Semi-weekly herald., 1908-04-30
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

ebIo, where the state convention Will
b held tomorrow. The slate prepared
IL as follows:
Delegates-atIarge- Hin OF
Denver: Thos. Walsh, Littleton, Sem
aior Horace de Long, Grand Junction;
W. A. Drake. Fort Collins; DR.. Work.
Pueblo: William Lennox. Colorado
Springs.
First District-Whiiney Newton,
Denver; Horace A. Reed. Boulder.
Second District-R. G. Brecken-
ridge. Monte Vista; c. C. Dawson. Can
on City, and Ora A. Rolision, Cripple
Greek.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, April H.
Governor sheldon OF Nebraska and a
party OF Nebraska capitalists number
ing 100 are the guests of citizens OF
Albuquerque this afternoon and this
evening. The party is on the way 10
San Francisco. where they Will pre-
sent the officers and the men OF the
battleship Nebraska with handsome
gift on behalf OF the people of Nebras-
ka. The party win arrive at 3:45 y.
IN. and remain until II p. IN, They viii
be met by committee OF citizens and
committee from the Commercial club
and viii be taken over The city this
afternoon. There Will be a recep-
tion for the guests at the Commercial
club this evening.
Los ANGELES, April 27.-There is
no change in the condition of Mrs
Beulah Hawkins reported from the
county hospital, today she entered up
on the S1st dny of her strange trance
like sleep. Physicians at the hospi-
tai say she may not regain conscious
ness for year or more.
BUCKINGHAM. Quebec, April III
Half the little French hamlet of Nolre
Dame de Salette, 16 miles from here,
on the Lever river. and its small
number OF population OF thirty, perish
ed. Hamlet has no telephone or tel
egraph or railroad. The meagre news
of the disaster came In by messengers
from physicians and other rescuers.
who hurried there when the first call
for aid came. The river Ldeyere winds
at the foot of the hamlet and the
mountain towers behind.
JOLIET. H.. April 27.--Another
mysterious fire even more serious
in Its results than that OF three
weeks ago. swept through the business
part OF Joliet yesterday. causing loss.
es OF over 100000 1t caused the
complete destruction of Joliet's larg-
est business house, the Boston store.
The burned buildings included those
west Of Ottawa street facing on JET
ferson street, Joliet's oldest business
thoroughfare.
The origin OF the fire is a mystery.
CHICAGO, April q. = Chicago
Poles In mass meeting yesterday
made a protest against the appropria.
tion act relating to Prussian Poland
passed last March by the German
Reichstag. The protest took the form
of addresses by various orators and
the adoption Of resolution appealing
to congress to pass the resolution of
sympathy with Poland pending before
that body. They also appealed to all
governments and lovers of liberty TO
send protests to Berlin against the
appropriation act.
NEW YORK, April 27.--Despondent
Oh account OF financial troubles. Long
Wundo. Chinaman prominent among
his countrymen in this city. commit
ted suicide early today by jumping
from the roof OF six-story tenement
house on Eighty first avenue. He was
almost instantly killed. uong was a
member of the firm Of Long, Son, I'll
Co.. dealers IN art curios, but failed
SANDUSKY, o.. April 27--Aeain as
for several seasons past, wild ducks
are dying by the hundreds daily in
the marshy region bordering on Lake
Erie, between Huron, ten miles east
OF this city. and the mouth of the
Maumee river. near Toledo. Blue
bills, canvass backs and occasionally
redhead are attacked alike Exam.
nation reveals in the head feathers Of
the dead ducks found small insect
not unlike the flea, but whether or not
this is responsible for the wholesale
destruction going on cannot be deter
mined.
LONDON, April 27.-A remarkable
blizzard. the worst ever experienced
in England since 1881. continues prae-
ucally all over the United Kingdom.
II was accompanied by violent nor.
therly gale. The snowdrifts are eight
feet deep. Railway traffic is seriously
delayed. Telegraph and telephone
systems are completely disorganized
Tramway cars and motor cars are
showed up In every section of the
country. Many of the outlying dis
tricts are isolated and some deaths
from exposure are reported Enormous
damage has been done. especially to
the young fruit crops. London, where
much snow fell during tn past week.
IL bathed In sunshine today, but is
still very cold.
FORT WORTH, Texas. April 27.-