Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-04
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

TO ATTEND NAUGURAL-Atlantas hna
delecation which goes to participate In the
inaugural parade left yesterday on a special
train for Washington. This includes two crack
companies of the Fifth regiment, Georgia Ma
tional guard and the Atlanta hremeh oruin
and bugle corps.
ALLEGED PIRATES ARRESTED-A
house which the police say has been the head,
quarters for a gang of Long Island Sounu
pirates has been raided at the entrance 9, 10
Flushing bay Three men were arrested-Ern-
est Krause and his two sons, Max ana VIII
liam. They were locked up charged with our-
glary and grand larceny
CHAINS TESTED-Two samples of the
chain to be used the gear on the locks or
the Panama canal are being tested at the
public roads division, department OF agrlcu-
ture. Two sections were submitted to tensile
test of 147 900 pounds to the square inch be-
fore the metal parted, and on second test
developed a strength of 5000 pounds greater.
PLAN BUSINESS Shows. Louis will
have a business show beginning next year
This has been definitely decided The business
show at Chicago, however, will not be aDan-
doned, as announced previously, Tor II
has been decided to put the 1910 snow on the
first week in March and then load all of the
exhibits and decorations on fiat cars and ship
them TO st. Louis.
MEASURE INDORSED-Chicago's clergy-
men heartily indorse a bill introduced in the
legislature providing for fine or Imprisonment
for divorced persons who by falsehood and
MISREPRESENTATION prevail on ministers to mar
ry them. 1t is intended to remedy defect IN
the state law, which provides that no divorced
person shall marry again within one year ana
in some cases two years after the decree OF
divorce.
ONLY POOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS a
disease of the wealthy still exists, but dlph-
iberia as a cause of death among the wealthy
has almost ceased to exist. This statement Is
made by Health Commissioner Evans of Chi
cago in an analysis of the deaths from the
disease during the past two weeks twenty
nine deaths during that time from the disease
all occurred in the comparatively poorer dis
trcts of the city.
TWO GIRLS KILLED-Two girls, hasten
ing with laughter on their lips to spend a
merry evening with friends, were fatally
crushed between two heavy 'pay-as-you-enter
cars at Chicago yesterday. They were Marcia
OIL, H. and Agatha Reinhold, 16 years old.
Miss OH was SO severely injured she died a
few minutes after she taken to hos
pital. Miss Renhold fingered in agony until
almost midnight when death relieved her.
DREDGER CROSSES Seattle German
dredge Fruhlins, the first dredger to cross the
Pacific has reached Victoria, B. c., from
KEEL by way of Algiers, Sabang and MOL
where calls made for coal on the world
circling cruise, bound to the Fraser river 10
be delivered by Capt. II. K Lausen to the
Canadian government. which purchased the
suction dredger at cost of s25O'OOO to deepen
the Fraser river TO thirty feet between New
Westminster and the gulf.
LOAN NEGOTIATED-The government
of Nicaragua is negotiating through agents at
London for external loan approxmating
~. 900 900. which is to be expended IN the con-
struction of a railroad from San Mguelito on
the southeast coast of Lake Nicaragua TO
Monkey Point on the Caribbean sea. The pro-
posed road will pass through a country espe-
cially adapted to the raising of bananas, and
will be an important factor in the develop
ment of the natural resources of Nicaragua.
sLEUTHS PLENTIFUL-Private dctec-
tiyes swarm through the corridors of the fed
eraI building at Chicago during the hearing of
the Standard Oil case, and some of them even
penetrate into Judge Anderson's court ROOM
stationing themselves more or less conspicu-
ously around the room. a professional spot
ter selects a person on whom he is supposed TO
keep tab all the time, and the consequence
is there is hardly any one connected with the
case who is not almost constantly "shadowed.'
URGES BOYCOTT-A joint resolution in
PRODUCED by Representative Lamb of Virginia
in the house of congress provides that no part
of money appropriated by congress shall be
used to buy tobacco, cigars and cigarettes from
any concern unlawfully engaged in interstate
or international commerce. The resolution
also stipulates that no tobacco shall be pur-
chased from the defendants enJoned by the
federal circuit court in the case of the United
States VS.. the American Tobacco company,
and in other cases now pending in the federal
supreme court.
Buy AFROPLANE-A contract has been
signed by which an American institution pur-
chases tho first aeropane acquired in this
country and made solely by an American,
The price is $4,000. The Aeronautical society of
New York is the purchaser. 1t has bought
from Glenn II. Curtis Of Hammondsport N.
Y, an aeroplane constructed along the lines
of the June Bug. in which Mr.. Curtis won the
Scientific American cup on July by making
a flight OF mile Mr.. Curtis will demon
strate the flying ability Of the machine at
Morris Park race track in May.
GIRL SHOT IN THGH-Agnes WEIGH, a
17-vear-old girl employed by the Western
Union Telegraph company, is in the hospital
in New York. having been shot yesterday in
the thigh by Harold Miller. an electrician
Miller was calling on the girl at her home in
Brooklyn. and they quarreled while playing q
game Of parches. The police say he became
sngered because of her references 10 another
young man and suggested that they decide
whether he was to call by throwing dice. A
struggle followed, in which the girl was
wounded. She said afterward that she believed
Miller did not shoot Intentionally but the po-
lice placed him under arrest.