Semi-weekly herald., 1908-03-09

/ TELEGRAPHlC NEWS
/ TERSfLY BRIEFED
Nebraska Populists voted to sup
port Bryan this year
The Union Bank of Commerce of
Rio de Janeiro closed its doors Thurs.
day.
The third of the Pennsylvania tun-
nels under East river was opened on
Thursday.
man who asked to be "Oslerized'
at Bellevue hospital in New York is
held for examination as to his san.
lty.
! A witness at a hospital investiga-
tion at Lincoln. Ill., said that goats
We're killed and served as mutton to
attendants and inmates at the home.
| The senate committee of Judiciary
has asked the president to withdraw
| the nomination of relative of Mrs.
Roosevelts for an Oklahoma marshal
ship.
An Illinois doctor who drinks only
water resisting DR. Wiley's epithet
of ''mollycoddle" has challenged the
chief Of the poison squad to test of
prowess in the ring.
New York chorus girls have sent a
petition to the board OF aldermen ask
ing for a law to prevent "Johnnies"
from lettering around the stage en-
frances to thegters
Walter Wellman says the friends of
Secretary Taft control the Repub-
lican national committee and will foil
the efforts Of the reactionaries to pre-
vent his nomination by trumped-up
contests.
Bryan was given a great ovation at
Omaha Thursday, people gathering |
from all parts of the states to attend |
the state convention. OF course the
Republicans were lambasted as well |
as the trusts.
Despite a PHYSICIANS testimony
that an autopsy proved beyond doubt
that Gerolamo Celia, wealthy New
York importer. was murdered, the
coroner's jury brought in verdict OF
suicide.
After having been shut down for
the past two weeks in all depart
ments the Berwick, Pa. plant of the
American Car and Foundry company
has resumed work, giving employment
to 1000.
Twelve hundred employees of the
Hochelaga and the Ste. Anne's cot
ton mills at Montreal. which belong
to the Dominion Textile association,
have gone on strike The trouble was
caused mainly because the employees
wanted TO have an assistant foreman
discharged and wanted to have the
hours Of labor changed.
prgt in
to prohibition in Lincoln. Neb.. was
taken Tuesday evening when the
United Civic League presented to the
excise board a petition bearing 1000
to amend its rules SO that
no liquor license shall be granted.
The petition required but 1900 sig
natures to make It effective. The
question will be put to a vote, and
with It a rule proposed by the excise
board making the limit of the number
of saloons 20 and permitting them to
remain open only between the hours
of Z a. m. and I p. m, with the mini
mum license s1,500.
One OF the finest hotels in the world,
and the largest ever built under one
roof, was assured Chicago when
contract was signed for the co1struc-
tion of the hotel La Sale at the north
west corner of I.aSalle and Madison
streets. The total value Of the build
ing aad ground will be 100000. The
building alone will cost $4,000. 900.
The hotel will cover ground that
measures 29,100 square feet. 1t will
have total height of "a stories. two
of these being underground. The
building will contain 100000 cubic
feet and will be lavishly decorated.
1t will stand 200 feet above street
level. the extreme height allowed by
the building ordinance. The steel col
unns will stand on 105 concrete cais-
sons carried down 40 feet to bed
rock.