Semi-weekly herald., 1910-05-09
placed the gun against his own fore.
head and blew off the top of his head
TELEGRAPHic NEWS.

10 get ffOSt bitten.
| Denver is after the national encamn.
ment of the Grand Army next sum.
mer.
James A. McClurg. son-in-law OF ID
H. Aloffat. died in Denver early Wed
nesday morning
William f. Curtis. writing from Ma.
pies, says work of excavation to un.
earth priceless art and literature bur.
led in the ruins of Herculaneum has
been stopped by the recent Sicily
earthquake
| State Boiler Inspector Cossebloom
says it's impossible for himself and
one deputy to inspect one-half the boil
ers in the state. He will recommend
All inspector for every judicial district
at the next session of the legislature
| Denver Building Trades council con
tinues to be a stormy affair The long
drawn out feud between the painters
and paper hangers union resulted In
q row in which there were many eyes
blacked and heads punched Tuesday
night.
John II. Converse OF the Baldwin
Locomotive works. one of the most
prominent Presbyterian laymen in the
United States, died suddenly at his
home in Rosemont, near Philadelphia.
Tuesday. Mr.. Converse was 50 years
nd. He had given much of his wealth
o the Presbyterian and other denomi
nations and took a deep interest in
church affairs.
| When the prince of Wales pays his
'orthcoming visit to South Africa in
The new steamer the Balmoral 1t will
tie the third tine that the prince has
been to that country His two pre-.
yious visits there were made in trou.
blous times. This time he will find IT
4 very different country from what
it was when he was there before
| Profits very near s32O,O0O were
shown Saturday by careful calculation
of the work of James A Palten of Chi.
cago. and his associates in the great
bun clique which has manipulated
May cotton, almost to the exclusion
ld everyone else and victorious in deals
for 100000 bales the clique is now
turning lis attention to buying all of
July cotton that is offered.
| Freddy Train. levee saloon pro-
prietor and often called prince of the
red light district" of Chicago, commit.
led suicide Saturday by hanging him
/ .nlf in tho 7 hot tnI Fn
less body was found hanging from
rope, attached TO an overhead steam
pipe, by maid. On table in the
room was found scrap OF paper on
which was scrawled Wine, not
women, was my downfall"
| The Merriam commission in re-
port presented to the Chicago city
council, charges that the city paid
practically double price for the water
works castings purchased in 1908 and
1909. in addition to being cheated in
weights and making the purchases in
violation of ordinances and statutes.
OF the total expenditure Of $138.0OO
for these casting in two years the com
I tSilIitdltS lHt Waste Ill bf,SUU
nearly one ?half of the money spent
being thrown away
Adances in railway wages already
made, or to be made before the end
lof the year, now estimated at $780,
100000 for the entire country. This
is the figure stated by Mr. w. C.
Brown, president of the New York
Central. 1t includes, of course. many
advances the details of which have
not yet been settled. Calculated on
the interstate commerce commission
statistics as a basis, the wages paid
10 railway employees under the new
scale will amount to 81 ,227 ,233 900 a
Iyear.
Because she had made a mistake in
Igiving report to a census enumera.
tor and feared an arrest, Mrs. Julia
IN Chiffon, aged Al, committed sui.
eide at Indianapolis, by hanging her.
self in her home. Her husband, n real
estate dealer, found the body when
he returned. A note left by the WON.
an read My dear loving husband
This is all my own fault, not yours,
as have made mistake with the
census man. I did not mean to- You
are innocent in every way. Tell ev-
eryone goodbye"
| Retail tobacco dealers and many
| thousands of consumers who have
wondered what effect the increase In
the internal revenue of 2 cents per
pound will have on the price OF to-
bacco, that the higher tax will cause
an advance Of the prices in some lines.
The lower grades OF chewing tobacco
may cost more than formerly, or, what
is the same thing, the pieces sold at
he present prices may be smaller.
There will be no change in the num-
Der of cigarettes in package. though
there is no assurance that the prices
will remain the. same. Too bad the
tax on cigarettes is not sufficient to
stop their manufacture.
"The average church member Is n