Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-11-12


his testimony Lechner was very bit
ter. saying that he had to bolt his
doors nights to keep Miss Hudson
from coming into his sleeping apart
ments. Testimony was very racy but
the jury quickly found a verdict for
the girl.
| CINCINNATI, Nov. SIT is said
here today that the returns show
that Longworth would have been de-
feated but for the strenuous cam.
paigning OF his wife who travelled all
over the district in her husbands be-
half and is the happiest woman in
Ohio in consequence. The following
Is the congratulatory message of the
president to his son-in-law, Hon Mich
olas Longworth of Cincinnati: my
hearty congratulations. Love to
Alice. We seem to have done pretty
well all along the line-Theodore
! Roosevelt"
NEW YORK. Nov. s.-Wind an.
chors are being placed in position on
! the Singer building. the tallest sky
scraper in New York. it being 632 feet
high. The wind pressure against this
giant will be tremendous.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-The Herald
today says the great corporations
have decided to have the common
people share in the great prosperity
that they and the country are Just
now enjoying. AS starter the big
railroads of the East, the Pennsyl-
vania, the New York Central and the
smaller systems; also the Standard
Oil and the Amalgamated Copper
with the various trusts have decided
to raise the wages of all their en-
ployes quite literally. They do this
in view of the fact that the cost of
living has greatly advanced during
the last year or two and the wages
of the people are not in keeping with
the new prevailing conditions.
KANSAS CITY, Nov. "a lone
robber heavily masked boarded the
rear sleeper of the east-bound Cali
fornia limited train for Chicago on
the Rock leland G Pacific railroad
between Sleater and Glasgow, Mo-,
at midnight and robbed three passen-
gers and made his escape in the dark
ness. According 10 local officers of
the Pullman company the robber Sc
cured only $65. Among the three
men forced by the robber to disgorge
was E. r. Slagle of Kansas City, as
sistant superintendent of the Pullman
company.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.--One woman
is dead ana one man5B In the hos;
|pital suffering from severe burns.
Two thousand persons fled from their
homes in panic and thousands more
passed sleepless night as result
of series of incendiary fires in two
blocks bounded by Sixtieth and Sixty
first streets and Columbus and West
End avenues early today. Scores Of
persons whose lives were endangered
by the conflagration were rescued by
them incendiary, between midnight
and 3 O'Clock this morning. The
woman who lost her life was Mrs.
Caroline Swain, rs years old, whose
home adjoins one of the buildings
which was fired. She died of heart
failure induced by fright. Adrian
Tompkins Is in the hospital with his
hands and feet severely burned re-
sulting from climbing down a red hot
fire escape and is In serious condi-
ton.
Rapidly succeeding fires the crowds
of evicted tenants and the terrifying
rumore spread through the neighbor-
hood. with the constant temperance
OF fire engines and big squads of po-
lice. raised the people throughout the
vicinity to a high pitch of excitement
which did not lessen until daylight
brought in measure assurance that
incendiaries would stop for a while.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex. Nov. "a
detachment Of Texas Rangers on their
way to Rio Grande City, to investi-
gate the assassination OF Judge Stan
ley Welch, which occurred Monday
night were attacked by body of
armed Mexicans and bloody fight
resulted. Governor Lanham is rush
ing troops to the scene and the situ-
alton is regarded as critical.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-Dr. Julian
Thomas. the aeronaut. announced to-
day that he had succeeded in discov-
ering a material for balloon work that
would revolutionize the flights In the
air. AT present ballooning is very
costly for acid alone In initiation. il
costs the doctor four hundred dollars
every time he goes up. BY his new
material he can go up and stay for
days or weeks at very trifling cost.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 9.-William
Hinshaw. a Methodist clergyman who
ten years ago killed his wife and was
sentenced to life Imprisonment and
was paroled last year by the gov
| ernor. has been sent back to Jail for
taking up again with Mrs. Freeman,
an old sweetheart who figured in the
murder trial,
NEW YORK, Nov, 9.--Acting under
the new federal statute, Judge Thomas
today issued an order hauling the Ice
trust into court to see II 1t would not
be to the public interest to appoint
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