Semi-weekly herald., 1909-02-08

girls from several companies playing |
at the Broadway theaters, who assem-
bled In the lobby OF the hotel, bring
ing with them motley assortment
OF valuables and clad in their night
clothing and such wraps as they had
thrown on before fleeing from their
rooms. The hotel corridors were fill.
ed with smoke from the Rigoletto res
taurant but the hotel itself did moi
catch fire. The restaurant building
was practically burned out Six OF the
kitchen employees were caught on the
fourth story of the building building
and were about to jump from the win
dows to the sidewalk when the fire.
men reached the scene and ran up
ladders to take them down.
DENVER. Feb. 4.-Mrs. Lille Cra-
dlebaugh. whose inBdelity was the di-
W. Walton by John II. Cradlebaugh,
her husband. at Sixteenth and Champa
street yesterday, is under arrest. and
Edgar Cradlebaugh, aged s years, one
OF Mrs. Cradlebaugh's two children,
whom she took with her when she
left her home In Wallace. Idaho. to
| Join Walton, was found at the Byers'
school for boys in South Denver. and
| is now locked up in the matron's quar-
tiers of the city jail with his mother
Chief Armstrong has been unable
TO obtain a statement from Mrs. Cra-
dlebaugh In regard to her relations
with Walton and efforts today TO learn
whether she would side with her hus-
band In the trouble which she has
brought upon him. have proved unsuc-
cessful.
Cradlebaugh is reticent. He de-
clares his crime iustifiable, but says
he Will make no statement Of the
events leading up to it until he had
an opportunity to consult an attorney
WASHINGTON, Feb 4.-Considera-
BILE interest is expressed by senators
today oE the action of Senator Cum
minis of Iowa who yesterday began his
fight of specific instead of ad valorem
duties on imports. Mr. Cummins' res
olution calling on the secretary-treas
urer for information showing the cost
of collecting duties under these two
| forms of levying tax will be consid-
cred by the commission of finance and
Will probably be reported to the senate
at an early date. This data is expect
ed to throw light on the expense in
VOWED In the collection of ad valorem
duties on account of fraud frequently
in the declarations of value and will
be used by Mr.. Cummins in the extra
session of congress to show that spe-
cific duties are simpler and more to
the advantage of government and to
honest importers than is ad yalorem
tax.
The resolution is the first of many
expressions on the tariff which is ex
pected to come from the Iowa senator
who for SO many years before his elec
tion to the senate had made a recort
, as tariff reformer."
al CIIARLOTTESVILLE Va, Feb. o.
The most disastrous fire here in TWEEN
ty-five years today destroyed propert!
valued at a quarter million. The
blaze originated in the building of tn,
Charlottesville Hardware company oil
East Main street. Among the losses
are the Charlottesville Hardware com
pany, 100000; Gilmore Furniture
company, $4,000; Wood. clothier, s35,
600; Waddell, shoe dealer. $4,000.
DENVER, Feb. 5-The seventeenth
general assembly has broken all rec
ords for the state in the introduction
OF bills. Nearly 1,100 measures had
been presented when the time limit
expired last night. Yesterday was the
banner day in the introduction OF
measures. Nearly 200 were presented
in the house and 144 in the senate
sented were in relation to the banking
laws. A new guaranty bill appeared
in both branches. Governor Shafrotf
held the house in session till nearly
midnight to receive bill providing
for stringent stock inspection in the
state.
Il PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb. 5.--As n re
suit OF violence being offered today
by striking miners at the fremont
coal mine, Bell Vernon. Pa, near here
to non-union miners who went to worh
yesterday, troop of state constabu
larry charged the strikers today. Sev
eral persons on both sides were in
iured.
An additional detachment of Penn
syHania police will arrive at Belle
Vernon from Greensburg some time
during the day
Last week 800 miners made de
mand for union rate of wages. The
officials refused the request and clos
ed the mines Saturday. Yesterday
about 100 of the miners returned tt
work under the old scale and today
the strikers gathered in the vicinity
and when the non-union men appeared
they were met with shower Of
stones. The constabulary immediate
ly charged the strikers and drove then
from the company's property.