Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-17

! evitable. Twenty-Five thousand fire.
men on railroads west of Chicago are
involved.
Carter's letter of notification is In
dorsed by the brotherhood committee
which represents the firemen on about
! forty-seven railroads west. northwest
and southwest of Chicago.
! DENVER, Colo. Mar. 14.-George
Cook. SO years old, bachelor, was
| killed instantly at . o'clock this morn
/ ing when he was crushed under a
heavy chunk of clay in the clayhank
| Of the Denver Pressed Brick company
at West Seventeenth avenue and De-
catur street Cook evidently saw the
clay slipping from its place and start
ed TO run to safety. He had gone ten
| feet perhaps, when a 500-pound chunk
o. earth crushed him. His head was
mashed to a pulp. The man had been
in Denver only week
JAMESTOWN, n. Y, Mar. A.
Beginning Saturday night. ending this
morning, jamestown was visited by
a series of the most costly fires it
ever bad, resulting in a total loss of
nearly three millions of dollars, the
death of one man and serious Injury
to three others. The dead: John
! Hanson. captain OF the fire police. who
was crushed by falling walls. The in
| iured: Alfred Shoesmith, skull frac
tured. will die; George King, both legs
broken; Joel Obert, back hurt and in
ernally injured. Among the buildings
| destroyed are the Gokey factory build
man house, Erie Hall block and The
j. f. Briggs block
The fire first broke out Saturday
night in the Gokey factory building
| and the flames were believed to have
been completely extinguished At .
o'clock this morning they broke ont
afresh and communicated with the
GOkey business block, the largest Of
| flee and business block in the city.
! The flames spread so rapidly soon
were beyond the control of the local
fire department and Buffalo was ap-
| pealed 10 for aid. At ) o'clock this
morning II was believed the fire was
under control and the Buffalo fire de
| partment, which had been asked for as
come The flames communicated 10
the Erie hall occupied by the Biiou
| iheater which was destroyed, as was
the Briggs block. The burned district
includes a section OF two squares in
| the center of the city.
KHARTOUM, Mar. 15.-If former
| President Theodore Roosevelt is the
| hero Of Khartoum today, the most pop
ular hero since the days of Chinese
| Gordon Miss Ethel Roosevelt is the
most honored belle the Egyptian city
| has ever entertained Upon her first
appearance in public, after she and
| her mother had greeted Colonel Roose.
welt and Kermit upon their entrance
into Khartoum, Miss Roosevelt ere.
l "'''NA ~ f'bShhiCit bOAb Wy utl pei bOil-
| ality and the charming girlish gown
of white stuff in which she appeared
at the palace. Today, while upon a
sight seeing expedition, dozens of
handsome English officers danced at.
tendance on her, and ran errands at
her hall-eXpressed whim.
| Bent on making the most of their
brief stay in this, the capital of the
Egyptian general government of the
Soudan, the Rooseyelts were astir
early today. Colonel Roosevelt was
especially busy. occupying intervals
between excursions 10 points of hisiori-
cal interest, in receiving callers and
| making a reply to such of his volumi-
| nous correspondence as he had been
able TO examine. After breakfast with
| his native servants who accompanied
| him through the expedition he bade
| them goodbye. Each received a pres
| ent of cash from Colonel Roosevelt
| and gift from Mrs. Roosevelt.
The sightseeing program began with
visit TO the Gordon Memorial col
| lege, built at the east end of town
in 1902 by subscriptions solicited from
the British people by Lord Kitchener
| From the college u drive was taken
/ to other parts of the town. Colonel
Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Ethel
| Roosevelt and Major General Sir Ru-
dolph, Baron Slatin. inspector general
of the sirdar's staff. made up the
party. They occupied a carriage drawn
by handsome pair OF horses and were
escorted by two Egyptian lancers.
During the drive they were Joined by
other members of Major General Win.
gates staff. occupying two carriages.
The Lehlgh Valley railroad announc-
es that $S5,6S9 was paid from the re
lief fund in the year 1909 for the bene-
it of the company's employees. bal
ance of $4,000 was left at the end
OF the year The fund was establish
ed in 1878 and with one exception is
the oldest railroad relief fund in the