Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-04-24

Wade Hampton and Winnie Davis.
| WASHINGTON. D. c., April ga
Two cablegrams from Guatemala CON
cerning the earthquake in that vicin-
| ity from Charge of Affairs Bailey,
says:
MANY towns and cities have been
almost destroyed. Loss as yet is un-
known. A relief fund has been start
ed and soldiers are guarding the
ruins"
| Consul McNally cables; Consular
agent at Quezeallitamingo reports that
the earthquake of the 18th was a
frightful catastrophe. The entire city
was ruined and the consulate was de-
stroyed, two hundred of whom were
killed. Mrs. Clara Wildare. was the
only American victim. Great damage
has been done throughout the repub-
lie. and Guatemala City was badly
shaken up. No lives have been lost
here, but the shocks continue
| ENID. Okla. April 23,-William
Cross of Oklahoma City was this
morning nominated delegate to con
| gress by the convention of Democrats
and Populists. He is representative
of Kansas City dry goods house. The
convention collected three thousand
| dollars of a campaign fund for him.
Dennis Flynn. Republican. the pres
ent incumbent. The convention in
| dorsed the Kansas City platform and
| declared for single statehood.
| CONSTANTINOPLE. April 23.-The
| nnrta has cnnn1nIpt with
| England by which the independence
of the Sheik of Koweit Is recognized.
The move is serious check to Rus
sian and German ambitions to reach
the Persian gulf by railway.
| WASHINGTON. d. c., April "a
| The president today cabled General
| Chaffee that If his demands on Dattos
| in Mtndanoa We're not complied with.
to do nothing which would impair
our prestige or in any way imperil the
| army and to act as judgment dictates
to bring about peace.
| SAN FRANCISCO, CAL April 23.-
| Indications this morning are that the
| strike of street car men will be set
| tied this evening and tied up lines be
operated. A conference between the
company officials and committee men
was held at ten O'Clock and Is likely to
be in session some hours. Both sides
are reported to have made conces-
| sions. Public sentiment seems to be
with the men and enforced this morn
| ings conference which the railroad
| company heretofore refused.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind April 23.-
| Chairman Goodrich of the Republican
state committee called the state CON
ventlon to order here today in a
brief speech. Attendance was un-
commonly large, three thousand peo-
pie crowding into Tomlinson hall, OF
which more than half are delegates
This afternoon will be spent in orga
nization and figuring on nominations
Numberless candidates are in evidence
for the various Offices. Storms will
probably be named for secretary OF
state. All the notable Republicans OF
Indiana are present today, including
Senator Beyeridge. whose speech this
afternoon is expected to sound the
keynote on state issues and to have a
national bearing.
LONDON, April 23.-lt is officially
announced that the British fleet at
the coronation review will consist OF
twenty battleships. twenty nine cruis
ers, nineteen gunboats and thirty-nine
torpedo craft
NEW YORK, April 23-Over two
hundred policemen with fourteen pa
troll wagons. raided the red light dis
trict last night, capturing $50 women
from the resorts. Prisoners are being
held without bail. 1t is said to be the
forerunner of a spirited campaign
against vice on the East Side.
| LONDON, April 23.-Britain is rap
idly approaching another of those
crisis which shake things to theil
foundation in ireland. While peace
in South Africa seems Within meas
urable distance. the British govern
ment is threatened by a civil wal
almost at the kings threshold. NJ
longer are the Irish executives, Lore
Cadogan and Ir Wyndham. support
ed In any part of Ireland. The grea
mass of the Protestant farmers in tbs
north have made up their minds tha
the present land system must end, an,
Lord Salisbury is face to face with al
almost universal Irish demand for thu
appropriation of the landlords.
What is the sense says Thomas
Wallace Russell, the leader OF th'
movement, 'of defying Irish opinion?
To this the Times, the organ OF th'
Irish landlord extremists, responds
Since Mr. Redmond held up Con
naught as an example to the rest o
Ireland of what the United lrisl
league could do to paralyze laws AM
turn government into rldicule, ther
has never been doubt in the mind
of thoughtful Britons as to wha
should be done. We have simply dc
layed doing 1t. But we delay n
longer.
while there Is little crime agains
the person in ireland, the royalist poi
ulation in many parts have succuml
ed to terrorism just as the middl
classes in Sicily and the Neapolita
provinces have found it necessary t
pay blackmail to the Malta and ca
mora These conditions must no'
be ended"
Against this the nationalists sc
the fact that only nine counties an