The Colorado statesman., 1908-07-25

Governor Conner of Alabama has an
nounced that the state will resist in
the courts the increase of freight rates
as proposed by the general managers
of railroads south of the Ohio and east
of the Mississippi rivers.
Bishop Henry C. Potter of the Prot
testant Episcopal Church, diocese of
New York, died at his summer home in
Cooperstown, New York on Tuesday,
the 21st inst, after long illness. He
was one of the most noted divines of
America.
Two trainloads of imported labor,
strike-breakers, were placed in the
mines in the Birmingham, Alabama,
district, July 22d with military escort
and there was not the least interfer-
ence on the part of the strikers or sym
pathizers.
The Lusitania has again broken the
transatlantic eastward bound record,
crossing from New York to Queens
town in five days and thirty-seven min
utes which is two hours and forty four
minutes better than the previous
record.
A number of American victories
were recorded in the field sports held
at Frankfort-on-the-Ma Main Tuesday In
connection with the international gym
nastic tournament. The events in
cluded the high and broad jumps, put
ting the shot, the triple jump, the long
throw, the running and free exercises.
Drinking, even out of ones own flask
in passenger train in Louisiana con-
stitutes a misdemeanor punishable by
fine or Imprisonment, or both, ac-
cording to new state law which went
into effect July goth. The only excep-
tions are cases of actual sickness and
stimulants taken with meals in dining
cars.
A Los Angeles ostrich farm has
leased to New York theatrical COM
pany six full grown ostriches for a
period of twenty weeks. During that
time the big birds will be featured in
a New York production and if the plans
of the promoters go not astray a SOU
brette will appear as the rider of each
ostrich.
Kentucky night riders on July 22d
burned the stations of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad Company at Gracey in
Christian county, at Cerulean, in Trigg
county, and at Otter Pond, in Caldwell
county. The railroad had given permis-
sion to Madisonville soldiers on duty
its property.
Lieut.. Guy Burr, who was wounded
July 10th in an attack on outlaws at
Gotta, on the island of Mindanao has
died from his wounds. Lieutenants
Burr and Whitney, commanding a de-
tachment of the constabulary, stormed
Gotta, which was occupied by the out
law, Uyan. Fourteen of the outlaws
were killed and two guns captured.
One thousand butchers met in con-
gress at Antwerp to discuss the meat
situation in Belgium and passed a reso-
luton to the effect that the restrictions
on the importation of American cattle
were responsible for the present high
prices of meat. They demanded that
these restrictions be abolished. No less
than $4,000 head of cattle are imported
into Belgium every year.
Acvcording to a semi-official state
ment, the National Lead Company, a
subsidiary of American Smelling, did
| for the first six months of this year
ninety-nine per cent of the business
done in the corresponding period of
last year, decrease of only one per
cent. January and February were poor
months, the later months showed pre-
nomenal improvement
The Iron Trade Review of Cleveland,
Ohio says: THE prosperity of the
farmer continues to be strongly re-
Elected in the Improvement of the iron
business, which is shown not only in
such products as wire, which go direct
ly to the farm, but also in bars used
by implement manufacturers and in
the increased activity of railroad shops,
which are preparing cars to move
heavy crops"