Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-02
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

The weather yesterday was the hottest Of
the year at Redding, Cal, the maximum
reading 102 degrees
John E. Padden Belshaw, a pioneer mer-
chant of Antioch. Cal. died at his home
there yesterday. aged "a years. He was an
uncle of State Senator Charles NJ. Belshaw.
A Chinese hospital equipped with all mod
ern appliances and with staff of nurses
and physicians to rank with those In the
first institutions in the country is planned
by the celestial merchants of Chicago.
A feature of the entertainment of the Elks
during the national reunion to be held at
Dallas, Texas, beginning July IL VIII be
barbecue on a prodigous scale, 5000 pounds
of beef and 1000 of mutton to be barbecued
After July all nags made for the use Of
the government will contain forty-six stars
in the field or union to conform in number
to the states. The additional star follows
the admission of Oklahoma to the family
of states
Oliver Stowe, an oiler at the Mammoth
Copper company smelter at Redding, was
electrocuted at Kennel last night He was
oiling the back Of the switchboard In the
power house and came in contact with a
2000-volt current.
Grover Cleveland Rogers, who on Monday
evening kidnapped Edna, the 1syear-old
daughter of Adoph Domengine was brought
to the Fresno county jail yesterday morning
from Coalinga and at noon told the story
of his crime He says that both he and
Tony Lowell, his partner in crime, who Is
still at large, were born and raised in
Coalinga.
on the petition of the Trust Company Of
America, Joined in by the railroad, the Nor
folk & Southern Railway company was
placed in the hands of receivers yesterday
by order OF Judge Edmund Waddh in the
| federal court at Norfolk Thomas Fitzger.
aid Of New York is designated as genera
manager for the receivers. A reorganization
| haa hpen formed,
Mae c. Wood, the Omaha woman who
/ sued United States Senator Thomas c. Plat
for divorce, was indicted by the grand jury
yesterday at New York on charges of per
jury and forgery. Miss Wood Is charged
with having signed Senator Platt's nam'
| to a document acknowledging her as hi
| wife. Miss Wood is at liberty on $4,000 bail
She will be arraigned in court Monday.
Francis d. Bailey president of the Elk
pert Shipping company Of New Jersey, who
| together with his brother, Albert w. Bailey
| Charles H. H. Myers ana Captain Alber
Oxley, was placed aboard the Norwegian
\ steamer Utstein yesterday in custody o
Lieutenant P. W. Berry OF the New Yori
police department, made his escape in
small boat from the steamer Tuesday night
After being delayed ten days in quaran
| tine at Nagasaki as a result Of Chimes
passenger having bubonic plague, the steam
| er Empress of China arrived at Victoria,
| c. yesterday after a quick trip from Yoke
hama In consequence of the quarantinini
Of the steamer the Canadian Pacific has de
eided to segegrate intending Chinese passen
gers on a hulk at HongkonR while tn
plague epidemic continues.
Congressman Needham of Modesto will
attend an informal conference Of variou
commercial and producers organizations o
the state at San Francisco July I. calei
by Governor Gillett Needham hopes to in
duce the various bodies to agree upon
| harmonious plan Of procedure regardln
tariff revision. so that cases in behalf o
California industries may be presented in
proper manner before the ways and mean
committee, which begins its hearings Il
Washington November 10.
President Roosevelt in the first ten day
Of his vacation at Oyster Bay has succeeds
in doing considerable work in the fields an
woods on his grounds at Sycamore Hill
besides entertaining many visitors and hold
ing conferences with Mr. Taft. II there
no work on the grounds of his estate h
spends his time in reading or In recreatio
in the form OF tennis, horseback riding 0
rowing Splendid weather, though some
what warm, has favored the president dur
ing the ten days OF his vacation.