Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-08-11

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each time declined the honor He also
declined the nomination for mayor o
Brooklyn.
Mr.. Gaynor had promised to come t.
Colorado this fall to attend the con
vei,tion of mayo, 8 of American cities
to be held in Grand Junction.
AT 3 O'Clock it is thought Mayor
Gaynor has a fighting chance to re
cover
OYSTER BAY, Aug. 9.-Theodore
Roosevelt sent the following telegram
&c acting Mayor Mitchell as soon as
he heard the report of the shooting
Il am shocked and Mortified beyond
measure. Please send inform alton.
tSigned THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
NARRAGANSETTE PIER, X. l.,
Aug. S.-The Narragansette club, ia.
nous for years as a gambling rem
devious of the fashionable summer col.
ony. was spectacularly raided early
Sunday morning and hundreds of per.
cons including thirty society women
were caught in the net. Several won.
en- tainted
The raid was made by Constable
Cross, who with five special deputies
created a furore among the men and
exquisitely attired women as they
swooped into the sumptuous club par
lor with pistols in hand OF the fash.
ionables placed under arrest the con.
stables will divulge the names of only
two, Mrs. J. Hannah. wife of the mil
lionaire shoeman of New York. and
Philip S. b. Randolph, prominent in
Philadelphia. Mrs Hannah was sit
ting at an ornate SO 900 roulette wheel
eagerly at play when the constables
made their entrance. Randolph was
engaged at another wheel surrounded
by bevy of beautiful women.
When Constable Cross read off the
statement which he had prepared, in.
forming the society players they we're
under arrest, all the women shrieked,
some swooned and men muttered i'm
precautions. In a fight which ensued
among the special deputies and men
under Chief of Police James d. Cas-
well, over whose head the raid had
been made, James S. Y. Wins, son
of William NJ. WINS of New York,
whacked Policeman John j. Cummings
upon the head with the butt end of his
revolver. WINS had gone along with
Constable Cross while his father wait.
ed to the outside in the board walk
None of the, society women were Jail.
cd.
MUSCATINE. Ia, Aug. S.-Former
Governor John Folk of Missouri was
injured in an auto smashup near Mus
catine. Mr.. Folk and three compan-
ions were hurled out of the machine
and the former governor suffered
bruises of the right arm and left leg.
His right wrist was sprained AL.
though suffering great pain, Governor
Folk addressed an assembly shortly
"itSi tHe HllSudp.
PARIS, Aug. s.-A special from
Rome to the Petite Republique says
the hostility of the royal family to the
marriage of the duke of the Abruzzi
and Miss Katherine Elkins has been
Withdrawn and that official announce
ment of their engagement will be made
G l.
have been in Europe for several
months.
BLACKPOOL, England, Aug. S.-A.
V. Roes, new conner in the field of
English aviation. was not daunted to.
day after his thrilling experience on
the local aviation field last evening
when his trlplane, machine of his
own design. caught fire while he was
flying at great heighth. Roes point.
ed his machine to the earth and at a
speed that threatened every moment
to overturn the aeroplane he reached
the ground just before the machine col.
lapsed. The planes were completely
burned away and had the aviator been
flying fifty feet higher when the flames
broke out he would probably have hnan
dashed to death.
GRAND JUNCTION, Aug. s.-Two
delegates are in the city at.
tending the annual convention of the
state federation of labor which con.
vened this morning in Park opera
house. Mayor T. W. Todd welcomed
the delegates in a speech and was re-
sponded to by President McGlenn. I'm
thereafter the delegates got
down to business. There is every in.
dication that the fight for the presi-
dency will be between George HALEY,
former president. and John McLennon,
the present representative. Entertain.
ments of all sorts have been planned
for the visitors.
BALTIMORE, Aug. S.-Colonel Har.
vey w. Scott. editor of the Portland
Oregonian. died last night at the Johns
Hopkins hospital, following an opera.
tlon performed there yesterday He
entered the hospital several days ago
to prepare for the operation. His last
Illness dated back several months.