Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-18
TfLEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

Red Bud late Monuay. No uehii16O -
suited.
Takes Bench Position-Feder
supreme Court Justice Charles D. FL
liott. who was appointed by President
Taft last May, arrived at Manila Tues-
day on the liner Mongolia, and as
sumed the duties of his position at
once. Justice Elliott comes to the
Philippines after years of service on
the bench in Minnesota.
To Defy Laws-Two citizens OF
Wellston, newly Incorporated city, In
ST. Louis county, Missouri, MONDAY
night pledged themselves to pro-
gram of defiance against the authori-
ties of the municipality and the ordi-
nances which the latter have enacted
or may pass. Plans for defense In
the courts of such of the insurgents
as may be arrested were adopted.
Clergyman Heads Police-The
Rev. DR.. Harris r. Cooley yesterday
became advisory head of the police
public safety, fire and building inspec-
ton departments of Cleveland, ONO
He also will have charge of the chari-
ties and correction work he has built
up, which has attracted national at
tention. DR.. Cooley ten years ago was
pastor of Mayor Johnson's church.
Marries Young Man = Mrs.
Evelyn Hall, SO years old, and Robert
B. Wright, 81 years old, both of Turtle
Creek, Pa, Monday took out mar
riage license in the Allegheny county
license office They will wed tomorrow
John Hail. 81 years old, a son of the
woman by former husband, was pres
ox,4 41,a M r1.i 1iCanga office and
declared his mother to be of legal
age"
Air Swells Neutrality-suspicious.
in the general hospital at Passaic,. N.
j., are in a quandary to relieve An
thony Nato. Nato was run over 0y a
buggy and the end of broken rlb
punctured one lung. so that every
breath he takes a little of the air en-
ters the rest of the body from the IN
1ured lung. With every breath Nato
is swelling larger and larger, being
puffed up with air The surgeons Will
attempt a delicate operation.
Go on Hunt-Harry Payne
Whitney and party of friends. in
cluding e. Hartman, a cousin OF the
railroad magnate, left London yester-
day for Holladeck hall. Yorkshire, Eng
land, where Mr.. Whitney has leased
grouse moors for a seasons hunting.
1t is said Mr.. Whitney has spent' $780,
900 in equipping the plant and pre-
naring II for his guests He does not
intend to stay there long himself, and
will sail for New York in short time.
Insurance Men Convene-The
fourteenth annual national convention
of the American Association of Mutual
Fire Insurance Companies began rour
DAYS session at Portland, Ore, Tues-
day. About $50 delegates have arrived
from all parts of the country. various
papers on the subject of handling mu-
tual insurance business will be read.
| FRIDAY the officers of the association
will be elected, and at that time selec-
ton of next years location of the con-
vention will be made.
Probes Goat Fever-Dr. John
! sundwall bacteriplogist of the UNI
versity of Utah at Salt Lake CITY ls
| in pursuit of an unknown germ 70
which is attributed forty cases OF III
ness and numerous deaths In hane
county, Utah. Because or lts preVa,
| 1ence among persons who herd ana
handle goats the disease has been given
tbe name of goat fever" Physicians
who have attended the sufferers have
been unable to identify 1t with any
recorded malady. An extremely high
temperature is one of the symptoms
Rabbi Is Dead-A cable mes
sage received here announces the
death in Jerusalem of Samuel Salant'
rabbi of Jerusalem. Samuel saiant
was chief rabbi of the AshKenazic COZ.
| oregation. He was born January q.
| fsts at Bialystok, Russia. He married
tho daughter of Sundl of Salant ana
assumed the name "Salant." At an
carly age his lungs became affecteo
and he was advised to seek a warmer
climate. This induced him in 1840 10
90 with his wife and his son: Benoa-
min Beinish. to Jerusalem. Salant was
an eminent Talmudist.
Outdoor School "A specia!
noeeting of the Detroit board of edu-
cation is to be held tomorrow evening
to act upon a proposal to estaollsh a
tent or outdoor school for tuberculosis
children. Food, nurses and the serV-
ices of a cook would be provided by
the Detroit Society for the Prevention
of tuberculosis, and the eschool poard
would provide the grounds and a
teacher Infectious cases would not
he admitted. 1t is estimated that the
school would start with an attendance
| of fifteen pupils, and that the meals
served will cost 257 cents per meal
| for each child.
Increase on Messages-An in
crease of rates on code messages was
| announced Monday bv the western
Union and Postal Telegraph COM
NAMES. The new schedule aimed at
the cipher messages goes into erect
September l. General use of the code
system. the companies argue, has had
a tendency to complicate traffic. BY
the terms of the dictum, cipher mes
sages will be charged at the rate OF
five letters to the word, instead OF ten
letters, unless the telegram is built on
words which appear In the dictionary.
Domestic rates only are aHected by
the new rule, cable ciphers escaping
the increase.
Chinese Smugglers Captured
A band of Chinese smugglers, using
Fighting island, a deserted bit of land
ten miles from Detroit down the river
inside the Canadian border as the
base of their operations, is believed to
have been broken up by the capture
of three young Detroit men and two
Chinese in Lansing. 1t is the belief
of the authorities the gang, check
mated at every turn, hit on the de-
serted island as Headquarters, and that
Chinese to be smuggled were taken in
hand upon their arrival in Windsor and
secreted on the island until the op-
portunity offered to take them across
the line in a launch. where they were
to be taken away in automobiles.
Evolution Is Old-That the
theory of evolution is as old as human
thought itself, and that Darwin was