Semi-weekly herald., 1909-08-19

+ sourf valley have sent out special q
e ders to all the agents to watch I,
violations OF the laws and many a
rests have already been made.
AT noon today the report is that II
, still fearfully hot.
Il CHICAGO. Aug. 17.-when Mis-
; Ruth Rodgers leaped feet foremos
) from raft In the lake at Manhatta
beach yesterday. she touched with on
OF her feet the body of man lyIn
] on the bed of the lake. Her erie
for help when she arose to the SUI
face brought former Congressman c
rs Wharton, DR.. w. II Fake and Dr
II. b. Clapp, who were swimming near
Mr.. Wharton dove and satisfied him
self that what Miss Rodgers hat
touched really was the body of
man and after repeated efforts the res
cuers were successful In bringing 1t Il
the surface. They were astonishet
to find that breath still remained. al
though the victim was unconscious
When he was resuscitated after al
hours work he said he was John Tuz
hocki, % years old He was unable
To say how he came into his plight
but believed that in diving from post
his head struck the great rope stretch
ed as a life line and was rendered nm.
conscious.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-secretary
Nagel, who has returned to Wash,
|ingtou, resumed work in connection
with preparations for the next census
with view of getting II in shape so
| that he can return TO his summer
home in Massachusetts next week. A
considerable saving win be made he
has found In the cost of the next cen.
sus as compared with the original
estimates.
BOSTON, Aug. 17.-An attack on
the Notifications of Boston harbor by
the red army of invasion was gallant,
ly and successfully repulsed today By
the blue army OF the defense, the at.
tacking force being totally annihilated
in the opinion of the umpire. Captain
H, L. Patten The attacking force
consisted of about 200 men composed
of troops from Forts Totten and Ham.
ilton. The defenders suffered the loss
of only eight men out OF a force OF 100.
The engagement occurred at Nahant,
not far from the residence of United
State Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and
was followed by an attack BY the in.
vaders. upon the secondary section at
Nahant. The troops were landed about
l o'clock this morning.
PUEBLO. Aug. 17.-James Powers. q
switcbman for the Santa Fe, was found
dead in the railway yards here this
morning. He had been struck by a
train and both legs had been severed
He had been dead two or three hours.
DENVER, Aug. 17.-Charles w Da.
kin, formerly melter in the Denver
mint, was arrested yesterday after
noon in Los Angeles by government
| secret service operatives on charge
of purloining gold to the value of 81.
600 from the mint.
The arrest of Dakin is the conse.
quence of a chase lasting ten days by
secret service men who charge that he
made away with gold by allowing the
molten metal to splash In small guam
titles on his clothing. Although Dakin
had been gone for nearly three months
1t was not until ten days ago tina,
the mint authorities found out he was
selling gold in Los Angeles.
Dakin has confessed his guilt ant
will be returned to Denver for trial.
NEW YORK, Aug. 17,-Seven men
including the captain of the schooner
| Arlington of Boston wore res
| cued from their perilous position
on the bowsprit of that craft which
was stranded on the sandbar off Ions
Beach, l.. l., today. Life savers from
the shore effected the rescue
| One man who had been put out from
the vessel on life raft drifted out o.
sight toward Sandy Hook
In an easterly gale which piled tn,
surf higher upon the southern coas
of Long Island the three mnstet
schooner Arlington went ashore OF
Long Beach before daylight today
Her decks were swept by the seai
and the crew of eight men took refug,
on the bowsprit while the Long Beaol
life saving crew tried vainly to shoe
a line over the vessel or to launcl
the surf boat One OF the crew launch
ed a raft IN an attempt to bring lin,
to shore but the raft drifted to sea
ward and along the shore instead o
coming on the beach.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1.-Two hundre,
citizens of Wellston, a newly incoi
porated city in st. Louis county las
night pledged themselves to a pre-
gram of defiance against the author
ties OF the municipality and the ord
nances which the latter have enacte
or may pass. Plans for u defense /
the courts of such of the insurgents
as may be arrested were adopted an
attorneys were retained to look afte
the interests OF those who may fin
themselves engulfed in a sea of legi
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