Semi-weekly herald., 1908-02-13

the state convention, the nomination
of temporary chairman OF the con
vention. are to be decided on at the
meeting. The meeting OF Republican
editors of the state to canvass the sit
uation, talk over the plans and unite
for the betterment Of the party. takes
place this afternoon. This evening
will be held the Lincoln day banquet
at the Albany hotel The addresses
will be delivered by Governor Buch-
tel and other Republicans on immedi-
ate questions of the day.
TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 12-An at
tempt to kill every American at the
Santa Rosa mine in Sonora, twenty
miles south of Douglas. was made last
Saturday when the Mexican employees
placed sticks of dynamite under the
boarding house, the company's store
and the foreman's and superiltend-
ent's residences. The fuses attached
to the dynamite were timed for the
explosions to follow each other in
quick succession. The hour selected
was during the evening meal, when
all the American miners were in the
superintendent were In their respect
i've residences.
The first explosion was at the
boarding house. The fifteen men who
We're eating were blown through the
roof, sustaining broken arms and legs,
but no fatalities. The store was COM
pletely demolished. Tom Fagin, the
foreman, and his wife were in their
home, but the dynamite under it failed
to ignite The superintendent Office
was demolished but he happened to be
out oil the building and escaped.
Governor Torres has been notified
and rurales under command of Kos
terlisky are already on the scene.
Eighteen Mexicans are under arrest
at the mine.
cans is believed to be the work OF
sympathizers of the revolutionists at
present under arrest at Los Angeles.
who believe the prisoners are being
prosecuted by Americans. There had
been no trouble ut the mine previously
and no other cause is conceivable.
NEW YORK, Feb. flowing TO
receipt of a tip that Duches d'IIzes
was bringing over from Paris valu-
able pearl and diamond necklace, sup
posed to be dutiable, as a wedding
the tiancee OF Due de Chaulnes, the
French noblewomans daughter, the
government officials today made an
unusually strict examination of the
jewels of the duchess on her arrival
on the steamship Kron Prinzessin
Cecelie. The necklace WAS found but
was not seized, as the duchess had
not tried to conceal 1t and had no diff
ficulty in proving that 1t was not new.
1t was a family heirloom and she had
brought it here as a gift to her future
SiSteT-in-ldW, Wuo VIII lhhe IL p<fSh "
Europe.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Feb 12.-With
twenty-three delegates present, the
Republican congressional convention
of the Sixth Tennessee district assem-
bled today in the Twin building for
the purpose of selecting candidate
for congress. an elector for the dis
trict and to name delegates to the
Republican national convention. The
latter win be unreservedly committed
to the candidacy OF Secretary Taft, as
the district committee has pledged its
allegiance to the Roosevelt candidates
in the following resolutions:
BE it resolved by the Republican
Executive Committee for the Sixth
Congressional district of Tennessee:
That We commend the administra-
ton of Theodore Roosevelt as one OF
which the American people should be
proud. 1t has demonstrated that no
man is so weak or helpless as TO be
without the laws protection. 1t has
given men new faith in the justice
and perpetuity of American govern
ment and has Infused life into words
of Lincoln, that a government of the
people and by the people and for the
people shall not perish
I'VE recognize in the Hon. W. H.
Taft worthy successor to our presi-
dent. One who will carry forward
with celebrity and justice the great
work on which the administration Is
now engaged. He is a wise and safe
leader to entrust with these vast prob
lens AS a jurist and statesman OF
wide experience he has proved TO be
able to perform any task laid upon
him. We hereby commend him to the
Republicans of Tennessee and the ma
tion as one pre-eminently worthy to
be our standsrd.bearer in the coming
compaign."
DWIGHT. ILL.,, Feb. IA promin'
ent citizen of Dwight, whose name has
been suppressed. will tomorrow cele-
brate his S0th birthday by distributing
cash donations among all the widows