Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-09-26

~ Naiiap' ioiuihB bttfilnrT IN 10 zH'
$4,000 tons at Magdelena bay, loading
December 20 to 81: 10000 tons at
Magdelena bay. loading January / to
is: 10000 tons ut San Francisco. load
ing January 21 to &c. and 20,oo0 tons
at san Francisco, loading January %
to February l. by fixing the loading
time, the department figures that the
successful bidders will have ample
time In which to make deliveries by
the time the fleet reaches the various
points specified. The bidding was open
10 ships of both American aud foreign
register, as 1t was considered certain
that n sufficient number OF American
vessels are not available to make de
liveries on time.
Paris. Sept. 2i.-Peace has been de
clared in Morocco. Delegates of i'm
portant tribes have accepted French
peace overtures inaugurated today.
The indications are that the terms of
the agreement win be carried out and
hostilities are now at an end.
New York. Sept. 24.-The story OF
the wreck OF the American bark
Prussia on bleak Staten island. TERRA
del Fuego. is a thrilling one. Six of
the crew have been landed here by
a steamer from MouteWdeo. Four per.
ished and three are in the hospital at
Puntas Arens The Prussia was own
ed IN san Francisco and sailed from
Norfolk, Va, March II, with cargo
Of coal for San Francisco. The night
% June TO- was stormy and bitterly
cold, Eleven of the thirteen men in
the crew succeeded in reaching a strip
OF sand sheltered somewhat. by over
hanging rocks, Captain Johnson soon
died Of exposure and was buried in
the sand. The survivors had few
provisions and subsisted ON these. The
food gave out and the men lived on
shell fish. Eventually after much
danger Mate Hunter, Carpenter Stark
and Seaman Heine reached New
Years island in irail boat. distance
of thirty miles. Lieutenant Delgado
N charge of the lighthouse there res
cued the suffering men on Staten is
land after much peril and delay.
New York. Sept, 2i.-Pierre Pollum
machinist. met terrible and
strange death at the garage of the
Williams Buggy company in Brooklyn.
He went to the cellar to get piece
of shafting. presently Charles Reilly.
the proprietor, heard him screaming Ia
agony, and went down the cellar stairs
10 find Pollum writhing in about four
inches OF water which covered the
cellar floor. Reilly leaped into the
water to aid Pollum but suffered Sc
we're shock the water being heavily
charged with electricity. He regained
the steps and quickly got u pair of
Polum was taken from the water but
soon died. An electric cable runs into
the garage and from it the batteries
Of automobiles are charged. The in
sulation on part OF this cable had been
scraped on which permitted the cur
rent to escape into the water which
leaked into the cellar.
Chicago. Sept. 24.--At an all day
conference here today between the
presidents of Kansas railroads and
their general counsel. 1t was decided
to put the cent rate into effect in
Kansas as ordered by the commits
sioner of that state recently. provided
IL can be done and still preserve the
right of roads to contest in courts.
When the commissions order was pro.
clared they would not comply. but
would permit october 4tb. the date fix
ed by the commission for the new
rates TO go into effect. to pass un-
noticed.
Seattle, Wash, Sept. 2i.-The body
| found in n trunk cast up by the sea
| OF Fauntleroy park has been identi-
fed as that of Agnes True Covington
the girl wife Of Frank Covington. fol-
whom the police are now securing the
country that he may tell what he
knows, Il anything. of the foul murder
Dubuque. Ia, Sept. 24.-To lie ter
hours in coffin. to see through the
glass covering over him the faint glim
iner of candles was the fate of Roy
Lorraine. a student Of the Dubuque
high school, a victim of fraternity mi
tiatlon. He was bound and gagged
and was taken under the cover ol
! night to a farmhouse near the city
Candles were lighted and placed about
lr niche In the wall. Lorraine was
| blindfolded and induced to lie dowr
in what to him seemed a box and the
cover was fastened. The coverint
was soon removed from his eyes anC
he awoke to realization that he wal
In a coffin. There was sufficient ali
To keep him from smothering and HI
remained there all through the night