Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-05-25

If she did so he would die also. Three
children in an adjoining room were
unconscious of the tragedy.
| DENVER. Colo. May 22.-After ter
days idleness nearly all the strikers
returned TO work this morning. BY
terms of the settlement all former EN-
ployes who request will be reinstatet
at once, and be allowed to return tc
work Immediately All strikes and
lockouts are to be declared of imme
diately.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May EFF
teen hundred miles of telegraph line
to be put out of business, fifteen
thousand miles of wire grounded. sixty
thousand poles chopped down and
| three-quarters of a million dollars
worth of telegraph property destroyed
is the record OF developments in
the Pennsylvania Western Union fight
up to date. This tremendous blow
was dealt last night. falling simultan
eously in six states. This is the price
Gould has to pay for invading Penn
sylvania with his Wabash railroad
By tonight the Pennsylvania Off
GERS expect to have every Western
Union pole and wire down over every
mile of road to which the court order
empowering the Pennsylvania rail
road entities it The cost of tearing
away this telegraph system is fifty
thousand dollars. which the railroad
expects to recover later.
| DENVER. Colo, May 22.-Commer-
Lat. Il.
vention here today to discuss matters
of mutual interest and TO form a per
manent state association. The ses-
| slons continue two days. Pueblo.
| Colorado Springs. Boulder and other
cities Of the state are represented.
| WASHINGTON. d. c., May 22.-
In response to the complaint of the
British ambassador, Mr.. Herbert. Sec
retary Hay has ordered a new edition
of the Venezuelan blue book to be
printed. this time without the imprint
Of the United States government
printing office All copies of the first
edition not distributed will be de
| stroyed, This Secretary Hay feels,
Will relieve the department of re-
| sponsibility for the remarks in the
book written by Minister Bowen to
which Ambassador Herbert objects.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa, May 22.-
| The fighting game in Philadelphia dur
| ing the past winter and spring has
| been more prosperous than ever be-
| fore in the history of pugilism in this
| city. OF late there has been an av-
| erage of two or three boxing shows
| pulled off each week, and in not a few
| of them the principals have been
| fighters of wide reputation. The sea
son, however, is on the wane and will
come to close with a few more
shows of more or less Importance be
| fore the hot weather is on in earnest.
| One of these shows Is scheduled for
| the Ariel Athletic club tonight, when
| Willie Mack. the lightweight boxer OF
| New York will go six rounds with
| Joe Tipman of Baltimore. Mack is
regarded as a cleverer boxer than Tip
man and the prospects are that he
will have no trouble in outpointing
| the latter
BERKELEY, Cal, May 22.-The in
yestigaton by paleonthologists from
| the University of California into the
| caves in Shasta county has been re
| markably successful. Four thousand
valuable bones of extinct animals
have already been found. Many trac
ces of prehistoric man and a number
of polished bones and stone imple
ments, evidently utensils, and wagons
| of prehistoric ages.
| HARTFORD, Conn, May 22.-Tht
Remington Typewriter company has
| announced its decision to give EN-
ployes who have been with the com
pany ten years or more bonus of one
hundred dollars per year, to be paid In
installments of fifty dollars every
six months, one June lst and one al
| Christmas. AT present 257 men are
| qualified.
PORTLAND, Ore, May 22.-Presi
| dent Roosevelt left Portland at eight
O'Clock this morning Senator Mitch
ell and John Barrett Joined the party
to go as far as Tacoma. The presi
dents carriage was loaded with sou
venrs when it reached the train.
ST. PETERSBURG. May 22.-In al
open letter today Count Tolstoi. the
renowned novelist fiercely denounces
The Kischineff massacres and arraign'
the Russian government for its su
| pineness.
| WASHINGTON. May 22.-Presi
dent Cleveland's recent speech II
New York in behalf of the Booke
| Washington Institute at Tuskegee
and his more recent address at st
Louis. have been published In ever,
newspaper in the South and have |
decided impression upon the people
of that section with whom he was no
popular. During both of his terms II
the presidency he alienated the poll
ticians OF the South for rejecting thei
advice and suggestions, and had few
friends in that section when he wen
out OF office. His speech on the ne
gro question was especially gratify
ing, and has received favorable com
ment In every part of the South. Tn
negro problem is working itself on
In a practical way and such discus
sions as his address has aroused, AM
the agitation created by Presiden
Roosevelt's appintment of negro L
be collector of customs at Charleston