The San Francisco call., 1909-03-03
Telegraph Brevities

LUMBERMEN ELECT CRA1G-Philadelphia
March 2.-The national wholesale lumber deal
ers association. in convention here. today elect
ed George f. Craig of this city president.
HOME FOR FARMING CoNGRESS-Cheyen
Wyo., March 2.-Secretary John T. Burns of the
dry farming congress announced tonight that the
permanent headquarters of the congress would be
located in Denver.
BROWNS SELF AND BABE-Reglna Sask.
March Mrs. William Finlayson this morning
drowned her year old Warren and then
ment OF insanity brought on by illness.
BIG BOND DEAL-New York. March q
Comptroller Metz today disposed Of $4,000 000
worth OF New York city per cent bonds to "a
1o1 .3S.
sERvIA IS MODELLING TRooPsLBerlin,
March "A special dispatch from Belgrade TO
tne Lokal Anzeiger says that in spite of all de-
nials the mobilization of troops by the Servian
government continues and is not confined TO two
divisions.
TWO KILLED IN MINE BLAsT-wilkesbarre
Pa, March 2.-Two foreign mine workers were
Killed, another Is missing and about IL were
badly burned by an explosion of gas today in a
Blanchard.
ERIE BOND ISSUE APPRovED-Albany. n.
u, March IA formal order granting the sap-
plication of the Erie railroad company for ai,-
thority to issue $50 000, 600 of per cent collat.
eral gold bonds was entered by the public service
commission today.
SEWER BONDS voTED-whittier March 2
Bonds in the sum of $4,000 for the nstalla-
tion of a complete sewer system and the pur-
chase OF sewer farm were voted here today A
tract of land suitable for the farm has already
been selected. comprising so acres.
MILWAUKEE ROAD BUYS LINE-Seattle.
March AT price not made public, the Chi.
cago. milwaukee and st. Paul has bought the
Priest Rapids railway. on the west bank of
the Columbia river in Renton conntv srom NV w D
Rust II. K. Owens and Hanley b. Haynes.
SHOOTS WOMAN AND SELF-Portland. Ore.
March John Carlisle, worker in the paper
mills at oregon City. today shot his divorced
wife in lodging house at Second and Jefferson
streets and then shot himself dead. The woman
Is not fatally hurt
PLUNGEs BENEATH ENGINE Bakersfield.
March 2.-Charles Garland, German, aged
about 40 years, well dressed, and whose home is
supposed to be at Monrovia, committed suicide
tonight by throwing himself In front of a switch
engine at the Santa Fe depot
DEPUTY TOWN MARSHAL TURNS HOLD
UP MAN-Walsenburg Colo. March 2.-Juan
Aguar. deputy marshal of this town, was
Nulty. boiler maker Of s27, then ct the point
of a gun marching him out of town.
BURGLARS LOOT FOUND -Kingsburg. March
while at work in his vineyard today Nels
Hanson plowed up box from the safe of S.
Davis G. Co., which blown open by safe
crackers a few weeks ago. The box contained
legal papers, notes and trading checks.
HEAVY sNowsToRM IN EURoPE-Berlin,
March Snow has been falling almost without
Interruption since Sunday over central Europe
Railroad. telegraphic and telephone communi-
cation is greatly disturbed in the eastern prov
inces of Russia and the snow generally is from
six inches TO two feet deep.
FIRE IN HARVARD DCRMIToRY-Cam-
bridge, Mass, March IA fire which broke
out early this morning in Weld hall, one Of
the largest dormitories at Harvard univer-
sity, created much excitement in the college
yard, bringing out about 500 half clad students
who live in the dormitory. The loss was small
CAUSES OF THE PoPE'S ILLNESS Chicago.
March "A special TO the Daily News from
Rome says: DR.. Petachi says that the pope S
illness is the result of early rising and saying
mass in cold private chapel Neither .he
doctor nor the popes attendants can persuade
him to change his habits. His present fitness is
not serious.
STEEL WORKERS WAGES CUT-Buffalo
~ Y, March 2.-The reduction of 10 per cent
in the wages Of every employe in the Lacka-
wanna steel works took effect today. The
Lackawanna is one of the largest independent
concerns, and this is the first announcement of
a cut in wages the part of the independents
since the war against the United States steel
corporation began.