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' THE GEORGIAN'S NEWS BRIEFS. SUNDAY Continued INTRODUCES A BILL FOR STUDY OF CANCER Jackson, Ga.—When having the biggest term, weighs 210 pounds; Alderman Finley, from the First ward, 244; Al derman Taylor, from the Second. 242; Alderman McKtbben, from the Third, 228; Alderman Jones, from the Fburth, 220; making a total of L144 pounds. This showing clearly entitles Jack- son to claim the "big five** of the w hole state. RAW HAT CAUSE OF ROMANCE Middletown, N. Y.—A straw hat start ed a romance flvo years ago, which cul minated today in the marriage of Miss Cecelia Mulligan, of this city, and George Wesley Pamham. of Manistee, Mich. Miss Mulligan was employed at a local hat factory. One day another girl dared her to write her name inside the sweat-band of a straw hat she was working on. She wrote her name and address and forgot all about IL A year later she' received a letter from George W. Parnham, paymaster of the Manis tee and Northeastern railroad. Mr. Parnham hod purchased the hat and found Miss Mulligan’s name. Letters and photographs were ex changed and the wedding followed. Canada takes tenth place among the nations in the world's shipping. There are about 6,000 girls engaged !n lace-making in Ireland. The most modern steel coal cars will dump 50-ton loads In two minutes. tlon to the extent or5,083 persons more than in 1908. Says an advertisement In The Lon don Express: “Mary—Waited - three hours at appointed • spot—until ques tioned by suspicious policeman. If this is the price of love, it Is too heavy a one for me to pay. Farewell. Potts.” Within two years there has been so great an Increase in frosen meat ex ports from Australia and New Zealand that sometimes there Is a glut in the London market, during which the im ported lamb Is almost unsalable. Omitting leaf tobacco and copra, of which very little was shipped to the United States, the exports of all other articles to the United States amounted to about 67 per cent of the total ex ports of the Philippine Islands. Consul Louis Hostetter states that packages received during 1909 from all countries at the Mexican postoffice in Hermoslllo numbered as follows: Ecu ador. 3; Spain. 4; Germany. 51; Eng land. 88; FYance, 230; United States, 3.704. Four adjoining governments of Euro pean Russia, of a combined area about seventeen times the slxe of the state of Ohio, are almbst completely covered with timber, the greatest portion of which never has been explored by civ ilized man. Dr. Oswald Crus, who did so much to transform Rio de Janeiro from one of the most unhealthful to one of the most healthful cities, is now In the Amazon Valley to wage a campaign against yel low fever, malaria and other diseases which have constituted such menaces to life and to the extension of commerce aind Industries in that vast region. Pittsburg.—The Carnegie. hero fund commission this afternoon announced 26 more heroes and heroines. Not by any means least among them Is William H. Edwards, commissioner of street cleaning of New York, who gets a silver medal for his bravery on board the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse on the morning of August 9 last, when Mayor Gaynor was shot. In explaining why Big Bill gets this medal, tho hero commission adroitly avoids the question of whose life Ed wards saved. That he did not save the life of Mjxyor Gaynor is evidently con ceded on the ground that Judge Gaynor hud been~shot before Edwards got into action. Following is the official report of the commission on Edwards: “William H. Edwards, silver medal. Edwards, aged 33, commissioner of street cleaning, saved an Indeterminate person or indeterminate persons from being shot by an assassin. Hoboken. N. J., August 9, 1910. The Hon. William J. Gaynor, mayor of the city of New York. Just having been shot in the head at close range, on the promenade deck of the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and the assailant still facing the group about the mayor with up raised pistol. Commissioner Edwards, standing at the mayors left side, threw himself upon the man and bore him to the deck upon his back. As Edwards fell on top of him the pistol was dis charged again and the bdllet grazed Edwards* left forearm on the under side. Others hurried to pinion the man’s arms, but before they accom plished it the pistol was discharged a third time. Edwards then arrested the assailant. The mayor and Ed wards re covered from their wounds.” JACKSON HOLDS THE TiTLE FOR HEAVYWEIGHT COUNCIL OF STATE CLARK | N Q OTrYch BE E state Cincinnati, Ohio*—Clarke Griffith, the manager of the Cincinnati National league baseball club, received a letter today from New York attorneys, the contents of which made Mr. Griffith speculate as to whether he is about to he promoted Into the list of millionaires. According to the letter, Mr. Griffith is one of tho heirs of Daniel Griffith, who died in New York in 1838, leavipg property which is now valued at sev eral million dollars. The attorneys In their letter seek the co-operation of Clarke Griffith, with other heirs, who, it is stated, will Institute legal proceed ings to gain possession of the property. Mr. Griffith refused tonight to be come enthusiastic over the report that he is to become suddenly wealthy. PLAIN FACT8. Sperm oil makes one of the best pol ishes to use on brass work that is ex posed to the weather. The Philadelphia mint coined 146,- 600.000 cents last year, and is expected to exceed the 100.000,000 mark this pear. The birth rate in 76 great towns In England, in 1909, was 25.7 a 1.000. The death rate averaged 14.7. Within the last ten years the Meth odist church in the Philippines grown to a membership of 30,000, and 600 Filipinos are conducting preaching services. In Massachusetts last year there were 306 working days, and the average time lost thru shutdowns, stoppages for re pairs, suspensions, et6.. amounted to 12.46 days for each wage-earner. A fine article made In Spain is bone less sardine stuffed with ham. This sells as high as 813.50 a case of 100 cans, as against only 33.60 a case of 100 cans of ordinary sardines in oil. While in 1908 the number of German Immigrants showed a decrease of 11.813 persons over the previous year, the year Albany, N. Y.—The establishment In Buffalo of an institue for the study of malignant disease Is provided for iq-a bill introduced in the senate by Mr. Loomis, of Erie. The institute would conduct an Investigation into the cause, nature, mortality rate, treatment, pre vention and cure of cancer and allied diseases. An appropriation of 865,000 18 promised. The management is to be vested In a board of trustees with seven members, one of whom shall be the state com missioner of health. Others are to be appointed and removed at the pleasure of the governor. They serve without compensation. GET8 BACK LOST CONFEDERATE FLAG New Yorlo—John J. Snyder, who lives at No. 346 East Elghtecnth-sL, Flatbush, was made happy when a bat tle-tom Confederate flag, which he had lost early In the day, was retained to him. Snyder was bringing the relic down town to show a friend, and it fell, unnoticed, from under hla arm. It was found by a policeman. The flag. 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