The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-06-20

7 The report of great steel combination
| In England with q capital OF $373.OOO,-
900 is now denied by many firms said
| to have been connected with It,
Miss Anna Spreck. a well-known
| mountain climber, will leave New
York in two weeks for Peru to make
| another attempt to reach the summit
of Mount Huascaran. which she De-
lieves is the highest peak In the west
ern hemisphere.
The National Grand Lodge, lnde-
pendent Order OF Good Templars, at
its session in Washington City re-
elected Grand Chief Templar George F.
Cotterill of Seattle. Mrs. Emily Peters
of Seattle was chosen grand secretary
of juvenile work
| 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 commanderin-chief to
| succeed the late Stephen d. Lee.
Frederick Arthur Stanley, earl OF
| Derby, governor general OF Canada in
1883. died in London June 14th
aged sixty-seven He had been lord OF
tary for the colonies and president OF
the board of trade.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court
has upheld the constitutionality OF the
state law which provides that life in
surance policy forms must be approved
| by the insurance commissioner before
| they can be issued in the state, the
| ruling of the commissioner being sub
| ject to appeal to the Supreme Court.
| The campanile of Santo Stefano
church in Venice, a Gothic structure
of the fourteenth century, which con
| tains the tomb of the Doge francesca
Morosini threatens to fall like the
campanile of ST. Marks, which col
lapsed in 1902 The qestion OF demol-
ishing it is under consideration.
| NJ R1ne Quinton, well known
French biologist, has offered prize
of 10000 francs for the first aviator
who once up in the air in
an aeroplane shall stop his mo-
tor and remain up five min
utes by utilizing solely the force OF the
wind and without descending more
| than fifty meters.
A race between balloons and aero
planes, it is finally announced is to be
one of the features of the Hudson cele-
bration in New York next year. The
race will probably be conducted under
United States government auspices
The chief signal officer of the army is
cooperating with the aeronautics com
mittee of the celebration commission
The International Chess Masters
tourney at Prague, ended today in a
tie between Schlechter and Buras. who
will decide the first and second prizes
| Vidmar won third prize; Rubenstein,
fourth; Teichmann. fifth; Maroczy,
sixth; Leouhardt, seventh; Marshall,
eighth; Salwe, ninth, and Janowski,
| tenth.
According to the Iron and Steel
Trades Journal, there has recently
been effected great combination In
the British steel trade, with capacity
of 1915, 100000 The main object OF
the combination is said to be to Sc
cure control of the international ex-
port trade, and similar organizations
in America and on the continent are
said to be supporting the British am
| algamation.
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 IL to 4. Incidentally
the trustees gave their official con-
| firmation to the statement of the SUI
perntendent's 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"
In the federal court at Rochester,
New York, on the 18th instant, the
Standard Oil Company was found
guilty of violation of the interstate
commerce law in accepting the con
cession from the filed tariff on Ship
ments of oil from Olean, New York, to
| Rutland and Bellows Falls, Vermont.
There were forty copnts in the indict-
ment. each representing action on {,
car of oil. The maximum fine on each
count is $50 900, or total for the whole
of the shipment of 100000.
The Lusitania's last passage from
Daunt's Rock to Sandy Hook light
house was made in 4 days, 20 hours and
s minutes, which cuts seven minutes
off the record for the fastest trip across
the Atlantic by the long course, made
by her sister ship, the Mauretania. The
Lusitania's best previous record for the
course was days. 20 hours and %
minutes. The Lusitania also has the
record for the longest days run, hav-
ing from noon Sunday to noon Monday
made Gal knots, beating the Maureta-
mia s best run by six knots.