Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-05
TfLEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

NEW YORK.-Commande Robert E.
Peary made a plea to the financial in
terests of New York on behalf of the
proposed South pole expedition, to
which he personally has contributed
$4,000.
COLUMBIA, Mo.-Dr. Robert E. Gra-
ham, 3S years old, president of the
Missouri Saddle Horse Breeders asso-
citation, died in his office here Thurs
day night following an apoplectic
stroke.
UTICA, N. Y.-Imro Fox. a profess
sional magician and conjurer of ma
tional reputation, died suddenly of
heart disease while sitting in a chair
in the lobby of the Hotel Martin today.
He was 90 years old.
WASHINGTON.-T National Labor
alliance, organized at a secret meeting
here Thursday night, will oppose the
American Federation of Labor in ma
tional and congressional elections. Sew
eral members of congress, opposed by
the American Federation, were in at
tendance.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-A second ar
rest growing out of the discovery of a
shortage of $150,000 from the National
City bank has been made, and wilson
w. Lockhart, % years old, of Belmont,
a clerk at the bank was arrested. He
also acted as chauffeur to a book
keeper Of the bank.
UTICA, N. Y.-The police are in
vestigating the death of Nelson Tai
madge, the aged hermit of Talcville'
whose body was found in his shack
Thursday night with his throat cut. 1t
had been thought the hermit kept a
large amount of money in his ram
shackle home, but none was found by
the authorities.
SACRANIENTO.-W a note to
the coroner stating that he had
wronged his people and did not want
them to discover his act; also asking
that his real name be suppressed,
George Blakely of Placerville placed
his head on a railroad track and was
decapitated by freight train.
WASHINGTON.-T armored cruis-
er New York will sail for the far east
aobut April l, via Suez, to relieve the
cruiser Charleston. The collier Marest
and the repair ship Hecla sail for
Buenos Ayres April 1, to carry supplies
for the squadron that will represent
the United States at the centenary.
MUSKOGEE, Okla.-Captain Will
liam Jackson, formerly of the Texas
Rangers and prominent in political cir
cles in Oklahoma, died at the home of
his daughter near here Thursday. He
was 73 years old. Jackson was a cap
tain in the confederate army. He was
the first mayor of Wagner, the first
town in Indian Territory to become in
corporated.
BUTLER, Pa.-After being snow
bound for several weeks, residents Tor
a distance of fifty miles from Foxburg
to Kane, Friday saw the first sign OF
civilization. For two weeks drifts ht-
teen feet deep and hundreds of feet
long have shut these people off from
town, and the first train started Fri
day morning. The tie-up is the longest
known in western Pennsylvania.
PARASITIC Figaro, in an extended
review of the Franco tariff
situation as set forth by Bernard j..
Shoninger, president of the American
chamber of comm merce in Paris, agrees
that France is asked to concede less
than the United States offers in return
for an exchange of minimum rates and
that France would be the loser If no
agreement were reached.
NEW YORK.-Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, suffragist leader, says she has
discovered a short road to securing the
ballot for women. IF we went up TO
Albany" she declared in an interview
given out here Friday, ''and guaran-
teed we would vote for the Republican
party, we would get the ballot so
quickly that you wouldn't know how 1t
happened. With the politicians it is
not that woman wants to vote, but
how she is going to vote
SAN FRANCISCO.-The families of
the bride and groom were apprised
only yesterday of the secret marriage
last Tuesday of Miss Alice Doe, daugh-
ter of B. L. Doe. a ship owner and
lumber man of San Mateo, to Allan
Green. son of Charles e. Green, a
wealthy banker and financier. Tues
day evening the couple left the Doe
home presumably to attend vaude-
Vile performance. Instead. they went
to the residence of the Rev. T. H.
Ollie and were married.