Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-06-06

| uuiSas SoR9S94pS nNupepS betwee
now and hasy9St. the great yield c
last year will be exceeded. The onl
bad wheat l have seen is in McPheI
son county. where considerable dan
age from fly is reported. and In a fe,
fields In some other counties of Ger
trail Kansas. not. however. enough f
change the total yield materially. |
took 100000 pounds of twine t,
bind last seasons crop. and 1t will re
quire 12.O0O.000 pounds this year
The penitentiary has just adopted tn,
plan of selling to dealers as well a.
to farmers. and 1t is working well
| We try to get dealer In every large
town. This year. with what is left
over. we will have 1.25O.0OO pounds
to sell. and indications are that all OF
it will be taken. The twine dealers
opposed the penitentiary output and
are making hard fight, but the result
is proving that the plant is great
saving to the farmers of the state"
LINCOLN, Neb., June A prom,.
nent society man named Alfred Brink
and pretty Mrs. Mabel Walker tried
to commit suicide together at a prom.
inent hotel here at an early hour this
morning. The woman is dead and
the man is in a precarious condition.
The pair were deeply in love with
each other. Mr.. Walker objected.
He is the agent of a prominent east.
ern publishing house. and presumably
is in Denver today,
Brink and Mrs. Walker. after an af.
fectionate leave-taking, took cocaine
and coal alcohol.
WASHINGTON, June 4.-The ply.
sicians attending Mrs Mckinley ey.
press serious alarm this morning over
the condition of Mrs. Mckinley.
DIR. Rixey was up most of the night
and upon leaving the White house at
O'Clock this morning shook his head
and said there was no improvement.
Some time before noon consulta-
ton of all the physicians will be held
when an official bulletin will be is
sued
All Washington feels this marning
that the end IL not far of.
An official bulletin, Issued this af.
ternoon, states that the condition of
Mrs. Mckinley has not materially
changed.
IRON MOUNTAIN. Mich, June A.
A big powder explosion In the Chap
in mine today Instantly killed eight
men. Thirty children are fatherloss.
PITTSBURG. June A passenger
train on the Panhandle road ran into
a tank train filled with OIL Both
caught fire and were destroyed.
Only one person was seriously in
jured. William j. Reese, a telegraph
operator,
The financial loss is heavy.
OLD POINT COMFORT. Va. June
4.-There is a great meeting here to-
day of commercial travellers, 1t heing
the annual session Of the rraveling
Mems Protective association.
There are present Ave hundred of
the brightest drummers In the coun,
try.
Howard Peak of Texas is working
hard for the presidency, and for Port
land, Ore. for the next convention
ATLANTIC CITY. N, j.. June A.
Prsmsnaders on the famous board
walk this morning witnessed the un-
usual spectacle OF big steamer.
which went ashore last night. slowly
list to starboard and sink out of sight
1t was the British steamer Ranal-
do. loaded with asphalt from Trini-
de-. The crew came ashore in row
boats.
ST. PAUL. Mimi. June 1.-Two
thousand medical men. including emf
1ent physicians from all over the Uni.
ted States and Canada. gathered here
today upon the opening Of the Medical
association of America.
Governor Vansant welcomed the
gathering to the state. after which
routine business was taken up.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-. June 4.-By all
odds the most famous murder trial
in the history of Kansas City begun
Yesterday morning, when the case Of
the state against Lulu Prince Kennedy
was called. 1t is the trial of the girl
wife who killed her bridegroom hus-
band In the corridor of big office
building last January. because. she
says. he robbed her OF her honor and.
after being forced by the girls faith
er and brothers to marry her. refused
to live with her and sought to have
the marriage annulled
Mrs. Kennedys defense is purely
justification. The killing will be ad-
mitted. and no plea of self defense or
insanity will be put up. Practically
the only question for the jury to de
eide is whether a woman is to be pun
ished for killing man who ruins her
and then refuses to acknowledge her
as his wife. Both sides appear very
confident the defense, represented by
three of the leading criminal lawyers
in the city, perhaps the more so.
Mrs. Kennedy is only 10. She is the
daughter OF C. w. Prince. and sis
ter of Bert Prince, a mandolin player
of considerable note throughout the
western states.
She was stenographer before her
marriage. On the morning Of Dec. 4
last Mrs. Kennedy. then Miss Prince;
her father. VIII Prince a brother. and