Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-26
TELEaRApHIc SNAPSHOTS.


husband of Amelio Riyes, begins sui
at New York for $4,000 for lIbe
against Colonel w. D'A. Mann
First families Of New York are hi
hard by liquidation and heavy loss In
Consolidated Gas and Stockholders
who receive reduced dividends are IN
tears.
The theory that II is necessary fol
Young men to Sow wild oats Is per
nicious. says John d. Rockefeller. Jr.
in addressing his Bible class in New
York
Experts report 10 Governor Hanly
that two former indiana auditors owe
the state $llb,630 for fees retained
from illegally collected Insurance tax.
es.
An Evanston Catholic priest de-
clares tbst bachelorhood and childless
marriages, along with the marrying
parson, are the worst evils threaten
ing society.
An Indiana physician who dlsap-
peared mysteiicusly thirty years ago
and was believed to have met death.
returns suddenly to his old home. his
mind n blank.
William Il Curtis tells OF plans of
Million club at st Louis to boom
trade by inviting delegates from the
Southwest to attend conference In
that city next month.
| Methodist preachers at New York
adopt resolutions denouncing police
for failing to suppress white slave"
traffic, and arraigning wealthy own.
ers OF houses leased for immoral pur-
| poses.
| Oil companies bow TO Hndley, and
In the st. Louis hearing admit the
STANDARD control, even Henry Clay
| Pierce giving mp his long ngnt against
subpoena servers and taking the
| stand
washcrwoman of Battle Creek,
| Mich, rides In an automobile which
she purchased from tne proceeds OF
| her labors at the tub. in adltlon to
rearing five children and buying two
houses and farm
Mayor Dunno declares for forbid.
| ding drug and confectionery stores to
sell liquors to women and children at
soda fountains In Chicago and for pro-
aibiting saloons within 200 feet OF
| schools and churches.
William f.. Curtis, writing from
| Joplin, Mo, says that The value of the
zinc and lead mined In that district
| IN 1908 was the greatest on record.
and that not only Missouri hut the
whole Southwest is prosperous.
| Civil service. as far as IT applies to
postmasters In small towns, hinges on
the fight at Ludington. Mich. and the
politicians who have friends for whom
they would like to provide berihs are
| awaiting the outcome with great In
| terest.
Simplification Of spelling Is t1e oh
| lect of an organization or scholars.
writers and business men formed in
New York, which win undertake to
promote the work through the coun.
try, Andrew Carnegie furnishing the
| funds
Senator Elkins. chairman of the
| senate committee on interstate com
| merce, In an open letter TO Governor
| Cummlns of Iowa, made public at
| Washington, questions the latter's
veracity In regard to the hearing In
which the governor figured.
Secretary Taft has received cable
| grams from General Wood at Manila,
| showing that he feels keenly the cri-
| ticism Of the Mount Dajo fight and
declaring that he has heard nothing of
| the killing of women and children In
the attack on the fortress.
| Lyman j. Gage Is to resign as pres
| ident OF the United States Trust com
| pany OF New York
| William l.. Curtis says railway rates
in Germany, which are tne cheapest
In Europe, exceed those here.
New light Is thrown on the retire
ment OF Bcllamy Storer. ambassador
10 Vienna, in which church politics
figures.
| A Milwaukeean has been arrested
ON charge of tapping gas pipes and
taking $4,000 worth of fuel and lignt
In seven years.
William Il. Curtis writes of Eureka
Springs a health resort in the Ozarks,
which is much frequented by persons
from the North.
All France Is guessing as to the In
trlnsic worth OF the new ministry.
which apparently VIII outcloss the
Rouyicr cabinet, says j. Cornely.
Shrinkage In the market value of
Chicago street railroad stocks since
1893. when the Union Traction com.
pany was formed, has been S62 500 900
Combination Of foreign steamship
lines to deprive American merchants
of much OF their trade In the Orient
is reported by Consul General Wilder
That Congress viii be unable to
agree ON law fixing the type of the
Panama canal at this session Is indl
Gated b ythe action OF the house com
mlttee.
The report of the United States
Steel corporation for 1906 shows sur
plus earnings OF sl3,565, 900. an In
crease OF s3s.3l7 900 over the 1904
surplus.
A quarrel over "A l0-cent brass rims
, In Philadelphia has resulted In the
| killing of IIarhart MIA rthur aa.d tc