Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-04
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

DEADLOCK CONTINUES-Th twenty
sixth joint ballot for United States senator
taken yesterday at Springfield, ILL.,, was
without result 1t showed a gain of three
votes for Senator Hopkins.
LACKS FOUR VOTES-United States
Senator Stephenson received but sixty-one
votes in joint assembly at Madison, Wis
yesterday, lacking four votes of reelection
There were four members absent, two from
each house.
HARTMAN ELECTED-E. II. Hartman
was elected today a member of the board
Of directors Of the Lake Shore &. Michigan
Southern railway and the Michigan Central
railroad. In each case he succeeded Samuel
Barger, resigned.
GOVERNORS son II-Howard Cos
grove, son of the governor Of Washington,
is i'll at his rooms in Olympia, and there is
fear his illness may develop into typhoid
fever or typhoid-pneumonia. The father is
an invalid at Paso RobIes.
TO ARREST BANKERS-Warrants for
the arrest of officers of the Scandia bank
at Everett, Wash, which closed its doors
some time ago have been issued. They are
accused of accepting a deposit when they
knew the bank was insolyent.
PIONEER DIES-John Mellon, pioneer
merchant of Siskiyou county, is dead at
Yreka, aged 81 years. He came to Yreka
in 1850, and operated a pack train to Red
Bluff long before the days of the stage
coach. He was the father of County Clerk
Mellon.
EIGHT JURORS ACCEPTED-In Judge
DUNES department of the superior court at
San Francisco yesterday two more jurors
were passed temporarily to try former
Supervisor NJ. w. Coffey on the charge of
having accepted bribe to vote for trolley
franchise for the United Railroads There
are now eight men in the jury box.
QUEER EXHIBITION-PuIsati hearts
of anesthetized earthworms. scales from the
n IN md 1ar f,fl oto,--
and other food are among the many
curious things shown at an exhibition of the
State Microscopolical society and the Chi
cago Academy Of Science. 1t is the first
large showing Of the kind in Chicago in
years.
DIES CUTTING TEETH-Cutting her
third set of teeth at the age of rs years
and complications produced by it are as
signed as the cause of death of Mrs. Theresa
Zuckfeld at McKeesport, a suburb of Pitts
grandchildren are among her descendants
and several of the latter were teething sim
ultaneously with their great grandmother.
WIRELESS SAVES SHIP-Wireless teleg-
raphy has saved its first Mexican ship.
The revenue cutter Jose Yves Zimantour be-
came disabled fifty miles off the coast near
Culiacan few days ago according to re-
ports received at Mexico City and her calls
for assistance by wireless were caught ue
by the Alamos. which Immediately steamed
out and brought the disabled cutter safely
to port.
CLASH WITH INDIANS-Reports have
been received at Mexico City of fight be-
tween a force of Mexican soldiers of the
One Hundred and Seveptieth battalion and
a band of Indians between Santa Cruz and
san Isidiro in Yucatan in which one soldier
was killed and several slightly wounded.
The Indians were driven back and took Ia
the hills, taking with them their dead and
wounded, if they had any.
dend of Y per cent and an extra dividend
of per cent on its common stock was de-
clared yesterday by the American Tobacco
company. year ago, besides a quarterly
dividend of 2 e per cent an extra dividend
Of Pa per cent was declared The extra
dividends three months ago and six months
ago were u per cent and nine months ago
per cent extra was declared.
BANQUET FOR TAFT-Invitations to the
Taft banquet to be given at the Hotel
Gruenwald in New Orleans the night of
February Il have been sent to President
Roosevelt, Vice President Fairbanks, the
governors of ten southern states and to a
number of prominent editors, railroad Off
Gals and public men. Elaborate arrange
ments for the welcome of Mr. Taft upon his
arrival February IL are being formulated.
FIND HEAD ON PILOT-Passenger in
the Pennsylvania railroad station at Jersey
City were Mortified late Tuesday night to
see the head of man lodged on the Cow
catcher" of locomotive as it drew into the
depot. 1t developed that the victim was
W. Leber, general foreman of grain com
pany, who had been struck earlier in the
evening at Railway, n. j. His mangled
tody was picked up near the scene of the
accident.
UPHOLD REFERENDUM-In an opinion
written by Justice Bean the supreme court
of Oregon affirmed the decree of the circuit
court for Multnomah county in the state
VS. the Pacific States Telephone and TeIe-
graph company, in which the constitutions
aiity of the initiative and referendum
amendment, adopted by the legislature in
1903 and by the people in 1906. is upheld
and the company is required to pay the
annual license of > per cent upon its gross
receipts and to make annual statements to
the state treasurer. The case probably will
be appealed.