Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-02
telegraph Briefs

BALTIMoRE-The Western Maryland rail-
way will contract soon for 10000 tons Of
heavy steel rails at $50 ton.
SACRAMENTO-Govern James n. Gillett
left yesterday for Washington in a private
car to join the Panama canal exposition
boosters.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.-Fifteen horses
were burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed livery stable here yesterday. The
loss is $4,000.
Whitney, adtutant general of Fort Riley, has
been relieved from duty here and ordered to
| the Philippine islands.
WASHINGTON-Annou was made
by Postmaster General Hitchcock yesterday
of the appointment of James J. Britt of NORTH
Carolina as third assistant postmaster general
wASHINGToN-Rear Admiral Charles H
Stockton, who has been acting president Of
George Washington university since last May
was elected to the position of president yes
tetrday.
SToCKToN-All arrangements are COM
pletsd for the thirty-eghth California Fruit
Growers convention to be held at the Con-
gregational church in Stockton December 6,
Z, and Q.
CHIoAGo-Attorney Charles Erbstein was
granted a change of venue yesterday by
Judge Scanlon in his trial on charges of
brlbing a juror in the second trial of Lee
O'Nell Browne.
CHICAGo-Four men who have been arrest
days confessed that they were guilty of par
ticipation in more than 100 holdups in this
city in the last four months.
PARISH a letter from soldier with the
French column at Restiga, near Oudja, At
RIGA, it is said that the French forces were
ambushed in ravine by Moroccans Novem-
ber II, losing twenty killed,
wASHINGTON-An order was issued by
the interstate commerce commission yesterday
vaoating parts of order promulgated No
vember Z. suspendng tariffs filed by roads
of the Western Trunk Line association.
SANTA CRUz-John Hagemann, a saloon
keeper the Sequel road, was held up by
a white man and a negro, who robbed him
Of sS5 bound him to a chair, locked him in
his place of business, cut the telephone wires
and escaped
STOCKTON-Charles Murphy, brother of
Assistant Fire Chief Daniel Murphy, lies in
a critical condition at the emergency hos
pital suffering a fractured skull 1t is al
legged. that the injury was inflicted by Rob-
ert Wilson.
SPOKANE, Wash.-Mrs. Hannah Beebe.
70 years old. charged with the murder of
James Hutton at Cashmere August IA, was
found guilty of manslaughter yesterday. Her
daughter, Mrs. Della Totten, was convicted
of murder.
SAN FRANCIsCO-The board of state har-
Dor commissioners has rescinded its action
authorizing the state treasurer to negotiate
the sale OF 81, 600 900 worth of the $9,0O00OO of
bonds voted for the improvement of San
francisco naIDoT'
CHICAGO-A new court which will be de-
voted to the unraveling of domestic troubles,
the reunitng of estranged couples, the settle
ment of sweethearts quarres and the right
ing of the wrongs of children has been for
mally established here.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.--Chef Carpenter
Joseph Fletcher of the Portsmouth navy
yard, who was a member of the disastrous
Greedy Arctic expedition, was found dying
in a bathtub at his home here yesterday with
a razor wound in his throat.
ALBANY, n. Y.-The New York Civic
league has been incorporated here by promi-
nent New York religious leaders and reform
ers. Its object is to educate and elevate sem
timent along lines Of moral social and politi-
cal progress and efficiency
ALBANY, N. Y.-Carrying out his deter
mination to sever all private business rela-
tions before January l, in order to give his
whole time to the duties of his office, Gov
ernor-elect John A Dix has resigned as off,
Ger and director of two banks
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. a coronqrs jury
decided that Robert Laupp, owner of the
Rams Horn inn, near Mount Rainier, Md,
had come to his death through self-inficted
bullet wound, Charles Laupp, brother or the
dead man, has been arrested.
SAN FRANCISCO-The estate of Edward
j. LIE Breton Is valued at S6H,707 In an in
ventory filed yesterday in the probate depart
ment Of the superior court The will disposes
of the greater part of this to j. V. de Layeaga
and his brother, e. J. de Laveaga.