The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1908-10-22

The strike of Canadian Pacific me
chahics. which started Aug. 4th, ha,
been declared Off About 10000 mer
are affected. This will be followed by
a similar declaration in the East.
1t is reported at Willemstad. Venezu
ella. that President Castro is seriousl,
i'll and that the government of Venezu
ella probably soon will have to BIZ
turned over to the vice president Of
that republic.
Gen. Louis Fitzgerald. for more thar
half century a prominent figure In
New York, died Tuesday in New Yorl
City. aged seventy-one. General Fitz
gerald made an enviable reputation in
the Civil War.
Robbers entered the house of a Jew
ish family named Cohen in the village
OF Slobodoze. Russia, and killed twelve
persons In their efforts to get away
with small amount of loot. The
murderers were arrested.
A Chinese edict just issued estab.
fishes the kuping tael as the standard
coin OF the empire. The tael and the
half tael will be SO per cent fine and
the smallest coins IS. The Mexican
dollar has been legalized pending pre-
paration of the Kuping coins.
Long Island is to have an "Adamless
Eden" Nine. Davidoff, native of
Russia. but now a resident of New
York City, is establishing an expert.
mental farm at Bellecrest, near North
port. L. l., which will be operated by
women. Men will be barred from the
greenhouses. where fruits and flowers
are to be grown every month in the
year by the aid of electricity.
There were 232.s42 natives employed
In the mining districts of the Trans
vaal In June, which was an increase Of
1916 over the previous month. The
gradual expectation of the coolies is 60
ing on. and for the month of June 3,199
were exported, as their time was ex-
pired. On the 31st of July 1S,413 Chi
nese were at WORK
Lieut.. Gov. Eben S. Draper was
nominated for governor by acclama-
ton by the Massachusetts Republican
state convention. Louis r. Frothing-
ham of Boston was nominated for lieu
tenant governor, also by reclamation.
The steamer Roosevelt, on which
Peary started from Etah, West Green.
land. August 18th in his quest for the
north pole. has three Americans be-
side Commander Peary, the regular
crew of the steamer, 25 Eskimos and
$50 dogs. The Eskimos are eager to
assist the explorer. The Roosevelt
has an ample supply of walrus meat
for the dogs.
Infatuated by the belief that the fatal
ferry disaster at Smyrna. when 14O
drowned, was due to the fact that the
captain of the Turkish steamer, which
ran down the ferryboat. was absent
from his post, mob Thursday de-
deeh company, owner of the steamer,
and burned them, together with the
piers and landing stations.
At Lemans, France. Saturday, Will
bur Wright broke another aeroplane
record. With French journalist by
his side he remained in the air for
fifty-five minutes and thirty-seven sec
onds, circling the field twenty-four
times and covering distance official
ly estimated at thirty-six miles. His
best previous flight with passenger
was eleven minutes and thirty five
and two-fiftns seconds.
The Genesee conference at Roches-
ter of the Methodist church, in the mat
ter of charges preferred against Rev. |
DR.. George III. Dyer, superintendent of
the Central Methodist district, for the |
Western Methodist Book concern,
found him guilty of business irregu-
larity constituting high imprudence
and unministerial conduct" and sus-
pended him from his office until his |
obligations are met
The government railways under con-
struction in Chile, and lines for which |
contracts are about to be let by that |
government involve an estimated cost
of $65,627,000 gold. All these lines will
be completed within five years. To
this must be added many millions OF
dollars for rolling stock during the
five years which means that invest
ments for railway improvements in
Chile during that period will approx.
mate close to 100000, 900.