The Colorado statesman., 1908-06-27

Secretary Taft was at New Haven
Tuesday and sat, with members of his
class OF rs in Yale university, to wit
ness base ball game between Yale
and Harvard, in which Yale won.
"A telegram received at Manila from
the island of Negros tells of the muir
der OF H. ID. Everett, a government for
ester; 7. B. Wakley, a school teacher,
and four Filipinos by Hill tribesmen.
The Empress of China left Yoko-
homa, Japan, Sunday with 100 saloon
and $50 Chinese steerage passengers
and the Empress of India left day
later with fifty saloon and 345 Chin
ese.
A bill to prevent the drinking of in
toxicating liquors on passenger trains
in Louisiana has been passed by the
House of that state, 81 to IL. The bill
mad previously been passed by the
Senate.
Leon de la Grange will come to
America late in July and in the first
two weeks of August will give exhi-
bitions of his aeroplane flights in some
locality in the immediate vicinity OF
New York City.
The friends of George A Garden,
chairman of the state Democratic ex-
ecutive committee of Texas, are try
ing to organize strength to make him
temporary chairman of the national
convention at Denver.
Six hundred women held a mass
meeting in Brownville, Brooklyn, and
declared their intention to fight
against the increased prices of meat
and fowls. They also paraded and sew
eral meat stores were stoned.
The Independent Order of Foresters,
after lively contest at it's supreme
council at Toronto, adopted the in
crease in rates urged by the officers.
The advances range from forty to one
hundred per cent, according to age
In the United States Court at To
iedo, Ohio, the Toledo Ice and Coal
Company pleaded guilty to the three
counts charging it with receiving re-
bates from the Ann Arbor Railroad
Company, Judge Kyler assessed a
fine of 81 200 on each count.
The situation with regard to the
cholera outbreak in the province of
Pangasinan, on the island of Luzon,
P. l., is very serious. Ninety-three
cases were reported in twenty-four
hours, sixty of which proved fatal
Cholera has broken out at Camp
| Gregg, Manila.
The big tower of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance building in Madison
Square is almost completed. This new
est addition to New York's sky-scrap-
ers is 727 feet high, far overtopping
the Singer building. The original plan
was to have the tower only 65S feet
| high, but the Ilans were changed and
several stories added.
News has reached the Hague that
rebellion has broken out at Padang,
along the west coast of Sumatra, which
has reached alarming proportions. Ac-
cording to the reports from Batavia,
Java, almost the whole native popu-
| lace is reported to have risen under
| the leadership of fanatical priests.
Three battles have been fought.
VASTLY Rebikoff. a Russian inven-
tor, has arrived in America to exhibit
his new motor boat to the United
States government. He asserts that
with twelve horsepower he can main
tain a speed of thirty-one miles an
hour and make the journey up the
Hudson from New York to Albany in
four and cne-half hours.
Leon De La Grange, the French
aeroplanist, made a flight at Milan,
Italy, June oath, and was in the air
for nearly IS minutes. He would have
surpassed his record of the day before,
when he remained in the air for 16
minuates and 80 seconds, had not of
the wheels of his aeroplane lightly
touched the ground for an instant
while he was circling the course.