Semi-weekly herald., 1908-03-26
TELEGRAPH BREVITiEs.

san Diego Japs are contributing to
the entertainment fund being provid-
ed for the big battleship fleet.
The wife OF w. j. Lemp, the mil.
lionaire brewer of st. Louis, sues for
diyoree. making sensational charges.
At a conference of steel men held
in New York it was decided that the
present schedule of steel prices will
be maintained.
The Texas 4 Pacific shops at Marc
ball, Texas. were closed Friday until
April i. Eight hundred men are out
OF employment. No reason is given
The invitation for the American
battleship fleet to visit Japan has
been accepted. China will probably
ask similar favor. which will b,
granted.
A Dutch doctor of New York tells
OF his abandonment of medicine tc
effect cures and his use of hypno
suggestion which. he says. is more
effective.
Professor George A. Powles of Nc.
Kinloy High school. Chicago. tells
women they must do daring deeds
and cause mea all sorts of trouble to
compel them to grant suffrage.
The Monongahela. Admiral Farra.
CUTS flagship In the civil war. which
was also commanded at times by
Dewey and Schley, was burned to the
water S edge in Guantanamo bay.
Five hundred men who were en-.
ploysd in the locomotive department
OF the Nashville. Chattanooga & st.
Lonis railway shops at Nashville,
have been laid of the Inst few days.
An average of about SO carloads a
day OF eggs are now being received in
Chicago for local consumption and
eastern shipments. This means n
total of 100000 dozen or 1900, ,OOO
eggs daily.
The establishment OF a charity
clearing house In large cities. as sug
gests1 by Grover Cleveland, is looked
upon with favor by many charitable
work srs. MT. Cleyeland's plan. urged
by MIN at the festivities attendan,
upon his seyenty-frst birthday ami
yersdry points the necessity OF an
organization that will reach where
1t ought to reach; not half way nor
half heartedly."
A total Of AZ arrests we're made In
Berlin Wednesday in connection witt
the suffrage demonstrations. Mae
policemen sustained injuries. II II
estimated that so Of the manifest
| ants ere wounded.
In an address before the winte
Cha itauqua at Champaign. ILL.,, Walt
er Wellnan says that the suprem,
work in the nation is the solving o
tie currency problem, which will pre-
vent panics and make confidence en-
during.
The bubonic plague at Guayauuil
Ecuador. is increasing, and the san
tary condition OF this and other tow
is causigg alarm. There are 81 case
OF the plague in the Lazaretto, beside
several cases of smallpox and yello,
fever.
| rotable campaign has been star
ed by the American Railway Eng
neerlng and Maintenance of Way al
ISOLATION In the interest OF safer an
more intelligent operation Of raj
roads. during all the sessions OF tn
? ninth annual convention, which Is b,
! Ing held in Chicago, safety In operi
tion has been the keynote. and 1t ha
? also leen the guiding principle Of a
the reports which have been made.
2 Unless freed by Washington. IL
( Count Rudolph Schirdi1g Won Schir
+ Ing who arrived on the White st:
I Line steamer Cedric from Maple
e must go back to Austria by order
: a board of special inquiry at Ell
y Island today. As result Of the stat
ment of the count that he had 10