Semi-weekly herald., 1908-04-16
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

among rags on dump in the city Q
Chelsea yesterday, was famed into
confiagration which obliterated neai
ly one-third of the city Five huI
dred dwelling houses and publ
buildings were destroyed, I,50O fam
lilies were driven from their habits
tions. and ten thousand people ar,
homeless. Three lives are known t,
have been lost and others may hav,
perished. woman shot herself IL
frenzy over her inability to save
her property. Seventy-five person,
were injured.
At an early hour this morning the
ruins are under guard OF fourteen
companies of the state militia and
marines from the Charlestown navy
yard and the city has been put un
der martial law to prevent looting
~Nhe soldiers were provided with ball
cartridges. The bodies of three per.
sons. SO badly burned as to be un-
recognizable. are at the North Grove
street morgue. No other deaths have
peeH omclally reported.
An estimate of the loss by an offic-
ial of prominent insurance firm
placed the loss at between eight and
ten million. The total insurance is
about five million. The fire ragged be-
fore forty-fve mile gale for more
than twelve hours, defying the ut
most efforts of the combined fire de-
partments OF Chelsea and several
of Boston firemen and apparatus.
PUEBLO, April 13.-Bastiano Sen
atore, formerly deputy sheriff in this
county, shot and killed his wife at
their home in East Third street, and
in so doing carried out threats that
he has made several times during the
last several months. Senatore es-
capped and possess are searching the
surrounding country for him. Sew
eral weeks oga Senatore was arrested
on the charge OF attempting to
kill his daughter Louise with a hatcn-
Ell. He WAS bound over to the dis
trict court for trial and released un-
der heavy bonds March 80.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, April 13.-Airs.
Foster l.. Backus. the Brooklyn soci-
ETY. woman named with Julia Mar
lowe in suit for divorce brought by
Mrs. Clara Louise Won Hermann. has
changed the denial she made when
the suit was first filed. and admitted
that she knew man named Hermann
who might be the defendant in the di.
vorce suit. Mrs. Backus denied that
eight years. She said that she did
not even know he was alive AS for
her original denial that she had ever
heard of the parties to the suit, she
said: Il recalled this morning that
about nine years ago met a Mr.. Her
mann, who was friend of Mr.. Back
us, who used to invite him out to the
house to play cards with us. / don't
know whether or not he is the person
being sued for divorce"
CHICAGO, April 13.-The separator
mill of the Aetna Powder company OF
Miller. Ind, was wrecked today byl
the explosion Of quantity of nitro
glycerine. The building was blown
entirely to pieces. the wreckage being
scattered over the country for a quar-
ter OF a mile around. A large hole
was blown In the ground where the
building stood. The shock of the ex-
plosion was felt at Hammond. ten
miles away. ra5
SPOKANE. Wash. April 13.-G. W.
Thomas. cashier of the First State
Bank of Newport, Wash. committed
suicide last night at the Colonial ho-
tel in this city by taking strychnine. |
Domestic troubles and failing health |
prompted the act.
PASO. ROBLES Cal. April 13-l
Admiral Evans is SO much improved
today that he was able to hold a re- |
ception in his rooms for the numer-
Gus friends that had come to visit
him. Among those who called on the |
invalid during the morning hours |
were General and Mrs. H. s. NJ
Young, who arrived here on their |
honeymoon and who are making a
tour of the United States; Captain
and Hrs. C. c. Perkins, of Berkeley; |
General Funston and Surgeon Cen
eIsl Torrey OF the Preside.
WASHINGTON. April l3.-The
platform upon which Judge George
Gray of Delaware will be placed as a
candidate for the Democratic presi-
dental nomination has been promul-
gated. 1t is in the form of an ad-
dress from the George Gray league
organized at Philadelphia, and was
mailed today from the Gray head
quarters in Washington to Democratic
senators and representatives, dele
gates to the national convention and
Democratic leaders In all states.
There is not q word of anti-BryanIsm
in the address. nor a suggestion rela-
tive to the idea that the party can
not win without the candidate who
has been tried before. In this re-
spect the Gray boomers have adopted
a different policy from the forces be-