Semi-weekly herald., 1910-03-28

miles down the slope.
The ruin OF farms and the destruc
ton of homes has impoverished the en-
tire section.
Government engineers tried In vain
today TO divert the course Of the lava
bitches. but the rush OF the molten
floods swept away all obstacles.
ROME. Mar. 255.-King Victor EN-.
manuel today expressed the intention
of going TO the territory threatened
by The volcanic eruptions in the vicin.
ity OF Mount Aetna to direct the work
OF succor. to encourage and share the
dangers of his subjects, If the gravity
OF eruptions continue.
DENVER. Mar. 24.--With the end
OF a rubber hose. through which Il.
clenched in her lifeless lips, Mrs. Ema-
ma Chain, aged iS years. was found
dead in bed in Curtis street this morn.
ing. A freshly written will, in which
she mado numerous bequests of her
estate amounting to $4,000 was lying
on stand in the rooms.
Mrs Chain had been u resident of
Denver for twenty years, though fire.
quenily was absent from the city.
She returned from Los Angeles last
December, and had since been room.
In nt hat af ire In
Some time during the night the
woman attached the rubber hose to
a gas Jet in her room, piled all the
pillows on the folding bed, inserted the
hose In her mouth. after turning on
the gas. pulled the bed clothes tightly
over her head. and sank back among
the pillows. This morning when 9th.
ers in the house detected the odor of
gas from the room and entered they
found the woman dead in bed. So
tightly had She drawn the bed clothes
about her head. and was so deeply
buried in the pile of pillows, that the
accumulation of gas about her head
almost Supplied those who dragged
her lifeless from the bed.
Mrs. Chain had been a widow for
many years. She had no relatives In
Denver.
CHICAGO, Mar. PA little joker
in the governments dissolution suit
against the National Packing company
iu which all the big packers are in
diyidually made defendants has been
disclosed. and there is a possibility
that some of the biggest packers will
have TO fight hard to keep out of
prison.
This jolt the packers attorneys re.
ceived today when they began a mi
mute examination of the government S
petition filed Tuesday. II is said the
government did not intend seriously
to fight the packers through the in
iictment of the National Packing com.
pany and its subsidiary companies, but
10 strike hard at them through the
suit.
The bill in the dissolution case
points out that Federal Judge Gross
cup several years ago issued an in.
junction restraining the packers from
operating in combination. The bill
'harged that this injunction has been
lagrantly violated If the allegations
n the bill can be proved, and the |
department. of justice officials are con.
ident that they can. citations for con-
empi against the individual members |
Nill be demanded. The Gompers, |
Mitchell and Morrison case will be |
ited as precedent for sentencing |
he men to jail for violations of in. |
nnctions based on the Sherman law.
The men involved in the Grosscup |
Injunction and who are also mentioned |
n the dissolution bill are Edward Nor.
rs, j. Ogden Armour, Louis f. Swift,
Thomas j. Connors. Lawrence A. Car.
on and Edward C. Swift.
Neither United States Attorney Sims
lor ], II. Wikerson. his assistant
would discuss this phase of the case
oday.
DENVER. Mar. 2d.-The Denver
)airymen's association and the state |
'ealth authorities plan crusade to |
ecure a muzzle law for dogs. StatIs |
ics show that 100 animals We're killed |
within month after being bitten by |
mad dogs. Secretary Whitehead of |
he Humane society scents tho idao
hat rabies is prevalent in Colorado,
espite the reports from pathologists
I the University of Colorado and at
he agricultural college.
CHICAGO, Mar. 25.-At 1880 O'Clock
his morning 1t is said there were
twenty-five employees ON the fifth and
iNth floors OF The Fish Furniture
which was destroyed by hro
oday. While some of these may have
scaped, 1t is bel.eve all are dead.
VIII be hours before the exact mum.
er can be ascertained
CHICAGO. Mar. 25.-Fifteen per
ons, thirteen of whom are girls, are
cad in the fire which a tackled The
:. Fish Furniture company six-story
uilding IN Washington avenue TODAY
bout forty employees escaped. A girl
iho jumped from the sixth-story win.