San Bernardino News from San Bernardino, California • Page 1

Woman Fights Intruder In Bedroom Condition Better NEW YORK, April 10. The con-dition of Mrs. Theodore Koosevelt, who Bubmitted to an operation at Roosevelt hospital yesterday, is today declared to be satisfactory. It is expected she will recover rapidly, Man 101 Married JOPLl.V, April 16. "Io I believe in marrying young? Certainly! Also in marrying often!" Using the above words, William Miller, age 101, today announced his marriage to Mrs.

Xunry Pike, age (10. BERNA VOL. 39. SAN BERNARDINO, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1915. NO.

91. SAN NEWS MOT 3 oil RAfiO 1 Hi 5a SSfc Sweetheart Jailed- As Man Denies Guilt After Fight With Germans This picture, recently received from the war zone, shows a street in a Belgian city-just after a battle with the German forces and before the work of burying the dead could be begun. YOUNG WIFE IN CUSTODY "a ft ft i 1 if- 1 1 i 3 1 6,000 FOR RAISE One Hundred Millions In Property Is Effected By Order Of Unions CHICAGO, April 10. Work practically was tied up in building operations valued at here today and a liiin-dii'il thousund union men were thrown out of employment as a result- of a strike of 10,000 union carpenters which went into effect last night. The strike, ordered by union leaders, was declared after a demand for an increase In wages from (.) to 70 cents an hour had been refused by the Building Constructors Employers' association.

The association had offered the men an increase of cents an hour for the last eighteen months of the three-year agreement. Hurts liiiilding Industry Contractors estimated that the amount of building operations which will be affected by an extended Btrike will reach a figure close to the mark. Work on a score of downtown office buildings is at a standstill as thousands of other union men, including teamsters, excavators and others are affected. The order effects fully 100,000 men who are identified with the allied building operations of the city. Rogers Fails To Plea; Is Quite 111 LOS ANGELES, April 16.

Illness of Earl Rogers, attorney, prevented him entering a plea of not guilty today to the charge ho and Chief Police Sebastian attempted to intimidate the grand jury investigating the charges of Sebastian's misconduct with young women. Two o'clock Monday afternoon was set for pleading. Mrs. Lily Pratt, who is under indictment with Chief Sebastian charged with contributing to the dependency of Edith Serkin, "Mrs. Pratt's sister, was re-arrested this afternoon to increase her bail to $5,000.

It is stated the action was taken to keep her within the jurisdiction of the court. JOHN" BUXXY IMPROVIXfi NEW YORK, April 16. John Bunny, star comedian of the motion pictures, today was reported as recovering. Bunny has ben suffering from a complication of ailments and yesterday was believed to be near death. IN CHICAGO ON STRIKE BADGERG1RL 0 BLAME Says She Can't Help It If Her Faco And Form Lure Married Men LOS ANGKLES, April 16.

Do- daring that she can't help it if her' pretty face and form, "deep dimples and pearly teeth lure men from home and fireside also the wife Mrs. Andrew J. Scholtz, the beautiful "badger girl" made a statement to-; day in her own defense. i Mrs. Harriett Elms, mother of the; "badger 'is on trial before; Judge Willis today on a robbery' charge.

It is alleged she used her; daughter's charms to lure men to' her apartments and then blackmail 1 them. I Says She Can't Help It i "I can't help it if men lose their heads over me," said Young Mrs. Scholtz. "There seems to be something about my face and manners that fascinates men; it isn't my fault. It is a fact that men have always flattered me; men whom I met once or twice would invito themselves to see me.

I think it must be my dimples. Men are always teasing me or trying to get me to smile so they can see them; what were dimples and pretty teth and the ability to smile fetchingly given me for if I am not to be permitted to use them? Pestered Hy Men, Claim "Men have pestered me all my life and chased after me. The married men are the worst. The curso of every city is the married flirt the man who thinks that he can win the heart of every pretty girl he meets by buying her candy and giving her automobile rides. I know these married flirts and I know their form of procedure by heart.

They are always very gallant when presented to an attractive woman. They always find excuses for calling her on the telephone and then they get permission to call. First it is a box of candy then a bottle of wine. When they get caught this kind of man always has a story ready to discredit the woman." Paoenesa Suit Is Settled By Court An important decision in the suit of J. Z.

Adamson, treasurer for the! city of Colton against George C. Paoenesa, was handed down today by Judge II. T. Dewhirst, who finds judgment for Charles W. Lloyd, in-tervenor.

Paoenesa, contractor for paving in Colton, failed and Lloyd was assigned bonds in the sum of $16,000 for a valuable consideration. Adamson brought suit to determine the ownership of the bonds and Lloyd wins by the decision. IN Man Faints When Procuring License For His Marriage SANTA UA It HA HA, April ir. Excited by the prosjicct of getting married, Winford C. (iriiham, a carpenter, swooned in the county clerk's office while procuring a marriage license.

His fiancee, Mrs. Margaret French of Glendale, was with with Mm. She helped restore him to consciousness, and then answered the usual questions regarding age, antecedents and previous matrimonial experience, and when Graham had sufficiently rerovercd justice of the peace appeared nnd performed the marriage ceremony. SWITCHES Lash Is Applied To Man Who Is Charged With Neglecting Family SOMERSET, April 16. A party of men took George Dcrndt, a well-to-do farmer of Lincoln township, from the residence of his father near here last night, led him into a dense forest and thrashed him with thorn switches.

