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TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS ACTRESS UNIMPROVED-The condition of Miss Blanche Walsh, the actress, who in is seriously ill at the University hospital Kansas City, Mo., was unchanged yesterday. SMELTER CLOSED-The big smelter at Velardina, Mexico, owned by the American Smelting and Refining company, has been closed on account of a strike. The plant employs about 1000 men. KILL PRIMARY BILL-The Montana state senate yesterday by a strict partisan bili vote killed the house primary election which was patterned after the Oregon law and which relates solely to the election of United States senators, week VENIRE SUMMONED-Judge A. B. Anderson, in the United States district court at Chicago, yesterday issued an order for 25 a venire of 150 men to appear February for service in the retrial of the famous Standard Oil $29,240,000 fine. FACTORY DESTROYED-Fire of unknown origin early yesterday completely destroyed the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad creosoting plant, located four miles estifrom Greenville, Texas. The loss is mated at between $150,000 and $200,000. HONOR MRS. TAFT- Mrs. William H. Taft, wife of the president-elect, has been elected to membership in the Connecticut society, Colonial Dames of America. Mrs. Taft is a descendant of Thomas Welles, governor of Connecticut from 1855 to 1858. MORRIS ADLER DIES-Morris Adler, for years the head of the firm of Adler in Chicago, hide & thirty Oberndorff stock dealers yards, and packers of by-products at the dead. His health was broken down several is months ago by an attack of kidney trouble. ACCUSED OF MURDER-M. Pearl, one of the Greeks implicated in a fight with Hindu laborers at Marysville, Cal., last Thursday, when one Hindu was killed and two injured, has been arrested and charged with murder. He was identified in a crowd of twenty men by one of the injured Hindus. TO DOUBLE CAPACITY-The Great Western Power company at Marysville has changed its original plans and will at once double the capacity of its Big Ben plant, making its capacity 144,000 horsepower. $5,- It is announced the company will spend 000,000 during the spring and summer. ANGELENO ARRESTED-H. A. Gray, said to be from Los Angeles, was yesterday arrested at Atlanta, Ga., on suspicion charged with having 100 blank checks printed purporting to be from a bank in Rochester, N. Y. Gray said he had the checks he in making these firms believe carried to exhibit a large bank balance. DRASTIC "DRY" LAW-The Kansas state judiciary committee presented a bill yesterday which provides for the discontinunce of all druggists' permits, forbids the keeping the of liquor at clubs and places a ban on sale of liquor for any purpose whatsoever. It is the most drastic prohibition measure ever introduced in the Kansas legislature, GIRLS DROP FAR-An electric elevator fell ten stories with fifteen girls at 37 East car Eighteenth street, New York, yesterday, but as the mechanism held for brief moments at the seventh and third floors the force of the fall was broken, and all of the girls escaped serious injury. Four of them fainted from fright, caused by their rapid descent. BANK SUSPENDED-The comptroller of the currency today announced that, the Coal Belt National bank of Benton, Ill., has been closed by order of the directors and that George C. Ball has been appointed receiver. The bank's embarrassment is said to date from the defalcation of a few years ago of R. A. Youngblood, former president, who is now serving a term in prison. VENIRE EXHAUSTED-What was left of fifth venire was in court at Nashville, Tenn., the yesterday when the attempt was made to secure a jury to try Colonel and Robin Cooper and John D. Sharpe for the killing of former Senator Carmack. The remainder of the venire was exhausted quickly without qualifying a single man. The court ordered the 500 new names drawn from the box for sixth venire. DIES IN SEATTLE-Edward Oziel Graves, in Russia, N. Y., in 1843, assistant treasurer born of the United States under the Arthur administration and chief of the bureau printing and engraving in Cleveland's ad- of ministration, died in Seattle yesterday creeping paralysis, after an illness of two For twenty-six years Graves was conyears. nected with the treasury department at Washington, D. C., and from a modest clerk- he to which he was appointed in 1863, was ship, rapidly advanced to assistant treasurer.
