Semi-weekly herald., 1907-11-04

New York, Nov. 1.-Informatio.
which the police consider reliable was
received at the central office toda,
that Raymond Hitchcock. the actoi
who disappeared shortly before bein.
Indicted on charges brought by three
little girls, took passage Wednesday
morning on the White Star steamer
Majestic bound for Cherbourg. A
prominent New Yorker who knows
Hitchcock well. says the actor was
aboard the steamer only few mo,
me1ts before she left the pier. A
wireless message was sent from police
headquarters today to the Majestic's s
captain asking him for information
New York, Nov. IA juicy melon
was cut today by the Great Norehein
railway, when 1t paid m extra divi.
dend Of y per cent AS :here is
practically sl50.000, ,0O0 of Great Moth.
| en outstanding not including the
new issue of S6O.O0O. 900 stock, which
is only partly paid. toiay's extra divi-
dend will aggregate s2.250.0O0. the
payment represents distribution by
the Lake Superior company. which is
/ holding company for certain of the
Great Northern assets, other chan the
railroad itself.
This is the second distribution which
the Lake Superior company has made
to the Great Northern STOCKHOLDERS.
the previous dividend having been
paid number of years ago. rh. as
sets of the Lake Superior company
include the Great Northern Express
company, the Great Northern Steam
ship company and the Sand Coulee
Coal company.
st Petersburg, Nov. 1.--Accordins
10 official report the mutinous out
break of sailors at Vladiyostok. crews
of three torpedo boat destroyers
Skork. Serdll and Trevotsyeny result
ed in considerable damage to buildings
ana the killing of several persons. On
the Skork, OH board of which the three
revolutionary agitators, including one
woman, took the lead in the mutiny
the commander was killed and the
other officers wounded. overpowered
and confined below the docks.
Springfield, Mass Nov. 1.-Hearin2
two shots fired in rapid succession
early today employees of the Highland
hotel burst into room and found Mr.
and Mrs. Kirwan OF this city apparent
ly dying from bullet wounds which the
husband asserted We're self-iniicted
both are dying. The couple We're
married last June. Kirwin is 26 years
old and his wife is. They came to
the Highland hotel about II O'Clock
last night, going Immediately to the
room and ordered light lunch. AT 3
O'Clock this morning the watchman
in Kirwan's room. The night clerk
and porter burst oDen the door and
found the woman unconscious on lie
bed and the man IN the same condition
on the floor Both had bullet wound
in their breast.
Battle Creek, Nov. Charges that
the white slave trade is carried on
in all American cities and that a cor
pOraton with extensive remihcations
in this country. Canada and Europe.
exists for the purpose of importing
girls for immoral purposes. were made
by the White Slave Traffic commit
tee of the National Purity congress.
in its report presented today. Fur
ther consideration Of the subject will
be taken up tomorrow.
Among other subjects on today's
program are race murder, purity in
struction in the home and in schools
and colleges and the relation of the
pulpit and the medical profession to
social and individual purity. Among
the speakers are Mr. Rudolph w.
Holmes Of the Chicago Society OF
Social Hygiene. Mrs. Elizabeth B.
Granniss. president of the National
Christian League for the Promotion of
Purity. New York. DR.. Emma f. A.
Drake, of Denver; Mrs. Rose Wood
Allen Chapman. OF Brooklyn; Profess
sor Charles A. Mitchell. of Oklahoma:
the Rev. Dr. A. Pohlman of Philadel-
phia. and DR. Jerome ID. Dodge. of
Collinwood, o.
Denver Colo. Nov. l.-DesDoniency
due to constant terror that he was
the victim of a wasting disease Is
said to have been the cause for Louis
Gordon, aged "a. Russian tailor, to
drink large quantity of carbolic acid
with suicidal intent at his home. He
is living this morning but so great is
his dread OF consumption that Gordon
declares he will try again II the poison
fails to work this time.
New York, Nov. 1-Going to Eu-
rope? Now is the time. If you would
take advantage Of the rate war now
being waged among the steamship
companies, engaged In transatlantic
traffic. Effective today. deep cut
Is made on east and west boand pas