Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-04-16
TELeoRAPHlc SNAPSHOTS.

Olive oil as skin beauiiflcr, as re
commended by a court physician.
rouscs interest among women.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr. tells his
Bible class that there is no happiness
In merely possessing money.
Thirty-nye automobiles are destroy.
cd and a loss of 100000 caused by
the burning OF a garage at New York
Bishop McCabe. In sermon III
Brooklyn, declares that the Methodist
church Is opposed to labor unions.
Prospects for the winter wheat crop
In most sections OF ihe country are
bright. little grain having been winter
killed
Labor unions and reform bodies
launch new political party. the Chi.
caeo Progressive Alliance. to fight
graft and bosslsm.
zionists at San Antonio pledge 10y
| atty to John Alexander Dowie and
| condemn his wife at a meeting ai
which the deposed leader speaks.
Kaiser Wilhelm. reused by the
plans OF Walter Wellman To reach the
north pole by alrship and by the plans
OF the French government, will build
alrships for use In war.
William T.. Curtis writes OF the ex.
tensive estates In Mexico granted TO
Cortez. hero OF the conquest. whlcn
are still held Intact under the original
patent.
Robert G. Proctor. secretary OF Sen
ator Lodge. Is arrested In Boston on
the charge OF embezzling money con.
tributed to the Republican campaign
fund.
b. F. Yoakum. railroad syndicate, Is
planning a new short line for the
Rock Island from the great lakes to
the City OF Mexico and a system OF
roads to connect the Cali OF Mexico
and North Pacific ports.
Interest in the coming all.Ameri-
can congress at Rio de Janeiro Is
aroused in Washington by the Injec-
tion or the Calyo or Draeo doctrine
that collection of debts by warshIps
on the part of European nations
should be declared against.
Nine bills to purify national elec
tions are before the house committ g
on elections. and Chairman Gaines
blamed by the other members for the
fact tnat no action nas been taken on
them.
Among his 500 household servants
tne Emperor OF China has 30 bearers
of state umbrellas.
In the British house OF commons re
Gently Winston Churchill accused an
| opponent Of termlnological incxacn.
| tude.
There Is to be no more gambling at
Hot Springs, but assurance Is given
out that the baths will be AS good as
ever.
A correspondent OF the New York
Sun is endeayoring to prove that the
| present population OF Chicago Is only
| 100000.
Mark Twain ls busy advocating
| ''fonetic" spelling. but he has not gone
so far az to spell 1t "Sammule l..
| Klemenz."
Lowest rates ever in effect for
homeseekers' excursions are adopted
by the western railroads.
| Bill TO cut on public funds from all
religious schools Is taken up by the
liberals in the British parliament and
a bitter fight is opened.
Two FreDchmen are threatening Ia
fight duel over Sarah Bernhardt II
Is mconslderate OF them to talk about
1t now, Just as her season is drawing
to a c,ose.
The Chicago man who has made a
bet OF $4,000 that he can live for q
year without telling lie evidently
doesn't expect to get home ..lato
enough at night TO make his wife re
gard II as her duty to question iim
A correspondent Of the New York
World has discovered that the letters
In the word senator spell treason II
seems. however. to be impossible te
rearrange them 30 that they viii spell
regulation.
Cardinal Gibbons and other chnrci
dignitaries and Iaymen, including
Mayor Dunno. indorse the plan to or
ganize a national Roman Catholic 80
clety on the lines of the Y. NJ. C. A
William E. Curtis. writing from
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