of Rev. Matthias Yodyszus, pastor of St. George's Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church. She charges that the priest set his big St. Bernard dog Bismarck on her to try to intimidate her into returning to his church. 3. Chicago.- Dr. Emil Wahl, a south side physician, appeared in the office of the municipal court to-day for the purpose of swearing out a warrant against Dr. Jones, of the city health department. Assistant City Attorney Van Wyck refused to apply for a warrant, on the ground that Dr. Jones is stationed at the isolation hospital and his arrest and appearance in court might endanger the public health. Dr. Wahl says that Dr. Jones sent a patient to his office suffering from smallpox, either for a practical joke or with malicious intent. He says he will have Jones arrested as soon as he is out of the hospital and demand his removal. case of this kind has recently come before the courts of Indiana, where a man was placed in a smallpox hospital as a patient, but he did not have the disease, nor did he contract it. He, however, did contract a skin disease which gave him annoyance, and he brought suit against the city of Muncie for $10,000 damages. He was nonsuited, however, the Court holding that the public authorities had exercised due care in dealing with the case. 5. Millville.-Louis G. Falsetto must have a new overcoat. He had a nice one yesterday morning - one of the kind that has long skirts. But he and his overcoat is ruined. Mr. Falexperienced an unfortunate accident setto was standing on Michigan Avenue in front of the Victoria Hotel in the company of a party of men just before the heavy rainstorm began. He wore the pretty overcoat. It was unbut toned and the skirts flapped in the wind. He stood on the edge of the sidewalk near a carriage. He was busy telling his companions a story when the carriage started away. Just as the vehicle moved an unfriendly breeze took the long tails of his coat between the spokes and they caught on a bolt of the axle. The revolving wheel wound the cloth about it and the wearer was thrown to the ground. His cries and those of the other men caused the driver to stop his team quickly and Mr. Falsetto was extri4. Muncie, Ind.-There has been cated. He was not injured save a few some question as to what the legal scratches on his face. But he must consequences might be should the have a new overcoat. public authorities remove a person who was supposed to be suffering from 6. Paris, France.- Dr. Aubry, the smallpox to a smallpox hospital, and author of a work entitled La Contagion who might subsequently be found not du Crime, has been ordered by the [Each paragraph suggests one or more questions of legal principle involved in the foregoing cases. In all but one or two instances, the paragraphs have been reprinted verbatim from a newspaper, except where fictitious names of persons have been substituted.] Seine Civil Tribunal to suppress cer- | bition in his ante-room, with an explantain passages referring to the living atory note giving the name, age, and member of a family mentioned in this address of its former possessor. When book. The Court also awarded costs the lady's husband heard of this, to the plaintiff, a woman known under considering such an exhibition imthe name of "La Belle Flore," but proper, he went to the surgeon to get rejected her claim for damages. In back the leg. The surgeon refused to November and December of 1892 Dr. give it up, but offered to remove the Aubry, a medical man at Brest, pub-notice. This was not satisfactory, and lished an article, "Une famille de the matter has become a cause célèbre criminels; notes pour servir à l'his- in the courts of Brussels. toire de l'hérédité," in the Journal Médico-Psychologique, edited by M. Masson. Mention was made of the two Kérangal cases, which, in 1882, came before the Assize Court of the Côtes-du-Nord, the facts of which were enumerated as follows: Dr. Aubry pointed out that among the mistresses of Aimé de Kérangal was the wife of a wigmaker of Saint-Brieuc, Floriane L—, and recalled that she was acquitted, owing to insufficient evidence, in 1824, upon the charge of having poisoned her husband. He spoke also of one of the children of this woman, Flore-Perrine V—, who had been known in Paris under the name of "La Belle Flore," and who had later opened a house of ill-fame, and who at present lived in a rétraite dorée. From this Dr. Aubry concluded that crime, like disease, had contagion for its principal cause, very often taking effect upon predisposed members of society. Dr. Aubry, in fact, showed how there could be a distinct hereditary tendency towards crime. In 1894 Dr. Aubry published a book, called La Contagion du Crime, at the publishing house of Alcan, in which he expounded his theories. Unfortunately "La Belle Flore's" attention was called to the statements published, and she at once commenced an action for the suppression of the defamatory passages and claimed 10,000fr. damages. 