Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-11-23
TELEGRAPHIC
AND GENERAL
NEWS ITEMS

NEWS ITEMS
| A Pueblo fireman was shot and ia
Italy wounded Monday night in II sa
loon. Trouble over his wife.
| Pueblo has 100000 club VIII am
of the members live to realize then
dream. But the undertaking Is laud
able.
Grand Junction is entertaining the
State Sunday School association meet
| ing. Several hundred delegates are
present
Congress viii be asked to appropri.
ate $4,000, 900 for work on the Pan.
anna canal to include expenditures up
to June /. 1907.
Four million dollars worth OF whis-
key, $4,000 gallons, were destroyed
by fire Sunday in Pennsylvania
town. Think of the thirst this would
quench.
Dr. Douglas Hyde, head of the Gael.
ic league. has arrived In New York
for lecture tour of American cities,
In which he win report the wonderful
progress In his WORK.
William Il. Curtis writes of efforts
being made to obtain from Congress
IA law for the preservation of Ameri-
can antiquities and ruins of prenis
of yandals.
Two men enjoyed novel burial at
the Midvale steel works. Philadelphia,
Sunday They were entirely incin-
Grated in II Acton steel ingot and this
ingot was buried with appropriate
ceremony, although no human sem
blance was discovered.
The annual banquet of the Grand
Junction chamber OF commerce takes
place tomorrow evening with Con
gresham Hogg and Alvu Adams as
guests. The Grand Junction people
are pushing membership, at the last
meeting fifty new applications having
been acted on.
Travellers by taximeter cabs are
shortly to enjoy the advantages OF
electricity, says a Paris dispatch. BY
M ,f tpuaninnu a 10 Il.
vice. into which l0-centlme piece
is to be dropped. the interior OF these
cabs will be Illuminated BY electricity
for ten pinutes.
William Elliott, a Civil war veteran,
residing at kokomo. Ind. who has
been notified that an accumulated pen
sion of $4,000 is awaiting his accept
ance, declares he will not accept the
money. Il was soldier all through
the war" he said. but merely did
my plain duty, nothing more. and am
not entitled to premium for that
Christ would refuse to accept money
for the performance OF his duty and
| will not take it."
When engaging private detect
i've to trail your wife, get an ugly
one"-that Is the rule for the guid.
ance OF husbands TO be deduced froi
the testimony given before Judge
Wright In Chicago by Dr. Franklin IL.
Seeley, who asked divorce from his
wife Blanche ON the ground OF deser-
| ton. The satiric fate OF DR.. Seeley,
according to his own. story. is that
| his wife fell in love with tae detective
hired TO watch her.
A lodge of the Order OF Hoo Hoos
was organized at Grand Junction Sat
urday night in Masonic hall. with ht
teen members. James l.. Preston. ol
the Chicago. Milwaukee d. st. Pau
railroad, and Tom Brown, OF the
lS8yre-Newton Lumber company, bott
OF Denver, Instituted the lodge. After
the iniations "A banquet was serveC
and In the center oil the long dining
table was an immense bird cage witt
a large black cat inside About TWEEN
Ity members from state points attend
ed.
If the memory OF John w. Olive
OF Yonkers serves him riglt, baseball
was first played in Baltimore. and
commission is going to prove tha
our national game did not sprout iron
! English FOUNDERS" but Is purel
p bred American offspring. Mr.. Olive
Is 81 years old and is now editor O
: the Yonkers Statesman. He insist
that the game was played In Bait
more between 1876 and ls+5. and tas