The Colorado statesman., 1908-07-18

Fire at Grand Fork, British Colum-
bia, on LLe 10th inst. destroyed the
buildings on two blocks and caused
loss of nearly 100000. Barnaby Malo,
guest of the Vanhalia hotel, was
burned to death.
The executive committee on foreign
missions Of the Southern Presbyterian
church In Nashville, Tennessee, has
petitioned Rev. Motter Martin, mis-
sionary for the Congo Free State. to
invite President Roosevelt to visit the
mission during his trip to Africa
By vote of 81 to the city council
OF Cleveland passed an ordinance de-
creelng that henceforth no private eel
ebrat1on of the Fourth of July by the
use OF firearms or fireworks shall oc-
cur. The ordinance was the result of
The death of ten persons in this years
Independence day observation.
The lepers located on the island of
Molokai have purchased large guam
tity of daylight fireworks which will
De used to salute the Atlantic battle
snip fleet as it passes the island. A
large place which, on its explosion
will form the word Welcome" has
been placed in a position of vantage.
The bodies of H. D. Everett, a gov
ernment forester and r. E. Wakeley. a
school teacher, who were murdered sew
eral weeks ago by tribesmen while on
an expedition into the unexplored
mountain regions of the Island of Ne
gros, nave been recovered by Lieut..
Ahern of the constabulary forces, after
difficult aHi dangerous search.
Henry Farman's preparations for his
trip to the United States from Paris
are complete. His aeroplane will be
shipped aboard the steamship Phila-
delphia. His paraphernalia includes a
model one-tenth the size of the aero
plane, with which test of the wind
and atmospheric condition will be
made before his flights.
Gen. Erasmus Blakeslee, soldier,
minister, author and editor and proml-
nent in the Sunday school world as the
author, editor and publisher of the
Graded Sunday School Lessons, died
at his home in Brookline, Massachu-
sets, on the 18th inst after brief ill
ness. He was many times commended
for bravery during the Civil war and
was a brigadier general
A lake of oil covering an area of
more than one square mile, and of un-
known depth, in the state of Vera Cruz,
Mexico, is on fire. 1t has been burn
ing for five days and has created the
widest terror among the natives of
that section. The blaze is seen for
more than 200 miles at sea, according
to navigators who have arrived at
Vera Cruz and Tampico.
Pressed to take some action to pre-
vent the American beef combine from
obtaining control of the retail beef
trade in Great Britain, Winston Chur-
chill, president of the Board of Trade,
informed Lord Robert Cecil in the
House of Commons that the operations
of the six firms constituting the beef
combine were receiving the careful at
tention of the government.
With view of lessening the number
of accidents occurring throughout the
United States, the American Anti-Acci-
dent Association of Sharpsville, Penn
sylvania, has asked the press of the
country to make a special feature of all
accidents occurring in this country,
placing the occurrences under a regu-
lar heading as is done with sporting,
financial and other features that are
classified.
A Berlin news bureau has received
private dispatch from Sosnowice,
Russian Poland, stating that a plot
against the life of Emperor Nicholas
has been discovered there. The con
spiracy, according to the dispatch, was
well planned and had many ramifica-
tions. More than 100 men and women
were arrested at Sosnowice, charged
with being implicated in the plot, and
other arrests are impending.
After two years of litigation over
the will of Daniel B. Wesson, who died
in August, 1906, leaving a $25,000,000
estate, compromise has been reached
in the Supreme Court of Massachu-
sets. BY it's terms, after specific be-
quests of over S4,000,000 are filled,
the residue is to be divided equally
among Walter II. Wesson, Joseph
Wesson, Sarah ]. Bull and the four
children of the late Frank Wesson.
AS forerunner of the general in
crease of about ten per cent in freight
rates to be made by the eastern trunk
lines soon, the New York Central rail
road has filed with the Interstate
Commerce Commission a new rate on
sugar and coffee between New York
and Chicago. This means an IL per
cent increase in the present freight
rates on coffee between the two cites
and seven and two-thirds per cent in.