Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-07-15

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settled aud it VIII u9x saks place fGl
some tine 49,
/ The fact of the engagement, which
was confirmed here today Oh the
, best of authority. leaked out prema
turely from Kansas City, where Min
lister Conger stopped for day last
, week on his way to visit his daughter
, in Arizona before sailing on the l7tl
for China. Minister Conger made O
) little visit to the Bushan family, which
recalled the fact that Miss Conger had
made visit to the Bushan family
soon after her return from China in
May. spending several days at theii
summer home.
OURAY. July 1.-THE story in the
Denver Republican that Thomas f.
Walsh had sold the Camp Bird mine
for seven million to the Ventura com.
pany of London is positively denied by
Mr.. Walsh
COLUMBUS. Ohio. July 11.-Colonel
Kilbourne of Columbus was nominat-
ed for governor of Ohio by the Demo-
cratic convention yesterday afternoon
by acclammation.
| MANILA, July 11.-Lieutenant
Brown of the Second infantry who
is charged with numbering native.
is on trial today. A soldier under the
lieutenant was drowned while swim
ming in the river. under fire. A
native was caught and charged by
Brown with being the murderer of the
soldier. He denied the charge and
hoited. The lieutenant shot him as
he fed.
Great feeling was caused by the cir
cumstance and the trial of the officer
is the outcome. Feeling runs high
among the natives against Brown
| PLATNFIELD, N. J., July 11.-Mil-
lionaire Hyde, dying. left large fam
lily and four million dollars. Today
the Hyde family was incorporated un-
der the laws of the state and will man
age the Hyde affairs on strictly bus
mess basis The income of the es-
tate is very large and by proper man
agement by the corporation it is ex-
pected to increase it right along.
The officers of the dead millionaire are
his surviving sons.
VIENNA. July 1.-THE official re.
port of the minister of the interior re-
garding the button making trade in
Moravia has created sensation.
The average hours worked for men is
10. children II, and children over ten
and under twelve years of age hours.
The average earnings of the men
are 30 cents weekly. the women 90
cents and the children s cents per
week
The average earnings of whole
family varies from s22 TO $50 yearly
The children have to begin work at
the age of three years and work day
and night after they have passed the
age of five.
GAINESVILLE. Texas. July H.
The past week has been one of in
tense heat. The thermometer stood
l07 in the shade one day and 1872 in
the sun. The situation here is very
serious. The cotton crop is not only
in jeopardy, but the apple and peach
crops are cooking on the trees. They
! will amount to nothing. The worst
feature of all is that the little green
bugs are appearing in many fields ol
cotton and have begun to do serious
damage. There is a water famine OF
the worst description. and the leading
ranchmen say If it does not rain in q
few days they will lose heavily, as the
cattle are suffering severely from the
excessive heat and dry weather, al
though hot as it Is. there have been
no prostrations or deaths reported.
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Great Northern express robbers were
: surrounded on Peoples Creek and have
surrendered. Seven men are now on
guard over them awaiting the sheriff's
posse which left Holton this afternoon
NEWPORT. July 1.-THE weather
J is thick and foggy and the final race
: between the Constitution. Columbia
and Independence will probably not
come OFF today.
JACKSON, Miss. July 11.-There is
no room to doubt that carbon is play
ing havoc with the farmers of the
Mississippi valley. e. II. Moore OF
Bolivar. a leading member of the state
senate. says the epidemic is worse
than an overflow. He states that
farm animals and cows and hogs are
dying by the hundreds in his county
in fact that the most of them are al
ready dead. So far only one or two
persons have contracted the disease,
The atmosphere is impregnated with
horrible odor from the decaying car.
! casses of the mules and other live
stock, it being impossible to get the
negroes to bury or burn them. Moth
ing like this has ever been expert
enced in this section Of the country be
fore, and the situation is really seri
Gus. The epidemic has come upon
the farmers at their busiest season OF
the year just as they were giving the
cotton the final plowing. and crops are
seriously injured. The planters are
securing the country for cheap farm
: animals to finish their work. but recog
nize the fact that it is almost certain
, death to bring more stock into the
! state at this time.
, The health officer of Bolivar count,
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