Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-19
TfLEGRAPHlC BRIEFS

SAN FRANCISCO-Desp be-
cause of i'll health, John A. Bell. aged
"a, killed himself Thursday night by
shooting.
LONDON-Contracts for two battle
ships and a cruiser. the nucleus of the
Turkish navy, were placed Friday with
English builders.
HUNTINGDON, Pa.-Incendiary fires
started simultaneously in several sec
tions of this town early yesterday
caused one death and loss of 5000, 900.
Two suspects were arrested.
ST. PETERsBURG-Fifty fishermen
who were set adrift upon an ice foe,
which broke away from the shore near
Peterhof, on the south shore of the
Gulf of Finland, are believed to have
perished.
BOGOTA-Terrorized by the mob
which prevented a resumption of SER
vice by the Bogota Railway company,
the Colombian employees of the COM
pany struck yesterday. Today the sit
uation was quiet.
WASHINGTON - To sell newly
Matched chickens with Easter eggs is
regarded by the Washington Humane
society as a violation of the law, and
shop keepers have been notified by the
society that chicks cannot be placed
on sale or displayed in show windows
this Easter.
WASHINGTON-U Sans navy
will gain two more battleships inside
of three weeks. orders were issued at
the navy department yesterday to take
over the contractors agreements and
put in commission the Delaware and
the North Dakota. sister ships of 10000
tons each.
LONDON-Lieut. Shackleton, who
holds the farthest south record and
who is sailing for the United States
tomorrow, has plans we'll advanced for
another Antarctic expedition in 1911.
he says his main objects are scientific
investigation and geographical studies.
WASHINGTON-Open yesterday for
the first time to the general public,
the new national museum was thronged
with visitors. The building is a dis
tinct addition to the city's architect
ural triumphs, and within it will be
gathered a mighty collection, almost
priceless in value.
LENOX, Mass-The town of LenoX,
home of the largest summer resort
colony of millionaires in this section
of New England, has received from the
state treasurer of Massachusetts a
check for cents as it's share of the
corporation tax paid into the state
treasury last year.
KEARNEY, N. 1.-THE board of edu-
cation here, after a tWo-years' fight,
has ordered secret societies in public
schools abolished The action was op-
posed by wealthy persons, who urged
that the social training which their
children obtained through their activ-
tiles in the societies was valuable.
WASHINGTON-Th is reason to
believe that state department officials
have practically abandoned hope of
any adjustment of the tariff differences
between the United States and Can
ada, and it is probable the maximum
rates of the Payne-Aldrich act will go
into operation against that country
within two weeks
PORTLAND, Ore,-Henry Turrish of
Duluth, Mimi, representing eastern
capitalists, yesterday completed the
purchase from S. Benson of Portland
of 2S, 900 acres of timber land for nearly
$3,O00,O0O The land lies between the
Columbia and Nehalem rivers, and
forms one of the most extensive tracts
in the west.
WASHINGTON-Ho the fortune
expended by the government in west
ern irrigation projects might be lost if
the works were not finished within con-
tract time was pictured before the
house committee on ways and means
yesterday by Representative Hamer of
Idaho, who urged the Mondell bill for