Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-01-06

struction OF two immense battleships
J to be of eighteen thousand tons pow
!; er and to have the greatest gun pow
: er of any vessels in the world Five
Iarmored cruisers are also to be con
!; tracted for. The admiralty furthe,
requested that the twenty warships
now In course of construction here
be pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible
DENVER, Jan. 2-The Denver
Post this morning offered a reward OF
81 900 for the arrest and conviction
of the murderer who night before last
butchered Herold Fridborn. four.
teen-year-old boy who was attempting
to defend the honor of his sister.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-W. X. Van.
derbilt received word today that his
daughter, the Duchess of Mari
borough, would pay visit to Amer
lea, spending next Summer here.
She will leave England Immediately
after the coronation OF King Edward.
LONDON, Jan. 2.-The new post
age stamps bearing the portrait of the
king were placed on sale in the post
Offices of the United Kingdom last
night. There is very great call
for these stamps both by collectors
and business houses.
| EVANSTON, Wyo., Jan. "A bur
glar was caught red-handed this morn
ing by the police and number of
citizens while in the act of cracking
the safe in Hale & Chishom's saloon
and just as he exploded the safe with
dynamite the officers opened fire on
him, but in the excitement the thief
escaped. He was captured soon al
terwards, however, and proved to be
Irl Kirk, noted burglar who was re.
leased from the state penitentiary
last month
| PARIS, Jan. IA dispatch from
kiev. European Russia, today says
that bomb was exploded last night
under the balcony of the palace of the
Grand Duke Constantine at the time
the grand salon was crowded with
guests. Intense excitement prevail
ed. but no one was killed The pal
ace was partially wrecked Fifteen
nihilist students have been arrested
as suspects.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2.-Senator
Perkins called on the president this
| morning and introduced Prof. Camp
| bell of the Lick observatory. The
president then for the first time de-
| clared his intention of paying visit
to the Pacific coast shortly. He in
timated that when he reached San
Francisco he would go over to San
Jose and make trip to the Lick OBJ
servatory.
HAVANA, Jan. General Palma
has been elected president of the new
Cuban republic almost unanimously.
This morning he is in receipt of hun
dreds of kilograms of congratulation
from the mayors of the various cities
and from Spanish and Cuban mer-
chants in New Orleans. New York
and throughout the entire country.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-Eugene Carter,
the well known British expert, died
of consumption here this morning
He was aged AS.
LONON, Jan. 2.-Now that the sea
son of house parties and dances has
begun, society maidens are more
amused than alarmed at the publish
ed statement of very serious and
eminent medical man on the subject
of dancing. But wat he says is in
teresting. He has been making care
full calculations and says the average
waltz takes dancers over three-quar-
ters of mile. The square dance
represents distance of half mile
and the galop between two and three
miles. Therefore the evening ball
miles.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich, Jan. 2.-Coun-
ty Clerk Church announces that
l ,493 marriage licenses were issued
from his office during the year just
past, and LAO marriages were per-
formed from his office during the past
year. or at his home. During the
year nearly $1,000 was divided among
the visitors One-third of the mar
riages were celebrated by justices of
the peace during the year. Couples
from nearly every part of the coun-
try have been married here, and ev-
cry city of any Importance in the en-
tire country has been represented.
MACON. Ca, Jan. 2.-Five persons
were killed and twelve injured by the
explosion of a locomotive boiler in
the roundhouse of the Central Geor-
gia railroad here this morning
Three of the injured will die
DESOTA, Iowa, Jan. 2.-Browns
dry goods store was burglarized here
last night and thousands of dollars
worth of valuable plunder was secur-
ed. The search for the robbers was
facilitated this morning by many
bolts OF cloth which were found scat
tered along the highway. These
suddenly ceased and the trail was
lost.
PUEBLO, Jan. 2.-This morning
Judge Dixon sentenced Lawrence
Hicks to die by hanging the first week
in April Hicks is a colored man
and two weeks ago he killed william
White. The case will be appealed in
order to test the constitutionality of
the new hanging law.