Semi-weekly herald., 1908-12-03


I The shooting occurred Saturday ev
ening in fashionable section of tn,
city after the negro had approached
| the couple. and, as he says. asked
| to be directed to a certain address
A short time afterward, according {,
the story OF clerk In the Portland
| apartment house, overlooking Thomn.
| Circle. near where the shooting tool
place, man and woman apparently
greatly excited, passed quickly through
the lobby and left by another door
The mans nose was bleeding and the
woman was heard to advise him tc
have it attended to, whereupon they
started for the drug store on the cor
ner, but changed their minds and dis
appeared.
ROME, Nov. 30.-Pope Plus X had
slight fever today and was obliged
to remain in bed. Drs. Petacei and
Marchiafava say that with proper care
and rest, they feel sure no compli
cations will arise. All audiences have
been suspended. including those OF
Archbishop Glennon of st. Louis and
Bishop Allen of Mobile
NEW YORK, Nov. 3O.-The New
York World, which recently published
what it stated was correct synopsis
of the suppressed interview between the
kaiser and DR.. w. NJ. Bayard Hale, has
sent Chancellor Won Buelow a cable
gram stating that It has learned the
article is without foundation. To.
day it retracts and apologies.
DENVER, Nov. 3O.-What is alleged
to be an attempt of Chicago parties
to defraud the family of T. C. Henry.
the well known Colorado land and
irrigation promoter. out of the water
rights on the western slope near Grand
Junction, valued at nearly one half a
million dollars is described in suit
filed in the district court by George
S. and T. C. Henry. against the Wood
land Investment company of Chicago
and its officers.
Judge Greeley w. Whitford had is.
sued temporary restraining order
to prevent the officers or stockholders
OF the Woodland company from dis
turbing or distributing $4,000 to be
paid them today or tomorrow on be-
half of the orchard district lately form.
ed in Grand Junction.
1t is alleged that the Henry fam.
lily had been defrauded of its rights
and these sold to the irrigation dis,
trict or turned over to Secretary of The
Interior James r. Garfield in rctnrn
for right of way across government
land, destroying rights OF the Henry
family by reason of the fact that tho
reclamation service will appropriate
the water.
The Woodland company and e. G.
Eberhart, as treasurer, is a big one,
having put through many large land
and irrigation projects. Henry asked
that the contract with Secretary Gar
field be cancelled and that he be given
his share of profits and sale of the
part already sold to the irrigation
district.
CHEFOO, China, Nov. 3O.-Two Jap.
anese steamships collided in this port
today. Details of the accident are
lacking, but it is reported that a to
tai of 700 persons have been drowned
HOT SPRINGS, Va. Nov. 30.-Tim.
othy L. Woodruff, chairman of the
New York Republican state commit.
tee, last night eliminated himself from
the senatorial race in favor of Seec
retary of State Root. This action was
taken after a protracted conference
with President Taft and followed by
statements from both Messrs. Taft and
Woodruff. Aside from these state
election of Root to succeed Senator
Platt on January 10 next, no details o
| the conference were made known.
Mr.. Taft said: Il can only say tha
| am very much pleased at the atti
tude that Gov. Woodruff has taken
| He has been moved by an earnest de
sire to promote party harmony ant
has established his claim to the graf
itude of the Republicans of New Yorl
and also of the country at large fol
making 1t as much a certainty as pos
| sible that such a statesman as Mr.
Root to be chosen to represent th'
state of New York in the senate.
PITTSBURG, Pa, Nov. 30.-on'
man was killed and five others serious
| ly injured and many passengers wer'
shaken up when train No. 8, known a
the Chicago Limited, on the Pittsburi
and Western branch of the Baltimor'
and Ohio railroad. crashed into
"buckled" freight train near Valencia
Pa, about twenty miles north of here
early today The killed: G. Il. Sp
dell, fireman of the passenger train
caught under boiler. The injured are
o. b. Stewart, Chicago; left arm brol
en-. scald and other wounds. p. {
Eastman, Uniontown, Pa; left hi
broken face and head cut c. j. Al