Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-21
TELEGRAPH NEWS IN BRIEF

way to keep trade in the city. After
customer has bought bill of goods
the storekeeper asks: will you have
nice cold bottle of beer?' and the in
variable answer is: "I don't care if 1
do" This premium has won popularity
with mill employees, who, since the city
has become dry, had been cashing their
pay checks in South Chicago and other
nearby wet cities.
Would Raise $1,000,oo0 - "I
want to raise a million dollars to aid in
making the woman suffrage question
an issue and to attack the power of
organized vice." declared Miss Kate NJ
Gordon upon her return to New Or
leans from the northwest. Miss Cor
don was recently elected chairman of
the Susan B. Anthony fund. MY plan
is to get 100 women to give me $1,000
EACH" Miss Gordon continued, land
1000 women to give me $100 each"
Fight Forest Blaze - Battling
desperately, but almost helplessly, 300
farmers and timber men are fighting
a great forest fire three miles wide
which is sweeping through the splen-
did fir and tamarack timber north and
west of Lake Coeur d'Alene, Wash. For
forty hours the fire has defed all efforts
to check it. and Friday as the flames
drew near to Rockford bay they split
in two, one wall of fire moving north
east, the other southeast, beyond con-
troll.
Tries to Kill Baby-Half sub
merged and almost choked to death,
baby less than a month old was found
Thursday in an alley in Chicago, in
pool of mud and slime into which it is
said to have been tossed by it's mother.
Sarah Baker and Lizzie Buencheon of
Sumner, Pa, each 10 years old, are be-
ing held by the police. The former is
said to have confessed to the attempt
to suffocate the infant When the
collected, and the prisoners were pro-
tected from rough usage with great
difficulty.
Loses $25,00o-A package of
jewelry. said to be worth more than
$25, 900, which was in charge Of an en-
ploye of a firm of Fifth avenue jewel
ers of New York, was lost recently on
an Erie railroad ferryboat. The firm
has offered a reward of $4,000. 1t is
said the employe was commissioned to
bring the jewelry from western city.
In the ferryboat the messenger was
iostled in the crowd and the package
was lost without his knowing it until
the boat reached the New York side.
The package contained a diamond
tiara, a brooch, a diamond studded
watch and a large emerald.
Body of Lawyer Found - The
body of Albert Gerard. young lawyer.
was found lying in the front yard of
his home in the fashionable east side of
Providence, r. l., Thursday, with two
bullet wounds an inch apart near the
heart. Mr.. Gerard family was away
for the summer, and it is the theory of
the police that he was reading in his
library early Thursday when he heard
someone prowling about the house,
and on investigation came upon a
burglar who shot him. Then, the po-
lice think, the burglar dropped the re-
volver beside the body with the ihten-
tion of making it appear case of sui
eide.
Fathers Honored - Father is
to come unto his own. He is to have
his day in connection with his help
mate, for Mothers day hereafter will
be Parents day The fathers place
was fixed only after an animated argu-
ment Friday in a meeting of the
executive committee of the Interna-
tional Sunday School association at
Chicago. When Mothers day came
before the assembly for discussion,
some one asked what would be done
| with father. The committee resolved