Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-23
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

CONVoy RFTURNS-Oncial dispatches
fror1 Nelflla to Madrid say that a convoy mas
returned there with 106 wounded ana h4He'11"
dead -.
HEALTH BETTER-Mrs EndleotT ~ nv
v,1+bor-in-Iavy of Joseph Chamberlain belore
sba LEFT Iiverpool Tuesday for Boston aller
baT ,isit to Highbury, said Mr.. Chamberlain
is greatly improved in health lhoush SIN
physically weak,
FIGHTING FTRES-Four hundred men
90 Tgbtinq forest fires on land owned by the
diamond Match company two miles rom
Stirling city, Cal, along the Butte county
railroad The wires We're down IN lH@I ST.
ton yesterday and traffic Is delayeu-
FACTS REQUEsTED-The state depart
nent at Washington sent telegram yester-
iav to the American embassy at St Peters
burg asking for information in regard 10 tie
recent alleged massacre OF Jews at NV
pecially to whether any Americans iiau
suffered.
PRIEST RFCOVERS-Rev. Father Dennis
crCroyylev, founder of the Youths Directory
Of san Francisco, an organization LOT 'he eal9 ca.
Of homeless boys, who was STRUCK Dy an au
tonobila Monday night, was much lnpIoFeu
Yesterday. His physicians pronounce MS con-
dtion satisfactory.
AUTOIST INJURED-Mrs. Frank Han Oh
washington, D. c., who was accompanying
her husband IN the Munsey reliability race
frorn washington to Boston and return, suf-
fared a broken arm at Allentown, IA, yes
terday. when the machine in which she was
riding collided with telegraph pole
REoIISITION Is IsSUED-Extradition
napers were issued from the governors Of
Ace at Sacramento yesterday for M. Booth
alias Samuel Il. Booth. predicated on requ'-
sition issued by the governor OF Montana
Booth is wanted in Great rams Tor forgery
He is under arrest in San Francisco.
TO AID TRADE-The French government,
through its representative at Seattle Maurice
Huet announced yesterday its intention TO es-
tablish in Seattle a permanent commercial
commission, whose duty It will be to extend
and develop trade between the Pacific coast
of the United States and Canada and France
AWAIT CATACLYSM-True to their be-
lief that great upheaval is about TO occur,
carrying the wicked to destruction, several
New England families belonging to the sect
known as the Latter Reign Of the Apostolic
church" have gone to Duxbury, Mass, TO
await the cataclysm, which is set for Friday
next.
REvENIrEs GATN-The revenues Of the
Government from internal commerce are gain
ing steadily The reports to the treasury de-
partment show that since the close of the
fiscal year on June 80 last the total receipts
from internal revenue have been 500 gs2, 6lS,
an increase of $2,171524 over the corresponding
period in 1905
HEARING BEGUN-A hearing of the
COMPLAINT of the Salt Lake Commercial club
traffic bureau against the railroads centering
in the state and their connections, in which
discrimination against the shippers Of the in
termountain country is charged, was begun
at Salt Lake City yesterday before lntersta te
Commerce Commissioners Prouty and Clark
TRANSMITS VISION Albert Sanchez
an electrical engineer, at present an inmate
OF Belem prison, Mexico, says he has invented
an apparatus whereby vision well as voice
may be transmitted over an ordinary tele-
/ phone wire He calls his invention a tele-
radioption. Prison officials admit successful
/ tests have been made with models.
/ SENT TO PRISON-Oscar e. Hoffman,
4 former watchman employed by the Southern
D a aNG TaVatn NrTrn
! to serve ten years in the penitentary at Fol
! som yesterday by Judge Hughes Hoffman sci
/ three fires to the Pioneer mills, and quickly
| called the fire department to show that he
was alert and fit to be promoted to the DO.
sition Of railroad policeman, which position
4 he sought.