The new era., 1909-12-02
A tornado that struck Dexter. Mo.

November ED. demolished fifteen
houses and wrecked the Stoddard
county fair buildings. including the
amphitheater. Two women and two
children were injured.
A tornado that passed over Hamil
ton. Ohio. a few days since damaged
property to the amount of $4,000
Barns and outbuildings in the rural
districts were blown down. In Ham
ilton the roofs were blown off q mum
ber Of business houses and factories
The American Federation of Labor
closed its convention at Toronto Sat.
urday. after selecting st. Louis as the
next place of meeting. President
Samuel Gompers. Vice-President John
Mitchell. Secretary Frank Morrison
and other executive officers were
unanimously reelected.
Representative Nicholas LonRworth
has emphatically denied the state
ments published as coming from a wo-
man in Berlin, to the effect that his
wife. while she was still Miss Alice
Roosevelt. had been photographed by
him astride the sacred elephant of the
Koreans at their national capital.
Director Lowell Of the observatory
at Flagstaff. Ariz., reports the first
apparent Antarctic snowfall of the
season on Mars. Two patches appear
at the altitude 62.72 longitude 100 100.
The first was November 12, and was
small. with great increase Novem-
ber 16. The second was observed for
the first time on the latter date.
Former President Castro, an exile
in Santander, Spain, is accused daily
by the highest officials of the Vene.
zuelan government of attempting to
foment revolution against the Gomez
regime. Everyone believes Castro
never will rest until he has made an
other effort to ruin those who were
responsible for his downfall.
Letters urging an immediate re-
vision Of the methods of football play
have been written by President Jud-
son. of the University of Chicago;
President Cyrus Northrop, Of Mime
sota President Van Hise, of Wiscon.
sin and Chancellor Samuel Avery, of
the University of Nebraska. That the
sport is fast becoming a menace to
the life and limb OF all participants is
the opinion of the educators.
Reports were received at Nairobi
November 22d that all the members
of the American hunting expedition
were well and would return to Lon
dianai November Both. During the
hunting on the Guas 1ngisu plateau
Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit Roose-
welt, in company with the Chicagoan,
Carl E. Akeley. killed four elephants
for the American Museum of Natural
History in New York.
The Wright Company of New York
has been incorporated. with $1,000
900 capital, Ito manufacture, sell.
operate and otherwise use at any
place on the North American CONT
nent and the islands adjacent thereto
machines, ships or other mechanical
contrivances for aerial navigation
The directors are Wilbur Wright Or
vile Wright, Of Dayton, Ohio; George
A. Stevens, Henry F. Hooker and A..
F. Barnes, Of New York.
The American Federation of Labor
in its convention in Toronto. in addi-
tion to indorsing the attitude taken
by President Gompers in the Bucks
Stove & Range Company injunction
proceedings, voted to continue the
salaries of Gompers and Secretary
Frank Morrison, and to compensate
Vice President John Mitchell. who is
not salaried officer, during their
terms of Imprisonment, in case it is
decided they must go to Jail for con-
tempt of court. They will be paid at
the rate of $4,000 year.
Statistics have been collected from
1858 cities in AZ states and the District
OF Columbia, showing what has been
accomplished to discover and remove
physical defects mong pupils Of
these cities, lat, with a school popu-
lation of 100000, are not making any
attempt whatever to discover trans
mitable diseases; 211 are inspecting
for such diseases; 226 are inspecting
for defective vision, 17G for breathing
troubles and lis for bad teeth, while
104, with population of 5000, 900,
have no examination of any kind for
their 100000 school children.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.