Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-10
TELEGRAPH NEWS IN BRIEF

Oppose Football-A bill pro-
hibiting football at all state institu-
lions has passed the house of repre-
sentatives in Salt Lake City, but it
has small chance of passing the sem
ate.
Farmer Murdered-While Lon
L. Channel, farmer, was seated at
the supper table with his wife at their
home near Memphis late Monday night
an unidentified person fired charge
of bucksot through a window, infiict-
ing wounds from which the man died
within few moments.
Call for Meeting-The execu-
tive committee of the Georgia Textile
association yesterday issued a call for
meeting of all textile interests of
the south at Atlanta on March 16. The
purpose of the meeting will be to con-
slider the tariff and other important
questions relative to the textile indus
try.
Consul Honored-Charles Hen
rotin, consul general in Chicago for
Turkey for many years. has received
recognition of an unusual kind from
the new Turkish government. 1t is
the order of the Commandery of the
Osmanie. He has for some time pos
sessed the order of the Commandery
of Medjidie.
Pioneer Dead-Mrs. Margaret
Ellen Liscott, the first white child
born in Chicago after it's incorporation
i as a city, is dead in Bloomington, Ill
| She was born on March 3, 1885, and
was surrounded at her birth by
squaws. Her first bath was taken in a
tub made from a hollow log. She was
rocked to sleep in cradle of bark.
Accused of Fraud-Henry S.
Hudspeth, former president of the
New Orleans Typographical union, was
arrested there late last night charged
with fraudulently obtaining money
from the union. He was a candidate
for the presidency of the international
Typographical union against James M.
Lynch at the last convention of the
organization.
Accused of Libel-Tedoro Ka-
law, editor of Ell Renscimiemto, the
organ of the radical element of the
Filipinos at Manila, has been convict
ed of libeling Dean c. Worcester,
member of the Philippine commission,
and sentenced to serve nine months in
the military prison of Bilibid and to
pay fine of 5000 pesos Kalaw will
take an appeal from the sentence.
Hero Killed-John Want, a
truck driver of New York. is dead after
having sacrificed his life to save g.
year-old boy who darted in front of
the horses in East Twenty-second
street In an endeavor to turn the
team aside Want was thrown from his
seat, falling under the wheels of his
own truck, and was crushed. He died
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Find Ancient Duck-The COM
plete skeleton of a prehistoric duck,
estimated by DR.. Fl. G. Bumps of the
American Museum of Natural His
tory to be 100000 years old, has just
been acquired by the museum in New
York. The specimen is 0 well pre-
served that the greater part of the skin
of the head, legs and body may be
seem 1t was found near Lance creek,
Wyoming.
Arrested by Girls - Herman
Hossmeister is under arrest on sus-
Dpicion of attempting to pass worth
less check in Oak Park, Chicago. He
was captured by five girls and two
boys, high school pupils, after an ex-
citing chase. The suspect attempted
to escape by crawling upon the APP
proach of a toboggan slide. but was
dragged out by the youngsters and
eventually handed in a cell.
Discusses Women-No womap
need remain a mental lightweight in
this age of progress. She can cure her
self of her intellectual inferiority by
getting a job, forgetting romance and
costly raiment, mixing in politics and
freeing herself from incarceration in
the home" according to statements
made by Prof. w. l. Thomas of the
University of Chicago, whose views
concerning the "adventitious charac-