Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-02-15
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grants luftnef repFleNe OF Sixty
days to the Hackensack murderess.
Manhattan theater at New York Is
TO be torn down to make way for =
terminal station for the Jersey city
tunnell.
Fannie Been. once popular as a
soubrette and dancer. was sent to
the workhouse at New York for va.
grancy.
Ex.Congressman Robert Baker of
Brooklyn resigns a 81 1000 dock Job
rather than have the right of speech
abridged.
new era in Ecuador az the result OF
the completion Of railway line from
the mountain interior to the const
Mayor Rose of Milwaukee has sign
ed an ordinance providing for the ia
snance of $i50,000 in bonds to pur
plant.
Pittsburg physicians were asked to
examine hoy who. once having start
ed to run, was unable 10 stop until he
was exhausted, at one time running
20 miles.
Wall street reports say that Chaun
cey Keep of Chicago will succeed
Marshall Field In the various boards
of directors In which the latter was
Interested.
Sherburn Becker, Young candi
date for nomination OF mayor of NIL
waukee, has disregarded party leaders
In his fight and appeals directly to
the voters.
A coal trust faces an attack In the
courts of its own state. A resolution
was introduced In the Pennsylvania
legislature demanding action by the
attorney general and 1t seems certain
of passage.
within a year work win he begun
by the National Good Roads assocla
ton on a great highway extending
across Ohio. Colonel w II. Moore
president of the association, says It
will cost sl.5OO.oOO.
Nebrnska's grain trust was knocked
out by decision Of the supreme court
at Lincoln. which upheld the anti.
monopoly laws OF the state and or
dered the dissolution of the Nebraska
Grain Dealers association.
All the Judges ia Minnesota hence
forth will scorn railway pasaes. A
movement started recently by the dis.
trict bench of Hennepen county has
resulted in all the judges In the
state sending back their annual pass
es.
Aid from the United States senate
to break the power Of the coal trust.
dominated by the Pennsylvania rail.
road, which, IT is said, holds the state
OF West Virginia powerless in its
grasp, Is asked by Governor Dawson
OF that state.
Appeal to every woman In the coun-
try TO join in the fight to obtain the
power OF the ballot. and thereby de
stroy the liquor trade, was made by
n speaker before the convention of
the Woman's National Suffrage asso-
citation In Baltimore.
Application of the merit system to
the appointment Of postmasters Is ex-
planned by William H. Curtis, who
says that hereafter efficiency will be
the only test In making reappoint-
| ments. and that the office holders
must limit their partisan activity.
Mormons are required to take an
oath of vengeance upon the nation
for the death Of their prophet. and
polygamy among members of the
church is increasing, says n witness
before the senate committee. which
resumed hearings In the case OF Sen
ator Reed Smoot.
Major General Leonard Wood Is
| preparing for field maneuyers In the
| Philippines as soon as the addltiona
regiments being sent to the islands
arrive. The operations will extenc
over the larger part of the island o.
Luzon. so as to At the troops for pos
sible service In China.
Tomaso Salyini, at Rome, has jus
refused to make another professiona
tour in the United States. pleadini
advancing age. He was n last New
Years day. An American manage
named Wilkinson visited his rementl
In Florence and tried hard to induc
the great tragedian To play "Othello
forty times, offering him S32 900, bu
Salvini could not be persuaded.
Dick Tyndall. one of the wealthies
horse breeders In northwestern W.
oming. got into an alteration wit
James Kester. a neighbor, on the To-
mer's ranch on the Cottonwood rive
Thursday. Kester drew gun, an
while Tyndall was trying to disarr
him TyndalPs son, joan was ace
dentally killed. Tyndall was so ei
ragged that when he secured the gu
he beat ont kester's brains with It.
A man's body. when he dies. b,
longs to mis- next Of kin, and he ca
not give 1t to another. according to
decision handed down by Judge s. v
Smith OF Cincinnati. The case wa
brought by sister OF Or. N. r. Tai
ski. who hurried from Pittsbutg
> prevent the cremation OF her brot.
er's body. Mrs. J. X. p. Bigger clain
: ed the body on the ground that ID
Tanski, before his death. had 4
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