Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-22

Lay Cornerstone - With GER
emonies marked by simplicity and in
which only city officials had part the
corner stone of Chicagos new $4,000, 900
city hall was laid yesterday.
Educator Is Dead. Hamo
Doiler, formerly professor Of German
at Tulane university, New Orleans, and
for many years president of the Ameri-
can Saengerbund, died in Louisiana
suddenly early yesterday morning.
Fails from Window-Attired
only in her night gown, Mrs. Emma
Feeney, aged 70, was found yesterday
in San Francisco lying in an alley un-
der her window which was open, and
out of which she had either leaped
or fallen. She died without regaining
consciousness.
Collides with Engine - West
bound passenger train No. 25 on the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific collided
with a switch engine at Denver yes
terday morning, the result of mis-
placed swith. The engineer of the
switch engine and several passengers
were injured, none seriously.
Korea Will Sail - The Pacific
Mail steamship Korea, bound from the
Orient to San Francisco, sailed from
Honolulu last night, five days behind
her schedule time. The delay is due
to the fact that the vessel has been in
quarantine on account-of the discovery
of a case of plague on board.
Opening Date Fixed-ln view
of a prevailing misapprehension re-
specting the opening of the Flathead
Indian, the Coeur d. Alene reservation
and the Spokane Indian reservation, 1t
was stated yesterday at the general
land office in washington that the
drawings for the three openings would
take place at the Coeur d Alene be-
ginning August 8.
Divide $6O0,000-By the terms
of the will of Mrs. Mary E. Jones Of
Knoxville, filed for probate in Gales
burg, ILL.,, an estate of 100000 was dis
tributed among benefcaries. The most
important bequest to the people of
Knoxville was that of $250,000 for the
erection and maintenance of a home
for aged women. 1t is stipulated the
building must not cost more than $780,
600. and that the income from the
balance of the gift will be used for its
maintenance.
y Servite Priests Mset-At the
II
Servite order in America, held yester-
dav at the monastery of Our Lady of
Sorrows in Chicago, Rev. Benitius Hell,
o. s. NJ, who has been master of the
professed members of the order at the
west side monastery for some years,
was elected provincial of America, and
the Rev. F. S. Angellucci, o. S. M,
former provincial and pastor of the
Assumption church, was elected vice
provincial.
Lace Is Unclaimed - Two
trunks, which were recently taken to
Ellis island, New York, with the bag
gage of steerage passengers, have been
found to contain about $4,000 worth Of
laces, and the customs officers are per
picked as to the identity of their
owner. The ships crew was unable TO
tell how these trunks got aboard, and
there were no marks on them to indt-
cate their owners. 1t was supposed
they belonged to steerage passengers,
but none have claimed them.
Requisitions Allowed - Now
under arrest in Umatilla county Ore
gon, Dick Banniver is wanted in AItu-
ras. Modoc county, for the commission
OF an alleged assault on a little girl
named Lena Walters, 16 years old,
hence the reason for the issuance of
a reduisition from the governor yester-
dav upon the request of the district
attorney of Modoc county. Another
reouisition was issued on the governor
of oregon for the return to Fresno of
Mack Goss. who is in demand there
on account of an alleged embezzle-
ment.
Are Seeking Pardon-Attor-
news yesterday filed an application for
the pardon of George R. Gamble,
known as "King Of Fire Bugs" who Is
serving a seven years sentence in the
Ohio State penitentiary for burning
grist mill in that city, All the police
chiefs from the great lakes to the Pa
cifc coast were on the lookout for
Gamble at one time. Gamble jumped
his bond after a charge of arson, but
was arrested in California after sem