Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-12-28
TELEGRAPH NEWS.


Forty people were injured in II trol
ley accident at Los Angeles Sunda,
evening.
; 1t required the police to quell al
incipient riot In a st. Louis Catboli,
church Sunday.
Property of all kinds in Illinois /,
worth s5,i7s9sO,SS5 according to the
state board OF equalization.
So many attempts have been made
of late to burn Canon City that the
people are considerably worked up.
The Santa Fe road was tied up near
Trinidad "a hours. ending Sunday
night caused by two train wrecks.
Chicago enjoyed race riot between
Italians and negroes Sunday night
Several were more or less injured
Canadas Iron and steel industries
show enormous gains. largely because
of the rapid development of the rail
ways in the Dominion.
Two masked highwaymen held up
and robbed sixteen trolley passengers
in Los Angeles Sunday evening.
Needed Christmas money.
The president, In letter to the
secretary of the interior, says the fee
charged for grazing stock on forest
reserves is Just and proper.
Standard Oil men deny rumors in
Wall street that the company con
templates increasing Its capital stock
from sl00000.000 to 5000. 900, 600.
Sidney s. Meyers. a New York at.
torney, sues his wife. formerly Maude
G. Seligman, for divorce, and incident
ally seeks 100000 damages from Al.
fred Hirshman.
Mayor Mcclellan was given GER
tificate of election yesterday and all
bets VIII be paid. According to the
official count Mcclellan won over
Hearst by 3.4Oo
1 Fire Chief Croker OF New York de
clares the city's fire department is in.
efficient in nearly every branch. and
recommends changes to avert the dan
ger OF great coniiagratlon.
The burning of the Van Nuys
Broadway hotel. Los Angeles. early
Sunday morning caused ilO guests to
rush from the building in their night
clothes Loss is placed at 100000.
| Mabel Gilman denies the story of
her engagement with w. A. Corey.
She says If wives would take better
care OF their husbands II would be
! Ibetter all around. Guess that's So
Miss Bowen, pretty clerk employ
ed at one Of the sub-stations at Oak
land, Calf, managed to get away with
| 81 900 during December It's not Of
ten the girls do such naughty things.
A crowd of unemployed in London
| stormed st. Paul's cathedral. and
/ with songs and blasphemous shouts
drowned out the voice of the preach
er and almost broke UP the service.
Governor Deneen OF Illinois intends
to investigate the affairs of every de
partment of the state government. in
stalling a new system Of accounting
and insisting on full reports from
even the elected officers.
| More than fifty clerks are now busy
tabulating the results of the last
French census. The population OF
France, according to the last census,
was 3s,46G,92i, among whom were
! found , COZ Am
Danger of yellow fever in the Pan.
ANA canal zone is overcome and
when the plans OF the government
have been carried out the zone viii
be as healthful as any other place in
the tropics. says Secretary Taft.
William f. Curtis writes OF the Wig
orous crusade being made against
those involved In government land
frauds in the South and West, and
tells Of the difficulties in securing
convictions.
President Roosevelt is deep in ono
OF the most arduous political strug
giles OF his career, writes Walter Well
man, and the Republican leaders fear
that the battle in New York state ma,
spell defeat for the party organization
| Thousands OF gallons of beer were
used In lighting flre at the plant o.
the Oklahoma Ice Brewing com
pany. the waterworks plant being un
able to furnish pressure owing to /
| breakdown. Hose wag attached =,
the brewing company's watts. and tn.
beer played on the flames until tn,
supply was exhausted. Firemen witt
chemical extinguishers finally got tn
. flames under control.
/ Jack o'Brlen now wants to NEE
} Jenries. And then he will know h
t has been up against the real thing.
D Jealousy caused Ralph Higgins t