Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-05-23
NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.


tional organization in this city reports
which was ordered to be inaugurated
today.
1t is estimated at noon that the
number OF men that failed to return
to work in the shops throughout the
country this morning exceeds $4,000.
This is slightly more than was ex-
pected last week, but Saturday night
the indications were that three times
that number would be out
In hundreds OF shops the bosses
gave in and signed contracts with the
men this morning granting their full
demands.
The leaders of the strike here are
confident that the strike will not work
great hardship on any branch of
commerce. as they are certain 1t will
only be of short duration. They feel
confident that by the end of the week
all employers will have agreed to their
demands.
There are many prominent labor
leaders here who do not take this
hopeful view of the situation, and de-
clare that bitter and long fight will
result, especially with the railroads
in Pennsylvania, the management of
which have absolutely refused to con-
slider the demands of the men, say
ing that they were beyond all rea-
sen.
The only city in the country where
the bosses have made united stand
is at Cincinnati, and there $500 men
are out.
In Chicago only about 900 men are
out, all the big shops having granted
the demands.
WASHINGTON. Ind. May 2O.-Bal-
timore & Ohio shops, employing 400
| closed. down.
HAMILTON. O.. May 20.-Five big
shops are idle as the result of the
strike.
KANSAS CITY. May 90.-Three
hundred machinists are still out. A
| few small shops surrendered.
CLEVELAND. o., May 2O.-Nne
hundred machinists struck today and
IL shops surrendered.
ELMIRA. NJ v. May 20-There
was great excitement at Sayre. Pa.
| this morning as 1000 machinists of
the Lehigh valley struck.
YOUNGSTOWN, o.. May 20.-Three
more men died today as a result of
an explosion at the steel plant yes
| terday. The death list is now five
and three others are expected to die.
LONDON. May 2O.--A horrible
tragedy occurred early this morning.
| Sergeant Major Butler, VINO had just
| returned from the front. while suffer
ing with African fever shot at five of
his children. instantly killing four.
The fifth cannot recover. He fired
| at his wife with baby in her arms.
but the bulD,ts went wild. Then he
| turned a second pistol on himself and
blew OFF the top of his head.
LONDON. May eo.--Lord Kitchen
er reports that on Friday the Beers
dynnmited an armored train near
| American Siding in the Transvaal,
| causing serious wreck
Among the killed was Major Heath.
| who was in command
DENVER. May Ex-senator Patter-
sons criminal libel suit agains the
! publishers of the Denver Republican
| was begun in the criminal division
of the district court this morning
The session was taen up by attor-
| neys arguing the technicality of the
| pleadings of defendants to charges.
| The work of selecting a jury will prob
| ably begin this afternoon.
NEW YORK. May 20-Maurice Lev
erick. aged 1s, crippled with hip dis
| ease since babyhood, threw away his
| crutches in the presence Of 1000 in
the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes
yesterday at Williamsburg and walked
unassisted. The only treatment was
prayers by priests and sprinkling
with holy water.
TACOMA, Wash. May 20-Steam-
ship consolidation has been going on
rapidly on the Asiatic coast this
spring Purchases made last month
denote the latest phase of the sharp
! rivalry between the rival Hamburg
! American and North German Lloyd
lines. The Hamburg-American COM
pany purchased outright the Jebsen
| fleet of steamers. thereby securing
the enormous trade of Northern China
from Shanghai to the guifs of Pc Chi
LII anu LldO OHS. luSluulus Tile pOTlS
| of Kia Chou, Chez Foo, Taku, Port
Arthur and Corea Bay. The Jebsen
line comprises five steamers, with
two more building. The Hamburg
company is also negotiating for a line
of steamers on the Yang Use river.
together with wharfage property on
British bund at Kankow. The North
German Lloyd company has purchased
! the Chinese-owned steamers Sirius
| and Koshichang. and is negotiating
| for others.
COLORADO SPRINGS, May 2O.-It
is now positively nown that no lives
were lost and no other serious damage
was done beyond the partial destruc-
tion of the Victor reservoir by a cloud
burst on Pixies Peak yesterday af.
| ternoon.
NEW YORK. May 2O-H. p. Booth,
head of the Southwestern railway
Co. announces that that corporation
| will sDend two millions immediate tely