TELEGRAPH NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF
Seattle, May 12.—Katherine Mat
thews, the widow who committed sui
cide at the Belgravia apartments,
while supposed to be grieving over
' the suicide of her lover, Edward
Brehm, formerly of Alaska, is worth
$50,000. Her maiden name was
Matheny and her home at Gaston,
Oregon. She was 32 years of age and
drank carbolic acid.
Paris, May 12.—Thomas Edison is
visiting this city and says that he
will live to be one hundred and fifty
years old.
New York, May 12.—The Pres
byterian Board of Foreign Missions
has just received its $22,250,000
shares from the estate of the late
John S. Kennedy, the New York
bank r, and has made plans to use
ar once the income of $100,000 a
year in the Middle West and extreme
West, in the West Indies, the Phil
ippine Islands and Alaska. One of
the first steps will be to raise the
salaries of 433 home missionaries re
ceiving less than $800 a year.
New York, May 12.—At the Money
trial the evidence showed that the
late Robert Hoe, manuafeturer of
printing presses bearing his name,
had an affinity in Mrs. Louis Brown,
of Covington.
Rome, May 12.—General Garibal
di has enrolled a legion of 10,000
men to fight for Albanians against
Turkey.
Washington, May 12.—Seven bal
lots failed to elect Senator Gallinger
president of the Senate, although th.-1
insurgents voted with the other Re
publicans.
Washington, May 12.—The many
protests wired from Alaska against
the compulsory vaccination of pas
sengers leaving Seattle for the north
ern territory have had a beneficial
effect. Surgeon General Wyman to
day wired the physican in charge of
the marine hospital service at Seat
tle to modify the vaccination order
and hereafter it will only be neces
sary to take an oath that the party
believes they have not been exposed
for the preceding fourteen days in
order to get a certificate.
While this will still work some
what of a hardship it does away with
being compelled to get vaccinated be
fore securing passage for Alaskan
ports.
Managua. May 12.—Peace retgns
at Nicaragua since the resignation ot
the president and the people favor
Vice-president Adolfo Diaz for the
head of the government.
Bridgeport, May 12.—Curtiss’ ap
paratus to permit warships to carry
a fleet of aeroplanes has been per
fected.
Washington, May iz.—^resident
Taft has pardoned Daniel Jones, who
served twenty-seven years at the
Leavenworth penitentiary and is now
believed to be innocent.
Lenox, Mass., May 12.—One thous
and pounds of honey, some of it more
than 60 years old, is on exhibition
at East Lee, near here. The entire
quantity was obtained by workmen,
while tearing down a tavern built 150
years ago. They discovered in the
garret more than 50 swarms of bees
and their half ton accumulation of
honey. For more than a century
the tavern has been in the hands df
a single family. No person now liv
ing can remember ever having en
tered the garret.
New York, May 12.—The steamer
Merida was cut in two by another
vessel and sank ofT Cape Charles, but
not until after all aboard had been
saved.
Washington, May 12.—General
Wood opposes the bill extending the
time of enlistment in regular army
from three to five years.
Washington, May 12.—Senator
Nelson’s committee has submitted a
favorable report upon the bill which
allows five per cent federal license
money collected in Alaska to be ap
plied for the relief of the white in
digents of that territory, but makes
no provision for the natives.
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New Yora, May 12.—The Actors
Church Alliance Is about to start a
movement for the establishment in
his city of a retreat for actresses.
According to the plans it will provide
a place wheie they may pass their
time between rehearsals and will
take the place of the hall bedrooms
in theatrical boarding houses, to
which they are at present condemn
ed. It may also afford desirable
lodgings to the many students. Con'
nected with it will be a school for
the education of stage children.
Los Angeles, May 12.—The libel
charge against General Otis, editor
of the Times, who has been unmerci
fully flaying the labor unions, was to
day dismissed.
Chicago, May 12.—The demurrers
have been overruled in the cases
against the beef packers and they
must go to trial.
Philadelphia, May 12.—A heat
wave is passing over the middle At
lantic states, resulting in many pres
t rations.
Washington, May 12.—At a cabi
net meeting today it was decided
that the rebels can ship arms and
food from Texas to Meylco.
New York, May 12.—A new train
record for a 175-mile run by a regu
lar passenger train in the Bast is
credited to the New Haven railroad's
Colonial Express, as the result of its
performance yesterday when it cov
ered that distance between Boston
.nd New Haven in 182 minutes, mak
ng all the required four stops be
ween the two cities. The speed for
most of the trip was close to 70
miles an hour.
San Antonio, May 12.—General
Madero, flushed with his recent vic
tory at Juarez, declares that he will
lead an army of 20,000 to Mexico
City unless President Diaz resigns
and peace is restored immediately.
New York, May 12.—A dental
bridge found in a room in a Brooklyn
edging house that had been occu
pied by a man who committed sui
cide at Dover, N. J., two years ago
has just served to identify the sui
cide. A dentist in Stockholm, Swe
den, to which the bridge was sent
y the Swedish Consul in New York,
ecognized it as a piece of work done
or Berent Edward Collander, son
cc a wealthy manufacturer of Stock
holm. A representative of the Swed
sh Consulate had the body exhumed
his week and clinched the identifica
ion by locating a small scar describ
d by the dentist. Collander's rela
tives say that he left Stockholm with
$60,000 in cash. It is supposed that
he may have been robbed.
New York, May 12.—By rushing
his fight for ten rounds and then de
livering a knockout blow, Brown won
a popular decision over Tommy Mur
phy.
