Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-07-28
TELEGRAPHIc NEWS.

| NEW iORK, July Everything
is in readiness for the automobile in
vasion of The Worlds Fair city. and
| the week beginning today is destined
| 10 80 on record as the most notable
since the motor car fad first became
| established in this country. The big
run 10 ST. Louis. for which prcpara.
| lions have been going forward for al
| most a year. has its commencement
| foday, when a contingent of New En-
| gland automobiles leave Boston for
| The Mound city. The New York sec
don will leave this city tomorrow at
| the same time that the southern sec
ton makes It's start from Baltimore.
Other sections. including those from
he northwest and from the vicinity
| Of Denver, Kansas City and Omaha,
will make their starts so as to reach
| the objective point at the same time
It is planned that all of the sections
shall rendezvous at Alton, H.. August
9, from which place the great process
sion of motor cars will make its tri.
| lmphant entry into ST, Louis
DENVER, July 25-Mountain rail
| roads report serious washouts due to
the severe storm OF yesterday The
Platte canon suffered several. Two
| thousand eNcursionisis who went mp
| there yesterday morning were com
PEELED TO remain all night. most OF
them in the rains, not arriving here
until today The damage to the vari-
our railroads hereabouts will run into
The thousands. The rainfall during
the time it lasted beat the record
mark
VIENNA, July 25,-Robert Goelet ot
New York and his bride, formerly
Miss Elsie Whelan of Philadelphia.
were making the trip from Paris to
Vienna in an automobile, and when
near Polling. in upper Austria. the
chauffeur put on high speed along a
country road. A harvest cart laden
with corn and driven by a peasant boy
approached. The horses took fright
and overturned the cart at the road
| side, buryug the boy under the load
Peasants who had viewed the acc.
dent from the fields rushed to the
scene They surrounded the automo-
bile, brandlshing pitchforks, scythes
| and clubs. Mr.. Goelet sought to pla.
cate them by offering the boys father
thousand franc note The man
spurned the money, and this action
further inllamed the peasants
Mr. Goelet fearing for the lives of
his party drew his revolver and or
lered the chauffeur to draw likewise.
Then with leyeled pistols they backed
10 the automobile, jumped aboard and
| escaped toward Mauerkirchen at top
speed.
DENVER, July 25.-Priyate Thos.
Sullivan of the Second infantry. who
shot himself through the head at Fl.
Logan July 10, died this morning. Sui
livans act was n great shock to all
who knew him. lie was the model
man of the fort, and his record of the
army for twenty-five years has been
spotl IS.
sILvERToN. July 25.--A distin-
guished party Of Chicago men. num-
| bering some 25 TO 30. arrived in the
city last evening and will put in the
| week in the county looking after min
ing interests being stockholders in
the Venetian Mining company.
sWl4ET SPRINGS. Mo, July %
Senator Vest again lost strength to-
| day and DIR. Jarvis now says the end
may come at any time.
| COLUMBUS. o.. uJly 25.--In an in.
| teryiew today, Bryan said he was at
the disposal OF the Democratics com
mittee after August 26 to make Par
ker-Dayis speeches wherever and
whenever requested.
BERLIN. July 25.-The German
steamer Lisbon of the German-Portu-
gal line was stopped and searched by
Russian warship in the Gulf of Fin
land She was then released.
| SAVANNAH. Ga, July 25.-Savan-
nah's first hale of new cotton was to-
day shipped to New York, where II
will he sold and the proceeds turned
into the Democratic campaign fund.
II was marked Parker and Davis
Gold basis"
ITHACA, n. Y, July 25.-The lives
of many persons on Cayuga lake were
jeopardized by the sudden develop.
ment of an enormous waterspout A
whirling mass of water 100 feet in
] diameter and reaching up to the