The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1903-10-09
SHORT TELEGRAMs.

Governor Van SAINT of Minnesota has
announced that he will not be candl-
date for United States senator to sue
coed Senator Clapp.
Barney Oldfield. in his automobile at
Glenwood track. Cleveland, Ohio. Sep7
TENDER goth. travelled five miles In
4 4:49 2-5. The worlds record was AGA.
Emile Berliner, well-known for his
micrcphone-te telephone transmitter, the
-. gramophone, and other inventions, an
nounces that he has devised an aero
plane.
The Treasury Department on Sep
| TENDER 18th purchased 100000 ounces
of silver at 59A cents per ounce. The
purchase was made for the Philippine
coinage.
G. &. Cary of Wichita was burned to
death and five others We're injured In
n fire that destroyed the private sani-
tarium of DR.. b. b. Ralph at Kansas
City, September 10Th.
Tho Holland ministry for foreign af-
fairs has appointed commission to
take preparatory steps for the construc-
ton of the permanent arbitration court
building at The Hague.
The British Board of Agriculture has
issued an order withdrawing the pro
hibition on the landing of animals 9TH
er than swine brought to Great Britain
from the New England states.
Curtis Jet. convicted at Cynthiana,
lientucwy. on the third trial, OF tho
murder of James Cockrill at Jackson,
| kentucky, July 21st, 1902, has been
sentenced TO be hanged December 18th.
| John Hays Hammond, the famous
mining expert. who is professor OF
mining engineering at Yale, will pres
sent to that institution a metallurgical
laboratory to cost between $4,000 and
$4,000
A correspondent of the London
Times, writing from Beirut, says moth
ing but the presence of the American
squadron prevented the recent riot there
from becoming a general massacre OF
Christians.
Twelve hundred schools in Porto
Rico were opened September 2Sth and
10000 pupils were received. Three
! times that number of children were en-
/ rolled and the struggle for preference
wac great.
An Increase In wages of 5000 en-
ploycs of the twenty car and locomo-
/ tive repair shops of the Chicago
/ Northwestern railway has been grant
cd at an annual expense of 100000 TO
| the company.
The Danish Immigration Society OF
| ST. Paul. Minnesota, has bought 15.OO0
acres Of land ten miles from Sidney,
Nebraska, and will place 200 families
of Danish Immigrants on it TO engage
in the dairy business.
While officiating in a post season
| game between the American Associa-
ton and Western League teams at
Kansas City, September 9th, Umpire
| Kelley of the Western League had his
shoulder blade broken by foul ball.
w. A. Smith, one of the most promi,
nent men of Butte, Montana, was al
most instantly killed September 26th
| by the overturning of a tally-ho in
which he was riding. The other mem
bers OF the party escaped serious in
| jury.
Both the plague and cholera are rag
| ing at Pei Tang. seaport fifty miles
east OF Tien Tsin, China, where 1000
| deaths have occurred during the past
two months. The towns of Nueher.
Taku and Tien Tsin are not yet af-
| 1ected.
Shamrock l., the old Americas cup
challenger. just sold by Sir Thomas
Upton, after being remodeled by tho
American purchaser, will be turned in
to n schooner TO carry scrap metal be-
tween New York and South American
ports.
Rev. McLughley. a missionary, who
left Bear river. Lake Winnipeg. with
five Indian children In n sailboat en-
route 10 the Bradon Indian Industrial
School several days ago, Is missing and
II is believed the party has been
drowEcd.
At the Empire City track. New York,
| September 9th. the champion gelding,
Major Delmar, tied the worlds trot-
ting record OF Lou Dillon by trotting
q mile in two minutes. Only week
before Major Delmar changed owners
Tor $4,000.
At a meeting of the aldermen In the
Guild hall September 10Th, Alderman
| Sir John Thomson Richie. brother OF
the late chancellor OF the exchequer,
was elected lord mayor Of London for
the ensuing year. in succession TO Sir
Marcus Samuel.
A Southern Railway fast mail train
jumped from sevcnty-foot trestle,
near Danville. Nirsinia. September
eth. or the crew OF sixteen men, in
Guiding mail clerk, nine were killed
and seven injured, all OF them danger
ously, II not fatally.
Another speed trial of electric trac-
,loh was made September 23rd on the
Zossen military road in Germany,
when 1881 miles were covered In one
hour on the previous trial. Soptom-
Der 10th. M electric ear attained n
speed OF l0G As miles.
Charles Becker, considered the clcv-
crest forgor In America. IL once more
At liberty Becker left San Quentin.
California. September 2Sth. after sory-
ing Ecycn years for raising sl2 draft
to 5000 ON the Croker Woolworth
Bank OF San Francisco,
At Plainvlllc. Connecticut. few days
ago. owen Conlon. eighty-six years old
and helpless. was saved from n burn
Ing building by his wife. aged seventy
nine. who let him down from II sec
ond-atofy window by means Of rope.
Fircmcn arrived In time for her rescue.
Al Minneapolis September ?Sth, Rev.
Truman y. Allen. pastor OF the Thlr-
tecnth Avenue Methodist Church. was
stricken with npopleXy just ms he iin-
lahod what he thought might be hla
last sermon 10 the congregation. In