Semi-weekly herald., 1909-04-19
CHICAGO, April 15.-Frank Yerkes.


clined to believe that Yerkes fired the
bullet into his head with suicidal In.
tent, circumstances connected with
the case prompted them to place Mrs. |
Shuman and Miss Ethel Blackwell, |
who was visiting at the Shuman home. |
Yerkes to Mrs. Shuman In which the
milk dealer told of his affection for
her. are in the hands OF the police.
Mrs. Shuman had been living apart
! from her husband.
DENVER, April 15.-Bread, the sta
pie food OF the poor. will be luxury
of the rich In the very near future un-
| less there Is sudden and decided
change In existing conditions. The
price of flour has reached $3.50 per
barrel. an increase OF $40 In a little
more than one year, and bakers an
nouce they will have to reduce the
size OF their loaves. Wheat Is selling
up TO $3.50 per bushel, the highest
price In thirty-one years, and experts
says the outlook for a reduction In
price is very discouraging. This rec
ord price is the result OF decreased
production and not manipulation OF
the market, authorities say. in spite
OF the claims of eastern bakers, who
have peiitioned Secretary of State
Knox to stop the alleged manipula'
ton OF the wheat market.
| ~Ttfxy VnDK prtI m on spDt
crowding, to which President Taft was
subjected to few weeks ago on the
occasion of HIS visit to a local theater,
occasioned the adoption last night OF
special maneuyer by the police de-
tailed TO Days theater where the
president and Mrs. Taft attended the
performance of "If We're King"
by Il. II. Sothern. AS soon as the cur
tain had gone down in the last act
uniformed policemen took stations at
the end OF each aisle and barred fur
ther exit. President and Mrs. Taft
with MIR. and Mrs. Henry w. Taft and
Captain Archibald Mutt hurried up
side aisle and not until the presi-
dental party entered an automobile
were the rest of the occupants of the
theater permitted to proceed beyond
the Gordon of bluecoats. The tactics
employed will in all probability be
adopted for all similar occasions In
, the future.
, DENVER. April 15.-Monday. June
Ia. has been decided upon by Governor
, Shafroth as the most favorable for the
convcning of the legislature In an ex
| ira session and unless he should be
] shown reasons why that date is moi
satisfactory his proclamation will fix
the first Monday In June for the re
convening of the Seventeenth genera,
. assembly.
r SAN FRANCISCO, April 16-Fivt
t bodies recovered and probably eigh
8 or ten others buried in the ruins, sis
, injured. one fatally, and the loss ol
$l25,000, are the results of an early
morning fire which destroyed the 81
George hotel. a lodging house for la
borers at Hoard and Eighth streets
l anu CiSht DulluthSS.
, The bodies taken to the morgue
, are SO charred that identification is
impossible. d. S. Cartwright, car
penter, formerly OF Salem, Ore. and
money, is burned all over the head
and body, and no hopes are held out
for his recovery. The nine other In.
jured are: Patrick Guerin, John Mel
Fireman James Rogers, William Nc
Khley, Don Haggerty and James
Campbell.
The hotel. three-story frame build.
ing. burned so rapidly. that none of
the $50 guests had time to dress and
many escaped by jumping to the roof
OF an adjoining workshop. Scores clam.
bered down ladders OF the firemen
and fire escapes and at least four
jumped into the safety net held by
firemen. 1t is not known how many
were unable to avail themselves of
any of these means of escape.
When the flre was discovered, short.
ly after o'clock. Night Clerk Arthur
Cronk. three or four other employees
and Policeman w. F. Krugerran ran
through the house arousing the sleep
ing tenants. In the smoke filled halls
they directed the half crazed men to
exits. Great confusion and panic
prevailed, so It was with great diff
Guilty the men were able TO find their
way through the labyrinth of halls
which threaded 400 small rooms.
NEW YORK. April i6.-More Than
ten spectacular rescues were made by
firemen early today during blaze in
a six-story tenement house. So far
as known, all the tenants escaped
During the work on the ladders Dep
uty Chief Callahan fell to the street
and was injured fatally. The fire
started in laundry on the ground
floor. A number Of horses In the eel.
lar burned to death.
W1NSTED, Conn, April 16.--A. L
Morse, deputy sheriff and humane
agent OF Bristol, was sent to Burling.