Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-21

Apache county OF MOrmOnS Tor VlOlat
, ing the Edmonds act. Many promi'
: nent arrests have been made of peo'
pie leading polygamous lives.
LONDON. Aug ls-The Times cor.
respondent at Toxic. says: 1T has
been ascertained that the Russian
warships at Port Arthur We're not
blown up or sunk by gun fire. The
Japanese, In raising the ships, found
the Russians had opened the sea
valves. having previously creased and
protected the machinery and vital
points. II is evident the Russians de.
sired to sink them pending their re-
covery, when they would be raised
and added to the Baltic leet. There
are four battleships and two cruisers
which Will speedily form service
able addition to the japanese navy"
NEW YORK, Aug. 1S.-Banker
schiff of Kuhn. Loeb x Co. today re-
ceived supposed Internal machine.
II was placed on his desk The bank.
er happens to he away at Bar Harbor.
The mysterious package was turned
over to the police and found to CON
tain matches, cotton and a supposed
explosive
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 1S.-A severe
rain and windstorm early this morning
did much damage in western Missouri
and eastern Kansas. Lightning struck
many buildings
NORFOLK. Va, Aug. 1s.-Divers al
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river at the scene of the Atlantic
Coast Line wreck and found full
carload of women, men and children
who had been drowned like rats in
trap. The number Of victims will be
over SO
ST. PAUL. Aug. 1S.-President Per
ham of the telegraphers. announced
he would call OFF the strike as the re.
suit of vote being taken by the tele-
sraphers on the line which shows the
men favor returning to work at the
higher wages offered by the company.
The strike on the Northern Pacific is
still In force.
TOPEKA Kans, Aug. 1S.-A Sc
we're wind storm at three o'clock this
morning unroofed buildings and blew
down chimneys. The wind blew at
the rate of sixty miles an hour The
streets are strewn with debris. Over
an inch of rain fell during the storm
ELIZABETH, n. j., Aug 1S-With
Engineer Daniel Mahoney dead in his
cab and no one to guard the safety
of the passengers. the fast Virginia
Yellow train of the Pennsylvania rail-
road last night ran for lops distance
at great speed. MahCney is believed
to have leaned out of the cab window
to watch hot journal His head
struck signal post. Mis- body fell
back to the floor of the cab, while the
train sped on at frightful speed past
signals and flags set against It. AS
the last red danger signal was about
TO be passed the fireman. who had
been piling in coal to keep up steam,
sprang over the engine and yelled,
For Gods sake, Dan, there is the
red light dead against you. why
don't you slow up?" To his horror
the fireman saw the engineers body
in a heap on the floor. The fireman
seized the throttle and stopped the
train at West Philadelphia station
where the body was removed and sent
to Mahoney's home in Brooklyn. where
he had lived with his mother He
was 40 years old. His wife was kill
ed by trolley car In Newark a short
time ago.
OURAY, Aug. lS.-Roy Daniels.
who drew the first prize in the Uintah
reservation, was up till month ago
a miner at the Camp Bird. He quit
and went to Utah in the hope of get
ting land in the drawing.
John w. Galligan, who is one of the
first 100 lucky ones, is an engineer at
the Camp Bird. He left this morning
for the reservation.
TOXIC, Aug. 1S.-The recent fears
of an inferior rice crop has been dis
PEELED. The crop is expected to be
fully up to the average.
OURAY, Aug. lS.-Last night Mr.
John +. Peterson and Miss Edna Lund-
quist were united in marriage. The
groom is a mine contractor. He has
contract for 1000 feet of tunnel on
the Imogene.
SILVERTON. Aug. 1S.-Ouray
comes over Sunday to play ball with
Silverton. A great deal of interest is
being taken and some money is al
ready being placed on the result.
TELLURIDE, Aug. ls.-The body
of Wylander. who was killed in a
cayein in Raise 30," in the SmuggIer
Union, has not been recovered up till
3 O'Clock this afternoon, but It is ex-
pected to he at any time now. The
search has been prosecuted contin-
uously since the cavein occurred. The
dead man leaves a wife and seven chill
dren.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 1S.-The few
er death rate is much smaller today
than yesterday and up to noon there
are very few cases reported. The sit
uation above Canal street continues
to improve. Five new cases were re-
ported up to II O'Clock. The unex-
pected decline in the death rate to-
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