Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-15
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

| Gov. Currys first appointee was A
p. Tankerton adjutant general
In New York last week 1853 chill
dren under 8 yeara of age died.
Independent bakeries of the east ar.
to be included in new cracker com
bine. with a capital of $4,000, 900.
The report that the C. & S. were us
ing Japs as brakeman on the Wyom
ing division is denied.
New York teachers have put ban on
Teddy bears. fearing it win lessen
the devotion of children to dolls.
The bond of fifty-six million re-
quired of the Standard Oil will be
the largest in the history of criminal
Jurisprudence.
| Shrinkage in Standard Oil stock
| shows a loss of over three hundred
million dollars since the government
fights were inaugurated.
Secretary Haywood attended mass
meeting held in Chicago yesterday for
the purpose of raising funds to de-
'N'' +"tsti anu tliibout.
The settlement of the coal troubles
In the Wyoming field carries with it
20 per cent increase In wages and
ar eight hour day.
John Armstrong Charles, who has
been declared sane in Virginia, is still
insane in New York. according to a
depisipn rendered Saturday
Lieutenant Peary says only n new
trump card played by Mother Nature
can keep him from reaching the north
pole on his next attempt.
Health Commissioner Porter of New
York, in speech at Chautauqua, says
many are murdered by the sellers of
canned goods and patent medicines.
The supreme court of California
has sustained the primary election law
passed by the last legislature, requir-
ing voters to state their party afflia-
tions at the time they register.
Sumner wires from Washington that
Secretary Taft is preparing to base his
campaign for the presidential nomina-
ton on the argument that his election
will mean a practical continuation of
the Roosevelt administration.
Massachusetts alone has over seven
hundred million dollars on deposit in
savings banks and savings In the coun
try have increased two hundred mil
lion the past year. This country is
not going to the demnition bow-wows.
The Western Union announces that
1t will fight the union operators and
expects to win the same as 1t did in
1883. The company will find condi-
tions greatly changed to what they
were twenty-five years ago.
The anthracite coal tonnage in July
aggregated 5,602,435 tons, against a.
9S1 ,44s in July. 1906; for the year to
July 30, 3S,4S7 ,O3O. against 30367 .249
tons last year. The July tonnage was
the heaviest ever recorded for that
month.
Michael C. Mcdonald, a prominent
Chicago gambler died Friday, having
accumulated million or so. 1t was
McDonald's wife who shot and killed
n man named McGuerin last winter
because he refused to longer continue
intimate relations with her McDon-
aid provided for her defense in his
will.
Sumner says the interview Of Attor-
ney General Bonaparte in which 1t
was intimated that criminal prosecu-
tion might soon be commenced against
against e. II. Hartman is not taken
seriously in Washington, because the
government MP to date has failed to
secure tangible evidence that he has
been guilty of crime.
Two trainmen were killed, three
more probably fatally injured and
scores Of persons were INJURED by the
explosion of half car of nltrogly-
cerin at the Michigan Central railroad
station at Essex, Ont, seventeen miles
inland from the Detroit river. Practi-
cally every building in the town of
800 persons was damaged, many OF
them being blown to pieces. The shock
of the explosion was plainly felt for
twenty miles. 1t was so heavy in this
city that windows were broken in a
Jefferson avenue automobile garage.
At the funeral of Anna Markowitz,
who was assaulted and murdered at
Dayton. o. near the spot where Dona
Gilman met a similar fate. the officiat-
ing rabbi formally and with ceremony
cursed the ground upon which the
girl had been killed. He prayed that
no rain would ever fall upon 1t and
that no flower or spear of grass would
grow upon it. He recited psalm and
then went to each member Of the be
reaved family and slit their garments
with knife. This was done in ac-
cordance with an ancient custom. to
show that the heart is torn with grief.
Satisfied that Gary. Ind. will be
the steel capital of the world the
directors of the United States Steel
have decided to invest an