Semi-weekly herald., 1907-11-28

held here today the report was re-
ceived from the committee which in
vestigated the possibilities of Dallas.
Tex. as convention city. aud it
wss agreed to hold the next consei
ton of Elks in that city.
st. Louis, Mo-, Nov. 26.-Fancy poul-
try Of every known class from all
parts of the United States and Canada
is an exhibition at the annual show of
the st. Louis Poultry and Pet Stock
association, which opened today. Rae
ing boming pigeons will be released
from the showroom every day to fly
to all parts OF the country. The show
will remain open through the entire
week.
Halifax. N. s., Nov. 26.The schooner
Angler left ST. Pierre sixty days ago
for France with crew and some fish'
ermen, numbering altogether seventy
five. No tiding of the vessel or crew
have since been heard. AS the voyage
is generally made in two weeks all
hope has been given up.
Chicago, Nov. 26.-Edward Payson
Weston. 60 years old. is scheduled to
walk into Chicago at 4 p. M. today or
thereabouts. at the rate Of FIVE miles
an hour and complete at the steps oil
the new Illinois Athletic club the rec
ord breaking walk of lao miles from
Portland. Me-. begun October 29. II
Weston finishes his walk as arranged
and there is every chance that he
win for at 2 o'clock this morning he
WAS resting at Chesterton, Ind, forty
miles away. he will have done what he
| set out TO do, and beaten the record
established by himself forty years ago,
when in his prime as pedestrian he
was one of the champion walkers In
the world.
Denver. Nov. 26.--The prosecutions
of other clairvoyants is believed to
have been the direct cause that led
to the suicide of a man in Minneapolis
yesterday. who Is supposed to have
been DR. Leslie r. Kingsley He was
committed self-murder by turning on
| several gas jets in the closed room
al his boarding house. His dead body
was found by his landlady. Dispatches
| from st. Paul say that the suicide was
one time resident of Denver and
| that he was known here as DR.. Kings
| ley. Minneapolis police believe he had
committed some crime as he left n
note stating he had been indicted in
| another city. Friends mere declare he
| was bounded to death by jealous ri
walls. Kingsley was in Denver last
| September. He complained to several
people here of what he termed re-
| lentless and unfair methods of people
| in his line of work. had adopted in
| fighting him. He maintained that pro
| fessional jealousy was responsible for
| this opposition and that his enemies
would follow him TO his grave. He
| was widely known throughout the west
as Or. Leslie r. Kingsley and five
| years ago was the leader of the colony
| Of clairyoyauts in Colorado. His repu
tation was as good as accompanies any
other worker in his line. His bills
| We're paid promptly and he accumu
late small fortune here.
| Washington, Nov 2s-Thanksgivile
! day will come day early for Lienten
aut Ulysses S. Grant third, who viii
tomorrow take as his bride Miss Edith
Root, the accomplished and beautiful
daughter of Elihu Root, secretary OF
| state. The ceremony will be perform
| ed at the Root home in Rhode Island
avenue at O'Clock tomorrow after
| noon. Among the out-of-town guests
who are here to attend the wedding
are Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, aunt
| of the bridegroom-to-be on his fathers
| side, and Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chi
cago.. his mothers sister.
| Miss Root will be the third bride in
the cabinet circle during the Roose
welt administration. the two preceding
being Miss Helen Hay and Miss Annie
| Hitchcock, The wedding will be q
| much smaller and less elaborate affaii
than was anticipated by the cabine,
| md diplomatic set
| The acquaintance of Lieutenant
| Grant and Miss Root began in the
White house. Lieutenant Grant is one
of the military aids of the president
and first met Miss Root at a reception
given by the president. Only the
most intimate friends Of the pair were
aware of the progress Of the court
ship until late in last July. when Il
was admitted that the Young conpl,
we're engaged.
Miss Root made her social debut IL
| New York and her social attachment
are largely in that city, although sh,
has many warm friends in the so
ciety OF the national capital. She has
not been much in the limelight here
however. for she inherits her mother.
dislike for the ostentation and displa,
Of the society in Washington. She /,
fond of outdoor sports and IL an ex
ceptionally good horsewoman. Like