Semi-weekly herald., 1908-11-09
TELEGRAPHIc NEWS

against the chimney Of the Methodist
church and killed here while making
= balloon ascension at the farmers
carnival. Glen Hayden, 7-year-old
boy. who was standing near the church
was struck by brick falling from the
chimney which was wrecked by the
balloon. His skull was fractured and
he will die.
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.--On the very
day after he ceases to be president
OF the United States, Theodore Roose-
welt Will become special contributing
editor on the editorial staff of the
Outlook, which will SO announce in It's
issue Of Friday next. While no sal.
airy is mentioned, 1t is believed he will
receive $4,000 year.
NEW YORK. Nov. 5.-Charles N.
Fowler, chairman of the house com
mittee on bank and currency and rep
resentative from the fifth district OF
New Jersey who has Just been elected
for the eighth time, announces him
self as a candidate for the speaker of
the house upon the following platform:
THE house OF representatives shall
elect board of managers consisting
of seven members which shall be
charged with the direction of the leg
islation which is now assumed by the
speaker of the house"
DENVER, Nov. 5.--"Samuel Com.
pers will be reelected president of the
American Federation Of Labor at the
Denver convention by an overwhelm-
ing majority. There are those who
think he has lost prestige because of
the defeat of the national Democratic
ticket, but those who best understand
the political fight he made during the
campaign know he has gained strength
among leading trades unionists of the
country because of it."
This Is the opinion of Max Morris,
national secretary Of the clerks as
ISOLATION and fourth vice president OF
the American Federation of Labor.
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-After assault.
ing strike-breaking chauffeur of a
taxicab. last evening, three men stole
the cab. and driving at full speed
down Sixueth street. ran 1t over q
forty-foot precipice. wreck the ma
chine past repair. Sixtieth street
ends In a bluff which falls away steep
ly to bit OF beach on the edge of
East river. forty feet below the street
= level. Witnesses of the affair say
the machine was run rapidly down the
street and that two men jumped out
100 yards from the end of the street
The Chauffeur, however, stuck to his
post until the machine reached the
very edge Of the precipice when he
jumped also. The machine fell to the
beach below where 1t remains a mass
Of twisted iron and splintered wood
1t was after the police had been
notified of these facts by witnesses
that Charles Zeidel. the strike-break
ing chauffeur. reported that he had
been beaten by three men In Sixty
nth street and his machine stolen
The police believe the assault and the
destruction of the machine was the
work of strike sympathizers.
DENVER. Nov. 6.-Fred Schmidt
who Is alleged to have announced thai
he knew the murderer of o. P. Dexter
Of New York. was arrested by Chic
Armstrong late this morning. The
mysterious assassination of Orrandt
Perry Dexter, son of Henry Dexter
the millionaire New Yorker, In the
Adirondacks Ave years ago may bt
cleared up by the discovery in Den
yer OF witness to the murder.
The witness said he was FREQ
Schmidt Of Twenty-second street, wht
claimed that In New York was coach
man who Killed the young New Yorker
Trouble over the love of society CIR
was given as the cause. But the mys
terry deepened this morning wher
Schmidt, who is credited as being
witness to the murder, insisted there
must be some mistake. Schmidt de
MED emphatlcally this morning tina
he WAS IN any way connected will
the story which credited him will
being a witness to find whom a sister
has already spent hundreds of thou
sands OF dollars.
Il came here three months ago from
California and saw nothing of the mur
derer," said Schmidt. 81 have beer
here for three months and know abso
lutely nothing of the New York mat
ter. have no children and at least nc
daughter who was ever mixed up in
an affair with a man in New York
Chief Armstrong says startling de
velopments may soon be made.
LONDON, Nov. 5.-William N. Nc
MILAN, a millionaire explorer and big
game hunter. formerly of st. Louis,
expects to entertain Mr.. Roosevelt
on his big estate near Nairobi, about
800 miles from Mombasa, at which
port Mr.. Roosevelt will land.
Mr.. McMillan's wife Is as famous a
hunter and traveller as he is. At the
head Of her own caravan Mrs. Mcbil-
Ian was the first white woman to cross
Abyssinia from west to east. She