Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-06-24
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Dubuque, Ia, was dry town Sun
day, the first time in Its history, the
saloons closing at midnight Saturday
and remained closed until 6 o'clock
Monday morning.
The Barnsdall Oil company, with a
capitalization of s10,00G,000, caused a
slight ripple in Pittsburg, when its
incorporation under the laws of Della
ware was announced.
A cyclone is reported to have de-
stroyed a sheep camp near Casper,
Wyo. Mr.. Perry, the owner, received
internal injuries from which he is
not expected to recover.
Because he had only one child an
Indiana man named John Namm, who
mover to Charlotte, Tenn, recently
from Mount Vernon, was ostracized
by residents of Charlotte, who pointed
him out as horrible example of race
suicide. Things were made so un-
pleasant for Namm that he and his
wife and child left town after a stay
of three weeks.
Commander Aldrich of the soldiers
home at Monte Vista has reinstated
Comrades Madden and Byers, whom
he expelled from the home last week
for disobeying the commanders or
ders in connection with the decora-
tion of graves on Memorial day. De-
partment Commander Mellette and
Adjt. Gen. Ferguson brought about the
reconciliation.
Apoplexy, superinduced by heat,
caused the death in Los Angeles of
Harry Stanley of Denver, who went
there last January for his health. He
had complained of feeling i'll and sud-
denly fell to the floor. Before any
one could reach him he was dead.
Stanley was a Mason and a veteran
of the civil war. A widow and two
daughters in Denver survive him.
Thrown from an overturning auto
mobile which was running at high
rate of speed in Rock Creekpa rk.
Capt. Horace F. M. Brown of the
British army, and his fiancee, Miss
Maude Vera Hanna, daughter of the
late Joseph Hanna, were badly in
jured, as weer also Mrs. Beulah Jacobs
of Cleveland, o., Miss Hanna's chap
erone, and Max Herschman, the chauf-
feur of the machine.
William Roulo of Detroit cut his
wife's throat Sunday and slashed his
own with the same razor. Both died
where they fell, in a bedroom, where
their two children were sleeping. The
pair had quarreled bitterly during
the past six months, and Mrs. Roulo
hard applied for divorce. When the
two children. aged 7 and 5 years,
awakened this morning they found
the bodies upon the floor and called
the neighbors.
Bees hilarious and made proud with
wine. have aroused the fashionable
residents of Pasadena, Cal, by their
mirthful and stinging pranks, and the
majesty of the law has been appealed
to In the hope of suppressig their
gayety. District Attorney Fredericks
was visited by several residents OF
Pasadena. including a few owners of
small apiaries, who complained to him
that the bees and flies of the Crown
City are making nuisances of them
selves by becoming intoxicated upon
fermented orange juice.
Judge Mcpherson of the United
States district court at Kansas City
handed down an opinion growing out
OF the conflict between the circuit
courts at Kansas City and st. Louis
and the federal court here over the
enforcement of the Missouri maximum
freight and 2-cent passeger laws. He
enjoins enforcement OF the maximum
freight rate law and enjoins enforce
ment OF the 2-cent cut rate law until
July IS, next, when he orders that
1t be put in force for three months
to determine whether 1t is remunera.
i've TO the railways, this enforcement
TO be without prejudice to either
party.