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

ter of woman have been widely dis
semnated.
To Adopt Old Styles-The an
nual convention of the dressmakers'
convention which will begin in Chi
cago today, will be signalized by i'm
portant edicts booming the directoire
gown and kindred styles and indors-
ing costumes of the tenth, eleventh,
twelfth and fifteenth centuries. 1.-THE
waist line" it is announced, will be
near the knees, which means there
will be no such thing as a waist line.
Fatal Duck Huntsville duck
hunting in boat on the Calumet
river at Black Oak, ten miles east of
Hammond, Ind, Joseph Welsh of
East Chicago accidentally shot and
killed himself. In falling his body
overturned the boat, throwing l.. Mil
Ter, the other occupant, into the water.
The latter was unconscious when res
cued and is expected to die. A similar
fate is predicted for Welsh's wife as
a result of the shock caused by the
| news.
Victim of Mistake - Rose
Cohen, an S-year-old girl, is GONZALES
cling in the Harrisburg, Pa, hospital
after having been operated on Sun
| day for appendicitis by mistake. The
child and her 11-year-old brother were
sent to the institution suffering with
| enlarged tonsils. In some unexplained
manner thea girl was given an anes-
thetic and her appendix was taken
out. The surgeons say the appendix
was somewhat infiamed and they did
not discover their mistake until the
parents called.
To Adjust Feud = Samuel
| -
| Federation of Labor, may go to Chi
cago next week to adjust long stand
ing difference between the carpenters
and woodworkers' unions, which for
several years has caused much annoy
ance to builders throughout the coun-
try. Recently $50 carpenters at work
on a Chicago building "walked out"
because members of the woodworkers'
union were employed to do work OH
| doors and castings. The "strike" tied
up the work for more than week.
Zion City Excited-Zion City
and the Christian Catholic Apostolic
church, of which Wilbur Glenn Voliva
is general overseer, have been thrown
into a turmoil over the expulsion of
John Taylor, one of the presiding ell
| ders, who is accused of circulating
literature hostile to the Voliva re-
| gime. For long time the thirty diff
ferent factions into which Zion City's
population has been split had lived in
comparative peace, each following it's
own plans and purposes, but these
anonymous dodgers have opened a new
| avenue for trouble. An effort is being
made to bring about peace.
Criminal Ends Life-A man
who. the police say, was Thomas Muir
ply, one of the cleverest of the old
time pickpockets. committed suicide in
| New York by shooting himself through
| the heart. He fired the shot while sit
ting on bench in park in Harlem.
| Two policemen, attracted by the noise,
arrived in time to see his body roll off
to the sidewalk. Murphy had made
preparations for death, having recent
ly gone to an undertaken and left in
structions for the cremation of his
body. A peculiar statement was found
on his person, telling of his experience
with the police and how he was
"hounded" by the police. He was so
years old and formerly a bookmaker.
Invade Park Row, N. Y.-True
to their promise, band of suffragettes
invaded the downtown newspaper dis
trict at 2:30 o'clock yesterday morning
in the hope of attracting the attention
of and conveying to the cause of
woman's suffrage the night working
employees of the newspapers along
! Park row. Standing on wagon drawn
! by one horse ten women halted in
front of the Tribune building, and the
speechmaking began at 8 o'clock. AL
| though there were few persons on the
street at the time, crowd soon col
lected and listened to the talks.
Among the we'll known women who
were seen in the wagon were Mrs.
Boorman Wells and DR.. Maude Glas-
cow.