Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1906-09-03

/ fifth round.
= Joseph Leibling. editor OF the Jew.
= ish Daily Press. accused OF maligning
/ rabbi and being renegade, Is ex-
communicated and pronounced an out
: cast by delegates representing all or.
0 thodox Jewish synagogues Of Chicago
: and IL IL voted to make the penalty
e worldwide.
+ The Second congressional district
Republican convention will be held In
Colorado Springs Sept, 49, The rep
resentatlon will be one delegate for
every $50 votes cast for Peabody at
the last gubernatorial election Each
of the A counties in the district Will
have. In addition. two delegates-at-
large.
Lucy Hill. the 11-year-old daughter
of Frank Hill of Kokomo, Ind, op-
propriated $40 of her fathers money
yesterday, and after buying fine
clothes and jewelry she boarded a
train with ticket to Dallas. Texas.
She went entirely alone and is now In
Oklahoma near the Texas line. The
little fugitive will he returned by the
railway officials.
Mrs. Nancy Brown, widow OF Hiram
Brown of Boonville. Ind. was struck
by lightning and instantly killed. She
had Just left her home to 60 outside
when bolt came through a big tree.
| 4,
Andraw Gallagher. pioneer and one
tine wealthy mining men OF Cripple
Creek, hanged himself to the door OF
his cell in the county jail at Cripple
Creek. Several months ago he at.
tempted to murder his wife, who has
since obtained a divorce. For this
oncnse he was under bonds and last
night his bondsmen. fearing he would
ice, gave him up to the authorities
Stricken by bolt OF lightning
while on their way to their ranch at
Ellda, N. NJ, Thomas and Victor
Simpson. brothers. were found sitting
In their wagon, dead and with their
bodies badly decomposed They
were driving four mules and the In
dications were that the animals had
been killed by the same bolt. The
| CHASTITY find was made by ]. 8. Mer-
scham, farmer OF Portales. who was
on his way to Roswell.
| Afraid to call for help lest his par.
ents should learn he had been swim
ming against their command and
thrash him. seven-year-old Dewey
Sanford. saw his playmates. George
| and Ralph Gross, drown in the Mis-
| souri, river at st. Louis without sum-
monlng two men working 100 feet
| away, who probably could have saw
ed the boys. For hours the boy kept
his secret, and only when the bodies
| had been found did he tell his story.
DR.. Martin Friedrich, health ON
Ger of Cleveland. advises women Of
the smart set to smoke cigarettes II
| they would preserve their complex
Ion, and escape heart disease. Tea,
of which society women are so fond,
causes heart disease he says. be-
cause 1t stimulates tie heart without
feeding It, Nicotine Is required to
counteract the effect CT the beverage,
| Tho doctor has declared war on the
pink tea and green" luncheons. He
says there are two kinds of complex.
ions here-natura and premeditated,
An educational test for suffrage II
| impossible In Russia, because II
would debar from the polls two-thirds
OF the voting population says VIM. q.
| Curtis. There has been considerable
progress in education, especially dur
ing the last ten years. The imoe-
rial contributions to schools have
been more than doubled, reaching an
annual total OF about $4,000. 900, and
the average attendance has Increased
from 100000 to about 100000. But
In comparison to other countries, Rus
sia Is very far behind. with an hit
crate population of 112,000.O00 and q
total of about 2s.O00.O00 who can read
and write. For population OF 49,.
100000 souls there are less than 3d.
oVo SCHOOLS OF all kinds, from kinder
gartens to universities, making an av-
erage of one school for about 1855
people. There are 3O.O0O.OOO families
in Russia. and one child for every ten
families is attending school.
Jack Dougherty and Mike Twin
Sullivan win scrap at Mute, Mont.
Monday night.
Edward Heating OF Denver was hon
ored by being elected president OF the
Press clubs.
Bob Dalton fell 20 feet down =
shaft at Cripple Creek and fortunate
ly was only slightly injured.
Judge Gerry is at Montrose renew
ing acquaintances. Mrs. Gerry re-
manned in Telluride.
Thirty-six young women of Ken
lucky, who land In New York After 4