Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-17
TFLEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

TWO MORE DEAD-Two additional
deaths occurred early yesterday at sedalia
NO.. as The result of the explosion OF rev.
eral hundred pounds Of powder and dyna'
mite in freight car at Windsor NO. Tues.
day. This brings the total death list up e
nine. It Is believed the others injured viii
recover.
RIsHAEN WELcoMED-John c. Red
mond, The Irish leader in the house OF com
mons; Joseph =. Devlin. NJ p. and John
Fitzgibbon, who come to this country TO at
tend the biennial convention of the United
Irish League at Boston, were given warm
reception on their arrival in New York yes
terday. The party was escorted to tht
Hoffman house.
POWERS TO CoNFER-At the request Of
Germany and Italy. Holland is 10 invite the
powers represented at tho second Hague
peace conference TO participate In further
conference at The Hague, probably in 1905
for the elaboration of draft of universal
treaty. 1t is suggested by The Netherlands
that the royal commission of international
law, as affecting private persons make the
arrangements.
STATION CoMPLETED-The submarine
station. recently ordered by the navy de-
partment for San Diego, has been completed
and Captain Wilbur has made an inspec-
tion of the station with corps OF electri-
clans to overhaul the cable and other equip
ment OF the plant in order to have every
thing ready for action. When this station
is equipped and manned It is possible to
mine the channel within a few hours so II
would be an impossibility for any hostile
craft to enter the harbor without courtine
destruction.
DEsERTERs PERIsH-The barkentine
Fremont which arrived at San Francisco
from the Arctic yesterday brought the news
OF the probable death of four members OF
the crew who deserted on May 16 and
started to reach Unalaska. They wers
Manuel Lorenz Leon Walzer John Jorgen-
sen and James Mcdonald. They started on
fasr, LAT 4nl,t
height of a storm. A search was made for
them but without success and several days
later the dory they had occupied was picked
up at Dublin bay. 1t is believed all of the
men perished They had been dissatisfied
for some time over the amount of their
spring allowance.
AIRHsIP INJURED-Ths Parseval air
ship buckled and was rent in the air at
Berlin yesterday mroning and had to come
down In the Grunevald near Berlin. At the
time OF the accident the airship was racing
with the Gross balloon in the direction OF
Dobritz, where Emperor William was wait
ing TO see them. Both airships started out
this morning with the object of seeing which
could reach Dobritz in the shortest time
When the Parseval ship was crossing the
Halem sea It was struck by a, suuali ano
the cigar-shaped flexible bag was torn by a
broken rod and the gas began to escape,
Major Won Parseval thought 1t wise to STOP
his motors and come down.
ANGELENO INvENTOR-A train-stop-
ping device which, II is claimed, will praoti-
cally eliminate the telegraph operator as q
factor in the movement of railroad trains
is now under investigation by the block
signal and train control board OF the inter-
state commerce commission The system is
an invention of P. ]. Simmer of Los An
geles 1t already has been installed on
eighteen miles of the Santa Fe railroad In
California and is said to be in successful
operation. Members of the block signal ana
train control board who have inquired INTO
the system say that 1t operates with almost
human intelligence. The board expects
shortly to institute an official test OF the
device 10 determine deinitely It's efficiency.