7. Brussels, Belgium.- One day last March a Belgian lady fell from her carriage in Brussels and received injuries which necessitated the amputation of her leg. The surgeon who performed the operation, considering the amputated member his property, placed it in a case and put it on exhi 8. Kokomo, Ind., Dec. 28. - Charleton Astor, serving a three-year term in Michigan City prison for embezzlement of $43,000 while deputy treasurer of Tipton County, has telegraphed his attorneys, Blacklidge & Shirley, of this city, instructing them to immediately institute injunction proceedings against the Quaker church of this place, restraining it from using his name in connection with a stereopticon lecture advertised to be given in that church next Sunday evening, the title of the lecture being the "Downfall of Astor." Young Astor, while serving as deputy treasurer of the county, lost over $40,000 on the race track with a string of "skates" of his own. He was readily convicted, as was also his father, the treasurer, the latter having served his time in prison, and now a resident of Tennessee. He has about ten months yet to serve. He is greatly offended at the Quakers for proposing him as a subject for an illustrated lecture on racing and gambling. 9. Cleveland, March 12. The topic of conversation this week in Cleveland has been the run on the Society of Savings, which began Wednesday, March 9, and ended Friday noon. The Society of Savings is a mutual bank and is the second largest of its kind in the country. The bank has 89,000 depositors, many of this number being from the surrounding states. Its deposits are almost $50,000,000, about $1,200,000 of which was drawn out during the run. At the close of business at noon to-day only 400 of the 89,000 accounts had been closed. Of the $1,200,000 withdrawn $112,000 was redeposited to-day. The bank has on hand between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000 in cash and over $30,000,000 in bonds of the highest hip was dislocated. Death was only a class. matter of a few minutes. The run was started by telephone messages warning persons who had money in the bank that they had better get it out. The word was scattered among the foreign population, many of whom could not speak English. Efforts are being made to run down the guilty parties. 10. St. Charles, Mich., August 23. -During a baseball game here between Lansing and St. Charles, Blanche, the 8-year-old daughter of Frank Pichotte, started to cross behind the catcher and was struck on the temple by a pitched ball. She is not expected to live. 11. Owosso, Mich., August 23. A frothing bulldog ran through the streets of Oakley to-day, frightening women and children and causing much excitement in that village. The dog tore the skirt off one woman, but was finally killed by Adolph Hill with a ball club. 12. Boston. — In an effort to save the life of a man who was pinned under one of the trucks a crowd tipped over a twelve-ton electric car on Main street, Everett, last evening. The man, who was Frederick Gorman, was taken out alive and hurried to the Whidden hospital, but he died shortly after arriving there. The accident occurred about six o'clock, when the traffic was heaviest. Gorman was being given a ride to his home in Melrose in an express wagon, the driver of which was a friend. Witnesses say that the two men were "fooling," and that Gorman did not notice the car when he jumped off the slowly-moving express wagon. He slipped and fell in front of the car. Motorman L. H. Rice did all he could to stop, but did not succeed until after Gorman's body was wedged under the forward truck. A crowd gathered quickly and some one suggested that the car might be tipped over, and then the idea spread with such rapidity that a few seconds later one hundred men were lifting with all their might. When Gorman was pulled out he was badly wounded in the abdomen and his right 13. Boston. To avoid striking Mary Doyle, the little daughter of Senator James H. Doyle, William D. Schumann, a driver of the Winthrop fire department, drove a pair of horses which he was exercising into a wagon yesterday. He was thrown to the ground and received three broken ribs, besides possible internal injuries. Both the wagon into which the horses ran, and