Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-03-05
TELEoRAPHIc SNAPSHOTS.


cago has started movement for the
formation OF an anti-injunction league
John F. Wallace favors sea level
canal at Panama and opposes con,
struction OF the work by the govern
ment.
Harry N. Roach. for eight years prl.
yate secretary. to James q. Blaine
lives as hermit near Winamac. Ind.
and rails at society.
Torture inflicted on the girl who
assassinated the Russian police chief
at Tamboun arouses liberals In Rus.
sia. who regard the young woman as
a hero.
Three big ocean liners reaching
New York report heavy gales. in
which several OF their passengers
were thrown down and Injured by
the waves tossing the vessels.
State Superintendent OF Insurance
Hendricks of New York replies to his
critics by saying 1t is not his duty
TO concern himself with the honesty
of insurance officers and that he could
not II he wished
Speakers In big church meetings de.
clare Mayor Dunno has within grasp
an opportunity to free Chicago from
the criminal class, and place upon
him the responsibility for continu-
ance OF lawlessness.
William f. Curtis. writing from
New York. tells OF the scheme of W.
C. Wellman. president OF the Amalga.
mated Meat Cutters and Butchers as
sociation to cooperate with the farm
ers to furnish cheap meat IN the cit
les and the many obstacles In the way
of the plan.
Mrs. Edith Stitsworth, aged 10, VI
Evansville, Ind. has begun suit to
have her marriage set aside. Mrs
Stitsworth alleges that she married
her husband when she was crazy, and
that he was well aware OF her mental
condition and insisted upon the mar
riage for the purpose OF getting her
property.
Dance hall Investigations in Chi.
cago bring to light reyels after the
closing hour, in which Young people
indulge In drunkenness and wanton
conduct. Many instances are found
in which special permits serve as sub.
terfnges to saloon keepers to sell
liquor from their bars in evasion of
the | O'Clock ordinance.
Two masked men, one white ami
one colOred. at Millvllle, n j., seized
Frederick Radel, banker, while he
was In tae stable near his house. and,
after gagging the banker, marchei
him to his home at the point OF pIs.
toi. The men compelled Radel to
open his safe from which they took
nearly $4,000. The robbers escaped.
There Is a good deal OF comment
In Italy on the automobile journeys
the queen dowager is contemplating
this year. In Turin is being built a
fifty horse power machine. with which
the queen intends to make Il long
tour in the United States toward the
middle of April. Before that her ma
jesty intends to make a tour in Sar.
idina with n smaller automobile.
Five burglars dynamited the Peo-
pies bank at Kenny. H., early yester-
day. securing 5000 In coin but failing
to open the inside safe containing
$1,000. They were observed by ser.
want girls In an adjoining hotel, who
were too badly frightened TO give the
alarm until the burglars had escaped
on an Illinois Central train. The
bank is owned by Smell a. Ingram OF
Clinton. III.
Forfeiture OF the charters OF the
Colorado Fuel g. Iron company and
the American Smelling e. Refining
company are demanded of the attor.
ney general by a Pueblo grand Jury
which late last night finished Its In.
yestigation. II Is, rumored that Off
GERS OF both corporations were indict
ed. The report also attacks the Re
tail Grocers' Il Butchers association
for combining In restraint OF trade
Thomas W. Lawson, just returned
from Chicago to Boston. says: "a
year ago | predicted that within a
year the McCalls and McCurdys OF
the big insurance companies would
have been shown up, dlsgraced and
thrown out of power. Today pre-
dict that within year John ID. Rock
efeller. Henry II. Rogers and dom
know how many more OF their crowd
II living, will be wearing stripes IL
states prison.
Captain Mikkelsen. the Danish ex
plorer, who has been In New York fol
several weeks. preparing for an Arc
tic expedition which Is to leave Sar
Francisco. has started for the West
The expedition is going to Bank
Land under the joint auspices Of th'
Royal Geographical society OF Lon
don and the American Geographical
I unrtafv Tho Amarirau uuv.