Semi-weekly herald., 1910-06-02

'SiN tio'h tljs morning. MUIR
dock, his wife. his friend. Peter Wei.
nand. and Mrs. Lea Moriarty were
driving into the city. Weinand held
the reins. For a considerable distance
| they had followed two other buggies
! and at Alameda Weinand succeeded
| in forging ahead He then turned
| around and laughed at the occupants
of the other rigs and this started the
trouble. The men got out of the bug
gies and beat Murdock up aud then
drove away.
WASHINGTON, May 9l,--The Unit.
ed States supreme court today de.
oided in favor OF George ]. Kindel of
Colorado in his famous freight rate
contest
WASHINGTON. May Sl.-President
Taft today ordered the attorney gen
eral general to prepare papers re
straining the western railroads from
advancing their freight rates as they
proposed
NEW YORK, May 31.--As soon as
the news of the presidents action
today against the western railroads
| was received all of the railway stocks
siumped from two to six points.
WASHINGTON. May S1.-The su-
preme court today ordered a rehear-
ing in the corporation tax suit cases
This is government victory.
PHILADELPHIA. May 31.-With
one day to be heard from the month
of May contributed q record of thirty
suicides in Philadelphia. Nine swal-
lowed carbolic acid, nine made their
egress by shooting and four died by
hanging. The others inhaled gas.
DENVER, May 3l.-Three passen-
gers were injured, but none fatally,
this morning. when the west bound
passenger train on the Union Pacific
struck broken rail near Ogallah,
Kans. The engine, tender. baggage
car and day coach left the track, the
coach being thrown over on its side
and the baggage car hurled fifteen feet
clear of the rails. Traffic was blocked
for some time
LISBON, Portugal, May 31.-A ter
rifle cyclone swept over Mozambique,
on the east coast of Africa. yesterday,
killing hundreds. and destroying prac
tically an entire city The details re.
ceived are meagei, but all reports
agree that the windstorm was the
fercest known on The African coast in
many years and that the death toll
will be enormous. A coastwise steam
er, carrying four hundred natives. was
caught in the cyclone off the harbor
of Mozambique and overturned, drown.
ing all on board. The death list will
run into the thousands.
WASHINGTON. May Sl.-The az
gregate number of COMMITMENTS, or
members of all religious demonations
in continental United States for 1906,
was 33.000,000, according to the Unit
ed States census of religious bodies,
part of the census bureaus special re-
port now in press. OF this grand to-
al. various Protestant bodies report
ed 20,2S7, ,742, and the Roman Catho-
lie church l2,679.l42.
DENVER. May 3l.-Thirty-one fire
men, including Chief Terry Owens,
and Assistant Chiefs Moses and Healy,
we're overcome by noxious gases gen
Grated by large quality of hemp
binder twine, when the upper two sto-
ries of the Spratlin and Anderson
building, corner Fifteenth and Wyn-
koop streets. and occupied by the In
ternational Harvester company, were
gutted by fire yesterday evening. For
several hours the lives of number of
the men were despaired of, but this
morning the hospital authorities pro
nounced all out of danger and within
a week most of them will be again on
duty.
NEW YORK, May 31.-The Curtiss
flight from Albany to New York has
started a new discussion rs to the
possible availability of aeroplanes as
means of offense in time of warfare.
Glenn H. Curtiss is an enthusiastic
believer in an "aeroplane warship'
armed with dynamite and picric acid
bombs, for the destruction of hostile
fleets. Notifications and cities.
"All great battles of the future will
be fought in the air" declared Cur
tiss.
Army men are not so certain as to
the use of the aeroplane in time of
war. Most OF the officers stationed at
Governors islands, while willing to
admit the aeroplane Is valuable for
scouting purposes. are skepticai as TO
it's value in offensive warefare. In
the opinion of Brig. Gen. Walter Howe
commanding the department OF the
east, the aeroplane could not be
dangerous factor in hostile attack on
New York. Flying low, scrapnel
would get it," he said, while flying
high its bombs could do not harm.
COLORADO NEWS.
State Auditor Kenehan says rail-