Semi-weekly herald., 1909-06-21


potatoes are ruined. The storm cen.
tered at Gifrrest and extended four
miles on each side.
Frank Beckstead. and Robert Dansie,
well known sheepmen OF Evanston.
Wyo., have brought suit against the
Union Pacific for damages aggregat-
ling nearly $4,000 for alleged failure to
| furnish cars when ordered, and be-
| cause of slow run to Omaha.
The French minister of the colonies
has received advices from Morocco
saying that twelve soldiers of native
| column have perished from thirst and
| the terrific heat. Twenty other men
are missing from the force, and 1t is
believed that they also died of thirst.
| Threatened with lynching because
he rebuked telephone operator for
not calling his daughter Miss" Bish-
| op E. W. hampton OF the A. NJ. E.
church, the most prominent negro in
Mississippi. has fled from his home
in Greenville. that state. A race riot
Is imminent.
Being refused an advance from s1S
to $3.50 a month. 5000 Japanese la
borers employed on Hawaiian sugar
plantations refused to return TO work
Some of the mills are operating in a
crippled condition with the aid of
about 600 Hawaiians. Portuguese, Por
10 Ricans and Chinese.
In Bastrop county. Texas. well
about 100 feet deep Is spouting hot oil
When sunk week ago II gave forth
hot water for three days and then
began flowing "a heavy crude oil, which
is too hot to handle when 1t first
comes from the ground. For four
days it has flowed and the oil is as
hot as on the first day.
A dispatch from st. Paul states that
4 the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
has made application to the Mime
sofa state railroad commission for au.
thority to issue s25,OoO,O00 of 4 per
cent. twenty-five year debenture
bonds. II Is reported from New York
that arrangements for the underwrit-
ing of the issue have been made and
that formal announcement will be
made within q few days.
Each OF the $50 employees of Smith
& Sons Carpet factory, at Yonkers,
received 81 900 in cash Monday. They
the late Mrs. Eva Smith Cochrane
who was the principal owner Of the
factory When she died, in February
last, she left an estate of $S,000.000
and willed that each employe of the
, factory who had been working In il
for twenty years should receive 81 200
Tariff making has reached the stage
. where the most interesting develop
ments are taking place under the sur
face Most of the happenings on the
, senate floor--enlivened as they arc
, intermittently by expressions of feel
! ing that afford entertainment for the
galleries-ha been discounted by the
, knowledge that what the finance com
mittee says goes. 1t Will be so to the
end as far as the customs schedules
, are concerned.
/ The United Norwegian Lutheran
, church in session at Des Moines, has
decided to establish pension fund
of at least 100000 for It's pastors
and professors. Every pastor must
pay an initial payment of 5000 with
iii two years after his ordination and
a small annual dues. In case he be
comes too Ill or feeble he receives
$500 annually In case of death his
wife receives his pension as long as
she remains unmarried.
| To sleep peacefully In their cyclone
} cellar while the house above was
struck by lightning was the expert,
I ence of j. l.. Wilson, n farmer near
; Albuquerque. n. NJ, and his wife.
i When they finally woke the house was
a seething mass of flames and they
dug their way out with difficulty. mar.
rowly escaping being burned to death.
/ Five hundred dollars in paper money
was burned in the dwelling and its
contents being a total loss.
Individual watermeions are another
triumph for Secretary OF Agriculture
Wilson. Melons about the size of can
taloupe, of delicious flavor, In color
yellow and red, which can be grown
in any section of this country, have
been introduced through the depart
ment by Horace G. Knowles, former
American minister 10 Roumania, who
discovered them in the foothills OF
the Carpathian mountains in Rou.
mania.
The Norwegian Lutheran conference
in session at Des Moines voted to au-
thorize the management of the Dea.
coness Home and Hospital In Chicago
1 to begin work on new $4,000 build
ing this summer 1t was announced
that a woman who refuses to- allow
her name made public has donated
$4,000 10 the home for the aged at
Wittenburg, Wis. The committee on
presidents address approved his rec
ommendation for an orphans home
and school at Lake Park, MINI.