Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-01-01

| iOttps oMih6 W tHt Ioutt VI inc SUI
tan's army: Among the missionaries
at Fez are George Reed OF Kansas
| City. j. p. Welliver and wife, of Min
nesota; Maud Carr OF Emporia, Kas.;
Irene Ward of Avoca Iowa At Mar
quinese Mission, forty miles from
| Fee are; f. c. Enyart, Kansas; Vic
tor Swanson of Nebraska. President
| Fishers fears are based partly on the
| knowledge that the Moroccon belief
that the killing OF Christians insures
| seat in heaven.
LONDON. Dec. 30-A Taugier dis.
patch reports that the Sultan OF Mo
| rocco attempted a sally from Fee, but
was repulsed by rebels, who surround
| ed the city. Foreigners in the Interior
have been advised to hasten to the
coast and communications are almost
closed
CHICAGO. Dec, 3O.-An investiga.
tion into the rumored manipulation
Of the coal supply by railways. mine
owners and dealers began this morn
ing, under Attorney General Hamlin.
Witnesses were examined in secret, as
Attorney General Hamlin says they
would not talk if it was known their
statements would be made public, and
he has not the power to compel them
to testify.
CANTON. o.. Dec. 30.-The mar
rlage of Miss Mary Barber. niece of
Mrs. Mckinley. to Major Ralph Hart
zell u S. A.. was solemnized today
at the home of the bride Owing to
he fact that the brides family is in
mourning the wedding was very
quiet affair, attended only by the rel
atives and few intimate friends of
The contracting parties.
MARION, Ind, Dec. 30 Thirty
people were injured, two perhaps IA
tally by trolley car jumping the
rack this morning and plunging down
IN embaskment and being shattered
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Dec. 30
Under the auspices of the State Col
orsd Mems Business League. two
days convention was begun in this
city today with the object OF increas-
ing the business rating of the negro
AMI Inspiring him with loyalty to
racial enterprises. Among the top
cs for discussion are: Agriculture
DIS an Enterprise" Our Real Estate
Interests" Our Duty as Citizens. -
The Best Methods of Encouraging
Racial Enterprises, The Minister'S
Relation to Public Enterprise and
Social Phases of Our Business Life ."
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 30.-Three
rain robbers who attempted to hold
mp the Louisville 4 Nashville passen-
ser train for New Orleans, NY this
corning Jailed cpinpiefai,s3, N---ne-
lag killed outright. The two got on
the platform of the baggage car and
climbed over the tender of the car at
Lebanon Junction and took posses
sion, forcing the fireman and engi.
neer to bring the train to Il stop. The
third man. standing on the platform oil
'h= day coach, entered one end as
Conductor b. d. Keene came in at the
other door. While throwing up his
hands keene struck the bandit in the
face, who then fired bullet which
srazed keene's head, drawing blood
pfofnsely. keene dashed into the bag
cage car, procured a rifle and shot
the robber dead. The others disap-
peared in the woods The dead man
IS unidentified.
LOUISVILLE. Ky, Dec. 3O.-A sin
sic robber, masked and armed, early
this morning attempted to hold up
he Louisville & Nashville passenger
train coming from New Orleans. He
succeeded in robbing one passenger,
and shot Conductor JEFF Keene
throus the head, inflicting a serious
but not fatal wound. Conductor
keene confronted the robber in the
Pullman car. The robber promptly
shot and wounded Keene, who ran to
The xpress car for a shotgun. Mean
while the robber, having pulled the
bell cord, marched the pullman con.
ductor and porter through the train,
and jumped off the day coach platform
at Third street crossing.
Conductor Keene fired at the flee
ing robber. who yelled as though hit
He escaped. The name of the passen.
ger robbed was j. S. Moore. who lost
s25. af
NEW YORK. Dec. 30-Before New
Years day every holder of the com.
mon stock of the United States Steel
corporation will receive a substantial
dividend on his holdings. Checks
for the amounts due were mailed to
day from the general offices OF the
corporation and amounted in the ag
sregate to s5.0OO,O00. Large as this
| amount It is but a drop in the bucket
o The great dividends to be disbursed
| rom Wall street during the coming
month. 1t is estimated that the ag
gregate dividend and interest pay
| ments of the big railroads, traction
companies and industrial corporations
within the next week or so will reach
the figure of 100000 900.
WORTHWHILE. Ind, Dec. 30.-Au
investigation of Beaver cemetery re
veals the fact that the bodies OF Wal
ter Manship, Ida West, Ralph Breck
| en- and two women have been stolen
by ghouls. Miss West was a relative
of Hampton West, under arrest on the
| charge OF robbing graves In Marion
| county. II is now known that bodies
have been taken from eleven buryine
| grounds in that county.
NEW YORK. Dec. 3O-George Dal
ley, brother of beautiful Joyce Daley
| who committed suicide in her room
by drinking carbolic acid declared to