Commandant

Beset by 100 townsmen in Tepic, Mexico, when he ordered them to surrender their arms, Commandant Nicholas Bernal staged a one-man battle lasting 29 hours last week, wounded 30 of his assailants, was killed by a bomb.

Steeplejack

In Newark, N. J., John E. Gallagher, 62, veteran steeplejack, fell down six steps in his home, died.

Drink

In Centre Harbor, N. H., Daisy, a cow, drank from a 2-qt. pail, caught her horns on a hook, drowned.

Duel

In Brooklyn Frank Konjerski and Raymond Warjerski drank from 3 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., started duelling with axes, split each other's skulls.

Dunn

At Los Angeles, R. L. Dunn, 250 lb., tried to hang himself from a chandelier. The chandelier came down. He cut his throat and still lived. He slashed his wrists and still lived. He opened veins at his elbows. When two detectives and a doctor came he was pronounced dead. Then R. L. Dunn jumped out of bed, began fighting all three.

Coming

In Pittsburgh, Ralph Schugar, 38, got a pilot's license, will establish funeral service with aerial hearses. Said Ralph Schugar: "I believe it is the coming thing."

Love

In Brooklyn, N. Y., Rose Provenzano, 19, jilted Ralph Ferrara, 20. He fired six shots at her (one hit her in the shoulder) and one at himself (it furrowed his scalp). She refused to sign a complaint. Said she: "I never realized how much Ralph loved me until he shot me. . . . I'm going to marry him."

Tryst

In Manhattan, Allen Orman, 23, held up with a toy pistol Frances Tauber, 21, hosiery salesgirl, robbed the shop of $30. In binding her to a chair he tore her stocking. Soon after she received a dozen roses, six handkerchiefs, an amorous telegram signed ISLE OF VIEW and a pair of silk stockings. Then Allen Orman telephoned her, asked for a tryst. Frances Tauber agreed, took with her two detectives, sent amorous Allen Orman to jail.

Cranker

At Wahpeton, N. Dak., Nels Bervin's automobile stalled across a railroad track. Nels Bervin got out to crank. A train smashed the car to small bits, left Nels Bervin standing by the track holding the crank in his hand.

Plumber & Barber

In Brooklyn, John Gentrio, barber, called Herman Finsel, plumber, to repair a leaking pipe. Plumber Finsel went back to get a gasket; Barber Gentrio held his thumb on the pipe five hours. Later, when Plumber Finsel came to the barber shop to have his beard shaved, Gentrio shaved half of it; departed, taking all the razors in the shop to be honed; stayed out five hours.

Uncle Sam

In Abwan, Palestine, Ahmed Abed loved Zobaide, beauteous niece of Sam Mahaned. Twice rejected were Ahmed's marriage offers; he led a mob against Zobaide's father; she was accidentally shot. Uncle Sam Mahaned vowed vengeance on Ahmed, hunted him relentlessly across Europe, across the Atlantic, tracked him down in Union Station, Cleveland, Ohio. Then he called a policeman.

Fishers

At Gettysburg, Pa., Sheriff George D. Morrison discovered that loud singing of prisoners in Adams County Jail was a blind to cover up the efforts of other prisoners who were fishing through the rotted floor with a bent bed spring fastened to a broomstick for confiscated liquor stored in the jail basement.

Masher

Near Orepuki, New Zealand, a farmer's small son was sent to dig potatoes on his father's farm. Lazy, he procured two sticks of dynamite, blew a great hole in the field, mashed every potato.

Finest

In Yuma, Ariz., Finest Don White Jr., aged one week, cut four teeth, needed a haircut.

Tekti

At Sao Paulo, Brazil, Joao Tekti placed two snakes in a bottle of alcohol hoping they would poison it so he could end his life. When he drank it, he swallowed one of the drowned snakes, collapsed.

Tardy

At Chicago, Judge Herbert Immenhausen, late for a political meeting, explained that he had taken Mrs. Estelle Dempsey* and Edna Hall to police court when he found Mrs. Dempsey publicly horsewhipping Miss Hall whom she accused of "trying to wreck my home."

Bridge-Jumpers

In Manhattan, Timothy Donovan, 48, jumped 140 ft. from Manhattan Bridge into the East River, intending to kill himself, was fished out little the worse for his fall & submersion. This might have stood as a record had not one Kelly, a few days later, working on the new Sydney Harbor Bridge. Sydney, N. S. W., Australia (world's largest arch bridge), fallen 175 ft, landed feet first in the harbor, swum ashore.

*Not to be confused with Mrs. William Harrison (Estelle Taylor and '"Jack") Dempsey.

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