Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-11-29

three-story pressed brick structur,
and the five-story furniture warehous,
OF the Denver Dry Goods compan,
just adjoining the roaring furnace
seemed doomed. Losses resul' ed al
follows:
Colorado Coffin company, ,three-stor,
pressed brick establishment and con
tents destroyed Loss. $4,000 insur
ance, 100000.
Kellogg & Stokes Stove company
damaged by smoke and water, 81 500.
Denver Dry Goods company, furni-
ture warehouse damaged by smoke,
$1,000.
Lieut.. Patrick J.'Tomllnson of En-
gine company No. G, was injured by
collapse of ladder.
KANSAS CITY. Nov. 26.-Shortly
after midnight while the fast Alton
train running between this city and
st. Louis was passing GLASGOW, Mo-,
where II does not stop, the station
| agent noticed masked man going
through the car holding mp passen
| gers. He telegraphed on to the next
station, Armstrong. and when the
train arrived there officers caught the
robber red-handed. 1t seems the hold
up boarded the train at Slater and,
| with revolver in hanG, forced the car
| and began a systematic robbery of
the passengers. Fifteen of them had
disgorged when the train arrived at
| Armstrong where. evidently to the
| bandits surprise, it stopped and he
was captured. He made little resist
ance. He was taken back to GLASGOW
and lodged in jail. Thus far he re-
fuses to give his name.
ST. LOUIS. Nov. 26,-Conductor B.
Haywood. who, single-handed over
came train robber on the Alton 6
Louis today. He said that the man
admitted to him that he had robbed
the Rock Island passenger train at
almost the same place November Z.
The man was overpowered by Il.
B. Haywood the train conductor, who
knocked a raised revolver from the
robbers hand and forced him TO the
car floor. The robber was bound,
made to disgorge, and four hours af-
ter the robbery was committed, was
placed in jail. He had some $4,000
NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 26. - The
Louisiana with the President on
board was sighted this morning and
flower has gone to Hampton Roads to
meet the battleship.
The yacht will take off the Rooss
velts and convey them to Washington
Secretary Loeb is here to meet the
president and give him the news oi
state. The Louisiana reports a very
pleasan, trip up from Porto Rico. II
has been an exceptionally fast one.
ROME. Nov. 26.-It was finally set
tied this morning that King George
of Greece will visit the pope this af
ternoon and early this evening.
WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. 90
Upon his arrivel here this evening or
tomorrow the president will be in
formed of tie conditions now pre-
vailing in Cuba and the formal views
of Governor Magoon, Secretary Taft
and Mr.. Bacon. They all agree that
the United States troops will have to
stay in the island long time and
that the affairs of the Cuban govern
ment will have to be administered by
Americans for many months II not
for years. In short the concensus of
opinion appears to be that the Cuban
republic is a decided failure and is not
likely to lie anything else in the near
future.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y. Nov. 26.-In
fainess, to his judges, the Rev Al
gernon S. Crapsey, rector of Saint
Andrews church, renounced his min
istry in the Protestant Episcopal
Church yesterday. The letter is ad
dressed to Bishop VIM. Walker OF the
western diocese of New York. In Il
DR.. Crapsey reaffirms his belief that
the idea of the origin of Jesus, that
son of Man was born without a hu-
man father is without foundation in
history.
Denver, Nov. 26.-The son of the
late Eben Smith, who was cut off in
his fathers will with $25O00, while
his brother and sister were given
million each. announced that he
would contest the will when offered
for probate today. At noon, however,
the matter was settled by the heirs
who did not wish contest and the
rejected son will now have about half
a million.
NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-The lack OF
block signals was responsible yester-
day for bad rear-end collision In
the 116th street station Of the Lenox
| avenue subway which resulted in the
injury of several women and caused
one of the most frlghtful panics yet
seen underground. Locking of the
/ doors from which panic-maddened
men and women weer trying to es-
cape, added to the horror Of the stua-
ton A subway express freighted to
the limit of its capacity with human
| ity was standing in the station when
the passengers in the rear saw the
headlights of another train approach
| in, az tarrific snaed Those in the