Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-26
TELEGRAPHlC BRIEFS

New York-England is sending shoes
to this country. Hitherto the trade
has all been the other way, but the
reduction of the duty from 20 per cent
to 10 per cent has changed the sltu-
alton.
New York-The largest consignment
! of Easter palms ever brought TO TINS
! port has just been landed at North
/ River pier by the steamer City or
/ Savannah. There are $4,000 palms IN
| the lot, which come from Florida Ihe
demand this year is said to be unusual-
ly large.
Delaware, N. J.-Sixty residents of
| this town, who attended a Washing
toms birthday festival in the Presby-
terian church three days ago, have de-
veloped symptoms of ptomaine poison
| ing. Six of them are seriously Ill.
Physicians say tainted ice cream
was the cause of their sickness.
Ripon, Wis.-The Rev. Edward H.
| Merrell, professor emeritus and former
president of Ripon college, is dead at
his home. He had been connected with
| the Ripon college since it was Incor-
porated half a century ago, and was
! elected to the presidency in 1876. In
1891 he resigned as president on account
of i'll health.
~
ity of a gang of chicken thieves that
is said to have chloroformed and
stolen $4,000 chickens in Wyandotte
county, Kansas, since last Christmas,
the Wyandotte County horticultural
society has offered a $4,000 reward for
the arrest and conviction of the per-
petrators of the crimes.
San Francisco-Distressin poverty
is the cause of SO many Hindoos COM
ing to this country, says RaJah Rao,
who is on the way from Bombay to
Boston to attend an American college.
THAT same poverty" declared Rao,
sis the reason why you never see wo-
men among the Hindoo immigrants
They cannot procure enough money to
pay for their passage"
Waterbury, Conn.-The youngest
licensed parson in the United States is
Francis Rollins of Bakersville. His
authority to preach has just been
granted by the New Haven district of
the Methodist Episcopal church. Young
Rollins, who is still high school stu
dent, has frequently filled his fathers
pulpit in Bakersville.
Chicago-A combination of interests
of all packing and canning factories
of the middle west on a cooperative
basis, and under the control of the
Western Packers association, will be
effected if plans considered at the mid
winter meeting of the association are
carried out. The proposition was left
with the executive committee for de-
cision within the next month.
New York-Injuries received in the
earthquake at Messina have just re-
suited in the death here of Charles
Barbara, an 18-year-old italian boy.
Barbara lived in Messina with his
widowed mother and sister. When the
first shocks came he was seated in
second story window and tumbled out.
Despite his injuries he returned to the
house and saved his mother, but his
sister was killed.
Chicago-Herds of goats and sheep
are soon to be sent from the United
States to Japan for use of the Japanese
government in developing stock rails
ing, according to DR.. Ioda Tanamura,
dean of animal industry. University of
Toxic, who is here. He came to Chi
cago from the east, where he has vis-
tied several universities, and after a
day or two here he will continue his
journey to San Francisco and Japan.
Spokane, Wash.-After seventeen
hours of elaboration the jury in the
conspiracy case against Elizabeth Cur
ley Flynn and c. l.. Filigno, growing
out of the recent Industrial Workers of
the World demonstrations, has re-
turned a verdict acquitting Miss Flynn
and finding F'iligno guilty. The penalty
in the case of Filigno may be imprison-