Semi-weekly herald., 1908-03-26

tionai convention in July. Thomas
F. Smith, secretary of Tammany
hall, is preparing to so to Denver
to complete hotel arrangements for
the New York delegation.
WASHINGTON, March 24.-Thos.
f Walsh appeared by invitation be.
fore the house committee on mines
aud mining in support OF bill pro
posing TO establish bureau of mines.
Mt. Walsh called attention to the fact
that the government has never given
the mining industry helping hand.
although the annual mineral produc-
tion OF Colorado alone is approximate.
ly S5o.000O00 and in the next twenty
years the state win produce a billion
dollars from the mining industry
alone He said the time had come
when there should be a government
mining bureau and the government
sholld employ the ablest metallur.
gists and mining engineers to give
them the proper equipment and appli-
ancss for determination and for re-
search in the discovery Of the best
methods of treating ores and mining
them economically. He said the same
aid should be extended to mining as
to agriculture.
Chicago, March 2i-An event OF
great Importance to the family of the
late otto Young, occurred last Sun
day night In the birth Of boy to
Mr.. ana Mrs. Samuel X. Martin. The
boy is the ninth grand child to share
the millions lett by the merchant. Un-
til the birth of this, their first child.
the Martins. under the terms of the
Will, had no claim on the fortune, be-
yond Mrs. Martins life interest In its
incme. Now they have an heir,
whose prospects are worth at least
$3,oO0,00o, II is the first young grand
child to he born into It's own right
since the death of Mr Young.
WATERBURY, Conn. March "a.
Miss Edno Il Bruins. niece af Francis
Wenson. went into the office of the
Waterbury American, and in the
midst OF the confusion Of going to
press. she drew dog whip from her
mun and soundly thrashed Roland
Fraaklyn Andrews Miss Bruins as.
serted that Andrews had sent a story
which was absolutely false to the New
York papers as Waterbury CORE.
spoAdeut The story concerned her
love for young Mark Hanna. while
she was guest at Elton last sum.
mer and She claims the story placed
her in 2 false light before the public
she asserted.
NEW YORK. March 24-Dec'ared
dead by a physician after having re-
oeiv2d d G00,volt shock rom a feed
wire In Brooklyn Rapid Transit com
pany's power house last night, Ste
phen Curtis 10 years old, restored by
artificial inducement Of respiration.
Curtis Accidentally seized the wire
while at work in the power house. He
was unable TO let 60 his cries brought
Ralph Stewart, the engineer to his as.
Stance. Stewart himself received a
severe shock and when the ambulance
arrived, the surgeon pronounced Cur
tbs dead.
Later a faint movement of the heart
being discovered, artificial respiration
was resorted TO. After nearly two
hours OF work young Cnrtis sufrici
emily recovered to allow his removal
10 5hc hospital It is feared that he
will lose his eyeslght and it is de.
clarod that had he not been wearing
rubber boots, he would have been
killed instantly.
Stewart is also seriously injured.
and it is feared that he too win be-
come blind through the destruction of
the optic nerve.
Chicago, Ill. March 24.--Joseph r.
Well. said to be the leading spirit
in he Denver Milllonaires' Club"
came to grief in Chicago yesterday.
4AN ""o "AA'otSA bF SHtTHl EuWuTu
kettleson OF Rock Island, and taken
to Rock Island to stand trial for being
one Of gang of confidence men. II
is said, an effort is to be made to con.
meet him and his gang with a plot to
blow up the Rock Island News office
with dyanmite yesterday. Edward
Goldman of Chicago, charged. that
Vein and his Denver Milllonaires'
Club aeeced him out OF $4,000 on
Fake" Prize fight. Well is said to
be one of the smoothest confidence
men ever arrested.
Toronto Canad, March 24.-In a
fight among gang OF slavonians.
employed on the water works tunnel.
last night Joseph Miloyitch shot dead
ind several others received stab
wounds, but none we're dangerously
hurt. The police arrested fifteen OF
the participants.
NEWYORK. March 24.-While
John A. Cisco. an aged retired bank
er lay dying of pneumonia in his res
idence on Fortieth street near FIFTH
avenue, his wifo, worn out by her de.