Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-06
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

Officers Try lest Klde-Jen.
Frederick Dent Grant of the depart
ment of the lakes and thirty-seven Of
ficers of the department, left Wauke-
gan yesterday on a ninety-mile horse
back ride required of officers by the
war department. The party on its first
relay went about twenty miles, where
they remained for the night and con-
tinued the journey Tuesday.
Lamphere Not Very Hire
ports sent out periodically concerning
the illness of Ray Lamphere, serving
time in Michigan City, Ind, for burn
ing the Guinness home, near La Porte,
are declared to be exaggerated by
prison authorities. There is no I'M
mediate danger of his dying. 1t Is as
serted here that reports of his condl-
ton are coincident to every movement
to get him paroled or pardoned.
Escapes by Leaping-While
the tenement in which she lived
at Far Rockaway, L. l., was burn
ing briskly before daylight Tues
day, Mrs. Philip McGrath wrapped
shawl about her baby and leaped from
a third-story window to a tirst-story
awning, from which she and the baby
slid into the outstretched oVercoats OF
several militiamen who had told her
to make the jump. The fire destroyed
three frame buildings, causing an es-
Many Sign Records-Twenty-
nine hundred names were affixed to
the records of the American Street and
Interurban Railway association, now
holding it's twenty-eighth annual con-
vention in Denver, Colo, during regis
tration of delegates yesterday. If the
policy declared yesterday continues,
news of the organization as well as OF
the parent body will be scarce, for all
the meetings will be executive and in
formation concerning discussions and
action taken is withheld from the
public.
Wants Royal Residence - J.
Pierpont Morgan is said to have eX-
pressed a desire to purchase the Reg
gia at Mantua, Italy, formerly known
as the Corte Reale, one of the most
famous royal residences in all Europe.
Morgan is alleged to have offered
SIS, 100000 for this magnificent and an
cient structure, d fabulous fortune In
Italy. But the government holds
Reggia as one of the kingdom 5
monuments and relics, so it was i'm
possible to accept the Americans re-
puted offer.
Novel Campaign Feature-A
feature Of the local political campaign
in New York city, which is now fair
ly under way, is an uptown store room
which has been fitted up by the COM
mittee of one hundred as chamber
ylla Grt4g
while callers inspect the exhibits
of what the committee calls the po-
litical mismanagement of the city. On
the first day fully 1000 persons Wis
tied the hall and already the chamber
of horrors" promises to be one of the
attractions of the campaign.
Suffragettes Eat-The nutri-
ton of the suicidally disposed suffra-
gettes now in Birmingham Jail still
| interests Kier Hardie, who again Mon
| day night held up business in the
house of commons in order to assure
| himself that the teeth, throat and
other parts of the bodies of the wom-
en- had suffered no injury through
| their voluntary resistance to masti-
| cation. Mr.. Masterman, parliamentary
! secretary of the home office, amiably
quoted the reassuring declaration of
the prison doctors that the health of the
prisoners is good.
Death Rate Low-Althougll
New York city entertained upward of
! 100000 visitors last week, the death
rate for that period was the lowest on
record, it being 1852 as against last
years rate of 14.15. Deaths from Vio-
! lence, which include all casualties and
suicides, totaled sixty-eight, whereas
eighty-three deaths under this head
were recorded for the corresponding
period last year. The health commits
sionenssaid it seemed that persons
were so occupied with the Hudson
Fulton celebration that they had no
time to think of suicide.
Conditions in Liberia-Addi-
tional interest is lent to a report on
conditions in Liberia, made by Consul
Soloman Berliner of Teneriffe, Canary
Islands, by reason of the recent visit
paid the African republic by the COM
mittee from the United States. In the
opinion of Consul Berliner, many diff
culties stand in the way of CONNER
cial development in Liberia. Some of
these he cites, among them: Restric-
tions placed on foreigners-no real es-
tate can be owned by foreigners; bad
communications, disturbed state of the
interior backward state of the inhab-
itants limited ports of entry and
smuggling on the coast.
Engineer Disabled-While ;
Pennsylvania railroad train was
making fifty miles an hour with
seven coaches of passengers from New
York to Philadelphia, a pilot wheel ol
the locomotive picked up rock from
the stone ballasted track and hurled
it through the cab window, the mis-
sile striking Engineer William Cooper
on the head and knocking him uncon-
scious. The fireman observed the Gus
tomary whistle had not sounded fol
the station at Railway and discoVered
the engineer lying on the floor of tho
cab. Leapiug to the throttle, the fire
man brought the speeding train to q
quick stop at Railway, where the er-
gineer was taken to a hospital. An
other engineer was obtained, and with
: out the passengers knowing of theil
great danger, the train proceeded.
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