The Colorado statesman., 1909-05-08

Inc iiSt WlieleSS news dispatch
ever transmitted between New York
and Chicago was sent on the Bird inst.
by the New York Times to the Chicago
Tribune.
The all-Russian Aero club has
placed an order for a Wright aero
plane at Paris. NJ. Lebedeff. a Nom
Der of the club, will go to Paris for
instructions in manipulating the ma.
chine.
AT Pittsburg on the 5th inst. seven
persons, convicted of bribery and con-
spiracy in the municipal graft cases.
were sentenced to fines and imprison-
ment, ranging from $500 to $1,000 and
from year and half to two years.
The German Motor Airship Com
pany has confirmed the report that it
had purchased the patents of the
Wright aeroplane for Germany, but
says that the $150,000 mentioned in the
dispatches from Paris is excessive.
English railroads have in 1908
achieved the record of carrying on
their operations without the loss of
a single passenger. In 1902 six lives
were lost; in 1903. 25; in 1904, 6: in
1905, 80; in 1906 So, and in 1907. IS.
At Buenos Ayres on the 4th inst.
100000 workmen went out on a forty
eighthour strike as a protest against
the occurrences on May Day, when
there was collision between the peo-
pie and the police in which large
number of persons were killed or
wounded mo-
The American Sugar Refining Com
pany of New Jersey and the New York
corporation of the same name, on the
18th ult, by the payment of about
100000, completed the payment of
fines and claims amounting to about
$2,OOO,OO0 due the government on ac-
count of frauds on the revenue.
The deposition of Abdul Hamid as
Sultan of Turkey, so far as he person
ally is concerned, is not regretted in
England. For years English diplo-
hats have been fighting against the
intrigues emanating from the Yildiz
palace and they never really knew
whether the Sultan was their enemy
or their friend.
William E. Corey, president of the
United States Steel Corporation, is try
ing to form big combination of the
copper interests of the country Mr.
Corey and his friends recently called
together forty of the leading
copper men of the country and sub
mitted his plan to them. Practically
all favored the idea.
A dispatch to the London Daily
TnlnUranh cto Mi
that in an interview Enver Bey, one
of the leaders of the Young Turks, de-
clared that they had proofs that mas
sacre of all Turks suspected of liber
alism had been projected in Constan-
tinople, and was only prevented by
General Schefket's fastening the occu-
patton of the capital.
1t is stated that a pool is being
formed in London to control seventy
per cent of the entire lead supply of
the world and advance prices from
S6S.75 per ton to $95 or upwards. The
immense interests concerned are said
to comprise the Guggenheims and
other large American producers, the
Spanish association of producers, the
Broken Hill interests of Australia, and
the German lead trust.
Driven insane apparently by the
sight of a memorial card which she
had ordered for her daughter who
died month ago, Mrs. Bernard Ris-
ter at Stafford, Conn, beat Charles F.
Emory of Boston over the head with
an axe, inflicting serious wounds, shot
and killed her two-year-old son, Ber-
nard, and then took her own life by
sending a bullet through her heart
Emory had called to deliver the cards.
At session of the Methodist Episco-
pal bishops of the world, at Wheeling,
w Va, the assignment of bishops to
the fall conferences of the denomina-
ton were made. Among them are the
following: Arizona missions, Hughes;
New Mexico, Spanish, October 14th.
Quayle; Colorado, September 9Th,
Berry; Wyoming mission, August 10Th,
Warren; Black Hills mission. August
Goth, Warren; Idaho, August 18th,
Smith.