Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-03-11
NEW YORK.. March 3

I
| this mornii & the Transatlantic linz
Southwark. which has been asroIn,
for over,a day. was fioated.
At noon she stared on her trans
Atlantic ,oyi,ge wtAc ut her hull hay.
| ing been examined.
| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March g.
1t was ascertafned here this morninp
that Benjamin Harrison is seriousl,
Ill at his residence, on North Dele
ware street.
The ex-president was slightly bette,
LIS morning according to his physi
clans. but the general impression pre-
/ walls that Harrison is much worse
than the public is permitted to know.
| DENVER. March S-The stock
growers convention in session TODAY
memorialized the interior department
to send Inspector West to gain an in.
| sight into local conditions and give
| settlers and cattle owners n hearing
relative to the unfitness of the pres
ent forest reserve regulations
| NEW YORK, March S.-A Wash-
ington special to the Herald today
says that Secretary Long has decided
to give adequate rewards to all officers
and men who distinguished them.
selves In the Chinese campaign
| Capt. McCalla, Capt. Miles and Ma.
| jor Waller are to be especially ad-
vanced
| WASHINGTON, March S.-The ex-
port duty on tobacco was abolished
after April at the suggestion of Gen.
| Wood, governor of Cuba.
This act will highly please the Gu.
bans and Porto Ricans.
| DENVER, March S-The bribery
| investigation is closed The commit
tee will report tomorrow, as Speaker
| Montgomery's charges are not PROV
en-. and the legislature should be ex-
onerated.
| SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. March s.
Because school superintendent, of
the name Of Armstrong, marched n
| native girl at the head OF the school
| for dfsobedience of orders, when she
tore her dress by catching it on a
desk, a mob gathered and threatened
to kill him. He was rescued after
much difficulty.
The rioters grew in number, few of
them knowing what they were gather.
ing for. and II required the military
being ordered out by the governor to
quell the difficulty.
There We're several guns fired most
inthe air, as there We're no serious
| casualties. The rioters belonged
mostly to the unemployed contingent
Of the citys population.
MANILA, March S.-Capt. Duncan
of the 4th infantry captured squad
of insurgents and considerable ammu
milton in Cavite province.
Gen. Wheaton reports his troops in
GOOD health, 8 per cent being sick.
WILMINGTON, Del, March s.
The break to Addicks in the legisla-
ture did not occur yesterday, as ex.
pected. and Delaware remains with
out a senator
CLEVELAND, March S.-Tom l..
Johnson and John X. Mclean have
formed an offensive and defensive DO
iitical alliance which they feel will
lead them to great honor.
Mclean has decided to keep hands
off the Cleveland mayoralty fight and
has even agreed to assist Johnson.
who is the Democratic candidate.
johnson is to be doomed for cover
nor OF Ohio by McLean's entire polit-
ical strength. Mclean is to be
doomed for the senatorship, johnson
promising to throw his whole infu-
enoe toward electing Legislators who
are pledged to Mclean.
This is the result of visit to this
city Of Lew Bernard. McLean's lieu.
tenant, who started in to fight John
son. feeling that Johnson's election as
mayor would lessen McLean's chan.
ces for the senatorship.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March s.
John S, Hittel, the well known histo-
Iian and journalist, died early this
morning at the age of rs.
HELENA, Mont, March Sat a
few minutes past 5 o'clock this morn
ing, after an all-night session, Perry
Gibson, a dark horse and Democrat,
was elected United States senator for
Montana.
This ends long and somewhat bit
ter contest. 1t looked up to o'clock
this morning as though Senator Car
ter would be reelected. He had
been gaining steadily from the two.
leading fusion candidates, but his
strength was not sufficient The
Democrats got together, the two lead
ers retired, agreed upon Gibson and
elected him.
The election of Gibson, who is
resident Of Great Falls, gives gen
eral satisfaction. He is a man OF
high character and unblemished repu-
tatlon.
The necessary votes were furnish
ed him by that wing of the Democrat
ic party known as the DAILY faction
Mr.. Gibson is II years old. He
was born in New Hampshire, educat
ed at Bowdoln college, and graduated
in 1851. He went west and located
in Minnesota. where he built the first
-four mills in Minneapolis in 1858.
Twonty-one years ago he left Mime.