Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-02-06

all to pieces and the crew has bee,
: lost.
Many hotels and other building
along the coast have been utterl.
wrecked by the awful gale.
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 4.-Th'
steamers Europe and Drummond
both of which went ashore on th'
capes during the storm of yesterday
were not rs completely wrecked as
reported. 1t is thought today tn,
vessels can be rescued from their peril
GUS positions on the shoals without
their being broken up.
LONG BEACH, l.. l.. Feb 4.-Ths
life savers this morning managed to
reach the stranded ships Cavour and
Shepp. Although the "a men aboard
the Shepp have suffered fearfully
they refused to leave the vessel. Il
is expected that both vessels will be
1oated before night
Towards noon the Shepp began to
start at the seams and % of her crew
were taken off.
| HALIFAX. Feb. 4.-The storm las
reached the climax. Dozens of yes
sells have been wrecked Off the New
England coast. At Lunenburg there
are IA vessels stranded.
| LONDON, Feb. 4.-Lord Kitchener
reports to the war office toady that
during the past week 30 Beers have
been killed. l6 wounded ana ,i2 TAX
en- prisoners. No report is made of
tie BRUSH casualties.
ST. PAUL, Feb. 4.-The state leg.
islature convened today to act upon
the new tax code. The bill was pre-
pared by a special commission and is
severe on the corporations.
DWIGHT. Ill. Feb. 4.-Flre this
| morning destroyed the entire plant
of the Keeley institute and the Liv-
ingstone hotel The chemicals took
fire in the laboratory. All the guests
in the hotel escaped with their af-
fects. The rebuilding OF the burn
ed structures will be commenced at
once.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Miss Alice
Roosevelt will receive a unique birth
day present from her father when she
becomes of age on Tuesday next.
The present will consist of the pres!-
dents permission for his daughter 70
accompany her uncle and aunt to the
coronation of King Edward. Com
mander Cowles will attend as aid to
Captain Clark, the naval representa-
tive. Mrs. Cowles goes also, SO ii
Miss Alice goes her aunt will chapei
one her.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-The ex-
port record of the calendar year 1901
is very satisfactory when its Total is
compared with that of 1900 or OF any
preceding year. While the apparent
total falls about $12.OOO.OOO below the
figures of 1900, the fact that tie cx.
port figures OF 1901 do not contain
ANY Of the shipments from the United
States to Porto Rico of Hawaii, which
aggregated probably $3O,O00,0O in
d'cates that the grand total of ship
ments formerly classed as exports to
foreign countries was in the year
1901 greater than any preceding year.
While there was reduction Of $780,
0OO,O in the value of exports of GER
tain great articles-notably corn, cop
per, cotton and iron and steel-there
was a sufficient increase In other ar
ticles-notably wheat. -four provis-
louS anu coIlOh
practically Offset this reduction,
LONDON, Feb. 4.-The st. James
Gazette, on the highest authority. an
nounces that at the termination Of the
Boer war Premier Salisbury will re-
siei.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Through
the influence of President Roosevelt
it is stated that Payne. Grosvenor,
Dalzell and other prominent members
of the ways and means committee are
now in favor of Cuban reciprocity.
However. Speaker Henderson is said
to be still holding out. Unless his
views are changed soon Cuban reci
procity will have hard shedding in
the house.
SEATTLE, Feb. 4.--Advices from
Nome state that scurvy is exceeding
ly prevalent in the great gold camp.
and great suffering is the result in
the poorer circles.
ALLENTOWN, Pa, Feb. Jacob
Heller, wealthy farmer of Lehigh
Gap. was struck and killed by the
Black Diamond express train on the
Lehigh Valley road late last night.
He stepped out of the way of one
train directly in front of another.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4.-Lillian
Nordica, the singer, has not yet re-
covered from the shock she sustained
in the recent railroad wreck, and she
has cancelled all her engagements.
Her condition is not serious, but her
Improvement Is slow.
NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-The Stan
dard Oil company has declared a
quarterly dividend of $40 per share.
| CRIPPLE CREEK, Feb. "A phe.
nomenal strike of sylvanite on Col
umbla ground. Beacon Hill. was made
yesterday. The ground is owned by
the Ell Paso company. The strike
was made In the 600-foot level. The
| assays run away up into the thou
sands OF dollars.
NEW YORK. Feb. 3.-William c.