Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1906-10-04
clared when ousted that he would get

t even.
, George Cohen, convicted of the kill
ing of George Goodman in Denver
J mas been sentenced from one to IF
. teen years in the penitenuary. He is
In the last stage of consumption and
his sentence Is equivalent to a life
sentence
For the second time in the past
year the shops of the Florence and
Cripple Creek railway were destroyed
by fire. The cause of the fire is not
known. but is supposed to have been
started by crossed electric light
wires. The loss will approximate
$4,000
Sherman Williams, a fifteen-year
old boy, shot and instantly killed Joel
Clark at Fort Collins. 1t is claimed
Clark had assaulted the boys par
ents with an axe and he shot to save
their lives. SO strongly were appear.
ances in the boys favor that the
| sheriff did not arrest him.
gang of toughs in Las Vegas
beat Night Marshal Umbehauer into
insensibility. Thomas S. Sumate OF
the Western Carnical company and
II. l.. Miller ran to the marshals as
sistance and were both shot and seri-
ously wounded. Little hope is enter.
tanned for Miller's recovery. The
toughs escaped.
Flowers from seven states covered
the platform of Willard hail in Chi
cago at the services commemorative
OF the sixty-fifth anniversary of the
birth of Frances willard Similar
services were held simultaneously In
various cities throughout the United
States and the floral tributes were
sent from these cities to the Chicago
onion to be placed on Miss Wizards
grave.
A report OF the state department
CT labor, just issued. states that there
are now upward of 100000 wage
workers in labor unions, one-fourth OF
whom are in the United States,
Great Britain and Germany each has
nearly as many unionists as the
United States, and in the countries
in which the movement Is compare
lively new, Austria-Hungary. Italy
progress.
After lying in the garnet of an old
school house in Clevers. o., for near
!, half a century, letter written by
Samuel Ruffin in 1862 to his mother,
was delivered today to his daughter,
Mrs p. NJ. Talbot, a clerk. Ruffin
was with the Union army near Pet
ersburg, Va, when he wrote his
mother describing the movements OF
the army in the field. How the let
ter was lost is not known. 1t was
discovered by workmen tearing down
the old building. The ground on
which the school house stood was do
mated to the district by General Ben
iamin Harrison, afterwards president
of the United States.
The breaking OF chain on street
car brake in New York yesterday
was the cause of car running away
and jumping the track on an Incline,
killing child and severely injuring
score OF men and women passengers.
Mrs. Mcdonald, wife of Governor
Mcdonald, is now reported out OF
danger.
Joseph F. Smith, president Of the
Mormon church, has been arrested on
the charge OF living with five wives.
The strike of machinists and black
smiths on the Wabash road has been
settled by the men being allowed an
increase Of per cent.
The Southern Pacific announces
that cheap rates from the East will
be made to San Francisco next spring
to induce more laborers to go to the
coast.
A number OF mothers have banded
together in Akron, Ohio. and promise
TO spank daughters who are detected
in the MASKING" habit. The mayor
requested that the mothers take such
action.
Bishop Potter OF New York says
, the church has civic duties, and that
never before was the demand so In
sistent for religious bodies to interest
themselves in public questions as
| now.
Mrs. Roberta Balfour, who will be
remembered as visiting Durango
about a year ago gathering newspa'
per material, was married Sunday to
c v. Woodland, editor OF the Cripple
Creek Times.
A Santa Fe flyer hit a freight trair
near La Junta, the engine Of the pas
senger going through the caboose
The engine was derailed and the pas
sengers badly shaken up. but no fur
Their damage was done.
The action OF Mrs. Minnie Hare o
Grand Junction In shooting and kill
iLg Frank Coursey, the Rio Grand
brakeman, while trying to enter he
| house has been Justified nv the cor