Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-08-05
decided. however, to withdraw the

decided. however, to Withdraw the
Constitution from the contest and
therefore the Independence and Col
umbia will go it together
1t is announced that Lawson has
promised his crew 100000 If the In
dependence beat the Constitution and
Columbia. The Constitution now be
ing out of the present series, the same
offer is said to hold good as regards
the Columbia. This would give each
member of the crew over $4,000
NEWPORT. August 1.-The Colum-
bia won the race, beating the Inde.
pendence nearly mile, and crossing
| the line in 1920.
LINCOLN, Neb. August 1.-W. F.
| Wright. the rain-maker. is continuing
his experiments here today to
bring rain by the discharge of high
explosives from a mortar He com
menced last night and will continue
the bombardment for twenty hours.
| Clouds gathered at the first few shots
| but this morning the heavens are
cloudless. The barometer is slowly
falling. greatly raising the hopes of
| the rain-maker.
| WASHINGTON. August Rear
Admiral Peter G. Asserson, chief of
the department of yards and docks,
quest, he having reached the age of
| retirement.
| CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo. August /.
The gold output of this camp for
July was s2,273 900.
CHICAGO. August 1.-Three men
| have been arrested at Miller's Sta
| ton. Ind, and four at Albion. Ind.
supposed to be implicated in the train
robbery last night. They were cap
tnred in the woods. The prisoners
make conflicting statements. A
special train has gone to bring the
men to this city.
PRESCOTT, Arizona, August III
c. Mason. speaker of the Ohio legis-
lature, died here today of consump
ton.
WASHINGTON. August 1.-The de
partment will reprimand Captain
Schley for the Salt Lake interview
defending his father.
NEW YORK, August LIN the ar
rest of Annie Daugherty the secret
service officials of the government say
they have captured one of the most
accomplished women criminals in the
whole country. Eastern summer re-
sorts have been flooded with spurious
coin OF fine workmanship. and James
Holden. who has been convicted as the
counterfeiter, has given information
| that led tn hn -
sands of dollars in the spurious coin
together with the plant for its manu-
iacture We're captured.
LONDON, August 1.-The splendid
ly equipped ship Discovery" sailed
today for the mysterious Antarctic
regions in the interest of science.
The expedition will make a dash for
the south pole and it is expected to
find strange land inhabited by a
strange race of people.
LONDON. August 1.-The house of
commons has appropriated ten mil
lions for canal to connect Canada
with Australia and New Iceland by
way of the Pacific ocean.
FLORENCE, Colo, August Josh.
ua Hammond. saloon man at Cyan
ide, about a mile and a half from Flor
ence, committed suicide early
this morning by shooting himself
through the head. No cause for tho
rash act is known. He leaves wife
and family.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, August l.
The street car system of this city
is tied up by a strike of the employees.
The street car company discharged
some employees for joining the union
and this action precipitated the strike
CHICAGO, August 1.-The sudden
increase in typhoid cases and deaths
in Chicago during the last week has
alarmed the municipal health officials
Saturday alone there were eight IA
tai cases of the disease. The week
before there We're only thirteen deaths
from the disease in the whole seven
days
If this expected increase contin-
ues," said DIR. NJ. o. Heckard, of the
health department. today, the deaths
for the coming week will reach fifty.
This increase is large. At the coun
ty hospital in one ward alone there
are seventeen cases of typhoid
These sufferers in ward "a are all wo.
men. In the mems department are
twenty-one more cases, a total of thir
ty-eight in this one institution. Last
week there We're but five cases in
ward "a and but sixteen in all the de
partments of the hospital
The death rate from typhoid at the
hospital has taken a sudden jump
Between noon and O'Clock yesterday
there were five deaths reported at the
institution from typhoid. There was
one during the morning, total of six
for the day.
BUNKER HILL. H., Aug. 2.-Dow
Funderburke. farmer living in these
parts was relieved of s430 last night.
Funderburke is a Woodworking farm
er living alone in cabin, and the
money stolen represents his savings
for years Last night someone en-
tered his home, drugged him with