Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-02-12

cred from the Valencia wreck.
The American Smelling company IL
spending n million of dollars In i'm
provements and innuguratng new
system Of roasters.
Father Joseph Murgas of Wilkes
Barre, Pa. has invented method of
sending wireless messages TO Europe
through the earth instead of through
the air.
Transcontinental roads running out
of Chicago have combined in regard
10 running fast trains for carrying
mails. Hereafter 1t will not he mat,
ter OF speed.
Ralph Glaze is receiving great
deal of notoriety these days. II now
seems that the Savannah club has
sold his release and Slattery's win.
ner viii play with the Boston Ameri-
cans.
movement is on foot in the city
OF Denver TO secure the establishment
of United States sub-treasury in
| that city. The bank reports show
that there are s60.O00.o0O on deposit
in the Colorado capitals banks.
| Congressman Boutell of Chicago. In
AN interview at Washington. says
there is sentiment for tariff revision
in the house but tnat Republican rep
rosentatiyes are so divided as to
which duties should be lowered thar
any action is impossible
Mail handling conditions at Chicn-
COS new postofhce are declared seri-
ons and growing worse each day, with
the force Of clerks entirely inadequate
even with the men working hours
| over time, Postmaster Busse will
make one more appeal for relief al
| though he was told that nothing could
| be done until July !.
Congressman William Peters Hep
burn, whose home is in Clarlnda. Ia.
| and who is said to he slated MS one OF
the now members of the Interstate
commission. is now serving his ninth
term in Congress, and is chairman of
| the committee on Interstate and for
Ieign commerce. He was born I'm
Wellsville. o.. in 1898. and was but
9 years old when he was brought to
Iowa tthen n territory by his par
ents. In early life he was printer
but meanwhile read law and was ad-
| mittcd to the bar In 1854 Mr.. Hep
burn served In an Iowa cavalry regi
| ment during the war. holding the
| rank Of lieutenant colonel when mus
tered out. He always has been active
in politics and was solicitor of the
| treasury during the administration of
President Benjamin Harrison.
Mrs. Alice Sewell of Swainsboro
| Ca. has broken the record made by
, the widow of c. I. Yerkes Last Fri.
| day Mrs. Sewell's husband. who was
one of the wealthiest men In that sec
| ton OF the state, died. leaving all his
property to her Saturday afternoon
he was buried The widow, attlred
in becoming weeds, was at the ser
vices and showed much emotion. At
tending the funeral was Robert s.
Mcdaniel. who had been In love with
Mrs. Sewell before her marriage He
accompanied the widow as she left
the grave of her husband Sunday It
became known that the couple, after
leaving the grave, went to the office
of Judge Sutton and were made man
and wife. Immediately after the GER
emony they left on a wedding trip.
Mrs. Sewell is reported TO have said
that she needed some one to comfort
her and that she knew Mcdaniel had
loved her long.
Winifred Black administers Sc
we're rebuke to tne jury that acquitted
Mrs. Schmidlap, but 1t remained for
the presiding Judge to give them
| rap they will remember. as follows:
THE court desires TO say with re
spect to the request of the district
attorney that the jury which returned
the verdict on this morning should
he excused from further attendance
upon the court for the term that the
court itself has felt so great lndigna-
tion concerning the verdict that It felt
that II could not trust Itself concern
Ing the matter this morning II now
feels after lapse Of few hours that
II can speak coolly and dlspassionate-
ly and II desires to say that 1t CON
siders the verdict an outrage upon so
proach to the administration of tne
law. II was such a verdict as would
Indicate either that the jurors had not
capacity to weigh evidence or that
their reason Is cloudod or may be
easily clouded by mawksh or mandlln
sentimentality. | am fully convinced
| that tney can be OF no further service
10 the court In the administration of
Justice and they are excused for the
| term
Breakdown Of the nervous system
s no mere society craze which 1t is
fashionable TO suffer from, but is be
coming national calamity which
bids fair 10 rob our descendants of
many of those qualities which have
done so much to make this empire
what 1t is" This prognosticaiion
forms striking passage In an article
in the Contemporary Review by DR..
Guthrie Rankin. London physician.
This article Is interesting to Ameri-
can readers from the fact that the
neuraSthenta or nervous break down