Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-10-11
TELEeRAPHIc NEWS.

| BUFFALO, Oct. 9.-The city is in {
state of intense excitement this morn
ing over the kidnapping during the
night of Susie Becker. tile three-year
old child of prominent people here
The little one was taken away by q
strange woman in an automobile. The
police appear to have no tangible clue
and the mystery of abduction deepens
as hours advance.
OTTAWA, Oct. 9,-Sriking mill
men who gathered yesterday at Buck
ingham's big lumber camp and were
routed by the police last night after
four were killed. Including the vice
president of the company. gathered
reinforcements and reassembled TO.
day. A conflict is expected tonight
and the government Is hurrying re.
serves to the scene of trotfble
DALLAS, Tex. Oct. 9.-The attor,
ney general announces fhat Senator
Bailey, against whom war has been
declared for defending corporations
has offered his services tol the state in
the prosecution of the Standard oil
company, should custer proceedings
against that corporation he Instituted
The attorney general does not seem
keen to accept the offer.
NEW ORLEANS. Oct. "a killing
frost is expected tonight in Arkansas,
Oklahoma. Indian Territory and the
northern part of Texas. The result
of a drop will destroy considerable
cotton.
BOSTON, Oct. 9.-The Amalgamat-
ed has sold its copper output four
months ahead. Other companies sold
five months ahead. Metal continues
to go up. Copper sold today at 22A.
DENVER, Oct. 9.-The trial of the
pretty italian girl charged with killing
her master who bought her from her
mother In italy and made her his
slave here, really began today before
a crowded court room The Jury
which was principally selected yester-
day was completed today. The girl
scarcely listens to the proceedings
and she seems very much bored, al
though If she is convicted she must
hang.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Oct. o.
Mrs. J. A. Hayes has left here hur-
riediy for New York at the call of her
mother, Mrs. jefferson Davis, widow
Of the president of the Oonfederacy
states who Is reported seriously III In
New York city today
LONDON, Oct. 9,-lt Is announced
that legal proceedings have begun
here against the London Magazine by
Richard crocker, former Tammany
chief, who sues the magazine for $50
900 for defamation of character. The
magazine declared that Crocker was
the disreputable man who had helped
to bring New York city into n state
Of more evil than Tweed had done.
NEW YORK. Oct. 9.-Reports of q
merger between the General Electric
and Westinghouse companies made
their stock jump TODAY over 1874. Il
the merger Is carried out the stocl
will reach 200.
PARIS, Oct. "a Constantinopl,
dispatch today says the reported IN
ness of the sultan of Turkey was no
due to natural causes, but to his be
ing shot in the stomach by a Kurdisi
woman who is jealous of his lates
favorite in the harem. beautiful eau
cassian girl.
Los ANGELES, Oct. 10.--When tn
Southern Pacific train pulled into tn
depot last evening Jesus Valensuela
a Mexican, rushed ON board TO NEE
his wife Rosa and five children iron
whom he had been separated 70
months. They did not alight and tn
man hurried through the emtyln
coaches. In the last one he found tn
children crying about their mother
knees. Brushing them aside h
caught the woman In his arms onl
to drop her limp form with cry c
horror. She was dead. No one know
when she expired. Passengers. hov
ever, had expressed Indignation at tn
inattention Of the mother to the con
plants OF her children on the ride u
from Santa Anna. A Spanish rebos
that she had drawn about her fac
prevented anyone seeing her feature
stiffened in death.