Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-10-09
TELEGRAPH NEWS.


a. the Western bank.
c. b. Whitley. who was indicted lat
; Yesterday afternoon, with Carlo
Wood, the cashier. has not been an
rested as yet. He is supposed to b,
IN Kansas City but has not been 10
Gated. II is reported that the name,
OF number of former officers of tn,
Aank are under investigation in con
nection with alleged shady transac
tons and number of indictment.
may be returned against men who
have not heretofore been identified
with the case. Mrs. Carlos Wood
wife of the indicted cashier, is lying
at the point of death, prostrated by
the news of her husbands arrest
| Friends of Wood believe him not
| guilty and state that the case Is going
to turn out a repetition of the case
Of the German National bank. when
Charles Kunsemiller. the cashier. but
outfit was the only one. punished for
embeZzlement
FORT SCOTT, Kas., Oct. 5.-Geo.
higgins, wife and her daughter, Clar.
lssa Shaw. are kept in Jail at Girard
for safe keeping until the present un-
popular feeling against them on ac-
count of charges that they caused the
death of higgins 6-year-old boy by
cruelty and starvation dies down. The
preliminary hearing Is set for Sat
urday 1t may be postponed unless
danger of mob violence subsidies.
Deputy Hosser, who took the pris-
oners from Jail when the mob gath
tred. returned today from Girard and
said thcy were all nearly scared to
death. At Junction City, where the
party took the train, it was found to
be late, and the prisoners were hidden
in corn field while waiting. sen
timent developed today favorable to
the boy was abused and may not have
known about it.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.--Robert, Mary
and Charles Donnelly, three minor
children of Charles Donnelly, were
burned to death and nine persons
Cured destroying a row of houses
on Reid street, Brooklyn, today
William Teese, a fireman. saw the
flames bursting from one of the
houses, awakened the inmates, who
otherwise would all have perished.
Teese carried Joseph Hinlen. wife and
baby 10 safety. As he came down the
ladder with the woman 1t broke
throwing the woman heavily on Teese
Despite injuries he returned for the
baby. A fireman fell with the burning
stairway and was badly injured. Chief
Croker while speeding to the scene
in automobile, struck an obstruction
which overturned the machine and
hurled him thirty feet ahead OF it,
He continued to the fire on a trolley
car.
ST. LOUIS. Oct. 5.-Joseph Ram
sey, president of the Wabash. Sc
cured from Circuit Judge Taylor to-
day subpoena duces tecum, directed
to officers of the Wabash and Mis-
souri, Pacific. ordering them to pro-
duce in court stock books of these
railroads showing Gould's holding
The order is made returnable tomor-
row.
RHlNELANDER. Wis, Oct. 5.-Fire
in the lumber district of the town last
night did 100000 damage and rem
dered 100 people homeless. A high
wind was blowing and for time the
entire town was threatened.
ST. PETERSBURG. Oct Sat a
caucus of the st. Petersburg munich
pality strong feeling has developed
against NJ. Witte and suggestion
that he be banqueted for his part at
Portsmouth was voted down as un-
worthy. Instead resolution was
passed declaring that he was un-
worthy of any special honor because
his services at Portsmouth were only
a redeeming sacrifice for the political
mistakes in which he had acquiesced
and which were responsible for the
war.
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.-By agreement
with the government the packers
counsel were given additional time to
ME demurrer IN tne DeeI trust cases.
Ii may be filed tomorrow.
KANSAS CITY. Oct. 5.--Chairman
Cowherd OF the Democratic congress
sional campaign committee, said
Our committee never received any
contribution from the life insurance
companies and il would not have been
welcomed II it is not crime for
people In a judiciary capacity as these
life insurance men are to make cam
paign contributions from the money
contributed for the protection of wild
ows and children it ought to be-"
ANNAPOLIS, Md, Oct BIN an
address before the Maryland Bankers
association j. Edward Simmons, presi-
dent Of the Fourth National bank OF
New York, declared that dishonesty
in high places in the state judiciary
and great financial institution and cor.
porations and paliation of such acts
by the masses gravely threatened the
future of the country. He strongly
denounced the man of stainless rep
utation in private life, who in the in
terest OF corporations. of the trusts
OF the gas company, of the railroad
company, have recourse to every vii
I.Fp,s Iauaa pl.I In tho, dan. n,