Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-07
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

SOLDIERS Observation-Disclosures Claude
Wichison of Company H. Tenth infantry
and Private John Campbell of the coas
artillery have been dshonorably discharged
by courtmartia1 at Chicago and sentenced
to hard labor because through negligence
they lost part of their army clothing
TO DEFEND MERGER-It is said to be
probable that Judge e. H. Gary, chairman
of the United States Steel corporation, Will
issue statement defending the purchase OF
the Tennessee Coal and Iron company by
the corporation, a subject which was re-
Gently before congress, with view TO de-
termining the legality of the transaction.
BANKER ACQUITTED-The jury in the
case of Horace e. Neal, former cashier OF
the defunct Capital State bank at Boise,
Idaho, charged with large forgeries. found
yesterday after seven hours of considera-
ton Neal was intoxicated from the use
of morphine at the time he committed the
acts specified in the indictment
INFLUX FROM ERIN-Figures issued by
the Irish Immigrant society show that dur
ing the year 1908 landed from the Emerald
isle In New York. 1917 under IA years OF
age and 6S4 over 45 years old Or the
total arrivals more than half renamed m n
the city, while the rest were scattered
throughout the country, the greatest num-
her going to Illinois. New Jersey came
next and then Pennsylvania.
CHILDREN INJURED-Arthur McGn-
mis-. a 1s-year-old boy, and Bertha Butler,
a 14-year-old GIRL both of Richmond Hill.
staten Island, are in serious condition In
st. Mary's hospital, New York. after nav
ling fallen together forty-hve feet through
a yentilator into the auditorium of a Rich
mond Hill church yesterday. The boy was
injured internally and little hope is held
out for his recovery.
SMOKER ARRESTED-Louis Funcke, a
poultry dealer was the first man arrested
under the new health ordinance of New
York making 1t misdemeanor to smoke or
carry lighted cigars or pipes in the subway
station. Funcke was arrested after tussle
with q special policeman. In the nlgnl
court a magistrate discharged the prisoner
with reprimand. There has been no
ticeable decrease in the smoking IN the
stations since the passage of the new law
NAUTICAL STATISTICS : Forty-seven
sail and steam vessels of 1894 gross tons
were built in the United States and oni-
cially numbered during the month OF Feb
ruary, according to a report by the bureau
of navigation department of commerce ana
labor The distribution of these vessels in
the various waters where they Will be put
in service follows: Atlantic and gulf z, "a
ciic H. great lakes l and western rivers ~
six of the vessels are of steel, the others OF
wood.
ROOSEVELT GUEST-Theodore Roose-
Welt, ex-president of the United States Will
be the principal guest at an informal
breakfast at the home OF Konert e e. t Hu,e
morning Thirty others will be present, and
they are men prominently identined with
magazine work. Among the more prom
nent guests beside Mr.. Roosevelt. Will be
William Dean Howells. Albert Shaw, Rich
ard Watson Glider, Walter Fl. Page ana
the Rev. Father j. Wynns' editor OF the
New Catholic Review of America.
ACTORS INDIGNANT--vaudeville per-
formers at fve-cent theaters are indignant
in Chicago over an attempt OF the man
ayers to inaugurate splits" whereby they
are forced to go from one theater to an
other daily. At present they have one
"split'' a week. which means that they play
four nights in one theater and three in an
other The Moving Picture Theater own
ers' association has determined to adopt
the new system 1t is said that audiences
tire of the artists II they kept more
than day in any one theater.
DOCTOR LOSES EYE--As the result OF
a. dispute with a negro waiter. DIR. Lonnie
Robson of Charleston, S. G.. who went to
washington with the German Fussilier
company of the National Guard of South
Carolina to attend the Inauguration, will go
home minus one eye and with the sight OF
the other seriously impaired The trouble
occurred last Thursday night in a fashion
able restaurant here, the negro striking DR..
Robsons eye glasses and driving portion
Of the lens into his left eye. The negro
escaped and has not been arrested.
FOIIS ROBBERs-Four men attempted
to hold up a man in Harlem last Friday
night but the victim, although wounded
BY bullet in the left arm had presence of
mind enough to throw his diamond pin. a
gold watch and chain and wallet con-
tanning $3.50 into snow bank His assal-
ants after firing six shots, only one of which
took effect. escaped in the darkness. The
man who frustrated the robbery was Abra-
ham Bloom, a retired liquor dealer. He
was visiting friends in West One Hundred
and Thirty-s seventh street when summoned
to the door and told to held up his hands.