Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1906-07-30
Geographic Brevities

ielSy'dPnC DteViucs
Six men were injured by the ex plo.
ion OF bomb In New York City last
light.
A one-year-old child was drowned
II tub of blueing water in Denver
Wednesday.
The revolution in the province OF
,hekiang. China. is growing to alarm
ng proportions.
Two indictments were returned |
yesterday in New York against mem
Ders of the sugar trust.
The franchise election contest
cases in Denver before Judge Lindsey
have been postponed until Aug. 7th-
Common labor is sad to be very
scarce in California and that en-
can be furnished 10000 men.
confident of receiving the Republican
nomination for governor on the first
ballot.
Five men are arrested in Wall
street charged with selling cancelled
ctr tfnn
stamps.
Western headquarters for the Dem
ocratic congressional campaign COM
mittee win be opened in Chicago Aug.
l and a general fight made for seats
lost in 1904.
The independent Democrats of Den
yer have determined to nominate
straight ticket and elect delegates to
the state convention and contest for
place against the Speer machine.
Charles f. Murphy. leader of Tam
many, agrees not to treat Hearst as
being outside of the party. but resists
the efforts of w. j. Connors, of Buff
falo to stampede him into declaring
for the editor.
Fines alone will be assessed against
| the oil men convicted OF receiving re-
| bates, according to information in
| Cleveland, and consequently the in
quiry in Chicago will not be conduct
ed by a grand jury.
Isaac C. We'll, found guilty the sec
| ond time of violating the ticket brok-
ers' injunction order at Pueblo, was
| fined S700 and costs while ]. w. Nor
yer was fined $500.
Jackson Smith has been named
manager of subsistence on the Pan
anna canal zone and will be respon-
| sible hereafter for all hotels and
manager of the Guayaquil and Quito
railway.
| A mass meeting consisting of 300
I
citizens and taxpayers was held at
La lara Wednesday to protest against
the ring combination controlling Con.
| eios county and to work for purifica-
ton at the polls. A. r. Moulette
heads the list of signers to the reso-
| lutions passed.
l A
| Tenn, nominated for trustee of the
| Mutual Life Insurance company with.
out his consent. declares in New York
that this is but sop thrown to the
policy holders to prevent them from
| gaining entire control of the board,
to which they are entitled.
At the present price for stumpage
| the Weyerhaeuser Timber company's
big purchase from the Northern Pa.
| cific six years ago looms up as one OF
the best speculative moves ever
made in the northwest In the deal
100000 acres changed hands at $3.50
an acre, or $5.S50, 900 1t is estimated
that the same property now is worth
at least s45,O00,O0O or profit of $780,
100000
Wholesale murder was attempted
the other night by Ann Nolan, a ne
gro woman employed in the Lander
dale. Miss, Springs Hotel. She put
ra, poison in the coffee served to
guests and attaches. and all were
made seriously Ill as a result. Mrs.
1rite, guests, and Chief Cook Don
ciel are still in a critical condition.
The woman said she was seeking to
kill |. N. Hollingsworth, proprietor of
the hotel because he had chastised
her daughter for petty theft.
With little or no warning the side
walk in front of 525 to 531 Fulton
street, the heart of the shopping dis
trict of Brooklyn, sank from three to
seven feet into the subway Wednes-
day afternoon. Pillars of the elevat.
ed railroad were loosened and shop
pers were thrown into panic. A
score of persons escaped injury only
by quick action. No time was lost in