Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-03-25

| United StatS mlgnt act as mediator
the good on ces of that country hav
| ing been in measure proifered I,
that end.
CAPETOWN March 21.-In an on
engagem ent between the Beers an,
British day before yesterday. the lat
ter lost one killed and ten wounded
The Beers lost nine killed and sever
wounded.
MANILA, March 21.-The Ameri
can authorities expect the surrende,
this week OF Insurgent Leader Full
en-. Negotiations to that end are
in progress.
VERONA, Italy, March 21.-Dis.
| patches received this morning from
the town of Cologna. which was prac,
tically destroyed by the breaking of
a dam on Tuesday night. state that fif.
teen lives were lost and that many
others are in jeopardy.
The police and firemen are working
hard to rescue the stricken ones.
TELLURIDE. Colo, March 2l.-
| Especial to The Herald. Another
fire. thought to be of incendiary orr
gin. called the citizens of Telluride
out ut an early hour this morning.
| The large livery stable of Bob Rog-
ers was totally destroyed So rapid
was the progress of the flames that
only portion OF the stock could be
gotten out, and six fine horses were
roasted to DEATH
The adjoining buildings were badly
scorched and disastrous confagra-
tion was only prevented by the siren
uous efforts of the firemen.
COLORADO SPRINGS, March 2l.-
Alderman Watson. prominent local
politician, is defendant in suit filed
this morning for $4,000 for alternating
the affections of Mrs. Stanley from
her husband, H. A. Stanley. The
papers filed make some very sensa-
| tional charges.
Stanley says he has been made
desolate and suffered agony by the
goings on of Watson. Watson says
it is blackmail and he proposes to
| fight the case.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, March 21.-
Mrs. Margaret Armour, widow of the
late S. b. Armour. will give the money
| necessary to build house for aged
couples In this city, the home to ac-
commodate forty persons. It will
be modelled after the institution a.
Utica, N Y, which Mrs. Armour has
visited and studied.
ST. LOUIS, March 21.-A well
known society man named Hum
phreys, fine tenor singer and leader
of the Second Baptist church, com
mitted suicide. No cause for the
act is known, but 1t is presumed to
have been love affair Humphreys
was 80 years of age, unmarried, hand.
some and popular.
WASHINGTON March 21.-It is un-
derstood today that Attorney General
Griggs will retire from the cabinet
the last of next week, and that the
president will appoint p. C. Knox of
PittSburg to succeed him.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 21.-
A Suburban line train jumped the
track at Summityille. near here this
morning, and ten of its fifty passen-
gers were badly injured, Three OF
them are expected to die.
The train was running at high
rate of speed and the engineer was
much to blame,
CINCINNATI o., March 21.-Fire
this morning destroyed the livery sta
BILE of Hayman C Co., involving large
property loss. The fire was very
stubborn one and six firemen were
hurt Two from falling from lad
der will probably die.
WASHINGTON, March 21.-A re.
port just received from the quarantine
officers of the Philippines states that
leprosy is widely prevalent all over
the islands; that there are thou
sands of cases in Luzon, many in the
vicinity of Manila, and that leprosy
colony must be established by the
government.
NEW YORK, March 21.-The North
German Lloyd steamer Lain, which
arrived here from Europe shortly af-
ter O'Clock, reports that about mid
night she ran into four-masted
schooner and sunk her about twenty
miles from Sandy Hook.
There was a fog at the time and
the vessel destroyed is unknown.
What. became of her crew is equally
uncertain.
SOUTHAMPTON, March 21.--An-
drew Carnegie just arrived hero, was
interviewed here this morning on
public affairs Speaking of the
Chinese situation. he said that both
America and England had shown
themselves great fools; that New
York public men are not half as bad
as they are painted, and that under
no consideration would he be mayor
of New York.
WASHINGTON, March 21.-Secre-
tary of the Interior Hitchcock stated
this morning that there was absolute
ly no foundation for the report that
Senator Wolcott would succeed him
Hitchcock says he will remain in the
cabinet.
LONDON. March 22.-The govern.
ment has made public the correspond.
once concerning the negotiations for
surrender of the Ropra which General