Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-11-12
TELEGRAPH NEWS

TELEGRAPH NEWS.
The entire body of students, 500, OF
the Centenary college at Jackson,
La. have struck and left college on
account OF the stabbing OF Rev. Mil
Ter. president of the college, by Pro-
fessor Moncrief. The two men quar-.
relied over the serving of food to the
students.
Two domestics employed In the
German hospital were asphyxiated by
gas and two other women who
occupied the same apartment were
taken from the room in critical CON
dition. 1t is believed that one of the
women accidentally left gas jet
open.
Edward Murray. conductor on the
Pennsylvania road, at Pittsburg has
been awarded medal by President
Roosevelt for an act of bravery in
saving the lives of two children. This
is the fourth medal awarded since the
act OF congress providing for recogni-
ton OF acts OF bravery by trainmen.
The suits instituted by the govern
ment to recover thousands of acres
Of coal lands from the Utah Coal com
pany has been commenced in Salt
Lake City. The coal companies in
terested are known as Gould compan.
les and are conducted In the interest
of the D. & II. G. Railway.
The dead body of T. A. Caldwell.
government secret service agent un-
der Joseph A. Walker at Denver. was
found alongside the railroad track at
Algodones. twenty miles above Albu.
querque, by section men. Caldwell's
skull was badly crushed and one arm
was broken. Whether or not he was
the victim of foul play or accident
has not yet been determined, and n
thorough investigation will be made.
BY some 1t is thought he was trying
to flag a passenger train in order to
get on and was hit by the engine.
An unknown man secured $1.121
from the Exchange bank of Mllwau.
kee by a mistake and disappeared. A
clerk from a large business establish
ment proffered a check for $1.121 to
one OF the tellers to be cashed While
the teller was counting the money the
clerk left for moment to speak with
friend. Meanwhile the teller com
pleted his task and handed out the
cash. A youth who meanwhile had
taken the clerks place accepted the
money and hastened away.
1t is cold day when Trinidad does
not have shooting. cutting, dyna-
hitting or some other scrape. Yester-
day Billy Williams, brewery en-
ploye. slashed Henry Dahr across the
cheek with knife during a quarrel
and made his escape.
While Mr.. Mitchell, the sugar beet
man, was at Aztec yesterday he met
two members OF his old regiment in
England. from which he received an
honorable discharge forty years ago.
This was the first tlne he had met
them since leaving England. They
were Judge Whitehead OF Aztec and
Thomas Goulding Of Durango. They
had quite talk over old times and
the people they knew.
When the Irish Monarch, a British
tramp steamship. was about to sail
from Brooklyn for Australian ports
the other day, the longshoremen who
were about to cast off the lines OBJ
| served that there was no green flaf
flying. Shouting that the ship was
no Irish Monarch without a greer
flag, they called on Captain Grahmt
to hoist one. There was an exchange
Of words and the longshcremen de
clared they never would throw off thu
lines until the Monarch flew a bit o
green, and Captain Grahme finall,
ran up a green flag with colder
harp.