Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-17
TELEGRAPHlC BRIEFS

TITLED BANKER DIES-Baron Edward
Oppenheim, the banker and sportsman, is
dead at Colon. age Is.
RAISE DISCOUNT RATE-The rate Of
discount of the Bank of Bombay was raised
from to per cent yesterday.
CABINET AGAIN RESIGNS-The Servian
cabinet for the third time has rendered its
resignation, which King Peter is consid-
ering.
SENT TO PRISON-Fred Hall and Arthur
Dabner were yesterday sentenced by Judge
Nutter of Stockton to two and three years
respectively in San Quentin. Dabner, who
says he is q cousin Of the San Francisco gas
pipe thug by that name is an ex-convict.
TO AID STRIKERS-EverS possible as
sistance will be rendered by the American
Federation of Labor to the union laborers
involved in the hatters strike This de-
cision was reached at the concluding session
here yesterday of the executive council Of
the federation.
GIVES BIG PRIZES-President cortlandt
Field Bishop Of the Aero club Of America
at New York has presented $1,000 to the
club to be divided into four equal prizes
and awarded to the pilots of the first four
aeroplanes making a continuous flight of at
least one klometer during the current year.
WOMAN ENDS LIFE-Coroner Bean of
| Fresno was called to Coalinga yesterday to
hold an inquest over the remains Of Mrs.
Ida Cook, wife of an oil field laborer. Mrs.
COOK swallowed strychnine yesterday after
in few hours She was not on good terms
with her husband
TO RETIRE COLONEL-CoIoneI William
F. Tucker, assistant paymaster general, a
son-in-law of the late John A. Logan, has
been ordered before an army retiring board
at Chicago for examination to determine
his fitness for active duty. Colonel Tucker
is still at Hot Springs, Ark, where he was
ordered for treatment.
ONE JUROR PASSED-One juror was
temporarily passed in Judge Murasky's
superior court at San Francisco yesterday
to try Attorney A. S. Newburgh, accused of
attempting to bride a prospective juror in
the Ruef case. This leaves the jury with
seven men sworn to try the case and three
subject to peremptory challenge.
ORPHANAGE BURNED-Thirty children
living in one cottage of the Sutton Springs
orphanage and industrial farm conducted
by the Salvation Army at Headsburg, Cal,
narrowly escaped death yesterday when the
building was burned to the ground. The
children on the farm worked hard to save
the structure but in vain. The loss is $4,000
with little insurance.
ANARCHISTS HELD-After Police Judge
Deasy of San Francisco had refused to dis
miss the complaints against Emma Gold
man, the anarchist speaker and Ben Reit-
man, her manager, on the ground Of their
insuficiency, Attorney Kirk yesterday
stated he would institute habeas corpus pro-
ceedings in their behalf The police court
case was then postponed until Monday
HALSEY YET ILI-When the case Of
Theodore w. Halsey, former agent of the
Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany, accused Of bribing members of the
Schmitz board of supervisors, was called in
Judge DUNES court at San Francisco yes
| terday an affidavit from his physicians was
presented showing he is still i'll. On this
showing the case continued one week.
WARSHIPS ARRIVE-The battleship
Rhode Island crept into the harbor at Mar
settles Yesterday nOrDiDc~ q fOC au6
fired a salute of twenty-one guns, which
was answered gun for gun, by the shore
batteries. She moored alongside the Georgia
and Nebraska, already in this port. The
battleship New Jersey, following in the
wake of the Rhode Island, is expected to
arrive here at noon
CASE POSTPONED-Th case Of former
Supervisor Michael Coffey, charged with
bribery in connection with the United Rail-
roads trolley franchise, was called in Judge
DUNES court at San Francisco yesterday,
but continued until Monday to afford the
| judge time to consider motions for a dis
| missal of the indictment, made by attor-
neys for the defendant. The court expressed
a desire to investigate the attitude of the
Mcfarland grand jury in regard to the
immunity contract said to have been given
Coffey, the terms of which he is alleged by
| the prosecution to have violated
WOULD KIDNAP BLATZ-That IT was
the intention of two safe blowers to kidnap
Valentine Blatz, of the heads of Mil
waukee brewery, is the story told by the
Waterman of the brewery, concerning an
unsuccessful attempt made to open the safe
in the brewery office The men bound and
gagged the Waterman. Then they attempted
to crack the safe but were frightened away.
According TO the story told by the watch
man the safe crackers had expected Mr..
Blatz to return to the office in the evening,
and it their intention to capture and
hold him until the COMETS of the safe were
turned over.
CANAL AIDS ALIENS-The Merchant
Marine league has sent out a letter saying
that millions are being expended for the
construction of the Panama canal, which it
of other countries, because there is little
shipping under the American flag. 1t is
pointed out that everything connected with
the building of the canal is American ex-
cept the unskilled labor and yet all Of the
material is carried in foreign ships. The
letter is designed to influence the adoption
by congress Of the resolutions providing
that material for the canal shall be carried
in American ships.
SLAYER SENTENCED-CIev Num-,
who made a written confession that he had
murdered Thurman Walker to secure pos
session of his saddle and watch, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree and
sentenced to life imprisonment under in
structions of the court at Pueblo, Col. The
jury could not bring in a verdict fixing the
penalty at death because there was no
direct evidence of the crime. Num- and
Walker were travelling overland from Man
zanola, Col, to Wyoming, and while Walker
was sleeping in their camp near this city
one night Num-, according to the confess
sion, fired a bullet into Walkers head, kill
ig him instantly.
Every Junior under 10 years of age will re-
ceive a birthday present If Aunt Laurie re-
ceives a letter from the child telling about
the event.