Semi-weekly herald., 1908-11-12

{, first things which President Roosevelt
did. when he reached his office today,
was to dictate to his secretary a char
acteristic message of congratulations
and good wishes to Edward VII, king
OF Great Britain and Ireland, who to-
day celebrates his sixty-seventh ami
versary OF his birth. The message
cabled to London was not made public
| here.
BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 9.-Timothy
Healy, wealthy retired manufacturer
of Great Darlington. Mass, and father
of Thomas Healy of Denver, dropped
dead last night at the door of DR.. Hugo
schultis. 1t is supposed he was seek
ing the doctor for relief. An autopsy
will be performed. Healy. who was
So years old. knocked at the door and
the doctors wife opened it. when he
fell lifeless at her feet Healy left a
large estate. He was a native OF Ire
land and came to America when a
youth. His wife died fifteen years
ago.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.-Postmaster
Edward w. Morgan of this city was
shot down In the street as he was leav-
| ing his house In One Hundred and
Forty-sixth street for the postoffice
this morning by Eric H. b. Mackay,
a stenographer employed by down
town law firm, who then shot and
killed himself.
The single bullet which struck Mr..
Morgan entered at the right side of
the abdomen and passed out at the
left side without penetrating the walls.
| There was no internal bleeding and
there is every likelihood the wounded
man will recover.
| The only excuse known for the
shooting was that Mackey had com
planned to the authorities at the post
office at Washington that his mail was
being tampered with and that some
one turned out an electric light when
he was reading by 1t in the corridor
OIL tne pOSt0IuCe.
Morgan had never seen the man.
ALLIANCE, Neb., Nov. 9.-Mistak-
ing his sister, Lizzie. who was wearing
a fur coat belonging to her sweet
heart, Frank Augustin, for the latter,
whom he suspected of undue intimacy
with her, Charles Braner yesterday
shot and fatally wounded the girl. Dis
covering his mistake too late. Braner
fired the other barrel of his shotgun
! at Augustin, who had fled, slightly
wounding him. Both men are In jail
DENVER, Nov. 10.-Following the
attempt yesterday afternoon to extort
100000 from Mrs. Genevieve Chandler
| Phipps under threat of death by dy-
Mantle. the desperate woman who
played the game, this morning In the
city Jail tried to take her life. With
| a penitentiary sentence staring her In
the face and with her hopes of sud
den wealth crushed, she picked up a
bottle containing morphine and was
about to swallow 1t when an attache
knocked 1t out Of her hands.
The plot for the fortune conceived
by the woman is worthy of a novel.
And even now. after a night in prison,
| she still conceals her identity, al
though in an unguarded moment she
let slip the name Of DR.. Butterfield,
a Denver physician. whom she de-
clared could identify her. The doctor
was Immediately sent for and recog-
nized her.
The woman evidently had been try
ing for days to put the plan into exc
| cution which failed yesterday. She
first appeared at Mrs. Phipps' house in
the guise Of a jewelry peddler, and
failing to interest her victim later an
nounced herself as magazine writer
in Denver for the purpose of getting
color for story. Yesterday she en-
deavored to make an appointment with
Mrs. Phipps, and the latter to avoid
her. summoned her electric. and start
ed for ride through City park.
The woman, however, followed her
and at a lonely point In the park
caught Mrs. Phipps. She leaped into
the auto before she could be pre-
vented and demanded $4,000 and that
her intended victim get her child
then followed a ride to the school. a
stop at the Phipps home, a hurried
journey to the bank vault Of the In
ternational Trust company. a call for
the police. and the attempt of the
victim to blow up the child and herself
with dynamite.
DENVER. Nov. 10.-The big labor
convention met again this morning.
The entire morning session was de-
voted to hearing the reports of mem.
bers Of the executive council referring
them to committees. The afternoon
session will hear reports of the ere.
dentials committee on contests be-
tween a dozen unions that are fighting
for supremacy over other unions be.
fore the parent body OF labor in the
country.