New York, May 12.—The oldest
pupil in the New York public schools
Mrs. Martha Harmon, has just receiv
ed from the board of education two
gold medals, one for merit,, in study
and the other for regularity in at- j
endance. Although 7 0 years old and
a grandmother Mrs. Harmon
throughout the winter term has been
a diligent and exemplary pupil in the
primary department of the night
school at public school 157. She is
a negress and was born a slave in
Kentucky.
New York, May 12.—Maiden Lane
importers of diamonds have just
earned of the finding of a diamond
weighing 244 carats in Johannesbu rg,
South Africa. It will rana as one
of the half dozen largest and most
valuable jewels in the world. Reports
have also reached Malden Lane of
a rush to a new diamond field in
the Western Transvaal section of
South Africa. The new field, called
the Bloemhof, already has a popu
lation of 300 whites.
Windber, Pa., May 12.—Two own
ers of the leading foreign banks here
are missing and two towns are com
pletely tied up financially and on the,
verge of bankruptcy so far as the
foreign population is concerned. A
pall hangs over Windber. The streets
are jammed with a woe-begone but
determined and sullen aggregation
of broken men and women. They
have lost their all through having
placed implicit faith in Andrew Ze
many, head of the Zemany chain of
banks and steamship agencies, and
M. F. Korlath, owner of the Magyar
banks of Windber and 8calp Level,
one of its suburbs.
It is estimated conservatively that
the two banks had on deposit $600,
000t when the doors closed.
The victims are all poor, hard
working people. They are not all
foreigners, as many American citi
zens and business people of Wind
ber and neighboring villages are
among the depositors.
Washington, May 8.—Thirty-six
additional postal savings depositories
were established today.
Washington, May 8.—“Uncle Joe”
Cftnnon Is very pessimistic as to the
future. He says that dire disaster
will follow the session of the Demo
cratic Congress; that prices will go
down, also wages.
Washington, May 8.—A thousand
naval and militiamen will participate
in the fleet maneuvers at San Fran
cisco during the week of July 2.
Washington, May 8.—Aviator
Beachy on Saturday gave an exhibi
tion in his machine by circling the
capitol buildings.
Denver, May 8.—The senatorial
deadlock in Colorado continued un
til the adjournment of the legisla
ture.
Butte, May 8.—Mayor Duncan,
who is also a preacher and a So
cialit, cleaned out the restricted dis
trict and inaugurates other reforms.
Seattle, May 8.—Rev. Matthews,
pastor of the Presbyterian church,
announces that he employed Detect
ive Burns to secure evidence against
ex-Chief of Police Wappenstein and
other corrupt city officials.
Washington, May 8.—Congress
man Humphries, of Seattle, starts an
agitation in favor of the government
establishing a big coaling station at
Cordova, Orca Inlet or Resurrection
bay.
Washington, May 8.—Two-thirds
of the members of the Senate and
House are pledged to change inaugu
ration day from March 4 to the last
Thursday in April.
Cheyenne, May 8.—Assistant Post
master Joseph Kingham confessed to
the embezzlement of $23,000 of gov
ernment funds and was sent to jaii
for ten years.
Mexico City, May 8.—Presiden'
Diaz issues a manifesto that he will
resign when peace is restored. The
federals and rebels rejoice and be
lieve that peace is certain.
Seattle, May 8.—O. L. Dickeson,
formerly with the Burlington rail
road, has arrived here and will sail
for Skagway on May 16, to assumt
charge of the operation of the Whitt
Pass & Yukon railroad.
Seattle, May 8.—Jack Smith, one
of the discoverers of the famous Bon
anza copper mine at Kennecott, whc
recently died in Portland, left an es
ate worth $20,000.
Seattle, May 8.—The steel trust is
negotiating for the purchase of thi
Moran ship yard for $2,225,000.
Toledo, May 8.—The National Sui
Manufacturers Association decide
that gowns shall be fuller, thu
sounding the death knell of the hob
ble skirt.
San Francisco, May 8.—The linei
San Juan reports the coming of the
gunboat Tampieo to this port with
$7,000,000 from the Mazatlan banks
and alos that there is much rebel
activity.
Washington, May 8.—The War de
partment decides that it will place
no torpedo station on Puget Sound
Ottawa, May 8.—A British Colum
bia member of parliament scored the
United States for its failure to enac,
boundary and fishery regulations.
Washington, May 8.—The fish
commission says the steamer Alba
tross will make a survey of the hali
but banks on the Pacific coast.
Seattle, May 9.—The steamer Ala
meda sailed last night with the fol
lowing passengers for Cordova: Bari
E. Seigley, V. Vance and wife, Mrs.
Jones, E. Bates, John McDonald,
Messrs. Ticker, Brennan, Huppoan,
Gilmore, Ekholm, Hawkinson and ten
second-class. There are twenty-five
first and eighteen second-class foi
Valdez and twenty-two first and
twenty second-class for Seward and
the westward.
Washington, May 9.—The Amer
lean Federation of Labor has issuei
an appeal to the unions for a contri
button of $5u0,000 to be used in de
fending the McNamaras, accused o'
dynamiting the Los Angeles Timet
plant.
Juneau, May 9.—The Daily Rec
ord, one of the oldest etablishe(
newspapers in Southeastern Alaska,
suspended publication last night and
Editor O’Brien will move the plans
away and start a paper in Oregon.
Tokio, May 9.—The city of Yama
gato has been visited by a disastrous
fire, which resulted in two thousan
homes being burned.
Chicago, May 9.—Jack Johnson is
again anxious to enter the ring and
says he is willing to meet Jimmj
Flynn within three weeks.
Washington, May 9.—Represents
tive Mondell has introduced a resolu
tion in the House for the submission
of equal suffrage by amendment in
the different states.
Tacoma, May 6.—John Kine, a
former Alaskan, died in this city
jwith heart disease.
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