Semi-weekly herald., 1909-11-29
'TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

tudl fTeSluent Zelbya ana tue lWC
thousand men under his command al
Managua will be forced to surrender
today or tomorrow The invading army
under General Sanez numbers 1--WE
thousand. Managua is out of proyi
sions and state of anarchy exists
within the city itself Zelaya has been
He is surrounded by picked guard
and the presidential palace is for
tress. Martial law reisns. Shops are
closed at sunset and crowds gathering
in the street are dispersed by soldiers
who clear the way with fixed bayonets.
Hundreds suspected of sympathizing
with the Estrada movement have been
arrested, and the jails are overcrowd.
ed Many prisoners are guarded in
other buildings.
ST JOSEPH, Mo. Nov. 26.-With
outer world is concerned, John Rog-
ers was pardoEed yesterday from the
Kansas state penitentiary and brought
TO the hong of Mrs. Artlip. sister OF
Governor Brady of Idaho. for his
Thanksgiving dinner
Rogers had never seen street cars
OF many other modern eonveniences
and never spoke through a telephone
He takes the same interest in these
things thar child does. Rogers did
not sleep last night but hugged in his
arms pet kitten which he had raised
lie will be given employment here
SAN DIEGO, Cal, Nov. 26.-At the
residence of George Fl. Ballou at Coro
nado, yesterday afternoon, his daugh
ter. Mrs. Ada Ballou, became the wife
of Hon. Lyman J. Gage, formerly sec
retary of the treasury, now resi-
dent of San Diego. The wedding was
strictly private. Mr.. and Mrs. Gage
;, left at midnight for Denver, and after
a short stay there will visit various
cities farther east. In the marriage
license the bride gave her age as rs
and the groom his 10 years.
Ii NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-As a result
of the mental strain under which he
labored in preparing his records for
Danish scientists, DIR. Frederick A.
Cook, dlscoverer OF the north pole
has suffered nervous breakdown. He
is at the home of an intimate friend
In New York but his condition is such
that not even his closest friends are
allowed to see him.
DENVER, Nov. 26.-Turning at a
high speed into the switch at the
corner of Madison and Colfax last
night, a Fairmount car going west
or Colfax tipped over onto the lawn
in front of the residence of ]. d. AL.
kire. Gat-of the carload of fifty pas.
sengers, five women, two OF whom held
babies, were injured, several others
ly shaken. Most of the passengers
escaped without injuries.
GREAT FALLS, Mont, Nov. 26.-
One of the most fiendish and daring
crimes ever committed in this vicinity
was brought to light last night when
the sexton of Highland cemetery found
that some time during the previous
night the grave of the infant son OF
.Harfield Conrad, son of William G.
Conrad, the Great Falls millionaire
banker and former candidate for the
Democratic vice presidential nomina.
ton. had been opened and the body
OF the child made away with.
The crime was discovered as the
sexton was preparing for the arrival of
funeral party. In passing the gate of
the burial ground he found the empty
casket that had held the small childs
body, lying upon the ground. 1nvesti
CATION showed the grave of the Con.
rad child had been opened. The only
reason which can be ascertained for
the crime Is that perhaps the per
petrator desired the child's body to
hold for ransom The child died q
year ago.
PENSACOLA. Fla, Nov. 26.-John
c, Calhoun, colored, aged ll5 years, is
dead. The death certificate sworn to
and filed in the office of the city clerk
gave the date of the negro's birth as
1874. Calhoun, bearing the name of
the famous American statesman, lived
in Pensacola for forty years, and until
less than fourteen years ago made his
living by daily labor In sawmill.
LOS ANGELES. Cal, Nov. 26.-
Nicholas Jacobs, real estate dealer
his two daughters and two sons are
dead. Mrs. Jacobs and her baby dying
this morning as the result of a COLI
sion last night between the automo
bile in which they were riding and a
trolley car on the Los Angeles, Santa
Ana line six miles from this city Two
other sons of Jacobs, Peter and John
and Miss Josephine Solou, aged 19
leaped from the automobile. and es.
capped with slight injuries,
Ell PASO. Tex, Nov. 26.-Chief JUS
tce w. j. Mills of New Mexico, ac-