The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-13

don on the Sth inst. Felic Nazzare, the
italian driver, made a worlds automo-
bile record over a distance of two and
three-quarter miles, travelling at the
rate of 120 miles an hour.
The two thousand employees of the
American Waltham Watch Company's
factory at Waltham were notified
Monday that the works will be shut
down on June 26th until August 4th
The factory has been running on short
time for several months
The United Confederate Veterans at
their annual convention in Birming
ingham. Alabama, selected Memphis
as the place for their next reunion
and elected General Clement A. Evans
of Georgia as commander-in-chief to
succeed the late Stephen d. Lee.
Wireless telegraph stations are be
ing installed on the roofs of the Wal
dorf-Astoria in New York and the
Bellevue -Stratford in Philadelphia
Messages will be sent between the
two hotels and rooms will be reserved
by passengers on incoming vessels.
After protracted negotiations it has
been decided that there are too many
difficulties in ,ne way of an athletic
meeting for track and field events be-
tween British and American teams to
follow the Olympic games in London
this summer and the matter has been
dropped
The new scout cruiser Salem was
given her shaking down" trial on the
measured mile course off Province
town, Mass, Sunday and made 25.9
knots in her best mile, the mean of
several high speed runs being 25.73
knots. The contract calls for "a
knots.
A thousand homes were shaken as
though by an earthquake, 500 windows
were shattered and a fireworks plant
and two dwelling houses were wrecked
at Newcastle, Pa, Sunday night when
two tons of powder and enough fire
works for half dozen celebrations ex-
ploded.
According to a wireless message re-
ceived at London the Lusitania has
again wrested the record for the best
days steaming from her sister ship,
the Mauretania, having covered GAL
knots between noon of Sunday and
noon of Monday This is six knots
better, than the record of the Maure-
tania.
Archbishop Nixon, formerly of
Georgia, was assassinated by revolu-
tionists at Tiflis, Caucasus, on the
steps of the Synodical building, on
the 10th inst A monk, who was in
attendance upon the archbishop, was
severely wounded. The assassins emp
tied their revolvers into the body of
the archbishop and escaped.
John Hays Hammond, who has an
nounced his candidacy for the Repub-
lican vice presidential nomination, was
registered as voter at Gloucester,
Massachusetts. on the 10th inst. He
answered the formal questions, proved
his ability to read selection from
the constitution of the United States,
and then took the necessary oath.
The Persian Assembly asked the
Shah today to recall the officials ar
bitrarily exiled and give them free
trial. If they are proved to be traitors
and conspirators they should be pun
ished according to law The Shah re-
fused. He intends to arrest several
others, and threatens to blow up the
city If an attempt at resistance is
made.
Word reached the City of Mexico
Saturday that bandits attacked a pay
train on the way to the Les Grandes
mines, near Belsas, in the state of Gu
errero OF the escort of four men
three were killed and one wounded.
Four thousand dollars was stolen.
Rurales are in pursuit of the highway
men The mine belongs to an Amer
lean company.
No persons over fifty years of age
will be admitted hereafter to teaching
positions in the Chicago public schools.
The board of education made this rul-
ing by vote of II to a. incidentally
the trustees gave their official con-
firmation to the statement of the su-
perintendents office that this age
limit appears to be the point at which
the mental and physical vigor of those
who come to us has begun to decline" 3"