Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-23
Couple Asphyxiated - Ebart

Couple Asphyxiated - Ebart
and Jennie Reinerton, IS and 10 years
DID, respectively, and but two months
married, were found dead in their
room in Chicago Sunday night They
had been accidentally asphyxiated.
Dies in Workhouse &C. w.
Taylor of Upper Alton, a veteran of
the Civil War, convicted. week ago
of beating the government out or
$4,000 in a pension fraud, sentenced
to six months confinement and fined
$4,000, is dead at the Peoria work.
house.
Injured in Auto-John J. Shea,
manager of the Bijou Theatrical Book
ing agency, Is in serious condition,
after having been in carriage crash
in Central Park. New York. He was
in runabout with his brother, MOTIFS
A. Shea, who was injured, but not Sc
verely. ]. J. Shea had five ribs brok-
en-, besides being otherwise injured.
May Lose Her Eye-Ada Hill
ton, waitress in New York, may lose
the sight of her right eye because she
was too hasty in uncorking bottle or
tobasco sauce in a Brooklyn restaurant
yesterday. A drop of the burning fluid
struck her in the eye and although she
was rushed to a hospital, physicians
are afraid the sight will be destroyed.
The pain was so excruciating that she
tainted.
Two Found Dead-An inspec-
tor of gas meters is dead at Ridge
wood Heights, l.. l., killed by gas, in
company with woman. The victim
was John Wagner, who was found dead
in a hotel room with a woman. sup
posed to be Mrs. Annie Miller, who
was separated from her husband. A
gas Jet was turned on and the gas was
escaping into the room when the bodies
were found.
New Liquor Cure-According
to Chief of Police Thomas Malone of
Wausau, Wis, the roller-skating craze
which overlook the city last fall has
developed into an effective antidote to
intemperance. Its attracting power Is
decidedly stronger for young men than
saloons. hence a large majority of the
youths who used to frequent bar
rooms before the sport came into
vogue can now be found at the Kinks.
Censures Schools-Dr. Emil
G. Hirsch has grilled the public school
system and believes that two hours Of
study and two hours of manual train
and recitation. In a communication on
the subject to his congregation he says:
81 plead for the unitarian subjects
and at the risk of being criticised by
every editor l assert that only one
language should be taught in the
grades. Let the cultural subjects be
reserved for the child when he is able
to receive culture"
Museum to Aid-Uncle Sam
has been forced to borrow material to
furnish the Philippine exhibit at the
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition which
will open at Seattle in June. Being
both short of time and material the
war department has called OH the au-
thorities of the City Museum of Nat
ural History in New York to come to
the rescue. The museum has the most
complete Philippine exhibit In this
country and a quantity of interesting
treasures will be shipped in about ten
days.
Sails for Europe - William
Barclay Parson, chief consulting en-
gineer of the PETERBOROUGH Rapid Tran
left New York for Europe yesterday on
the Kronprincess Cecilie in order to
make a further study of the transport
tation problem in London. Mr.. Par
sons was only recently elected a d1-
rector OF the Onu6TBTOuIlu ElSClliS
Railway company of London Cimited)
and several years ago he spent some
time in London in the capacity of adj
wishing engineer to the royal commits
sion on London traffic. He declines to
discuss the purpose of his present trip.
Launch Into Politics-With
the hope of carrying out the political
program outlined last fall by the
American Federation of Labor. an Or
ganization known as the Working
mans political party has been started
in New York. Work is being done in
every assembly district, and an at
tempt, will be made to concentrate the
votes of union men on assembly can
didates who will pledge themselves to
work in the legislature for a modifica>
ton OF the Injunction laws. The move
ment was started soon after the con-
viction of President Gompers and his
associates for contempt of court, and
1t was at first hoped to enlist the un-
ions in the plan as unions. But as this