the vehicle to which the animals were attached, were badly smashed. Schumann had driven the team from the Shirley-street fire station at Winthrop Beach along Shirley street to the Highlands, and was returning when the animals got beyond his control. The girl, who is eight years of age, started to cross the road, so near at hand that nothing could be done but run her down or crash into the approaching team. Schumann was taken to the Metcalf Hospital where his condition is serious. - 14. Chicago. - Frank Draban is being held by the Kensington police awaiting a coroner's investigation of the death of August Sobiesti. Draban lives at 11730 Indiana avenue. At a bazaar given in Cyplick's Hall, West Pullman, by St. Salomea's Church, he was chosen to keep order and is alleged to have thrown Sobiesti through a door and down a flight of stairs when the latter became boisterous. Sobiesti was found dead in his bed by his wife yesterday. A coroner's physician discovered that his skull had been fractured. · A pe 15. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 16. culiar airship accident occurred at the Ottawa exhibition to-day, when Aviator Nasar of St. Louis attempted a flight with a dirigible airship. The propeller became caught in an electric light wire and the ascent was checked. The crowd, seeing the trouble, rushed to catch the falling dirigible. The propeller had stripped the isolation off the electric wire, and as fast as men and boys touched the metal framework of the balloon they formed a current with the earth and were knocked down. Twenty persons were thus | cricket ball caused the death of a nonmade helpless in less than a minute. player. A team connected with one of Four of these were so badly shocked and burned that they were taken to a hospital. One of them, Edward Kaitting of Belleville, died on the way. This evening, when a second flight was attempted, the motor on Nasar's dirigible refused to work and the balloon was carried over South Ottawa. While it was being towed back to the exhibition grounds it came in contact with another live wire and the airship shot skyward, a mass of flames. Blazing parts of the machine fell on house tops, starting half a dozen small fires which were quickly extinguished. The balloon, valued at $6,000, is a total loss. Nasar was to have gone from here to South Bend, and thence to the Hudson-Fulton celebration. the local churches was practising in the park when Francis Henry Hogg, a commercial traveller and local preacher, was struck on the head by a ball while conversing with a friend. He protested that he was not hurt and indeed subsequently took part in a game. On the following day, too, he taught as usual in the Sunday school, but on the Tuesday following he became ill and died from the effects of a clot of blood on the brain. At the inquest the medical testimony was to the effect that death was probably due to cerebral effusion caused by the blow from a cricket ball. 19. New York, Oct. 16, 1909.With her nose so badly broken by a blow from a golf ball that her physicians 16. Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 16. — Dur- are not yet certain that they can preing an ascension last evening of the vent disfigurement, Miss Kitty MelParseval dirigible balloon, in which rose, an English actress, connected Miss Katherine Wright, sister of Orville with "The Dollar Princess" Company Wright, was a passenger, a boy became at the Knickerbocker Theatre, was entangled in the loose rigging and was brought from Yonkers to this city yescarried aloft, swinging head downward | terday afternoon in an automobile, by the legs. The ship had attained an under the influence of an anesthetic, altitude of 600 feet before the pilot and was placed under the care of her could check its course and bring it back physician, Dr. Clarence Rice, of No. to the ground. When the boy was 123 East Nineteenth street. released he was insensible. Be 17. Boston, July 23, 1909.cause, as he says, he was angered at the taunts of a crowd of boys George Will, fifty-four years of age, a bricklayer, who lives at 92 Heath street, fired two shots out of the window of his home last night and slightly wounded John McLaughlin, eighteen years old, of 876 Harrison avenue, in the chest. The first shot was fired from a rifle and the second from a revolver, it is said. The injured youth was not of the gang who had been teasing Will, and when he heard the first shot he ran down the street with a friend, to whom he had been talking. A crowd gathered and patrolmen went into Will's home and arrested him. He admitted that he had fired the shots. The accident