Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-25
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PORTLAND, Ore-His clothing ig-
hitting from newspapers which famed
UP as he tried to put them into the door
of a stove, Robert Beebe, ) years old,
was burned to death yesterday.
NEW YORK-A negro branch of the
Political Equality association has been
| formed by Mrs. O. II. p. Belmont, and
| 220 men and women who favor the
granting of the ballot to negro women
have been enrolled as charter mem
| bers.
DENVER-Through the silent labors
of the franciscan friars of st. Eliza
beth's church, carried on ever since he
was assassinated at the altar two years
ago, Father Leo's name will be per-
petuated by a sanitarium for the treat
ment of tuberculosis
! ALBANY, n. Y.-Dr. James B. Ew-
ing of the Cornell Medical school and
president of the American Society for
Cancer Research, says in statement
made public here yesterday that the
proposed bill to restrict vivisection
would close every medical school in the
state.
! Topeka, Kas-Because his wife
would not pray A. f. Barker, "A years
old, has been granted a divorce here.
! Mrs. Barker is 63 years old. Barker
| testified that for forty-five years he
| has prayed and read the Bible after
supper, but his wife would not bow her
| head.
NEW YORK-Ragtime in New York
parks must go. Mayor Gaynors new
park commissioner has decided that the
$S0,000 appropriated each year for park
music in Manhattan must hereafter
buy music of a higher quality than has
been the rule under Tammany admin
| istration.
WHITE PLAINS, N. "A jury in
| the superior court here has decided the
| fingers of a workman's left hand are
worth $1,000 apiece. 1t awarded a YER
| dict of $4,000 to Peter Mandy of Ossn-
| ing for the loss of four fingers, which
were cut off at the factory where he
was employed
. NEWTON, N. J.-Drawing his will
and placing it in his pocket, with the
address of the man who should be no
tified Sylvester Young, a well-to-do
real estate man, hanged himself to the
rafters of the house in which he was
residing here. The estate is left to his
wife and two daughters.
! SEATTLE-Burglar set fire to two
houses Wednesday night and in one
| instance got away with $780, The
money belonged to Joseph Lombard, a
contractor who had taken the money
home and placed it in trunk for safe
keeping over night, intending to pay off
his men with it yesterday
NAPA, Cal-Edward Kinyon, a pio-
neer of this county, shot himself
through the head in local cemetery
Tuesday afternoon. Four men stand
ing by attempted to prevent the sui
eide, but their efforts were unavailing.
Dependency is thought to have been
responsible for Kinyon's act
BOSTON-Fifteen hundred woman
suffrage adherents stormed Beacon hill
yesterday, and before the committee
on constitutional amendments of the
Massachusetts legislature made their
annual plea for the ballot. on account
of the size of the strong, petitioners
were admitted in groups, and each
group had its speaker.
| BETHANY, w. Va.-Prof Emerson
Dolbear, who died at Medford Mass.
Wednesday, was professor of natural
science at Bethany college in the late
sos, and it was here that he rugged
one of the first telephone lines ever
| used 1t ran the length of the college
driveway, and tin cans were used as
receivers and transmitters.
SAN FRANCISCO-A handsome tro-
phv known os the Golden County cup,
set with diamonds and nuggets, and
valued at $4,000, has mysteriously dis
appeared from the rooms of the Califor-
mia development board in the Ferry
building. 1t was the property, of So
! lano county, and was used in conJunc-
tion with it's exhibit of fruits and
produce.
OTTAWA, Ont.-Canada has made a
contract with the New Zealand Steam
ship company to give a monthly steam
ship service between Canada, Austria
liza and New Zealand. At the present
time business between these portions
of the British empire must pass through
New York. The Canadian ports of call
will be Montreal in summer and st.
Johns and Halifax in the winter.
NEW YORK-Personal friends of
Charles w. Morse, the convicted bank
er, are prepared to spend more than
$1.00O,00O in working for his release
from the federal prison in Atlanta.
John T.. Donahue of Rockland, Me-,
who has charge of the petition for a
pardon which will be presented to Pres
ident Taft, made this announcement on
his return from washington yesterday.
CAUSE OF TROUBLE
She-Did you tell anybody about my pies?
| He-Oh, yes; I had to tell my physician
what allied me!Yonkers Statesman.