Semi-weekly herald., 1908-09-07
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Since July New York has been call.
ed upon to ship upward of Slo,0O0,OOo
in gold to Canada
Crazed by the heat, Mrs. Matthew
Berna. aged 32 years, of Hampshire,
ILL.,, fatally poisoned herself and three
The Chinese government is consider.
ing the recall of Minister WI Ting
Fang because of alleged indiscreet
talks, according to advices from Pc
king.
The American Smelling & Refining
company dividends for the past year
foot up $11,00O,O0O. The report shows
decrease in the earnings of $3S,000,-
900.
Chairman Hitchcock calls on Re
publican senators and congressman to
volunteer as speakers in the campaign,
and names Senator Dixon of Montana
as new director of the speakers bu
reau.
The Republican pluralities in Yer
mont's September election in former
1904 in 1884, 1892 in 1888, l9,702
In 1892. 1891 in 1896, 31,312 in1900
and l,549 In 1904.
The New Mexico Bar association, be-
fore adjourning until January, at San
ia Fe. adopted a resolution urging
the strict enforcement of the Sunday
anti-gambling and the anti-cigarette
laws, and the law forbidding the sale
of liquor to minors.
American shippers If charged the
freight rates as In England would pay
billions more yearly, according to B..
F. Yoakum in an interview in New
York, and he says the employees in
the United States are given double the
British wages.
1t has been definitely decided that
NJ. Kato, minister of foreign affairs
under former cabinet, will be the
next Japanese ambassador to London,
thai post being vacated by the return
of Count Komura to assume his new
duties as minister of foreign affairs
From Chicago formal proclamation
was made Sunday that Theodore Max
Obilitch de La Zarre, an employe OF
the Rock Island railroad and a resi-
dent of Numa, Iowa, is the rightful
king of Servia. All that is necessary
to enforce his claim, 1t officially was
announced, is mere $25O,000 and a
| few thousand more men.
Gossans, native, who was rrested
with thirty others for completely in
the recent bomb outrages at Calcutta
and who turned kings evidence, was
recently killed by two fellow prison
ers in the Alipur jail The evidence
given by Gossans revealed a wide
spread rebellious conspiracy which in
| cluded plans to assassinate the vice
roy and other high officials.
A terrible accident is reported from
| a point rs miles west of Grand juno
ton. passenger engine on the Ric
Grande Western speeding along al
fifty miles an hour exploding, The
locomotive was blown thirty feet from
the track. Both the engineer and fire
men. George Lund and John Willard
were fatally scalded. All the coaches
were derailed but did not go over and
no one was seriously injured
The fact that the Northern Pacific
showed an operating deficit for June OF
$66,020 was largely owing to floods in
the roads territory during a large part
OF that month, and also to the fact
that taxes took a large jump. They
amounted to $477.639, as compared
with previous monthly average OF
$225,000. Floods caused a large ad
vance in the costs of moving traffic
putting operating costs in June more
than IL per cent above the average OF
| the year.
The Trust company of America OF
New York, upon which sensational
run was precipitated during the finan.
cial panic OF 1907, has managed its
business so successfully as to enable
1t to pay off loan of $4,000, 900
which it then effected, in its entirety.
The company, in point of assets and
liabilities, was the second largest in
the country, and the run which 1t sue
cessfully sustained exceeded any ever
known in the history of America. The
ordeal through which 1t passed demon.
strated that it was clearly on sound
basis and its administration had been
a prudent one.
The first car of potatoes. to leave the
Greeley district this season was ship
ped to Texas Tuesday. The potatoes
were white pearls, raised on the farm
of John Hicks at La Sale. The deal.
ers will begin to make heavy ship
ments next week when the harves.
Will begin in earnest. Present condi.
tions are favorable for splendid crop
and good prices.
Nearly 300 Sunday school workers
from all parts of the state are in Fort
Collins to attend the annual conven.
ton Of the State Sundey School asso-
citation which began its session In tire
Methodist church Tuesday. The prin-
cipal speaker was Marion Lawrence,
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