Durango semi-weekly herald. (Durango, Colo.) 1899-1907, 1906-09-17
GENERAL NEWS.

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bomb al policeman.
There will be social session OF
the Eagles tonight a full attendance
is wished Tor There will be business
OF Importance.
Theodore Torch and company who
played fpr Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde, in
Durango last winter. are having a
good run on the same play In Pueblo.
Mrs Laura T. Dent, sister-in.iaw
OF Gen, y. S, Grant. died in an In
sane asylum In San Bernardlno. Cal,
after being an inmate IA years.
| William e Curtis writes shat vien-
ma is taking the lead in municipal
ownership. running It's street cars, a
brewery, saloon and other enter
prses
number of husbands OF Golden
have formed literary society. In
order that the women of that town
may not absorb all the intellectual
life of the community.
Stanley ]. Bomozzi was drowned in
a. placer fume at Twin Lakes near
Bnena Vista Tuesday He fell into
the fume, The water was six feet
deep and swift,
| The United German Catholic So
cieties in convention at Springfield,
Ill, adopted a resolution commencing
tho stand taken by President Roose-
welt and Grover Cleveland against
woman's suffrage.
A new ruling OF the Burlington
system reduces engineers WHO wear
classes to lower and less remunra-
tive situations. Engineers may re-
volt A conference has been asked
for.
Safety deposit vaults OF the Night
and Day Bank In New York will be
Kept open nights during the social
season In order that women may take
out their Jewels for the opera and
leave them again after the perform
mace
A wedding has been postponed in
Miller s. D.. because the bride can
not get a pair of shoes In the town
big enough for her. She wears No.
II, double p and a rush order has
been sent out. Manufacturers say
special Size VIII have 20 be made and
1t viii be 30 days before the couple
can be married,
Frank Sarano, an Italian, In re-
venge for being discharged. made an
attempt on the life of Edward Kav-
anaugb, smelter foreman at Salida.
The Italian was slipping up behind
Kavanaugh with knife when a
warning cry from an outlooker made
the latter turn. Kavanaugh grappled
with his assallant and disarmed him.
Edwin and Howard Could, as well
as George Gould, are now members OF
the board Of directors of the Denver
Rio Grande railway. They have
been named to I'll the vacancies
made by the resignation OF Morti-
mer L. scbiff and William II. Taylor,
New York bankers. who retired from
the directorate Of several large corpo-
rations recently.
The trial Of Cape Glrardeau, Mo-,
of Charles NJ. Smith. James e. Smith
and Rex Smith, three brothers OF
Sikeston, on the charge of peonage Is
in progress in the United States dis
trlct court. Three hundred Witnesses
came in from the swamps to testify.
The charge against the Smiths Is
that they have held forty-two ne
groes four OF them women. In practi-
cal slavery and made them work on
900 acres OF reclaimed swamp land.
Mrs. Clarence Mackey has won her
fight as a member OF the school board
At her Long Island home. for condi-
tlonai spanking. Instead OF the old
fashioned method OF tanning a youth
whenever the teacher deemed 1t nee
essary, the case viii be submitted to
the principal and IT, after due delib-
Grafton, he shall decide to whip the
pupil, a full report of the incident
shall be laid before the school board.
Taken all in all. the whipping of pu-
pills OF these Long Island schools Is
almost as serious n matter as meet
ing of Uncle Sans naval board of
strategy.
II Is now pretty certain that Judge
Lindsey win run for governor on an
independent ticket. He had previous
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