Semi-weekly herald., 1908-08-27
Bergen to Hau1enund, was wrecked

last night near Shoeveiski. and sanl
in three minutes. The steamer oarrie<
seventy passengers. forty Of whom
drowned. Fifteen bodies have been re-
covered. The captain Of the -vssse
Ia among those saved. vins7s o
Z. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Aug. 25.-Ir
a powerful speech. characterized By
some as the most uncompromisine
political plan Of speaking thus faI
heard In the present campaign, John
Worth Kern today accepted the, Demo
cratic nomination for the vics spresi
dency. grcr1 ed
The Democratic vice presidential
candidate made a bitter attack upon
Speaker Cannon and the gang rusestn
the house of representatives. He fol
lowed this by the sensational charge
/ that the Republicans are circulating
two kinds of campaign literature-ad-
yertising Taft as conservative In the
east and as a true follower of Roose-
welt In the west.
The meeting was held in the elabo-
rately decorated coliseum at the fair
grounds and was attended by many
thousands Of people regardless of par
ty, who were attracted by the distin-
guished speakers on the program. The
weather is ideal. clear and cool with
pleasant breeze that swept over the
grounds. Ten traction lines and four
teen railroads brought the people on
regular and special trains. Five hun
dreds cars transported the crowd
from the city to the fair grounds and
back. The Coliseum, recently built
Of brick and steel, accommodates 49,
900 people and arrangements were
made early in the, day to hold over
flow meetings II necessary.
The morning hours today were de.
voted to conference by the party lead
ers while the band concert at the Den
ison hotel assisted in amusing the
crowds.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-Giving more
than $4,000 worth of stolen jewels.
Harry Hill. a brother of Congressman
Hill of Paterson. N. j., and grandson
of Henry King. the wealthy silk manu-
facturer, confessed to the police in Pat
erson that he was burglar. .
Hill was well dressed. and is promi-
nent in Paterson where he is known
as an all around good fellow who has
lived like lord all the twenty-five
years Of his. life.
He was arrested by New York detec
tives on Broadway. His grandfather
Immediately came forward and upon
the plea Of his attorney bail was &C
cepted. the relatives promising to pro-
duce him when wanted for extradi
ton. a.s-
DENVER, Aug 25.-Earl B. Coe,
former proprietor and publisher of the
Denver Times. the first man to pro-
pose sugar beet raising in Colorado
and until his departure from the state
In 1903, was one OF its foremost citi
zens. died yesterday in st. Luke's hos
pital, New York city. while undergo
ing an operation for acute stomach
trouble.
At the time OF his death he was
president OF a large banana company
operating in Honduras, with Offices
in Broadway. New York. Coe was a
brother Of Frederick B. Coe of the
Coe Stedman Realty company Of
Denver, who was at his bedside when
the end came. He is survived by a
wife and three children.
The body will be brought to this
city for interment in Fairmont ceme-
terry. Shortly after his departure from
Denver Coe married second time to
Miss Alice Palmer, an actress. Earl
b. Coe was born in Oswego. N. Y,
in 1858. He graduated from the law
department Of Michigan university in
1880. and went west the same year.
n, BISBEE, Ariz., Aug. 25.-Bisbee for
the third time In three weeks was yes
terday visited by q cloudburst. The
damage is estimated at $4,000. IN
SNliSh0Os <AAB. votea AN piiht
ers of the United States were bene
fited today by the old age pensions
to be paid by the International Typo
graphical union. The person Of "a a
week for printers over 60 years old.
who have been members of the union
for twenty years or longer became ef.
fective and the first money will be
paid out of the pension fund.
OMAHA, Aug. 25.-Fire started In
the coal chutes OF the Omaha Wagon
works at O'Clock this morning and
spread to the plant Of the Omaha Sad
die Tree company, and in short time
the big Carter white led works was
also In flames. The three plants are
burning at an early hour this morning
AT 4 O'Clock the second alarm took
half Of the Omaha fire department to
East Omaha and It IL feared the big
manufacturing suburb would be wiped
out ...
OMAHA. Aug. 25.-(Noon.)-The
big fire which damaged three big man
ufacturing plants In East Omaha this