Semi-weekly herald., 1908-12-10

the first inkling as 10 the action Of
i the recent grand jury has leaked out
Indictments were returned against the
, three bankers charging them with re
ceiving deposits after knowing the
institution of which they were head
officers. to be insolvent. There are
! nine indictments against Stevens and
Hurlburt and five against Tanner.
GLENwOoD SPRINGS, Dec. "a
handsome mountain sheep yesterday
afternoon jumped to its death off a
precipice 600 feet high near camp at
Shoshone. The animal appeared on
the verge of the cliff. and after hesi.
tating moment deliberately leaped
to the rocks below and was killed. 1t
is possible the animal-was chased by
a mountain lion, and thought when It
reached the cliff, 1t stood better
chance for life by jumping than walt.
ing for the lion.
| NNEW YORK, Dec. 9.-The funeral
OF Miss Mary Goodwin Pinkney, credit
ed with being the wealthiest woman in
the world. who died here yesterday
at the age Of SO years, is being held
this afternoon Most of Miss Pink
ney's estate is in real estate in Har.
lem, and her wealth is variously esti
mated at from ten to fifty million dol.
lars.
NEW YORK, Dec. g.--Patrick ]
Kieran. former president of the Fidel
ity Funding company. whose financial
operations caused losses of between
three and four millions. belonging
mostly TO priests, nuns, Catholic
church and charitable Institutions in
all parts of the country, is believed
to be hiding in Philadelphia today
and police OF that city have been asked
to arrest him.
| CHICAGO, Dec. 9.-Robert H. Me.
Crea, 80 years old, wealthy citizen
OF Wabash, Ind. grievmg over the re.
cent death Of his wife. shot and killed
himself behind locked doors OF a bath
room at the Great Northern hotel to.
day. photograph of his wife and
baby on the dresser Indicated he had
looked at the picture before firing the
fatal shot. McCrea was the son of
T. ]. McCrea, president OF the Citi
zens' bank, and was q large coal deal
er In Wabash.
| NEW YORK, Dec 9.-Marriages
among persons In New York who are
socially prominent are on the decline
according TO, statistics tssea- -en names
appearing in the social register for
| 1908. just out, decrease of 20 per
| cent over last years marriages Is
| shown for New York city, with a gen
eral falling off of approximately Z
per cent throughout the country. Pitts
burg was the exception with sixty-nine
social marriages" this year as against
| sixty-five last year and Chicago was
stationary with 1876. Compilers of sta.
tistics declare the financial depres-
| sion was responsible for the decrease.
| PUEBLO, Colo, Dec. 9.-Business
men of Pueblo last night pledged them.
selves to raise 100000 by January
for the Kansas Colorado Railroad com.
pany which proposed to erect half
million dollar hotel in this city and
is building line to Canon City. Sub
scriptions will not be paid until
the road is completed to Canon City
and the hotel erected.
| At the meeting last night $4,000
was subscribed.
| TELLURIDE, Dec. 9.-John Matson,
employed near Ophir, was badly In
jured at o'clock this morning by the
! premature explosion Of dynamite. II
| Is feared he will lose one eye, and
his face and hands are badly cut by
| flying rock.
NEW YORK. Dec. 9.-More than a
score of persons were injured, five of
them seriously, and 100 more were
thrown into panic early today when
a bomb was hurled into an airshaft of
tenement house at 103 West Sixty.
third street The house was badly
wrecked. 1t was occupied exclusive
ly by Italians and 1t has developed that
threatening letters had been received
by many of them during the past few
months.
The explosion was terrinc, the con
cussion shook buildings four blocks
away. Adjoining the airshaft down
which the bomb was thrown were
. sleeping rooms on one side and bath
rooms ON the other, and practically
. all of those injured were asleep or
the south side. The bath room was
, wrecked. water pipes torn and broker
, and the whole building on that side o.
. the shaft was flooded before the watei
3 could be cut off in the partially wreck
, ed cellar.
e Plaster and bricks, mixed with jag
ged pieces of glass from shattered
: windows were hurled into the sleepini
z rooms with frightful force and some O
n those injured were found half burie