Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-25

! been attracted to it by the loud eX-
| haust from its motor Residents of
Montclair, n j., are the latest to re-
port having seen it.
Leaves Small Fortune-Col-
onel Duncan b. Cooper. who with his
son Robin was found guilty Of killing
former Senator CarmaCk in Tennessee,
| inherits SILL ,655 from the estate of his
brother, William +. Cooper, the late
former associate justice of the su-
preme court of Tennessee, who died
here May Z, 1907. The estate, which
has just been appraised by the state,
! leaves fortune Of $3.50, 724, nearly all
of which goes to brothers, sisters,
nephews and nieces.
Woman Accused of Burglary
Charged with having plundered a
northwest side residence in Chicago in
true burglar fashion and with having
swindled several women of the same
| section out of small sums of money,
Mrs. Bruniel KaCsor, 43 years Old is a
prisoner at the West Chicago avenue
police station Neighbors who are
said to have identified the prisoner, de-
clared the woman entered the home of
one of the victims by forcing a front
window and climbing through the
aperture in daylight
Die of Pellagra-With five
deaths from pellagra in Butler county,
Alabama, three persons dying and five
cases under observation there is al
most a panic in that section The state
department Of health h been impor-
tuned to send help, but DR.. n. Mason,
the only expert in the service is in
vestigating in Clark county, where
more than 100 cases are reported.
{ ff1Y haa1th hgy-a hano
structed to isolate all cases and watch
them with a view to determining
whether or not they are infectious.
To Aid Workingmen-in order
to furnish employment for the hun
dreds Of skilled laborers who have been
idle at the Puget Sound navy yard
since the four aTmOred cruisers of the
Pacific fleet left there August II, the
navy department has been persuaded
to send the gunbOat Concord and the
cruiser Charleston to the yard for re-
pairs AS a result of this arrange
ment plans for laying off 700 men for
lack of work at the yards have been
abandoned Recently 500 men of the
force Of 1900 were laid off and further
reductions in the force had been or
derod.
Prisoner Is Dying-As a result
of visit TO the Indiana state prison
at Laporte, Monday of Mrs. II. l..
Finley and Mrs Mary Steele, sisters Of
Ray LaIuphere serving sentence in the
Indiana state prison for burning the
house of Mrs Bella Guinness, who with
her three children is said to have lost
her life Attorney Worden has drawn
UP q petition 20 present to Governor
Marshall, asking for the parole of
Lamphere on the ground that he is
growing weaker daily from tubercu-
losis. Lamphcre told his sisters he did
not believe he would live more than
two or three weeks longer.
Robbed of $15,000-Mrs. Jane
Lucas of Newark, N. j., has reported
to the police that while in New York
Monday pickpockets relieved her of
bonds, bank books and money repre-
senting a total of $4,000. Mrs. Lucas
came to this city to arrange for a trip
to Europe and about s o'clock last
night she boarded a trolley car in Jcr
sey city for her home. The securities
and cash were in a pocket of an under
skirt and she believed them TO be safe,
until she arrived at her home. Among
the missing property are $4,000 worth
Of bonds OF the City of Manchester
Eng. and $1,000 in Bank of England
notes.