happened on the links of the Dunwoodie Country Club, in Yonkers, where Miss Melrose was playing with F. Pope Stamper, one of the leading men in "The Dollar Princess" cast. Mr. Stamper, who is known as an expert golfer, had made a drive and followed it with another, Miss Melrose standing about forty feet to his right. The ball was "sliced," shooting off at a sharp angle and, by reason of its rotation, curving in its course. struck Miss Melrose on the side of the nose with terrific force and so injured that organ that the problem of restoring its shape is one of great difficulty. It Hedrick, of Golden, sent his insane brother, Charles Hedrick, to this city for the purpose of having the County Court inquire into his mental condition. Charles Hedrick was sitting among the spectators in the courtroom while a jury was being impanelled. After the jury had been sworn Deputy Sheriff Schaefer, through some mistake or another, got hold of a man named Tom Nichol, a railway engineer, and, believing that he had Hedrick, asked him to take the insane chair in front of the jury. Nichol did not realize that the deputy had made a mistake and was arranging him to have his mental condition examined, but, on the contrary, supposed that he was going to be used as a juror or witness. In fact, no one noticed the mistake, and while the several witnesses were testifying to the condition of Hedrick, who was sitting among the spectators, all eyes were turned on Nichol. Sam Woods, who was a candidate for Congress at the last election, happened into the court-room during the inquisition and, glancing at Nichol, remarked: "Why, anybody can see that he is insane." would have a nice game of seven-up together, and then they would take a pleasant ride to Jacksonville. Once in jail Nichol was asked to take off his overcoat, and just about this time, as he afterward told it, the thought struck him that maybe he was actually insane and that his relatives had him taken into custody by the officers. But he said that he could not reason it out along that line very well, and he came to the conclusion that the last ray of hope was in some papers he had in his pocket. He presented the papers to the officers; and in another instant the deputy was bounding up the stairs inquiring for Charles Hedrick, whom he found still seated in the audience where he had been an interested spectator of his own inquisition. The officers offered Nichol all sorts of apologies and begged him not to say anything about the occurrence to any one; but after Nichol had gained his liberty the story was too good to keep, and before dark it was the talk of the town. 21. Cincinnati, O., October 11. — Charles Kingston, Second Infantry, official telegrapher at Fort Thomas, Ky., received yesterday the full voltage of the post's electric plant. Some person unknown attached an electric light wire to a steel chair in the telegraph room. When Kingston returned to the room from luncheon, he took his place in the chair and received the full force of the current. His cries attracted the attention of other soldiers, who rescued him from his perilous position. Kingston was frightfully burned and at the hospital last night, it was said his recovery was doubtful. When the evidence was all in, Judge Epler asked the jurymen if they wished to ask the defendant any questions. The jurors replied in the negative and then retired, returning with a verdict of insanity. Deputy Schaefer then asked Nichol, who had not yet discovered that he had been arraigned in Hedrick's place, to accompany him down stairs. Nichol, thinking that he was going to be of some assistance to the deputy, promptly consented. On reaching the basement and seeing the jail bars, Nichol asked what was wanted of him. Noticing that the deputy gave him an evasive reply, Nichol realized for the first time that he was being mistaken for Hedrick. He refused to go any farther, and, while the deputy was trying to persuade him to go with him, Sheriff Roth came upon the scene. Nichol tried to explain 23. Chicago. William Matthaus things, but the more he tried to con- brought suit against the Wisconsin vince them that he was Nichol, the Theatre Company for the loss of his more the officers believed him to be horse, which took fright at a procession Hedrick. The two officers took Nichol headed by a Scottish piper in full blast. along by force, telling him that they | The plaintiff alleged that the diabolical -- 22. Philadelphia, Jan. 10. — Albert Lindsay was frightened to death and two men were severely burned by an explosion of molten metal in the finishing plant at Baldwin's locomotive works to-day. |