Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-02-10
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

> by DllZZaIu-lihe WlUu, the cola wave
that swept down Saturday night had
by last night developed into coolest
OF the winter, and intense suffering
is the result The coolest recorded
by the official thermometer at the
weather bureau here is 10 degrees
above zero. the lowest official read
ing made in a number of years in
New York city The coming up Of
the sun did little to warm the cit",
for at 10 O'Clock the thermometer had
risen 10 only "a above zero. So ia
tense was the cold and so high the
wind that pedestrians were practically
swept off their feet
NEW YORK. Feb. Intense cold,
driven TO the bones of man and beast
by cutting wind. gripped the east
today In New York city tempe ed
as it is by surrounding water, the
mercury stood ! degree above zero AT
midnight equaling the low record for
ing. A forty-mle gale swept New
York and vicinity throughout the day
and last night, driving pedestrians In
doors and causing great suffering to
practically deserted. An unidentified
man was frozen to de>th in Boston. A
fisherman met a similar fate in Buffa-
10. while off Atlantic City a tramp
ct
o. the gale. Up state in New York a
driving snow today made conditions
worse
KANSAS CITY. Mo. Feb. AFTER
an interval of almost a month the
jury called by Coroner B. II. Stewart
to determine the cause of the death
OF Col. Thomas II. Swope. resumed its
sessions al independence. Mo-, today
On Jan 2 the jury was summoned
to view the body of Col. Swope, and Il
that time Coroner Stewart said 10 III.
jurors: This is the body of Col.
II. Swope. Look at 1t well, for | may
call upon you later"
Today the coroner called upon the
jurors to listen to a mass of testi.
niony given by score or more of wit
nesses who have knowledge of the
case. The six jurors all live IL lit
dependence and most of them werp
personally acquainted with the dead
millionaire, whose death they are in
vestigating.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7.-Statiatics
published today show that the fire
loss in the United States exceeds the
fetal value of precious metals and the
output of oil The people give up $3.50.
100000 year because of nflammable
structures and carelessness. Fifteen
hundred lives are also sacrificed.
DOVER, N. H., Feb by her ex.
traordinary announcement that she is
candidate for governor Mrs. Marilla
Kicker. a suffrage leader started a
whirlwind of discussion throughout the
state. Mrs. Kicker is now soiourning
in California, sent her ultimatun, to
polite lars in brief telegram Just
made public here She is 65 years old
and wealthy.
KEY WEST. Fla. Feb. THE Ala
mo with the crew of the steams hip
Kentucky, which foundered off the
Carolina coast Friday, arrived here
shortly after midnight Captain More
and forty-fye members of the crew
of the Kentucky landed here this
morning
LA CROSSE, Wis, Feb. IA Pull.
man porter and three mail clerks wei c
badly injured and many others Sigh :
ly injured when passenger trains Nos.
i9 and so on the Burlington crashed
1ead on at full speed at Desota. Wis.
twenty miles from here early this
morning. The enginemen escaped by
jumping. A relief train has been sent.
DENVER, Feb. 7.-Declaring that
her husband had been murdered and
his body buried by his slayer on their
ranch five miles north of Denver, Mrs.
Joe Morrone, yesterday called on the
polite of Pueblo for aid The woman
made her appeal 10 friend in Pueblo,
tie only one she had in the state,
Sam Fabrizio. This friend referred
her to Pueblo officers. but the author.
tiles there could not give her aid and
she was requested TO return to Den.
yer and lay her case before the police
in this city.
According to the story the woman