Semi-weekly herald., 1908-02-17


thrown on the flames, but seemed
only to add to the fury of the fire.
More than 100 men are now trying TO
smother the fire but are meeting
with indifferent success.
| JACKSON. Miss. Feb. 13-Because
of the lynching of negro Eli Piggott,
Monday last, the Mississippi legis-
lature will be called upon to decide
whether or not to disband the militia
in times of peace. Senator Harper of
Grenada offered a resolution calling
for this in the senate today. specifying
that it was in view of the Brookhaven
lynching. Piggott. charged with as
sault, was taken from the custody of
the militia companies of Jackson and
shot to death.
| JOPLIN. Mo, Feb 13.-Republicans
of the fifteenth Missouri congression-
al district today elected delegates to
the national convention. and instruct
ed them to vote for Secretary Taft.
Attorney General Hadley was en-
dorsed for governor.
CHICAGO. Feb. 13.-Mra. Jane
Dowie aspires to her late husbands s
place as head of the Christian Catho-
lie church, believing she is destined
10 bring the warning factions of Zion
together. She is making plans to in
duce the former followers of the late
John Alexander Dowie to rally to her
standard
NEW YORK. Feb. 13.-With the
marriage of Miss Theodore Shonts and
the Due de Chaunes but two days dis
tant, New York society is beginning
d to manifest almost as much interest
in the event as in the recent Wander.
bilt-Szechenyi wedding. The cere-
+ mony will he a simple one and will be
performed Saturday at noon ia the
= home of the parents of the bride, 1928
East Thirty-ifth street. Monsis1cr
; NJ. j. Lavelle. rector of st. Patrick 3
= cathedral. who married Miss Gladys
= Vanderbilt. who recently purchased
. live count for S5.0000O0, will per
~
good authority that the Due de Ckaul-
5 nes will receive no purchase money
l from Mr., Shonts, although it is likely
, that Miss Theodore win be the re,ip-
4. lent of liberal cash wedding gift.
2 SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. ia spec
1 ial to the Post-Intelligencer from Fair
e banks. Alaska, says United States
:. Marshal Perry has sworn in $50 spec
, and property against riotous mobs OF
e strikers who congregated on the
, streets These mobs have been at
r tempting to capture recent arrivals
4 here with view to deporting them.
, The marshal's force dispersed the riot
ers and guarantees protection to all
a men in camp. AL saloons are closed.
q SANTA MONICA, Cal, Feb. Ia
on an unfreQuented bluff, which
marks the northern limit of Santa
=, Monica bay a party of seven Japanese
:, with small cannon in their posses
sion have for several days past en-
j, gagged in experiments that have
aroused the suspicious of settlers. as
!, it is presumed a portion of the Amer
:, lean baitleship fleet will spend sew
eral days in that bay. The Japanese
have been engaged in making maps OF
;, the cliffs along the bay and the small
pivot gun. mounted on a cliff 1856 feet
above the sea, was fired first in one
!, direction and then in another. There
i, is not even a theory as to the pur
:, pose OF the party.
WASHINGTON, ID. c.. Feb. 13.-
Representative Mondell OF Wyoming
f has succeeded in getting an amend
d ment into the Indian appropriation
II bill, which passed the house, proyid
e ing for an appropriation of Sl,25O OOl
S to continue irrigation work on the
II Shoshone reservation in Wyoming.
l. The senate committee on public
l. lands has reported favorably on the
y Smoot 320-acre homestead bill, which
o certain amount OF cultivation. bu
y does not exact residence on the land
DENVER, Feb 13.-The report o
l. the Colorado Telephone company fol
G the year ending Dec. 81, 1907, ha:
Z been made public by President Field
S The report shows 1907 to have beer
IS the most prosperous year in the his
tory of the company. 1t was also the
y banner year from the viewpoint o
o service extension. The gross earn
/ ings for the year We're two and hal
y millions, a gain of nearly half mil
i lion over 1906. The net earnings wer,
d $557 1893. a gain of s31S,37s over 1906
s NEW YORK. Feb. 13.-From pres
g ent indications it does not appear
IS probable that final decision by th'
!, board of arbitration in the Denver
l, water works controversy will be ar
5, rived at for several weeks, 1t wa'
n thought when Attorney Hughes CLOSED
j. his argument that plain sailing woulc
rule until the finish. but matters have
arisen calculated to occupy the atten
J. tion Of the arbitraters far beyond tbs