The Colorado statesman., 1908-11-07

I American soldiers will hold a polo
and military athletic meet in Manila be-
| ginning January 5th.
The reception which was accorded
the visiting business men from the Pa
cific coast of the United States at
Kobe, Japan. was of a most enthusias-
tic nature and attended by scenes of
popular demonstration such as had not
been observed since the exciting days
| of the Japauese-Russian war.
Col. Robert E. Wing, editor and pub
| Usher of the New Orleans State, de-
| livered at Democratic national head
quarters in Chicago Friday check for
$4,000 for the Democratic campaign
fund. This brings the total of collec-
tions raised by his paper to $4,000,
which is said to be the record for
popular newspaper collections.
James Kerr, Democratic national
committeeman from Pennsylvania,
died October 30th at his summer home
in New Rochelle. following an opera
tion for an intestinal disorder which
had made him practically an invalid
for year He was fifty-seven years
old. Bryan visited Kerr the Monday
before his death and the latter was
much elated
The recent disposition of the Neither
lands warships that have been max
ing their headquarters at Willemstad
indicates that there will be no specific
action on the part of Holland against
Venezuela for the next week. Ru
mors are afloat that two foreign fleets,
one Italian and one British, are on
their way to Willemstad for joint ac
ton with the Netherlands.
There is absolutely and positively
not the slightest foundation in fact for
such a report" was the way which
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., in the carpet
factory at Hartford, took of emphat-
ically and finally disposing of the re-
port from Washington that he was en-
gagged to marry Miss Carrie A. Mum,
daughter of Mrs. Charles A. Mum of
Washington
AS a result of feudal war at Cam
pom Junction about 20 miles west of
Jackson, KY, Islow Allen, aged 20
years, was shot and killed Monday
night; Alvin Graver, aged %, was
badly injured and Clarence Sherman,
who did the shooting, was shot in the
head, but managed to escape to the
mountains. Eight barrels of whisky
shipped into town for the election
brought on the trouble.
Three suits for 100000 each against
William r. Hearst, principal, and 9TH
ers, were begun in the Superior Court
at Chicago Saturday by Jacob j. Kern,
Democratic candidate for states attor-
ney for Cook county. The actions, it
is claimed by the attorney filing the
suits, are based on editorials, cartoons
and stories printed in papers con-
trolled by Mr.. Hearst and attacking the
character of Kern.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Pennsylvania Tunnel & Terminal Rail-
road Company in Philadelphia Monday
there was awarded to the Westing-
house Electric & Manufacturing Com
pany contract for the electrification
OF the Pennsylvania terminal in New
York, and the lines in New Jersey and
Long Island connected with it, The
initial amount of apparatus required
will aggregate $5,00O,000.
A tabulation of statistics of fifty-five
societies reporting to the national fra
ternal congress for 1907, including
nearly 100000 members, shows a
lapse ratio of S5 per 1000, the smallest
proportion reported since 1899. The
death ratio was S.S1 per 1,OOO or sub
! stantially the same as the average for
the past ten years. The management
expense per capita was S1.93, as COM
pared with S1.S9 for 1906, and $191 for
1905. Based on protection in force the
expense for 1907 was $1.39 per 81 900 as
compared with s1.32 for 1906.
MEMS FROM WASHINGTON