Semi-weekly herald., 1912-09-05

GREEN BAY, Wis, Sept. Six
persons killed and two seriously in
Jured, 81 slightly injured Sunday
when train No. II on the Lake Shore
of the Chicago Il North
ern railway was deraiied near Lynd-
hurst, Wis, result OF washout due
to q cloudburst.
MEEKER, Sept 2.-The big
North ditch is an assured fact. Work
on the canal started in Rio Blanca
county, Colo, to traverse 15O niles
through Routt and Moffatt coun-
ties into Utah to irrigate 10000
acres will begin within the next few
weeks. The ditch will be one of the
largest irrigation plants in the world.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2.--Governor
Woodrow wilson was found today to
be in the heavyweight class as far
as avoirdupois is concerned. Core
spondents accompanying him to the
station induced him to try the sta
tion scales at Sea Girt while he was
waiting for a train. Mr.. Wilson
weighed 1T pounds. He has gained
seven pounds in one month.
BOSTON, Sept. 2.-Seven hundred
delegates representing total mem
bership of $4,000 were present here
today at the opening of the annual
convention of the United National
Association of Postoffice Clerks. The
gathering will remain in session
through the week. Salaries, hours
and conditions of labor and other
matters of Importance to the clerks
in the postal service are to be con-
sidered.
CANON CITY, Sept. 2.--Lewis j.
Wechter, who was hanged for the
murder of j. Clifford Borrowes was
buried today in the prison cemetery.
Two guards, three convicts, name
less for all that records of the pris-
on will ever show, entered the hos
pial ward few minues tefore S
and hastily lifted from the slab the
great silver mounted coffin. Pre-
ceded by the prison chaplain, blake,
the five men bore the caskeJ to the
Greenwood prison cemetery, where
shallow hole, unmarked and name
less awaited their burden.
OYSTER BAY, Sept. 2.-Colonel
Roosevelt made public his letter to
Senator Clapp, chairman of the SEN
ate committee investigating cam.
paign contributions, in reply to re
cent testimony of John d. Archbolt
and Senator Penrose to the Republi.
can campaign in 1904.
The letter is a document of 49,,
900 words.
The colonel says:
"The charge against Mr.. Penrost
was not merely that he took $25, 900
from the Standard Oil company bu
that while member of the commit
tee of the senate, which formed t.
investigate industrial affairs, he
submitted to Mr.. Archbold in ad
vance a copy of the report of thu
committee. If these statements ar,
true Mr.. Penrose is unfit to repre-
sent the people in he senate.
"The statement that with my con.
sent or knowledge Mr.. Bliss asked
the Standard Oil people for 100000
is an unqualified falsehood."
PITTSBURGH, Po.,.. Sept. q
Twenty persons are known to have
drowned and many others are miss
Ing following a series Of storm.
which swept over western Pennsyl
vania and the panhandle of Wes
Virginia today. The Baltimore &
Ohio railroad and the Panhandle rail
road badly washed out and it will bt
several days before through traffi,
is resumed.
Through trains were maroonet
during the night in the flooded dis
trict. Many of the manufacturing
plants are under water an dthe prop
erty loss is heavy.
Reports from Golfers, in the pan
handle of West Virginia, are thai
nine persons drowned there and many
more are missing, but the exact los.
of life cannot yet be ascertained.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-Nearly
one thousand Of the most eminent
electrical, mining, structural and civi
engineers of the world registered il
this city today for the opening of the
sixth congress of the international
Association for Testing Materials
The congress will spend weey in the
discussion of technical questions Of
Importance to the engineering world
AT the conclusion of the deliberations
the foreign visitors, numbering sew.
eral hundred and including many mer
OF wide prominence will start on q