Semi-weekly herald., 1909-02-08
smaller girls in his arms.

band, is in charge Of the institution,
fought her way down the main stair
way while 1t was mass of flames.
carrying 6-week-old babe in her arms
and with two small children clinging
to her skirts.
The fire started In the north wing
and spread rapidly through the entire
structure.
The orphanage was founded by a
Mrs. Haskell OF South Bend, Ind. as
Seventh Day Adventist institution,
but had passed out Of control Of the
church and recently has been main
tanned by private subscription under
the patronage of DR.. ]. H. Kellogg.
NEW YORK CITY, Feb. 1.-THE
Brooklyn jury before which William
Cow, formerly president of the Inter
national Trust company and director
of the Borough bank of Brooklyn, was
tried on a charge OF larceny of $145,-
900, disagreed early today, the vote
standing eight for acquittal and four
for conviction. Cow already is held
under s27, 900 bail and this was con
| tinued.
The charge against Cow was based
on the withdrawal OF s145,000 in the
| Borough bank, and it was charged
to finance the organization of the In
ternationai Trust company. Another
charge of larceny of s250,00O is also
pending against Cow, as are also three
charges of misdemeauor based on al
legged overdrawal of his account with
the Borough bank.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Eighteen per
sons, including several women and
children, were carried out of a blaz-
ing tenement house in Lorimer street,
Brooklyn, by the police early today.
| after some of the former had been
overcome by smoke. The Railways
were filled with smoke and flames
when two policemen reached the
scene. In the rescue of the family
of Max Travis on the third floor. Mrs.
Travis fell one flight into the arms of
a citizen on the sidewalk.
| BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Feb. News
reached here this afternoon of dis
astrous tornado which struck Booth
Miss, this morning. 1t is known that
six people were killed and a vast
amount of property destroyed.
FORT WORTH, Tex, Feb. 5.-This
morning a cyclone swept over the
south. Several localities report loss
OF negro life and ruin of property
Particularly heavy is the damage IL
northern Texas and Oklahoma.
BERLIN, Feb. Floods, caused BY
several days OF heavy rains and {
} spell OF warm weather. are today TAX
} ing on serious aspect in many part
OF Germany. The first fatalities ar,
reported from Nord Hausen, wher'
Z bridges have been swept away ant
r the Pegnibe rose twelve feet last nigh
: and this morning is raging through
] two of the lower streets of the city
The water Is higher than it has beel
g for thirty-three years. The newspape
+ OF Nuremburg has suspended publica
Y tion and enormous damage has beel
2 caused.
2 Frankfort-on- Main reports highes
4 water in fifty years on some of thu
) streams in the Odenwald.
DENVER, Feb. Rum down by
, heavy touring car at Fifteen ant
r Champa street, 10-year-old Straw
Marsh, son of the bookkeeper unde
! former County Treasurer Fine, is hoy
ering between life and death thi
/ morning. The boys abdomen wa.
crushed and several blood vessels
broken. One of the wheels of tn,
, big automobile passed directly owe
{ him. DR.. Ralph l.. Taylor. who II
attending the boy, hopes to save hi
life.
BUENA VISTA, Feb. 5.-Benjami
, o. Cook. charged with killing Charles
E. Cope at Salida July 8. last nigh
/ was found guilty of murder In tn,
: second degree. Cook and Cope wer,
! rival restaurant keepers and In al
, alteration Cook assaulted Cope.
y rtD. O.--ItTltCl tl
: ficiency in military action is Presiden
Z Roosevelt's idea of what organization
of the navy department should pro
vide and which in his opinion nov
( lacks. Under his call for that pur
pose a commission of eight men o
wide experience in naval affairs me
today to consider the needs of tn,
navy. The commission consists o
two former secretaries of the navy
: Paul Morton Of New York and Asso
: ciate Justice William H. Moody of tn,
supreme court of the United States
Judge Dayton of West Virginia, for
medly of the house national affair,
: committee, and five retired admirals
: Luce. Mahan, Folger, Evans ant
, Cowles.
, The president explicitly stated thai
he desired them to consider and re
port on the first fundamental prin
t clples of the system of organization
and execution that will provide and
! maintain immediate preparedness OF
battle fleet for any hostility in the