Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-05-05

ed the sermon.
DENVER, May Mrs. Julia
Kingsbury ut noon today killed hei
/ two children, Elsie and Edith, aged
| 2 and years and then took heI
own life. The means used was car
bolic acid and to make sure she
mixed equal parts of laudanum, chic
/ form and carbolic acid. Mrs. Kings
bury waited until the little girl came
back from school. when she took the
children into room, locked the door
and administered the deadly poison.
1t was an hour before the trio was
discovered and all are dead this af-
ternoon. Mrs. Kingsbury had no do
mesitc differences but was subject to
dreadful periods of depression. The
family is well to do. the husband be
ing foreman of big laundry. The
man is half crazed over the tragedy.
LONDON. May 1.-At Vienna. Ber-
lin and Rome socialist and working
men organizations had the usual May
dav celebrations on an immense scale
today. In Vienna there were 46 mass
meetings and 2S parades which con-
verged simultaneously on Ring Stras-
sc. No disturbances are reported
ROME. May Foreign Minister
Rrinetti today forwarded to the min
ster of Justice complete statement
presented nv Ambassador Never of
trouble In Venice owing to which four
officers of the cruiser Chicago we're
sentenced to iail there. Prinetti
earnestly asks the release of the men.
NEW YORK. Nav 1.-The armored
cruiser Brooklyn. with Rear Admit
raj Remev in command arrived OFF
Sandy Hook this morning from Mani
Ia, Remev has completed his term
as commander in chief of the Asiatic
station.
WASHINGTON. MAY 2.-The morn
ing trains took home large dele
cation OF western cattlemen from Tex
as. New Mexico, Wyoming and Ne
braska who have been here all week
urging congressional legislation for
leasing grazing lands, The presi-
dent. secretary of the interior and land
office commissioner We're all favored
with the visitors ideas. but the con
ferenece with the leaders of congress
showed utter futilitv of getting the
bill passed at this session. The oc-
cupation of public lands by cattle
men is STRONGLY opposed in certain
quarters. While the congressional
lands committee have not favored cat
tlemen thew have authorized the sale
of New Mexico timber lands in TWEEN
tv-fve thousand acre tracts. while
now II can only be sold in quarter sec
tiors thus restricting sales.
WASHINGTON. Nav 2-The house
YESTERDAY agreed to the Burleson reso-
luton calling on the Secretary of
war for copies of all orders bearing
on the campaign in Samar specifl-
oallv ne they relate to the campaign
directed bv General Smith. In the
senate Culbertson's resolution Of simi-
lar import was agreed to.
CHICAGO. Nav "A telegram
from Montreal this morning announ-
ces the purchase of the Ottawa, North
ern and Western road by the Cana
dian Pacific for four million dol
lars. This shortens the trans-con
tinental line by over thirty miles and
gives the Canadian Pacific better
trackage and facilities.
NEW YORK. MAY 2.-Bishop Henry
C. Potter of New York in his address
at Yale at New Haven on THE Re
sponsibilities of Citizenship" boldly
struck at what he said were evils at
root of the industrial problem. The
Indifference of the consumer to what
cheapness of production really de
notes. of want and suffering, of mean
and degrading environment a nd lack
of opportunity for the wage Garner
he said were matters to which the
public conscience must be awakened
He declared that the time had come
to challenege the statement that the
inexorable law of supply and de
mand regulated the whole industrial
situation, and added:
"The consumer has some respon
sibility for this thing. We have
been for fifty years in widening the
mental horizon of the wage Garner
Unfortunately they have tastes and
perceptions awakened by their wider
culture above their fellows and they
cannot strangle them. We have not
realized that the workingman wants
fair play. Too -often his employer
is little likely to concern himself
about that unless the consumer com
pels 1t.
"The Consumers League, with which
we are now quite familiar in New
York and other cities can do much
| for instance, to prevent the bane oi
sweating rates. In the hands OF o
discriminating consumer rests the
settlement of the gravest questions oi
the whole problem"
WASHINGTON, May 1.-President
! Havemeyer of the sugar trust ap
peared before the senate committed
on Cuban relations yesterday wher
| inquiry was began regarding the
amount of Cuban sugar owned by the
trust. Since last February he SAID
the corporation had purchased fiftI
| thousand tons. or ten days supply
that 10000 tons was now in process
of shipment from Cuba. Havemeyei
said: There is no truth whatever
| in the statement that our organiza
tion have been buying up, or seeking
to control a large proportion of the
| Cuban sugar crop or that we would