Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-08
TfLfGRAPHIC BRIEFS

Slabs Husband-Mrs. David
Coat, aged 2s. has been arrested In
Evansville, Ind, charged with stabbing
her husband with a caseknife, because
ne came home drunk. The man is in a
serious condition.
Speeders Arrested-Fifteen ar
rests and 81 cases in the lower crimi-
nal court of New York was the auto
mobile record in New York Tuesday. as
the authorities continued their crusade
against speeding, Fines of $25 were i'm
posed in most of the cases heard in the
court of special sessions.
To Build Theater--Georgc NJ.
Conan is to have theater of his own
in Chicago He says that site has been
secured, ground will be broken within
six weeks and the new playhouse
opened to the public by January l,
1910. Mr.. Conan further declared he
had about decided to take up his per-
manent residence in Chicago,
Dog Bites Three-Edward {.
Fitch, assistant city attorney of Chi
cage, and 7-year- Kim Valentine
are at the Pasteur institute suffering
with bites inflicted by a dog which at
tackled them on the street. The police
were told that woman also had been
bitten, but were unable to learn her
name. A patrolman followed the ami
NAL which had created panic among
pedestrians, and finally killed it.
Potato Prices Rise - During
the past week wholesale prices for po-
tatoes in Chicago have advanced &c n
bushel, and for extra quality stock
about 10c, the better grades being put
above the dollar mark. The prevailing
price now is $1.02 on the street. which
means from 40 to so cents a peck at re-
tail. The cause for the increase is the
light stocks at distributing points and
the holding tendency on the part of the
farmers.
Drinks Wrong Drug-Dr. w.
H. Fletcher. Il dentist, is in a serious
condition at hospital in Chicago as
the result OF drinking aconite last night
by mistake. He had just finished mis-
dinner and having been suffering for
some time from Indigestion, went to
the sideboard to take some medicine.
He mistook the bottle and swallowed
a tablespoonful of the poison. A short
time later he became i'll. discovered his
error, and just before losing conscious
ness managed to telephone to physi-
clans and the police.
To Honor Aviator-Capt. I.
S. Baldwin, u. S. A. is to be honored
by the Aero club of America with
gold medal. Announcement that his
services to the cause of aeronautlcS
were to be recognized in this manner
was made after meeting of the con-
test committee of the club in New
York yesterday. The medal will bear
the following inscription: ITO Thomas
Scott Baldwin, in recognition of his
achievement in constructing the first
war dirigible balloon, accepted by the
United States government in 1885,
To Broaden Policy - Plans
looking to broadening of the poll
cies for the next two years will be UNI
der discussion at the next biennial con-
vention of the Young Women's Chris
tian association, to be held in st. Paul,
Mimi, April 1926. The last two years
have been a period of study and exper-
iment along the lines laid down by the
convention of two years ago. when the
associa tions of the country formed the
union and elected a national board. The
board will present reports and recon-
mendations based on two years ex-
perience. The national organization
represents a membership OF more than
1884, 900 young women.
To Close Saloons-As the re-
suit VI ii IelllOHSlI dllCt lSSuCu SCeAA
ago, the last twelve saloons in Gary,
Indiana. closed their doors at IL o'clock
last night Under the Indiana code it
requires a two-thirds majority of the
voters at any election to force the
liquor interests from any township.
The elections of 1906 gave Calumet
township, in which Gary is located, a
voting population of 200. Most of these
were farmers and willing to vote
against the saloon. Gary has a. popu-
lation now of more than $4,000 and an
attempt will be made to secure the CO.
operation of the county commissioners
in restoring the licenses.
Motive Veiled-Just what mo-
tive is behind the new Chinese natur-
alization law just promulgated in Pc
king, the practical effect of which is to
prohibit natives acquiring foreign citi-
zenship, is not fully understood here'
no official information touching the
matter having come to Washington.
One suggestion is that the government
desires TO stop emigration, and another
is that the object is to extend a wei
come to Chinese who have assumed
foreign citizenship to repatriate them
selves A feature of the law is not UNI
like that which pertains in some Euro
peans countries, which holds that a
subject who may have acquired foreign
citizenship Is always amenable to To-
cal laws upon returning to the place of
his BIRTH There has been great deal
of emigration to Siam and Malay.