Semi-weekly herald., 1908-11-16


ing brought back to Chicago
A strange presentament of the dead
mans sister. Arvilla Hoganson. is cred
tied with the discovery OF the body
The girl cannot explain the feeling
which caused her to visit the place and
lead the searchers to dig in that par.
ticular spot. She was certain, how
ever. she had reached the grave of
her murdered brother. and diggers
soon verified her belief.
DENVER, Nov. 12.-Developments
OF a startling and most sensational
character are hourly expected by the
police as they uncover fact after fact
In their investigation OF the move
ments of Mrs. Allen Read, who held
Mrs. Geneyieve Chandler Phipps a
prisoner. and threatened her life with
dynamite, while attempting to extort
a large sum of money from her. In
quiry has reached the state where
almost momentarily the police are ex-
pecting to uncover conspiracy whose
gigantic scope and peculiar features.
could only have been concealed by
deranged mind that will involve many
innocent persons. is now the general
belief.
HAMM. Westphalia, Germany, Nov.
12.-There was an explosion of fire
damp In the Radbog mine this morn
ing, which will probably result in
very heavy loss of life. Already TWEEN
ty-seven bodies have been brought to
the surface, while 300 men are still
underground and in grave peril Four
hundred men were working in the pit
at the time of the disaster. Seventy
of them have been brought to the
surface. OF these, a majority are in
jured and one has since died. One
hundred and fifty men are In the shaft
and 1t is believed they are doomed.
Rescuers have arrived from all di-
rections, but their efforts, necessarily
slow, are attended with extreme diff
ficulty.
One OF the shafts, together with the
cleNdtOr cd6er NUS oeeh SolupictSiy
burned out. An improvised cage went
down with a corps of rescuers who
| made heroic efforts to reach their
comrades. At / O'Clock the fire had
made such a headway that the rescu-
ers were called back to give way to
the fire fighters. The flames are still
spreading.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE Repub-
lican who was elected to congress In
North Carolina and who bemoans the
| fact is in New York today. He is
John Motley Morehead. well to do
wooden mill operator, who recently &C
cepted the nomination, and refused to
campaign as he did not expect to win,
but when the votes were counted he
had defeated Aubrey Brooks. the Dem
| ocratic candidate by 400 votes. The
unwilling statesman is now on his way
to Washington to obtain residence
for himself and family. still persisting
norant of politics.
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov 13.-It is
stated today that charges involving
| officers of the Trans-Pacific steamship
company in plot whereby Chinese
have been smuggled into the United
States under the very eyes of imml
grafton authorities have been filed by
Hart H. North, immigration commits
sioner, and that authorities at Wash
ington have been requested to insi-
tute special investigation.
According TO guarded admissions OF
| Commissioner North. charges Of this
character have been preferred against
a captain and other officers on Pa
| cific mail liners, and 1t is intimated
other vessels on the China run are un
der suspicion.
1t is said the Chinese came over as
members of the crew. were photo
graphered and permitted to land un
der bonds furnished by the steamship
company, but that after they had re
turned and been inspected others oi
their countrymen who desired to re
turn to China found opportunity +.
substitute themselves in place Of the
original sailors and servants.
DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 13.-More
than seventy-five big steel corporation
steamers passed Detroit between Fri
day noon and early yesterday mornint
on their way north. vesselmen see
great significance In the fact. 1t In
dicates that the steel corporation Il
making an extraordinary effort to OBJ
tain enough raw material from the up
per lakes to make 1909 banner yea
in the manufacture of iron and stee
products.
This steady procession Of boats ha
been remarked by many the last fev
} days.
about all the boats that have beel
tied up along the river most of th'
year have at last been put into com
MISSION" said a marine man. land
the fall fair weather continues late
than usual, some OF the owners Wit
| axnacted IN incur n heavy loss witt