Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-03-20
TELEGRAPHIc sREvITIEs.

TELEGRAPHIc sREVITlEs.
| NEW YORK. March 19.--No bodies
We're taken from the fire which de
stroyed the steamer British Queen at
at the Phoenix pier seven lighters
and an immense store of cotton, caus-
ing loss of half a million. 1t is conf.
IDENTIFY believed that William Scott,
chief engineer of the Queen, burned
| to death Six OF the injured are in
| Hoboken hospital today The fire
started from an unknown cause. A
search of the ruins will be undertaken
when cooling permits.
The burning steamer Queen drifted
across the bay and stranded off Thir-
pumped water into her all morning,
Patrick Hussey. one OF the injured,
died this morning at the hospital,
This afternoon Thomas Cooney, n
fireman, while helping to extinguish
the flames on the steamer Queen, fell
overheard and was drowned.
| William Scott, the engineer, who
was reported burned. is not dead He
jumped overheard last night. and was
rescued after being in the water an
hour.
NEW YORK, March 19.-President
| Hepburn Chase of the First National
bank of this city, is out with state
ment today, saying that there is n
growing sentiment throughout the
country in favor OF government own
ership of public utilities, and that he
believes that in brief time the gov
eminent will own railroads. telegraph,
and express companies, and direct in
land and ocean commerce. The form
| er comptroller OF the currency favors
this idea and says the signs of the
times indicate that 1t will quickly
come to pass.
PRINCEON, March, 19.-Former
President Cleveland received a num-
Der of congratulatory letters this
morning from persons who re-
membered that yesterday was his
sixty-fifth birthday. Mr.. Cleveland
celebrated the event by giving some
hopeful OF the future. He says the
party may get mixed up with itself
at times, but it seems to have the
faculty of pulling together at the
most convenient times.
| MARISSA, ILL.,, March 19.-Safe
blowers entered the Commercial hotel
last night and secured twenty-five
hundred dollars, and left the building
in flames, which was destroyed, caus-
| inc of hunIraI and Hffy
thousand dollars Fifty guests had
narrow escapes. A dozen business
buildings and several residences were
also destroyed.
SHAMOKIN, Pa. March l9.-The
United Mine Workers met in execu-
tive session today and discussed the
letter from the operators refusing to
meet the miners in conference. Ger.
tain delegations strongly favor gen
eral strike, and such action is not i'm
probable.
| FITTSBURG, March 19.-Eighteen
cars started from the Carnegie works
this morning, for New York. with the
largest shipment OF armor plate ever
made. The armor plate is intended
for Russia, who will use the plates In
completing the battleship Bordiniarie
lnow building Hurry orders hastened
the shipment caused by discussion
here of the probability of war with
Japan.
NEW YORK, March 19.-The mar
ket opened today with very sensation
al features, the principal activity be
ing in Colorado & Southern and II
Colorado Fuel & Iron stock Forty
four hundred shares of the latter
changed hands in the first hour a
prices ranging from one hundred tt
one hundred nnd seven compared with
nlnety-eight last night Later Colo
> RADIO Iron q Fuel reacted four ant
one-half points. but the sensationa
advance was fairly well maintained
during the day. No cause was giveI
for the sudden jump.
. NEW ORLEANS. March l9.-Th'
British consul here has applied to th'
authorities for protection from agent
1 of the Beers. whom he declares threat
! en to assasslnate him for his activit.
4 in purchasing mules and sending then
{ | to South Africa for use of the Britisl
= government.
! WASHINGTON, ID. C., March 49,
{ War department orders, issued today
+ effective March %, assigns command
+ OF departments as follows; Genera
:. Macarthur, department of the Lakes