Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1910-11-21


nual convention. The gathering wa.
opened this morning with a genera
discussion of the demands and oppor
tunities for girls in trades and
stores. The session will continue fol
three days, during which time all the
different phases of the problems oil
industrial education will be exhaus
lively discussed.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. IL
The population of San Francisco Is
4l6,9l2, according to the thirteenth
census. This is an increase of 74.1s
| per cent over 1900.
| WASHINGTON. d. c., Nov. IL
Reform OF sleeping car abuses by gov.
ernmental requirement that less toll
shall be exacted for upper berths than
for lower is expected by students OF
railroad problems to be the eventual
outcome OF proceedings now under way
before the interstate commerce com
mission
| Already the first federal move in
|
change was ordered by the commits
sion on the sleeping ear service be.
| tween Chicago and St. Paul and st.
Paul and Seattle and other points.
| The sleeping car companies are un-
der the decision of Judge Grooscup.
are enforced to the enforcement OF
| this ruling
MONTREAL, Nov. 17.-Al arrange
ments have ben completed at the
i Montreal Jail for the execution to-
morrow of Timothy Candy, the Eng.
lishman who shot and killed Consta-
BILE Forth and O'Connell on May G
| last The double murder was commit
| ted while the constables were at
tempting to arrest Candy for the theft
| of some bots and shoes. which he
| had stolen from a factory where he
was employed as Waterman. The
| condemned man, who had not been
| in the country a great while when
| the crime was committed, has a wife
| and children in England
LAWRENCE, Mass, Nov. 17,-Ir
ST. Mary's church today the weddins
of Patrick j. Donovan, manager Of
the Boston American baseball team
and Miss Theresa Agnes Mahoney. the
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs Maurice ]
Mahoney A lnrgely-attended recep
ton al the home of the brides parents
fal1 n Of abIIrnh
TULA. Russia, Nov. 17,-Count Toll
stoi is still alive, and even said 10 be
slightly improved this morning. His
condition, however, continues criti-
cal and for many hours symptoms
have been such as to give rise 10 FIRE
quent reports that the end had come
Such reports emanated from Moscow
last night and IL was some time before
its falsity could be established.
The aged author passed a restless
night at the home of the station mas
ter at Astapova to which he was re
moved when illness seized him after
his mysterious flight from his home
AT 8 o'clocn this morning tae count
is sleeping His temperature. 10l last
night. had fallen to 100. The inflama-
ton of the lungs is less menacing-
On the other hand his pulse is alarm
ingly high intermittently. The
weakness OF the heart action was the
cause of greatest anxiety and physi-
clans are prepared to resort to the
use of oxygen. The case is aggrava.
ted by the condition of the kidneys,
which are greatly swollen and inflam
ed
Countess Tolstoi has not been ad
mitted to the sick chamber and even
the fact of her arrival has been con-
cealed from Tolstoi lest the knowi
edge of her coming should overexcite
him.
TELLURIDE, Nov. 17.-Jesse r.
Mum was arraigned Tuesday morn
ing in the District court at Telluride,
on the charge of murder in the first
degree for the killing of Night Marshal
Arthur Goeglein on the night OF July
5 ldSt, anu tHiti GU pi'o VI NO.
guilty" Attorneys Russell and Reese
of Durango, who represent Mum have
filed a petition for a change of venue,
on the ground that the defendant can
not secure fair trial in San Miguel
county because of the feeling of the
people. This petition will be argued
before the court tomorrow morning at
10 O'Clock
Mum showed by his pallor that he
has suffered from the confinement OF
the past two months, but his answers
to the court were clear and distinct.
DENVER. Nov. 1S.-Another OF
those swift catastrophes that mark the
progress OF aviation like mile posts
on a highway occurred at Overland
park yesterday afternoon. Ten thou
sand people saw the American. Ralph
tombstone. perhaps the most indomi-
table operator of an air machine that
the world has ever produced fall 800
feet to his death, interrupted by an ac-
cident to his bi-plane in the execution
of the most difficult and perllous feat