Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-01-11

national and state insurance compal
les riyaling the famous New York II
QUESTION. kentucky is also to act
Women are soon TO outdistance mo
In all walks of life and become tn
real rulers OF the country. says S. I
Mccormick. noted eduactor.
| President Angel of the Universit
of Michigan has Issued call for
conference OF western colleges in Chi
cago January l2 to consider football
reform.
| The Susan Il. Anthony club OF Gin
cinnau has appealed to Preslden
Roosevelt in behalf of Mrs. Antoin
ette Tolls. under sentence to be hang
! ed in New Jersey.
| The Omaha gas grab" ordinance !.
| held Illegal in court and the mayo,
and other officials were rebuked fol
the measures employed to force tn,
passage of the act In the city coun
ell. a..
What Is known as the LaComb,
electric light plant was destroyed II
Denver Sunday night. entailing a los.
OF about 100000, A large portion OF
the city was plunged in darkness ow
Ing to the blaze.
Nineteen persons met violent deaths
In Chicago during the "a hours up tc
midnight OF Saturday. This list com
prised four murders, seven suicides
and eight accidental deaths. Amone
the suicides were two men who took
the lives of two women whom they
professed 10 love,
A return issued by the Turkish au
thorlties shows that 1892 casualties
resulted from the fighting In Mace.
donia during 1905. The Insurgents
lost $50 men killed and twenty wound
cd and % were taken prisoners Tire
troops lost l22 killed and las wound.
cd.
For five. hours the switchboard
rooms of. the Home Telephone com
pany of Fort Wayne. Ind, were closed
the other day, after 1t was discovered
that Lillian Walbolt, an operator, and
her sister. May, bill clerk. ha.i small
poN Health officers fumigated the
place and vaccinated the thirty oper-
ators.
Miss l.. Graham Croaier. New
York sociologist. urges that children
of the extremely poor be choroformcd
TO end their misery, while Miss Anna
Hal OF Cincinnati devises q plan for
n medical board of control to end the
sufferings Of aged persons or those
suffering from accidents that must
prove fatal
Mayor Dempsey. the new DEMOCRAT.
lc city government of Cincinnati, Sat.
urday issued two general orders to
Chief OF Police Milliken, and the lid
was enectually on In Cincinnati for
the first time In many years. These
two orders were for tne strict enforce.
meut OF eeyfy law and ordinance re!
l1hng to the suppression of gambling
and the observance of the midnight
closing law on the part of the saloons.
Governor Pattison says the state
sunday closing laws, must be enforced.
His statement has caused consterna.
ton among the saloon keepers of
OHIO. When Governor PattIson starts
out TO enforce the Sunday closing law
1t Is believed that ne viii. strike first
at the four big cities--Cleveland, Gin
cinnati, Columbus pnd Toledo. Mayor
Johnson of Cleveland, says he will CO.
operate with Governor Pattison in any
move in that direction he may make
| Should a measure introduced In the
house by Mr. Gaines Of Tennessee
become a law. members Of the senate
and house will be felons should they
act as attorneys for railway compan-
les or any trust pr corporation OF
whatsoever character doing an inter
state business Or which has obtained
its charter from Congress. Besides
Fthe appellation of felon; the biz car.
ries n penalty of'a fine of $1,000 and
Imprisonment for a year for the OF.
fense named.
A Wyoming dispatch tells OF bat
tie between Ranchman w, II. Large
of Spring creek and a monster gray
wolf. The animal had been prowling
about the corrals and Large attempt
ed to drive 1t away. The, wolf turned
upon the ranchman and drove him
into the house. After throwing itseli
against the door several times In an
attempt to reach the family the vol
was finally killed by a random shot
from Large's rifle fired through the
door. Wolves in that section have be
come so bold OF late as to terrorize
the ranchmen and miners.
For the second time II. X. Summers
a business man Of Edmore, Mich. Il
in a hospital to have his leg amputat
| ed, as a result of hunting accident
| Six years ago he was shot In ths
| foot. and as blood poisoning followed
| six successive amputations were ne
\ cessary TO save his life. The last am
putation left a stump of the leg jus
| below. In November Summers wen
| duck hunting and got the toes of thu
/, remaining foot frozen. Gangrene Sc
In later and amputation OF the foo
was necessary. This failed to checl
the disease and a second operation
was performed, the leg being takeI
foff even with the other one.
Secretary Wilson of the department
of agriculture has asked Congress 70
an appropriation OF $135,000 for add
| tIanaI tpgnaotprg And r,airrngpAptafc D.