The San Francisco call., 1909-04-08
TeIegraphic Brevities

ELEVEN DRoWNED-Napies April by
the bursting Of dyke today at Catanzaro %
fishermen were swept into the sea. Eleven were
drowned.
10000 MARINE MEN sTRIKE-Ch Chicago.
April Ten thousand marine engineers, fire.
men. oilers and water tenders and deckhan1s
went strike last night and the opening Of
navjGa ton on the great lakes is threatened
with 4 complete tieup.
TURKISH EDITOR AssAssINATED Constan-
tinople. April 7--Hassan Fehmi Erendi. editor
Of the liberal newspaper Serbesti, was shot
and Killed by an unknown man ss he was enter
ing his office today. A government officer ae-
companyinG the editor wounded. The crime
Is believed 10 be political.
PosToFFICE LEAsED-washington April =
The postofhce department has accepted the pro-
posal OF u. Z. West of Oakland TO lease new
quarters on the east side Of Washington street
between Eleventh and Twelfth for station No. 10
for five years from July ! next.
April While playing Wild West" with fve
companions Clifford H'oiford Is years old, was
shot and killed by Loren Hamilton. IS years
old. Hamilton then tried 10 commit suicide bit
was prevented by the other boys.
DowIE's SON DEFEATED-Muskegon Mich.
April Complete returns now available show
that the political debut Monday of A. J. Glad
stone Dowie- son Of John Alexander Dowle. the
son OF the .prophet.r resulted in defeat. Dowe
~as candidate for county clerk OF Montague
county on an independent ticket.
CRAZY SNAKE STILL IN HIDING-Guthrie
Okla. April 1.-Crszy Snake. the fugitive In
dian chief, still remains in hiding Tn to this
afternoon nothing had been heard from his
SON. who three days ago bad started in company
father
THREATS BY BLAcKMA1LERs- Flint.
Mich. April Anonymous blackmailers. who
have written from Delayan. Wis. have threat
ened the lives Of the mother and sister of 10
year cid Harold Moon, whose body found
last Saturday in Thread pond. unless l. n.
Moon. the bays father. turns over 5000 TO
them.
BEGINS THIRD DIVORCE sUIT-sacra-
mento. April Charging that her husband. a
Stockton policeman. tried TO induce her to lead
life Of shame and conduct resort at stock
ton Mrs. Nettie Gayou brought snit in the
superior court today for divorce from John r..
Gayou. This is the third time she has begun
BANDITS ROB GAMBLING HoUsE-Ogden.
Utah, April About midnight tonight nre
robbers walked into the White Elephant gam
made their escape. -Four of the men held the
dealers and crowd of p players under their
guns. while the nth robbed the games Of be
tween Si.50o and $1,000.
LOSES HIS COUNTY OFFICE Sacramento.
April &c W. Haub, secretary Of the republi-
can county central committee. was discharged
from his ofhce as county statistician by The
board OF supervisors today The board which is
republican in politics. asked Hsub for a report
which he failed TO make. He rendered his resie-
nation. but the board refused 10 accept it,
FORMER QUEEN MUST PAY DOCTOR.
Washington. ID. C., April Former Queen
Liluokalani of Hawaii, otherwise Mrs. Lydia
sician under a Judgment rendered by Chief
Justice Calbaugh of the supreme court of the
district Of Columbia The Judgment is in favor
Of DR.. Charles II. English Of this city.
coLoEIsrs FOR PACIFIC CoAsT-ogden.
Utah. April Pour sections of Rio Grsnde
passenger train arrived this afternoon crowded
with colonists for California and the northwest
Two cars Of one train carried Greeks ticketed
through to Seattle, who fhe vanguard Of a
small army Of Greeks 10 displace Japanese on
the Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads
WOULD BAR THE FEDERAL PUsH-Wash-
ington. April For a federal office holder TO
be delegate TO any convention called TO noml-
nate candidate for president or other elective
United States Office is made misdemeanor pun
ishsbe by fine and Imprisonment, according to
the terms OF bill recently introduced by Repre-
sentative Richardson OF Alabama
STEAMSHIPS IN CoLLISIoN-New. York.
April THE Ward line steamer Havana ran
into the Munson line freigbfer Guiana near the
quarantine station Staten island at 7:20 a. M
today. tearing a large hole in the Guiana s
side near the stern. The Guiana filled rapidly
and towed by tugs toward the beach at
Clifton. Staten island. where she grounded. The
Havana was undamaged.