Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-29
TELEGRAPH NEWS.

1 ''f'o '''''ih DttNt lFrftn NdIutu
that they must not refer to the czar
except by special permission.
The widow OF the late Chas. Yerkes
has secured divorce from Miner.
The decree forbds Miner to marry
during her lifetime.
One thousand men have been laid
of by the Panama canal authorities
owing to appropriation for the year
falling short
Chicago win receive sl,35g.000 an.
nually from the traction companies
under the settlement ordinance, ac-
cording to official estimates.
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden is as-
| founded at Newport's wealth and says
he would be glad to trade n couple Of
palaces for one of It's Cottages"
DR. Allen McLane Hamilton, noted
alienist Of New York. asserts hrm be-
lief in the sanity and mental vigor of
Mrs. May Baker G.. Eddy as a result
ol examination.
Orders have been given by the II.
| llnois Central for 5000 box cars for
delivery In September, making 1000
| cars ordered this year. In addition
the company Is receiving fifty new
locomotives
Walter Welman writes OF the guide
rope and retarder of the polar airship
which are made in the form of ser
pents, and which are filed with ,43S
pounds of food, to be used in case
| of necessity.
An explosion occurred at the Dupont
De Femours powder works at Sobrante
on the bay shore, 16 miles north of
Berkeley Saturday. There were three
shocks Two persons are dead and
six seriously injured.
| Vice President Mohler OF the Union
Pacific has prepared statistics of the
July service showing that railroad cas-
ualties are decreasing. In July, with
All aggregate of i.500, 900 miles of high
speed mileage there was not single
fatality
Ten persons were killed and twenty
five injured in a head on collision
| Sunday between an express train
bound from Bordeaux for Paris and a
| freight train. The accident was caus-
ed by n misplaced switch. None OF
| those killed or wounded were Ameri-
| cans.
The comptroller of the currency
| says there is no fear of a commercial
disaster as the country was never III
| a more prosperous condition The
| treasury department has taken steps
to ease the money market and give
the wheels of business fresh impetus
all over the country.
Twelve million dollars is the enor.
nous amount paid in penalties by in.
surance companies last year. accord
ing to speech made by State In
surance Commissioner f. e. Ritten-
house before the convention of Ma.
tional Association OF Life Underwrit.
ers in Toronto. Canada, last Wednes.
day.
| Cheyenne merchants are organizing
to fight the mail order houses. It is
claimed that fully one-half of the
clothing and dress goods purchased by
the people of Cheyenne come from out
side towns. and the local merchants
are deprived of this business, TO sas
nothing of the hardware. notions. nov
elites, etc. that are secured through
the mail order houses
As a result of the Increase in wagei
and shorter hours in Wyoming Goa
mines. there Is general influx o
American miners to all OF the Goa
camps. All are given employment a.
fast as they come, and at the presen
rate of arrival It will not be man.
months until the mines OF Wyoming
will be fully manned for the first tim
In quarter OF a century
Railroad rates from points west O
Chicago to the national Grand Arm
VI Nut iN'ihbht at biId
toga, N. Y, are unrcasonably hig
and unjust. according to complaint
received by the Interstate commerc
commission in Washington. Anon
the complainants are r. A. Campbell
department commander OF Kansas
+ who claims that the railroads are gi'
$ ing excursion rates to the Jamestow
a exposition, with stopoyer privilege
g nearly everywhere, while the only sto
4 over allowed on encampment excu
d sion tickets is at Niagara.
Because of Its inability to MI tn
r order the Philadelphia and Readin
Coal and Iron company was compelle
to decline contract for 100000 tor
OF anthracite. the order for which WI
e rendered by representative of A
a stroHungarian chambers OF commerc