Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-02
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

BUSSE EXONERATED-George Busse,
brother of Mayor Busse, who accidentally
| shot Mrs. Lueius c. Tuckerman in the Wal
| ton apartment building at Chicago Sunday
night, was exonerated from all blame by a
coroner's jury yesterday.
TWO HUNDRED MEET DEATH-At
least 200 lives were lost in fire which oc-
| Cured yesterday in q feet of flower boats
| at Canton, China. The charred bodies of
! 10 victims have already been recovered,
| but many persons are still missing.
Ell PASO ISOLATED-Two freight wrecks
on the Southern Pacific yesterday brought
transcontinental traffic to a standstill and
isolated FL Paso. One freight train was
ditched seven miles west Of Ell Paso and
another eighty miles east. No one was in
! jured in either wreck. The road will be
clear in q few hours.
VISCOUNT DIES-viscount Tanaka died
in Toxic yesterday. He was a member of
the privy council and took prominent part
! in the restoration of the empire after the
downfall of the Shogunate. Afterward he
was imperial minister of education and later
| minister of justice. He also served envoy
to Rome and to Paris.
WILL PAY ETNE-The International Har-
vester company will pay the fine of $126OO
assessed against it by the district court of
Shawnee county, Kansas, and approved by
| the Kansas supreme court for violating the
Kansas antitrust law. Within a few days
the district court will be asked by the kan
/
DEFENDS CONTRACTORS-Stat En-.
gineer Ellery reported to the state engineer
ing advisory board at Sacramento yesterday
that the alleged faulty construction work on
the receiving building at the Agnews state
hospital was not as bad as described in the
affidavits of the building trades council.
The investigation will be resumed Wednes-
day.
FORMER CHIEF DIES-W. s. Fowler a
former chief Of police Of Stockton and an
| q N fran &c y -
| Stockton, aged 76 years. He had been chief
three terms, twice by election and once by
appointment. He leaves a widow Paral-
ysis with complications was the cause of
death, and he had been in failing health for
a year.
CALENDAR CROWDED-The February
term of the United States circuit court OF
| appeals convened yesterday in San Fran
cisco with Judge Gilbert presiding and
Judges Ross and Morrow also the bench.
The calendar is long one, comprising cases
on appeal from all parts of the Pacific coast,
and the term is likely to continue the en-
| tire month.
FILE INCORPORATION-The Union Iron
Works Dry Dock company fled articles OF
| Incorporation with the county clerk In San
Francisco yesterday. It's capital stock is
| placed at $4,000, 900, and the object of the
corporation is to purchase or construct dry
docks and other similar structures and to
bid for government and private ship building
and repair work
FIGHT FOR OFFICE-John Sullivan, Gov
ernor Harmon's appointee to the Ohio state
| railroad commission. was sworn into office
yesterday at Columbus He demanded DOS
session of the office from j. c. Norris the
appointee of former Governor Harris, but
Morris refused 10 vacate. Sullivan said he
would bring quo warranto proceedings to get
possession Of the office.
WIDOW PENSIONED-The widow of
Father John of Kronstadt. the well known
Russian priest who died about a month
ago in st. Petersburg, has been given a
yearly pension of $4,000. On account of the
many pilgrims visiting the monastery where
the remains of Father John are buried the
| number of priests attached to the estab-
lishment has been increased.
FAVOR WIRELESS-The French govern
ment as result of the made of wireless
! telegraphy following the sinking of the
steamer Republic off Nantucket January %
| is studying the entire question of wireless
communication with the idea of introducing
a bill to oblige French navigation companies
to install wireless apparatus on all their
ships above a certain tonnage
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR BLAZE
The Central Arcade, consisting of twenty
| stores on the ground floor, with offices, So
ciety rooms and printing plant above, was
destroyed by fire yesterday at Schenectady,
n. Y. The building was located between
the New York Central railroad tracks and
the Erie canal and extended from Union to
Liberty streets. The loss will reach over
! $4,000.
| GMELICH ELECTED-The joint session
| of the Missouri general assembly yesterday
| afternoon declared Jacob f. Gmelich elected
| to the office of lieutenant governor of Mis-
| souri, No vote was taken, the speaker de-
| claring the result when the recount commit
tee reported it's findings as follows For
/ Jacob F.. Gmelich, Republican, 346,642; for
| William r. Painter Democrat. 346,465;
| Gmelich's plurality III.
| SLAYER ELECTROCUTED - Salvatore
1 Gov mol.
| chair at Sing Sing prison yesterday for the
murder of two New York. city policemen.
| George NJ. Sechler and Albert A. Sileck, on
Sunday afternoon, April IA, 1908. The dou-
| Bile murder followed a fight in Washington
1 Square park during which Governale fired a
revolver at a fellow countryrnan. He shot
and killed the officers who attempted to
| arrest him.
THREE DROWNED-That three men
comprising the crew of the schooner Fidel-
| ity which foundered in the river Holt
station five days ago were drowned is the
! belief of the sheriff at Stockton. Three men
were seen rowing away from the schooner
the day it foundered, and as they have not
been seen or heard of since it is supposed
that they perished. Their identity is un-
known, and the schooner is a stranger in
these waters.
WRITER JUMPS BAH-Broughton Bran
denburg, the magazine writer who was in
dicted on charge of grand larceny as a
result of his sale to a newspaper of an
article alleged to have been written by
Grover Cleveland, failed to appear yester-
day before Justice Bowling in New York
to answer to the Indictment His bail of
$500, which given by a bonding com
pany, was forfeited. A bench warrant for
Brandenburg's arrest was Immediately
! issued.
FORTY-SEVEN DROWN-The British
steamer Clan Ranald is a total wreck near
| Edithburg, Australia, and the captain and
| forty-siX of the crew most of whom were
Asiatics were drowned. The vessel was
| drifting ashore last night but sank before
boats could reach her. Eighteen members
| OF the crew, including twelve coolies, were
/ picked up. The Clan Ranald was struck
/ by a heavy sea yesterday afternoon and
rendered unmanageable. Then being driven
| ashore she turned turtle.