Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-07-11
NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.

pE@N ASiAs Juty W. MI
murders came TO light this morning.
Mrs. Bulls. woman 60 years old.
was stabbed to death by Charles John.
son, halS-demented Swede, 25 years
old He was arrested during the
night and confessed the murder which
was not discovered till this morning.
johnson confessed that he thought
Mrs. Bulls was going to hurt him,
when he drew large knife and stab
bed her to death. His confession was
the first the police knew OF the muir
der.
Johnson took the chief Of police to
point just outside the city where the
body of the woman was found. 1t
lay directly in the roadway without a
sign of any struggle. The blade of
the murderer's knife penetrated the
woman's heart, causing instant death.
The perpetrator Of the second mur-
der was evidently a negro and has not
been apprehended He entered the
home Of Mrs. Kinport while the fam
lily was away and little 14-year-old
girl was alone in the house. The man
criminally assaulted and then horri-
bly, mutilated the child. Upon the
return of the mother she found the
child covered with blood and In a dy-
ing condition. 1t Is hardly likely the
victim will recover.
CLEVELAND, Ohio. July 9.-The
Southwestern limited on the Lake
Shore road collided with freight at
an early hour this morning and the
passenger was derailed and thrown
into gulley.
Three men were killed and several
were slightly and others severely
wounded.
The delay of through trains is very
great. The dead are: F. L. Ander-
son, Buffalo; O. c. Cullin, Cincinnati;
James Flynn. Buffalo. The number
injured is twenty.
1. It is believed that broken axle on
jump the track in the path OF the pass
enger train.
CINCINNATI, July a.-rhe three
great auditerums of this city were
crowded today at the meetings held
by the Christian Endeaverere, Ad-
dresses were delivered by many prom
inent ciergymen from various parts
of the country.
At noon the meetings were aban-
doned and the Endeavorers went out
into the factories and tenaments of
the city where they held impromptu
meetings and did some practical work
in the line of Christianity and charity.
NEW YORK, July Bob Fitzsim-
mons and Gus Rubin will appear to-
night at Madison Square garden In
wrestling bout, two out of three.
Bothmen are in the pink of condition.
Rubin hopes in this way to wipe out
the stigma of the defeat he suffered
at the hands of Fitasimmens in the
prize ring last fall,
AUSTIN, Texas, July 9.-Texas will
control the oil output Of the Beaumont
and other fields Of this state, and the
Standard oil company will have the
hardest fight of its life to secure even
foothold to say nothing Of centred.
This statement ia based on the filing
of articles of incorporation in the sec
retary of states department of by far
(barring the Standard) the largest oil
concern in the worla.
The new company Is the Houston
Oil Company of Texas. with its princi-
pal office at Houston. The company
Is capitalized at $4,000, 900, of which
| $10,000.000 is preferred and 100000
| 900 is common stock. There are
30O.0 900 shares of the par value of 800
each. and 100000 shares which are to
be preferred.
The corporation will fight the Stan
dard Oil company to a finiah, and its
| promoters feel assured that they can
control the output of the Beaumont
and other oil fields of the state.
The purpose of this gigantic cor
| pOratiOn IL to be over 100000
acres of oil land In Texas, some of
which Is in the Corsicana, Nacogdo-
ready producing. and commence de-
veloping that vast area. The main
body Of this land lies in the famous
Neches valley oil field between Mac
ogdoches and Beaumont. and is said to
be extremely promising as oil prop
erty. The company will own the
lands In fee simple. and exclusive OF
their oil values, which are said to be
worth 950.000,000. While the charter
shows that SO per cent of the stock has
been subscribed for, and 10 psr cent
paid in, from one Of the fncorpora
tors il IL learned that practically the
whole has been subscribed and stands
subject to the call Of the Maryland
Trust company, which is the financia
clearing house through which this
great transaction is being carried.
This company paid the state of Tex
as filing fee of $4,000. which IL tn,
largest single fee ever received by thu
state. the next largest being the Guf
fey company.
BOSTON, July 9.-Millionaire Shaw
Of Quincy Is on trial today for assault
ing street car conductor The con
test is very interesting, having assum
ed a phase of class against class
The labor interests have taken up tn
conductors side and u brilliant ARA.
Of counsel IL defending Mr.. Shaw.
Shaw had been dining" and in