Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-09-12

in Lead. S. D.. it is said he was
promised s125,000 at the death of ht-
mother. Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy.
Sumner says the investigation made
by the bureau of labor in Washington
shows that the percentage of increase
in wages in 1906 was greater than
( the increase in the price of food.
Denver is having hard streak of
! luck in auto accidents. The machine
that killed young Howlands Sunday
night was going at the speed of forty
mile an hour-the pace that kills.
I You can go almost anywhere in
New England on trolley ear. You
can make the journey from New York
to Boston that way and for pleasure
and comfort it is next to an auto
mobile.
! The telephone companies in all the
I larger cities have notified their pa
| irons that hereafter the lower rates
for night messages will not be in
force. all messages to be at the reg.
ular day rates. This change applies
to the long distance service.
j. w. Midgley and other expert rail-
road men fear freight car shortages
this fall and winter even worse than
that OF last year, especially because
of the failure of the American Rail
way association to adopt a stringent
rule against misuse of foreign" cars
| by certain lines.
Based on the physical defects and
home conditions of 1.4O0 school chill
dren of New York 1t is estimated that
12,OOO,O00 OF the children of the
United States have physical defects
| more or less serious which should re.
ceive attention from parents and ply
sicians.
The leaders in the American league
are surely playing ball. And the differ
ent managers are sparing no expense
to win. Detroit is offering big odds
Cor Immediate delivery of two play
| ers from other clubs while Chicago
three pitchers.
Already, and several weeks earlier
| than usual. the flight to London from
coast and country has begun and the
chill September is cutting short the
season which hotel proprietors and
boarding house keepers were relying
upon to compensate them for the grea&
losses sustained in May. June and
July. Pleasure steamboats, have had
most disastrous season.
During heavy thunder storm near
| Hot Springs Edward Barnes was kill
| ed by lightning while riding In
| wagon. A boy riding with him was
| found unconscious, The team of
| horses lay dead in the road. Wedding
| guests had assembled in anticipation
| of the marriage of Barnes and when
| he failed to appear at the appointed
time search was instituted and his
dead body found.
Notwithstanding the collapse of the
| uDcompleted south end Of the big can
tilever bridge over the st. Lawrence
| at Quebec August 20, In which seven
| ty-fve skilled laborers and engineers
were carried down to their deaths, the
| Phoenix Bridge company of Phoenix
vile, Pa, announced that the work
would go on, and that they will make
good on their contract to complete the
structure.
| The new firm of Golfers, who hence
forth will be the exclusive publishers
| OF Hall Gaines works, announces that
he has undertaken to revise and large
ly rewrite his first book, "Recollec
tions OF Rossetti" 1t will be publish
ed in the middle of October, exactly
one-quarter of century after it's first
publication. But 1t will be essentially
new book, containing all Of the best
of the original volume, but embodying
new letters, new biographical material
and a great deal of matter which II
was thought undesirable to publish
Immediately after the poets death.
| A craze among London society peo-
| pie which Is growing to quite extrava'
( giant dimensions is the scented bath.
Leading perfume makers are working
overtime in manufacturing new per
fumes for the autumn season. This Is
the time of the year at which new
preparations are put on the market
and the secret of each particular firm
is jealousy guarded until the actual
day OF sale arrives. Nowadays society
demands In scents as in every thing
else, a constant change, and manu-
lecturers are agreed that old fashion
ed and simple perfumes, except, per
haps. lavender water and eau de co
logne. are doomed.