Semi-weekly herald., 1909-11-18

and Singapore. on her way to this
port, collided this morning with the
| steamer Onda of the British India line
and sank within two minutes. Several
European passengers, including Baron
and Baroness Beniczki, the captain of
the La Seyne. five European officers
and eighty.eight others comprising the
native passengers and members of the
crew. drowned.
| The rescue of sixty-one persons
practically from The jaws of shoal OF
sharks, formed thrilling Incident of
| the wreck.
DENVER. Nov. 15-The accidental
opening of steam cock last night in
the engine pit of the Denver and Rio
Grande shops, cost jeremiah OI.eary
a machinist's helper, his life, when
he was lifted from his feet on top CT
a steam jack, with head crushed and
| neck broken against the journal of the
forward wheels of the engine. With
his head pinioned between the jack
carrying 1875 pounds of steam, and the
journal. his lifeless body was held in
the air until the steam pressure could
! be released and The engine moved
from the pit in which OLeary had
been working.
DENVER. Nov. 15.-"The Colorado
legislature should appropriate mil
lion fln11nra nj 20
eral years TO come, to improve public
highways of this state" declared Sen
ator Simm0n Guggenheim yesterday
Il have just returned from Europe
wl,'re | learned the value of good
roads" said the senator. "The peo-
pie OF Colorado do moi fully realize
what it vii mean to have this state
honey combed with first class high
ways. III the first place. they are
needed ny the farmers and others
doing business In the state. and sec
ondly they VIII encourage tourists to
come here. Colorado would have
|1areer share of tourist travel If our
roads We're good so tourists could go
oui and view the country at leisure
Good roads win bring good country
hotels. If We can show off the state
10 our eastern visitors 1t viii be easier
to sell our land and to increase the
population New York has appropri
ated thirty millions for the construc.
tior Of GOOD roads in that stale"
WASHINGTON, Nov. Ninety
days imprisonment was imposed today
on former Sheriff Joseph +. Shipp of
Chattanooga. Tenn. by the supreme
court of the United States for con
| tempt OF court in failing TO prevent
the lynching of a negro named John
son, cinvieted of assault but whose
| execution had been stayed by court
CINCINNATI Nov. 15.-As a spe
| cially convened session of the grand
jury OF Hamilton county investigation
, Wa begun today of the alleged short
age of Charles L. Warriner, deposed
local treasurer of the Big Four rail
road Prosecutor Hunt laid before the
grand jury transport of the proceed
ings before Justice Muller in which
Warriner was give a chance to plead
but instead waived examination and
was admitted to bail in the sum of
100000. Attorney A. w. Goldsmith
law partner of Governor Harmon. and
one of the local counsel for the Big
-Four, and several officials from the
accounting and financial department
were among the witnesses who expect
TO be heard.
NEW YORK, Nov. l5.-Rose Pastor
Stokes, who was cigar worker in
Cleveland, O., before she married j G
Phelps Stokes, and who with her
husband. is working to advance the
principles of socialism, charged to-
day that August Belmont, the Ameri.
can representative of the RothschiId
millions. has contributed $4,000 to
fight socialism, while she AYERS, the
National Manufacturers association is
considering spending FIVE millions for
the same purpose.
Never has the world been riper for
socialism, she declared, "and never
have the capitalistic classes feared the
truth more. In every country of the
world discomfort is growing. This is
a new rebellion-the rebellion that
will be fought with the ballot It posi-
BILE as it is our right 1t should be, hui
with bullet If necessary"
BUENoS AYREs, Nov. 15.-Chief of
police of Buenos Ayres. Senor Falcon,
and the police secretary We're assasst
mated today while driving in Callao
street.
man. supposed to be a Russian
anarchist, but not yet identified, sud,
denly sprang from a secluded spot and
threw'a bomb under the carriage. The
vehicle was blown to o'pIeces and both
Senor Falcon and the secretary were
terribly injured They were carried
to the sidewalk and later transferred
to the hospital, but both died soon.
Immediately on throwing the bomb |
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