Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-11-26
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

hunger made desperate fifty passen
gers on one of the Great Northern
trains stalled in the cascades. SO the!
ened Its destruction unless given food
The threatened destruction of the cal
caused the railway officials 10 hurry
food to the famished passengers from
an adjacent town. The passengers
who have just arrived here say the
cars were in a most filthy. unsanitary
condition and that the company or.
dered the immediate discharge of the
two brakemen on the train because
they helped the passengers in their
demands to prevent starvation.
NEW YORK. Nov. %. Mary
Smooth was arraigned In Essex Mar
ket court, fined 81, and then locked
up becai,se she didn't have the money.
She Is negro woman and was ac-
cused of being a black witch. When
arrested she wore cape. She says
1t was made from the skin of dog
which was one of seven pups, each nf
which had seven toes and all of which
had been born in a graveyard in
North Carolina at IL o'clock at Light
under the lee of a monument To 4
man who died at the age of forty-four
years. The technical charge was one
OF disorderly conduct. Saturday af-
ternoon Policeman Delaney was in
Cherry street when Sadie Sabatkin
ran to him. saying that witch was
In thn cna11u
tenants. Delaney found that the
witch" had already put a spell on
Sadies brother by means OF hitting
him on the head with a horseshoe
which she carried as charm. With
the charmed horseshoe the witch"
was just then making hypnotic passes
at few Others She was standing
on a hot stove and there were five
women and four men attacking her
When the woman was arraigned she
said she had come over from Brook
lyn to make tour of the East Side
with the object of exerting her pow
ers of second sight and healing of
rheumatism by magic.
CHICAGO, Nov. 22.-Engineer Gal
nopr OF the first section of the B. &
o. express which caused the horror
on November IL, when sixty immi-
grants were killed. was locked in jail
today. 1t was the result OF his own
dramatic confession before the grand
jury yesterday afternoon when he ad-
mitted he had not waited for a proper
return to his signal. In a state of
hysteria he said to the jury sobbingly,
Instead, | went ahead taking it for
granted that everything was all right
and the freight smashed into the sec
ond section, and l knew | had been
responsible for many deaths" The
<f6roner today held three other train
men as being in measure blanca BILE
for the disaster.
COLUMBUS, Ind, Nov. 2z.-The
trouble at the local High school over
the wearing of 'peek-a-5oo" waists
and short sleeves by the girls has
finally resulted in the expulsion of
several, though their names have not
been announced. Principal Samuel
Wertz stirred hornets nest when
he raised objections to abbreviated
costumes Of the feminine pupils. One
girl, who promised TO wear long
sleeves appeared in a ragged gar
ment. the sleeves Of which. while
long, according to agreemen., were
slit the entire length. Girls as IA
whole resented what they termed the
dress censorship. and there has been
lively time for several days in the
school,
NEW YORK, Nov. 22.-Trial mar
ria4es are advocated by Mrs. Herbert
Parsons in book she has written
called THE Family" 1t was issued
the other day and will create a SEN
aston because of the daring views it
expresses upon marriage. divorce and
social problems. Marriage on trial
Is only one of the startling theories
advocated in the book.
Mrs. Parsons is the wife of Con
gressman Herbert Parsons and
daughter of Henry Clews, the banker
She is a doctor of philosophy and
student of sociology. On the mar
riage on trial proposition she says:
at would therefore seem well from
this point of view to encourage early
trial marriage, the relation to be en-
tered into with view to permanency.
but with the privilege of breaking it
II proved unsuccessful and in the ab-
sence of offspring.
''The dogma that marriage Is On
unquestionable sacrament and the die
tum that 1t is merely a survival OF
past form OF property holding are
both dams to a proper solution of the
social question" says the writer.
''If individualism and altruism are
to be reconciled in the view that
child-bearing and rearing is the most
important of all social services" she
says. "the desirability OF change in
many social relations in and out of
the family will have to be frankly
faced. and. If necessary, new adapta-
stions must be welcomed.
Might It not be WELL" she asks
to embody in marriage licenses data
about the personal health and char
acter of the bride and bridegroom
&eWise n certificate of tho br,da,s