Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-10
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

ACTRESS UNIMPROVED-The condition
of Miss Blanche Walsh, the actress, who is
seriously i'll at the University hospital in
Kansas City, Mo, was unchanged yesterday.
SHELTER CLOSED-The big smelter at
Velardina, Mexico, owned by the American
Smelling and Refining company has been
closed account of a strike. The plant
employs about 1000 men.
KILL PRIMARY BILL-The Montana
state senate yesterday by a strict partisan
which was patterned after the Oregon law
and which relates solely to the election Of
United States senator's.
VENIRE SUMMONED-Judge A. B. An
derson, in the United States district court
at Chicago, yesterday issued order for a
for service in the retrial of the famous
Standard Oil $29, 24O, 900 fine.
FACTORY DESTROYED-Fire of un-
known origin early yesterday completely de-
stroyed the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
road creosoting plant, located four miles
from Greenville, Texas. The loss is esti-
mated at between $15O,OOO and $780, 600.
HONOR MRS. TAFT-Mrs. William H.
Taft, wife of the president-elect. has been
elected to membership in the Connecticut
society, Colonial Danes of America. Mrs.
Taft is a descendant of Thomas Welles, gov
ernor of Connecticut from 1855 to 1858.
MORRIS ADLER DIES-Morris Adler for
thirty years the head of the firm of Adler
& Oberndorf in Chicago, hide dealers and
packers of by-products at the stock yards,
is dead. His health was broken down sew
eral months ago by an attack of kidney
trouble.
ACCUSED OF MURDER-M. Pearl, one of
the Greeks implicated in a fight with Hindu
laborers at Marysville, Cal, last Thursday.
when one Hindu was killed and two injured,
der. He identified in a crowd of twenty
men by one of the injured Hindus.
TO DOUBLE CAPACITY-The Great
Western Power company at Marysville has
changed its original plans and will at once
double the capacity of its Big Ben plant,
making its capacity 144, 900 horsepower 1t
is announced the company will spend S5,-
900 during the spring and summer.
ANGELENO ARRESTED-H A. Gray.
said to be from Los Angeles was yesterday
arrested at Atlanta, Ga, on suspicion
charged with having 100 blank checks
printed purporting to be from a bank in Ro-
chester, N. Y. Gray said he had the checks
to exhibit in making these firms believe he
carried large bank balance
DRASTIC DRY" LAW-The Kansas state
judiciary committee presented a bill yester-
day which provides for the discontinunce of
all druggists permits, forbids the keeping
of liquor at clubs and places ban on the
sale OF liquor for any purpose whatsoever.
1t is the most drastic prohibition measure
ever introduced in the Kansas legislature,
GIRLS DROP FAR-An electric elevator
car fell ten stories with fifteen girls at 81
East Eighteenth street, New York yester-
day, but as the mechanism held for brief
moments at the seventh and third floors the
force of the fall was broken, and all of the
girls escaped serious injury. Four of them
tainted from fright, caused by their rapid
descent.
BANK SUSPENDED-The comptroller OF
the currency today announced that the
Coal Belt National bank of Benton, Ill, has
been closed by order Of the directors and
that George c. Ball has been appointed re-
ceiver The banks embarrassment is said
to date from the defalcation Of few years
ago of r. A. Youngblood former president,
who is serving a term in prison.
VENIRE EXHAUsTED-What was left of
the fifth venire was in court at Nashville,
Tenn, yesterday when the attempt was made
to secure jury to try Colonel and Robin
Cooper and John D. Sharpe for the killing of
former Senator Carmack The remainder of
the venire was exhausted quickly without
qualifying a single man. The court ordered
500 new names drawn from the box for the
sixth venire.
DIES IN SEATTLE-Edward Oziel Graves
born in Russia, N. Y, in 1S43, assistant
treasurer of the United States under the Ar
thur administration and chief Of the bureau
of printing and engraving in Clevelands ad-
mnistration, died in Seattle yesterday Of
creeping paralysis, after illness of two
years. For twenty-six years Graves was con-
nected with the treasury department at
Washington, D. c., and from a modest clerk
ship, to which he was appointed in 1863 he
was rapidly advanced to assistant treasurer.