Semi-weekly herald., 1908-08-27
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

l7- HFIsr4 r4TElEGRAPh NEWS.
4e3 ~ Los ANGELES. Aug. 24.-Six per.
@l sons were injured. one fatally. last
m night when the inbound Los Angeles
e Pacific car struck an automobile at
the intersection of Sixteenth street
ba' and Western avenue. practically de.
stroying the machine. and hurling its
Is six passengers in every direction The
. iu injured are: MIR. and Mrs r.. C. Nc
y n kibben. Mr.. and Mrs. Cory Huff, Mrs.
41 Anne and Sarah Hor of Pasadena
1' Mrs Anne Hoff is the most seriously
5p. injured. She had not recovered con.
p 80 sciousness today.
CHICAGO. Aug. 24.AA stampede
followed the collision OF two street
ss cars at Wentworth avenue and Twen
3f'N ty-sixth street, when seven persons
9 ''n n"were injured, two OF them fatally. The
p accident was caused by the misunder-
laA standing between the motormen of the
lAa two cars. The Wentworth avenue car
20 struck the Twenty-six street car in
the middle. crushing in the side and
derailfng 1t. The passengers impris-
ei T. oned within broke the car windows
Nfi' tore at the wire nettings and crushed
IN one another in an attempt to escape
= pr The most serious injured were Edward
liking. conductor of the Twenty-sixth
la''n street car, and Frank Wflke, mortor
H7 man of the Wentworth avenue car.
i.F NEW YORK. Aug. 4.-Dr. Bomm has
"" issued a call to the people on the east
side to go to the assistance Of Janoff
Pouren. the Russian revolutionist,
- ~hom United States Commissioner
2Shields has ordered deported to Rus
STA The appeal In substance says:
'' 'This is the first time the Russian
government has attempted to seize
-'' on the ground of treaty with this
country a political refugee and It
seeks to make test case. 1t is trying
-''t to represent a political refugee as
ln'49 common criminal
.If Russia should succeed in this at
tempt 1t will thereby create prece
dent. No one who has taken part in
the revolutionary movement will be
safe from sharing the fate of Pouren
l'e Our only hope is in President Roose
ia ih'Selt who has the power to set aside
( p 81 the decision Of Commissioner Shields
- We must present to the president
e'oio petition with at least 100000 sigma
H' goo NEW YORK, Aug. 24.--Attacked by
i- two men. who escaped without de-
"i lection. woman 45 years old. who has
o' mot been identified. was choked and
a''' thrown In front OF rapidly moving
. W trolley car on Amsterdam avenue at
Ninetieth street early this morning.
wa The wheel passed over her body aud
she was instantly killed.
The woman was crossing Amster-
dam avenue and had almost reached
-' the car tracks when two men of stall
~ wart build. who had been walking
i.sa behind her. suddenly seized her. One
" caught the handbag which was sus-
"a pended by chair from her wrist,
h'' while the other stifled her screams
by clutching her throat with both
hands
Thomas Murphy. the notorman, aft
erward told the police, that he saw
N'N' the three apparently fighting desper
ately Just aa his car came toward
them He applied his brake lever
around TO stop. but the distance was
too short. and to his horror he saw the
two highwaymen deliberately throw
ae"" the haif-conscious woman under tn,
y" ~ wheels. At the same instant they flet
as fast as they could run along Nine
's f8tiSs street in the direction Of tn,
~ Hudson river.
+, ..t HEIDELBERG, Germany Aug. "a
~ Baron Spreck Won Sternburs, Germal
q. ambassador to the United States. die
b, In the Hotel victeaa in this cit
=, shortly after midnisht this mornin,
, The baroness. who was Miss Lillia
Nay Langhorn Of Louisville. was wit
1 her husband at the end. They. ha
been visiting in Germany since Ma,
-, Baron and Baroness yon Sternbsr
l,t, came here from Hamburg the end {
the last month to consult Prof. VII
~. Gems Cxerny. skin specialist, ,concerl
!, Ing . malady from which the amba
sador had been suffering for sou
time. ~
BERGEN. Norway. Aug. 34.-Tl
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