The leader of the party, which numbered about forty, told Borndt that the punishment was administered because it was charged that he did not provide for his wife and five children. Berndt today sought warrants for the arrest of the men, many of whom were said to be leading residents of Lincoln township. Seven Night Hiders Indicted CAPE GIRARDEAU, April 16. Seven men have been indicted in connection with the recent activities of night riders in Missouri by the Federal grand jury. Judge D.

P. Dyer of St. Louis, under whose instructions the jury carried on its investigation, announced that heavy sentences would be imposed on all men convicted in his court of participation in the night riders' work. Sentenced to Four Years BOWLING GREEN, April 16. P.

C. Jenkins was found guilty in the circuit court here and sentenced to four years and one day in the penitentiary on the charge of being connected with night riding operations in western Kentucky. The indictment charged that Jenkins recently-led a band of masked men to the home of W. A. Webster near South Hill.

Webster was seized and com-ipelled to witness the flogging of his Wife, daughter and son. Mrs. Webster Is 60 years old. NIGHT RIDER ATTACK BY FORAIDiN Woman Is Charged Jointly With Former Sweetheart Of Looting Bank SAX FKAXC1SCO, April 18. Mrs.

Lillian Camp Munson, the beautiful young wife of a Xcw York capitalist, and an artist of note in the cast, is in the fcifi'i'al prison here today. She is charged with aiding a former sweetheart, Italph K. Lovel, to loot the First National bank at Edgwater, Xew Jersey, of Lovel was the former cashier of the institution. He is in custody in Edgowuter, awaiting trial. Mrs.

Munson's attachment for Lovel, it is said, continued after she became the wife of Munson. She is alleged to have seen Lovel frequently at the bank and in her home. Woman Must Explain When arrested Lovel refused to connect Mrs. Munson with the looting of the bank, but the authorities claim that they have evidence which will show that Mrs. Munson must explain whether or not she, received financial attention from Lovel.

Mrs. Munaon left about the time Lovel was arrested and despite a search for her she could not be located -until today. She is said to have been in seclusion here. Case Is Dismissed' By Whipped Man LOS ANGELES, April 18. With Mrs.

Richard K. Fast, who recently lashed Erich Kurths, local editor, across the face with a whip for alleged derogatory remarks against her character, already in court to illus trate her action to the jury, Kurths today petitioned for a dismissal of the case on the grounds the defend ant is a woman, and in poor financial circumstances. Although Mrs. Fast shook her head disapprovingly, the case was instantly dismissed without trial. EAltL ROGERS TO HE-MAItKY LOS ANGELES, April 16.

Earl Rogers, noted criminal attorney, today announced his engagement to Miss Edna Irene- Landers, daughter of the late John D. Landers, a prominent official of the Canadian Pacific at Winnepeg. Rogers' wife recently divorced him, 1 AT "sS. X' It Si Man Loses Property Also Reason; Formerly Was German Consul LOS ANGELES. April lfi.

Reduced to penury by unfortunate investments and prevented from realizing on valuable holdings because of the European war, Wulffsohn for twenty-six years German consul at Vancouver, I). and a former millionaire banker, was found early today wandering in the streets, his mind seriously affected. Wulffsohn told Patrolman Workman of a long series of misfortunes beginning with an unfortunate investment in timber property in the north, and ending with the war in Europe. According to the man's story he was at one time the managing director of the banking firm of Wulff-sohn-Bewiek at Vancouver. SIX KIIM.EO 11V HOMIIS AMSTERDAM, April IB.

Killing six women and children and injuring a large number of others, five bombs were dropped by an airship over Breisgau, Duchy of Baden, today. MILLIONAIRE IS PENNILESS RESULT POSSE HUNTS Intruder Enters Home; Attacks Woman Who Leaps From Bed I. OS ANGELES, April 1C. Posses of enraged citizens, led by Venice police officers, today scan hed the country for many miles around the beach city for the mysterious man who broke into the home of Mrs. Charles Marshall and attacked her.

The man escaped a volley of pistol shots fired by a neighbor. Fights With Man Hearing a noise in the hall, Mrs. Marshall, attired in a night robe, in-i vestigated. She was attacked by a man. She screamed and fought and I several times was hurled to the floor, i Finally she broke away from the man and dashed out of the house.

Screaming for help, she ran to a neighbor's home and hysterically sobbed out her story. William Fabre, a motion picture actor, seized a revolver and dashed for the Marshall home. He saw a man running away and fired twice. The shots missed and the man disappeared in a barley field. FOR MAN 10 HIT WOMAN AnglerDropsDead After He Catches Twelve Inch Trout TACOMA, April Overcome by the excitement of landing a lli-inch limit, Itiiiley.

years old, is dead' today of heart failure. P.aih-y made- his home at I'uyalliip anil was fishing in Lake Hay when his deatli occurred. The trout, still living, was found beside the lifeless body of its captor. Chief Sebastian To Go On Stage Soon1, LOS A.MJELES, April 16. Taking the stage to set his case before the people.

Chief of Tolice Sebastian, under indictment charged with offenses against young women, will appear in a monologist act at a local theater next week. Sebastian, who is a candidate, for mayor, will tell his side of the story from the stage at. night. During the days he figures! as the defendant in criminal charges' which will be under way in the su-l preme court. I'MIMKE IS SHOT UY FAX LOS ANGELES, April lfi.

Sheriff's posses here and El Monte are today seeking Peter Ramirez who shot and seriously wounded John Hayes, I umpire of a baseball game at Irvin- dale. Ramirez had a iJet on the game and objected to a decision of the umpire. In an argument he pulled a gun and shot Hayes twice in the chest. i.