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Show FLASHES FROM THE WIRE Herman J. Rodman, a well-known nowspnper man of Los Angeles, editor of the Catholic Tidings, died suddenly at his home yesterday, of heart disease. He came from a distinguished family in Missouri, Mis-souri, his father having been Adjutant-General Adjutant-General of that State for many years. The steamer Siberia, which sailed from San Francisco, Thursday, for the Orient, carried a number of prominent people as passengers, including Secretary of Commerce Com-merce and Labor Straus. Congressman Nicholas Longworth of Ohio and wife. Gov. Carter of Hawaii, Commanders Hughes and Sears and Llout.-Commander Glllis of the I'nlted States navy, and Government Gov-ernment Inspectors of Steam Vessels Bulger and Bollcs. James R. Gartleld of the Department of the Interior wns shown over San Francisco Fran-cisco vesterday by a number of prominent promi-nent "citizens, headed by Arthur R. Brlggs. president, of the State Board of Trade. Despondent hecause he was hopelessly ariltcled with locomotor ataxia, rlenry C Jones or Niishville. Tenn.. formerly auditor audi-tor of the Nashville. Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad, committed suicide in St. Louis yesterday by shooting. Madame Emma Barnes, the prima donna, sailed yesterday from New York for Paris, where she will study some new roles for her coming season. lime. Eames said she had entirely recovered her health. Margaret Magill. the seventeen-year-old daughter of Fred II. Magi'd, reported report-ed missing in California, Is now hidden, in Illinois, near Clinton. She gave out a statement vesturday. through her father's lawyers, declaring Magill and his bride, Fay Graham Magill. did not murder her mother, Mrs. Pet Magill, but that tho latter commuted suicide. Chaplain Thomas Dickson, Twenty-sixth Twenty-sixth Infantry, yesterday shot and seriously seri-ously wounded Clyde Lllakely, a private of company li. Ninth infantry, at San Antonio. An-tonio. Tex. Dickson gives as a reason for tho shooting that Blnkely. with a companion, was dragging awny from his front vard a brass cannon made In IGOS. which Dickson brought from the Philippines. The Jewish quarter of Philadelphia was the scene of wild disorder yesterday, when tho women of tho quarter made demonstrations against all of the. Kosher butchers as a protest againsl an Incroaso In the price of beef. The shops wero Inx-adcd by the angry women, pre-.spcctlve customers driven out, windows broken, and kerosene In a number of Instances was poured over all the meat In sight. Arrests were followed by demonstrations against two police stations to which several sev-eral of tho women were taken, and the police wero compelled to usa considerable force In dispersing the crowds. |