Semi-weekly herald., 1909-04-22

| on, hanging himself. When Pardo
married Miss Ramona Rodriguez,
terrific thunderstorm interrupted the
ceremony and superstitious friends
predicted an unhappy ending Of the
honeymoon.
ADA, Okla, April 19.-At O'Clock
this morning mob of 200 men storm
ed the county jail here and after over
powering the sheriff, lynched four
white men. The lynched men are
J. b. Miller of Fort Worth. Texas,
charged with the murder of A. A. Bob
bitt, a wealthy cattleman of this sec.
ton. e. E. Brown, Jesse West and
Joseph Allen. alleged accomplices.
FORT WORTH, Tex. April To-
Three white men were reported lynch
ed today at Ada, Okla. One was ].
B. Miller OF Fortr Worth, a prominent
stock man and known as bad" man.
A mob stormed the jail.
| DENER, April l9.-The presidents
of two of the greatest life insurance
companies of the United States weigh
ed Colorado In last week and found it
far from wanting. They have found
in this state just the place in which 10
invest the millions OF their compa-
MES. They are preparing to pour
money in without great delay.
Darwin P. Kingley, president OF the
New York Life Insurance company,
| uyh a
to Denver last week, but he had hard
ly struck town before George C. Mark
ham, president OF the Northwestern
! Life of Milwaukee, arrived. Markham
reached town yesterday to remain un'
| til Tuesday evening, investigating
several applications which his com
} pany has for large real estate loans
: The company now has $140,000000
invested In such loans of which more
J than four million is invested in Colo
rado. 1t will invest that much more
} NEW YORK, April 19.-Insanity
: not of momentary and vanished char
acter, usually invoked as a defense fol
emotional crimes, but permanent ant
incurable will be the argument as {
! defense in the case of Capt. Peter c
E Haines. Jr., whose trial for the mur
] der of William E. Annis in the floa
at the Bayside Yacht club last Au
gust which began today at Flushing
i l.. l.
b General Haines is declared dyini
r and that no matter what issue of th'
s case, the captain would not live mor'
than two months.
5 NEW YORK. April 19.-Having fail
e ed to comply with the demand il
y several so-called black hand letters t,
t deposit $4,000 in a designated spot
4 an attempt was made today to burr
S the grocery store of Atomic Adamo il
+ West Thirty-ninth street. The fire wa
:. discovered in time and extinguishe,
b before 1t had done much damage, a
!. though there was panic in the five
n story tenement over the store. Oi
d soaked excelsior was used to start tn
l. fire.
TORREAN, Mex, April 19.-Fathe
Valenzuela. the priest who led tn
procession which caused the Rodergu
riots at Veladena on Easter Sunday
which resulted In the death of thirt
persons. either from wounds receive,
= in the conflict or punishment by exc
cution afterward, committed suicide Il
2 prison at Durango yesterday. He stall
A bed himself several times.
TORREON, Mex, April ia Sc
/ rious wreck occurred on the Mexica
D Central railway Saturday night nea
D Bernejillo, caused by broken raj
/ Twenty-Five persons were severely II
jured, who arrived on the southboun
E train. There were no fatalities.
GRAND RAPIDS, April ia wasf
out sent Grand Trunk freight traiI
/ from Grand Haven eastbound, into tn
5 ditch one miles west of this city today
: Three members of the crew were kill
: ed and one fatally injured.
NEW YORK, April 19.-Five pei
! sons were injured in a collision be
tween two passenger trains on tn
Central railroad of New Jersey a
Communinaw avenue, Jersey City, tc
day. All were removed to hospitals
. DENVER. April 19.-With read
wit. presence of mind beyond tina
usually possessed even by trainmen
accustomed as they are to perilou
positions requiring instant action, Con
, ductor Omara of the Colorado a
, Southern yesterday saved the life o
the baggageman of his train whei
the engine and baggage car jumpe,
the track and plunged into Clear creel
eight miles west of Golden. But 70
. the action of Conductor Omara, Bag
gageman Spencer, who was pinned II
his car beneath pile Of overturned
/ trunks, would have drowned in tn,
water which rose about the car as |
, filled in the bed Of the stream.
|, 1t is believed that the rails sprea,
at that particular point and that tn,
train, travelling at high rate of speet
jumped from that cause. The loco
motive and first baggage car left tn,
track tonn1od nvar m ofOht fnnt nv,