Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-03
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Novelist Better-The improve
ment of the condition of f. Marion
Crawford, the novelist, continued yes
terday, and he is believed out of dan
ger.
Wives Graduate-Six married
women, several of whom are mothers,
are among the twenty-seven graduates
who received diplomas after completing
the law course in the New York uni
versity.
Succeeds Kitchener-A special
cable from London says that General
Sir O'Moore Creagh has been appointed
COMMUNICATIVE in India to sue
coed General Lord Kitchener, when the
latter retires in August.
Reichstag Adjourns-The en-
tire budget passed its third reading in
the reiehstag yesterday, after which
the house adjourned until April 20.
Throughout the last week the reichstag
sat for twelve hours a day
Pioneer Dead-John McEwen,
one of Chicago's early settlers, is dead.
He was for years engaged in the build
ing industry. and one of his contracts
was for the erection of the wigwam in
which Lincoln was nominated.
Priests Imperiled = Twenty
priests. members of the Order of St.
Mary, at Chicago, had a narrow es-
cape from suffocation last night when
fire broke out in the dormltory where
they were sleeping. All escaped in
jury.
Arrest Wrong Man - Officers
ok A,1cr CT
Ga. Yesterday morning declared w. w.
Fowler. who had been under arrest
here, was not w. D. Owen, who is
wanted in Boston on charges of fraud.
Fowler was at once released.
Temblor in Virginia-Two dis
tinct shocks of earthquake were felt at
Winchester, Va, about 2:50 O'CLOCK yes
to-day morning. While no reports or
damage have been received, many resi-
dents were Weakened, and considerable
alarm WIS felt. Reports from Charles
ton and Harper's Ferry, w. Va, show
that the quake was felt there.
Oppose Gambling-In an effort
to keep their husbands from playing
poker and other games OF chance,
wives in a section of Bayonne n. d.
have organized the Bayonne Women
| Anti-Gambling society. They conduct
! ed their first raid Thursday, and sue
| ceeded in obtaining enough evidence to
cause the arrest of saloon keeper
who was held in $500 bail to await the
action of the grand jury.
Ends Life on Roof-Walter
Heilshorn, a 16-year-old boy. shot him.
self fatally on the roof OF ms mons II;e
in Brooklyn late Thursday night. His
body, huddled near chimney, was
found by his father. The boy left nc
explanatory note, and his parents are
at a loss to know why he killed nm
self. He was in good health and mad
no troubles.
To Electrify Lines-Eight mil
lion dollars for the identification of the
tracks used for Chicago suburban ser
vice by the Illinois Central road, ana
several times that amount for electrify-
ing certain through passenger and
freight tracks, are the figures submit
fed 70 representatives of the city by
officials of the railroad company Nc
mention is made of the suggestion OF
E. H. Hartman that the city pay one
half the cost.
Dynamite Dam - News has
been received of the dynamitlng and
complete destruction of the Mermen-
taus dam at Grand Cheniere, forty
miles south of Lake Charles, La. Inc
dam was built at a cost of nearly SlO0,-
600 by the rice growers of the south
west. This is the third time dam
there has been dynamited. For many
wears a bitter controversy has gone on
between the rice growers, through
whose efforts the dam was built' ahd
cattle raisers of Cameron parish
Case Dismissed-Judge w. H
Hunt of the federal court for the dis
/ trict of Montana has dismissed tins
complaint of the Kalispell Lumber
company and others against the Grea'
| Northern railroad for want of Jurls'
diction. in conformity with a decision
| of the circuit court of appeals. The
case was brought to restrain the ralt'
road from putting into effect higher
| lumber tariff The suit was won mere
| but was lost in the appellate court
and in accordance with the decision
the demurrers to the complaint ant
petitions of intervention were sus
tanned.
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