Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

FOURTEEN DEAD-Fourteen are
nov dead as the result of the wreck on
the COeur d 'Alene and Spokane railroad
Saturday. j. G. Krause Of Spokane, a
widely known commercial traveller, died
Monday night.
GRANT TABLET DEDICAED-A
tablet marking the spot where Gen. u.
S. Grant reviewed his regiment, the
Twenty-first Illinois infantry July %,
1861, before starting for the front, was
dedicated Monday 1t was on the site
of old Camp Yates.
WILL BUILD COTTAGES-Mr
Russell Sage is preparing to build many
cottages near her home at Cedarhurst,
L. l., to be let to working people at
nominal rents. 1t is stated that $12
per month will be the maximum. Each
cottage will contain modern improve
ments and will be of frame.
MANY DIE OF CANCER-One man
in every thirty-two and one woman in
every eleven die from cancer in this
country, according to DR.. Milton E..
Foote, consulting physician to the New
York skin and cancer hospital. II have
no hesitancy in declaring cancer the
worst physical scourge we have to con-
tend with today" said DR.. Foote in an
interview.
TO BOOST AMERICA-4Dr. Benjamin
del Castillo, a member of the commits
sion in charge of the Argentine eXposi-
ton, which is to be held next year in
Buenos Ayres to celebrate the centen-
ary of the birth of the republic, has
arrived in New York and will estab-
lish headquarters for the purpose of
inducing American manufacturers TO
send exhibits.
INCENDIARY FIRE-Fire which
broke out in the block between Rookie
feller and Oakes streets at Everett,
Wash, late Monday night, burned five
buildings, mostly wooden structures,
before it was brought under control.
Two livery stables were destroyed, six
teen horses being burned. The loss is
estimated at 1000. A series of fires
within the last few days is believed by
the authorities to have been of incen-
diary origin. The sheriff has sworn in
seventy-five deputies, and at night the
city is being patrolled by armed
guards.
OPENS TUBERCULAR SCHOOL
Chicago has the distinction of being the
first city in the United States to open
a school for tubercular children, main
tained and supported by the board of
education. This novel school, which
will resemble a tented city, was opened
Tuesday morning on the grounds of the
and Vincennes avenue. The board of
education will supply tents, grounds,
equipment and teaching service, while
the Chicago tuberculosis institute will
furnish food, transportation and med
iCal services.
HARTMAN UNDER TREATMENT
A special cable from Vienna to Chi
cago says that E. H. Hartman, with
his family, arrived in Vienna Monday
from Gastin. and proceeded immedi-
ately to a cottage sanitarium in resi-
Dental suburb of Vienna, where two
floors had been engaged for their recep-
tion. Mr.. Hartman will be treated by
Carl Noorden, professor of internal
medicine in the University of Vienna,
who is generally recognized as the
greatest authority in Europe in his own
department of medical science, espe-
cially on questions relating to dietettcs.
TO PHOTOGRAPH BEASTS-W. f.
Boyce, the millionaire Chicago publish
er, has just completed final arrange
ments for sailing Wednesday from New
York of his expedition which will pho
tograph from a balloon the haunts or
wild animals in East Africa. Mr..
Boyce states that these pictures are
for the purpose of preserving a like
ness of the original landscape, and will
be furnished to all publications desir-
ing them free of charge. While Mr..
Boyce is in nominal charge of the eX-
pedition. the active command will fall
upon George r. Lawrence, who has al
ready gained considerable renown for
balloon photography.
QUICK DELEGRAPHY-An alarm of
fire for a blaze which originated in the
north part of Edwardsville, Ill, Mon
day afternoon was sent over 200 miles
in a circuit and returned to point
ten blocks distant in three minutes.
About sunset crew in the lower Wa
bash yards at Edwardsville Junction
reported to Agent w. A. Kearney at
the station that a car of coal had
caught fire. There is no telephone in
the yard. so Kearney notified the su-
perintendent's office in Decatur 100
miles away, by wire. The dispatcher
called Poag, the nearest station to Ed
wardsville that had long distance
telephone. The Poag operator notified
the exchange in Edwardsville, and the
operator rang the alarm in the engine
house. In exactly three minutes from
the time the fire was reported the ap-
naratus was on its way.