Semi-weekly herald., 1907-12-09
passengers. V. q. Netthaway. a well

passeDgers. V. Is. Nettbaway, well
known trap shooter. shot and Killed
his wife on an ontgoing train last ey-
ening then he jumped from the car
and took his own life Mrs. Nettha-
way had boarded the train to go to
the county seat where her appiica-
ton for divorce was to have bee1
heard this evening.
Carney. Okla., Dec. Give men
succeeded after firing five nitroglycer-
III shot in breaking into the coin SAFE
OF the Carney bank and secured $4,000.
The burglary is the most desperate in
the record of the new state. While
the men, time after time charged the
safe with nitroglycerin AMI explosion
after explosion shattered and broke
up the bank furniture other robbers
stood guard on the outside of the
building and kept up a steady fire Ia
every direction, shooting any citizen
of the town who made an appearance.
All efforts to trail the men have
failed.
Washington. Dec. 6.--The war de-
partment published the general order
Issued by the president extending ITS
original order to riding tests of Officers
OF Army. The President now requires
every field officer to make a daily prac-
tice march of not less than thirty
miles for three days In succession IN
each year, All officers are also re-
qulred to accompany their command
on monty practice marches.
Goshen. ~ Y, Dec 6.--Au appeal to
the court of appeals will operate to
delay execution OF the sentence OF
death passed on Charles II. Rogers
who was sentenced TO he e!ectrocuted
at Sing Sing prison next week. Rog
ers was convicted OF murder in the
first degree for the killing OF Fred r.
Olney near Middletown. He is also
alleged to have murdered two other
persons.
New York, Dec. 6.-In response to
call issued by Robert Lynn Cox
secretary of the Association of Life
Insurance Presidents, an open meet
Ing of that body is being held in New
York today. A number Of presidents
and other officials of important l;fe
Insurance companies are in attend.
ance. Several papers. dealing with
legislation and other matters affecting
life insurance, We're read and dis
cussed,
New York. Dec. Ga conference oi
the admirers and political supporters
Of Secretary Taft will be held here
tomorrow for the purpose of arranging
Il glorious reception for the secretary
upon his arrival here from his world
tour. Mr.. Taft is expected to sail to.
morrow from Hamburg on the steamer
President Grant and will reach Now
York late next week If tine plans oi
the Taft managers are carried out
| the reception to the secretary in New
| York will be on larger and more en-
thnsiastic scale than the greeting tc
William Jennings Bryan when he re
turned from his elohc- circling expedi
| tion.
Boston. Dec 6.--E. D. Cohen presi
dent of the state branch of the Amerl
can Federation of Labor who was sho
by the maniac. Steele. Yesterday, die,
this morning.
Denver Dec. 6.--The conference O
Democratic leaders held here for IN
purpose of infusing new life into part
politics over the probable giberno
tcrial standard bearer next yeal
Among the conferees were two Demo
Gratis who are willing to accept III
gubernatorial nomination. They wer
Senator Edward 7. Taylor of Glen
wood Springs and Senator w. l.. Clay
ton of Greeley. The former has bee
in the state senate for dozen years
The latter's services does not cove
50 long period. Both, however, al'
known throughout the state as Demo
rrats of the old school. One ha
western Colorado and the other NORTH
I'm Colorado behind him,
Washington. Dec, 8.--Professor ]
O. Howard, OF the Smithsonian inst
tuition, who is permanent secretary O
thc American Association for the AC
vancement of Science. has just issue
the call for the fifty-eighth annua
meeting of the association TO be hel
at the University of Chicago from Dc
cember 30 to January 4. Early ind
cations point TO the most interestin
meeting in the history of the Amer
can science movement
Among the affiliated organization
or savants and learned inen whic
viii meet in Chicago at the same tim
are the American Anthropclogical rs
snciatlon, the American Chemical Sc
ciety. the American Folklore society
the American Mathematical society
the American Physiological. society
the American Society of Naturalists
the Association OF American Anatc
mists the Association OF American
Geogrnphers, the Association of Eco
nomic Entomologists. the Botanical Sc
| ciety of America and the Intomologl