Semi-weekly herald., 1908-06-25

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Will he mailed free TO any one sending Mans
and address with request for same. Addrosa
DR.. K v. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.
nome last Tuesday morning with So.
| 900 worth of diamonds, and has not
| returned home since. His wife, who Is
on the verge of nervous breakdown
says she believes her husband is be
| ing held for ransom and that he will
| be Killed If 10000 is not paid his
captors.
TWO anonymous letters in which de.
| mands for 10000 have been made
| upon the diamond firm of Stein Bros.
Il Co. have been received by that
hrm and turned over to the police,
who have investigated the strange dis
| appearance of Newman. A telephone
message from Newman received the
| night before he went away figures
in the case. After talking to persons
| on the telephone, he told men, they
asked him TO carry diamonds to them
for inspection early next morning. On
Tuesday morning Newman, who had
kept in his house some diamonds.
placed $1,000 worth of the gems In
pocketbook and left the house.
When he did not return to his home
for dinner Tuesday night his wife
became alarmed. and sent word to
Newman's relatives that her husband
was missing.
They Instituted search OF the DIFF
hDu MI tn1t I,,t 4
get no trace OF the missing salesman.
On Wednesday the firm of Stein
Bros. & Co. received letter reading
This is to notify you that Meyer
Newman is being held captive for a
ransom of $4,000. You are to place
the money In tin can at Bronx
park entrance before June 80"
This communication, written in ink
on paper OF goodl quality, was enclosed
in an envelope and deposited at the
main postoffice on Tuesday afternoon
at o'clock.
Members of the diamond firm paid
little attention to the letter. On Sat
urday they received another letter
which was duplicate OF the first.
These letters were turned over TO
the police.
ALBUQUERQUE. N. NJ, June 22.-
r. NJ. Saltar and Edward Jones, two
cattlemen. were both killed in a duel
last evening. The fight took place
near st. Vrain, N. M. 200 miles east
of here. The men were neighbors
but Quarreled over cattle trade. Guns
Il ufvr
we're instantly killed. The trouble
was the outgrowth of an old fued.
Both men were wealthy and highly
respected.
ST. ETIENNE June 22.-Nine per-
sons are dead as the result OF an
explosion Of fire damp in a coal niue
here today.
DENVER, June 22.-"The country
is all right. The panic was good
thing after ALL" Here is the verdict
of credit men from all over the coun-
try who are swarming into Denver
for the thirteenth annual convention
of their national association at the
Brown Palace hotel. And these men
| ought 10 know for their fingers are
| ever on the nations financial pulse
Representing as they do. Investments
Of billions of dollars. IT is necessary
not the slightest thing escape them
They are real barometers of the ma.
tion's trade.
| SILVERTON, June 22.-Billy Lang
who attempted suicide a week or
ten days ago while In the city jail
died last night from the effects OF
wounds inflicted at that time by cut
ting his throat with glass. Deceased
has long been a resident of Silvertor
and San Juan county.
DENVER, June 23.-The real worI
OF lining UP politics for the Demo
cratic national convention is undel
way in Denver and for the next thre,
weeks the eyes Of the entire natioI
will be upon the convention city wher,
Democrats Of the country believe tn,
next president of the United State
will be nominated.
Headquarters of the Democratic ma
tional committee which from now OF
iyill have charge of the convention al
J fangements opened today In Brow
Palace. Today the headquarters O
the Illinois delegation to the conver
. tioD was also opened In room 20,
: Roger c. Sullivan. national committee
man from Illinois. and Urey Woot
; son from Kentucky. secretary OF tn
national committee, were the first q
Z the members to arrive. They brough
with them a corps OF clerks and st,
k nographers, who will look after th
detail work for Woodson. With th
l. arrival Of these leaders Denver r,
n ceived the first real insight into VIII
has been done toward getting tn
" convention under way. Bryan, 1t
u conceded will be nominated for prss