Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-10

the part Of the fremen that costl
J blocks adjoining were saved. upoi
this block are built the city residences
T. of the Twombleys, the McCooks, thu
. late Dan Lamont and the exclusive
hotel st. Regis.
( FORT WORTH, Tex, Aug. S.-A
mob took Sam Majors, negro. from
jail, near Waco, this morning anI
, lyncned him for assaulting white
woman He was hanged to a bridge
OMAHA. Aug. S.-Chairman of tn,
committee on insurance OF the Amer
lean Bar association, Ralph Brecken
ridge, of this city. will offer report
at the annual convention of that body
the last of this month, the report call
: ing for federal supervision of life in
surance. Chairman Breckenridge
has the assurance OF Presiden,
Roosevelt that he is very much in IA
vor OF federal supervision.
TELLURIDE, Aug. S.-Tne sum OF
$500 was raised yesterday by a sub
scription for the two ball games to
be placed next Sunday between Silver
ton and Ouray in this town There
will be two games and the team win
ming each game viii receive $3.50.
The expenses of the visitors will be
paid. A great deal of interest is be
ing worked up in baseball by Tellu-
ride people.
| HOUSTON Tex, Aug. Slight
ming struck the Humble oil field this
morning and started big fire in the
Gufy tanks. Five million barrels of
oil are stored IN the vicinity. II the
fire can be confined the loss viii not
exceed over 10000 barrels
BELVIDERE, H.. Aug S.-Illinois
is again to the front One of its
sons has been elected an Arab sheik
The lucky man Is Earl w jerks, who
formerly lived here. He now is in the
region near. Kena. Egypt, prospecting
for coal, ais employer being Lon
don company. Sheik jerks has writ
| ten 10 his aunt in this city, Mrs. Il.
| b. Plane, telling, much to her aston
| shment. OF his elevation as ruler of
a trbaned, saddlecolored clan II
| appears that he mas under his com
mand about 200 Bedoulns, and These
followers of the prophet have con.
ferred on the lllinoisan the title OF
sheik
Mr.. jerks writes that he finds II
hard to dine with his brother sneiks
without knife or fork. but he says
philosophically that what cant be
cured must be endured. He add
that the expedition is costing about
so day and tnat the work Is hard.
but that he is well equipped with
drilling machinery.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Aug. s.
WHAT promises to be the most Import
ant convention in the history of the
international Brotherhood of Team
sters opened in this city today the
sessions being held In Odd Fellows
hall. AS a result OF the failure of
the great strike of teamsters in Chi-
cago there is considerable disaffection
in the ranks of the organization and
1t is probable that the convention will
upheaval among tne present officers
and leaders of the brotherhood Talks
among delegates indicate that this
shaking up may go SO far as TO force
out President Shea and his associ-
ates and the Inauguration of new
regime. The convention will be in
session about ten days.
BERLIN, Aug. S.-An extraordinary
trial, just concluded in Vologda, sheds
a glaring light on the extraordinary
administration of justice in the czars
dominions. The presiding judge is
reported by the local press to have
explained that immortality is not
punishable offense. but that disloy
atty to the cZar called for the very
heaviest punishment.
As result, Andrei Liesnikoff, an
aged pedder was sentenced last week
to So years imprisonment. His case
had lasted nearly a year, and no few
er than 800 female witnesses testified
during the trial. Evidence of the
most extraordinary credulty among
NolDEld peasant was biNtht th'
story told savorng more OF the 18th
and the Goth century. For years. II
was proved Liesnikoff had been in
the habit Of masquerading among the
simple mouiiks as a heaven-sent
prophet Born, he said. spontaneous
ly of a volcano he had been sent into
the world to reveal to the women OF
the village, in which he happened to
be at the time that one of their mum
ber was destined to be the mother OF
the present czar's successor on the
throne. Nicholas H., he affirmed.
would probably never have a son, and,
II ne did, that son would die before
12 months had passed. Discredited
among his people, the present czar
would. in the year 1906, adopt a peas
ant boy, of which he Qiesnikoff) was
fated to be the father. It was proved
at the trial that more than 200 peas
ant girls had been entrapped by this
extraordinary scoundrel.
ROANOKE, Va, Aug. s.-The rec
ognized Republican party of Virginia
| is holding its state convention here