Semi-weekly herald., 1907-10-14
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

were 50 seriously burned in the eX
piosion 1f a gasoline launch on tn,
bay TODAY that they may not recover
For three hours after the explosion
the Survivors clung to the rail of the
launch and fought off the flaming gaso
line which surrounded them N the wa
ter. The dead are Harry p Barton
bookk,eper: Floyd McHose. draughts
man: Edward ]. Olson, bookkeepeI
and Charles Wichber, clerk. The
injured. Joseph j. Hornsby, Nelson H
Macan and Richard Rubedee.
Vienna. Oct. 10.-Great anxiety Is
felt in court circles over the condition
o. the health of Emperor Franz 10.
seph. although every effort is made to
prevent this from anxiety from com
ing to the knowledge of the people
The emperor has been confined TO his
apartments for over a week because
of an attack OF bronchial catarrh and
physicians consider his illness very
serious. He is forbidden to receive
any visitors.
Vienna, Oct. 10.-The condition of
Emperor Francis Joseph showed a
slight Improvement He passed good
night with comparatively little dis
turbance but there is still considerable
fever and some signs of apathy His
majesty passes his time in a chair
often falling asleep during the day.
The doctors have hopes that his
strong system will enable him to over
come the attack of bronchial catarrh
which caused so much anxiety.
Chicago, Oct. 10.-Miss Emma Elk
vail of South Chicago, believed in
dreams. Yesterday she told her sister
Mary that she had dreamed in the
night that their brother Louis, IS
years old. surveyor in California was
dead. Louis is young and strong" ="
answered Mary. Il feel sure he is all
right" Last evening the sisters re
ceived a telegram from Los Angeles
stating that young Etvall had died
the night before from heart disease
Paris. Oct. 10-Two prominent
French physicians, Drs. Wickham and
Degrais, have caused a sensation at
the academy of medicine by the re
port that they had succeeded in re
wine stain with radium. The new
method has proved equally successful
in cases of adults and children.
New York, Oct. 10-H. H. Rogers
the active head of the Standard Oil
company who has been stopping at
l<ais summer home in Fairhaven, Mass,
most of the summer and fall is expect
ed in New York today. Dispatches
from Fairhaven say Mr.. Rogers board
ed his steam yacht Kanawha. yester-
day at noon and hurriedly sailed for
New York
Chicago. Oct 10.--The crowd at the
hall game was not so large as the
preceding days. only 1000 paid ad-
mission at half-past 2. Chicago began
running away from Detroit at the
opening OF the contest The score in
the sixth inning: Chicago >; Detroit
l. Chicago won in the beginning OF
the ninth inning, Chicago 6, Detroit l..
Boston, Oct. l0.-As payment for a
cats board bill, Mrs. Elizabeth b.
Meyer has been allowed s223 in the
municipal court Ben. an Angora cat,
is very fastidious and has an appe-
tite only for cream, tenderloin steak
and salmon. Mrs. Meyer says he was
brought to her by Martha w. Merrill
of Lebanon to care for at 81 a week.
II was not stipulate according to
Mrs. Meyer. what J n was to eat.
The cat sulked unlt he had cream
three times a day and tenderloin steak
with a sideorder o. salmon. On such
diet Ben worried llong in life until
1908 when his boa bill for / "a weeks
was s2sS.
New York, Oct. 10-The Austrian
steamer Giulla which arrived today
from Trieste with eight hundred pas
sengers had a narrow escape from de
struction by fire in midocean during
violent storm on October 3. The
crew fought the flames all day before
they were extinguished, while the pan
ic-stricken passengers prayed for help
Denver, Colo, Oct. 10.-Norris Wi
cox. the clubman who disappeared re
Gently from this city owing consider
able money. is under arrest at Wells
Nevada. News of the capture was re
oeived by the police today and al
officer sent Immediately to bring WI
cox back to this city. The town o
Wells is small mining camp locate,
some sixty miles northwest of Elko
Wilcox for many years was connecte,
with the firm of Won Schultzeslow II
this city. He was a high liver and
good spender, and according 70 CON
plants fled against him he used
good deal OF other peoples money