The Elk Mountain pilot., 1909-11-04

A dozen OF tne DetTOlt .pdSepdii play
ers are going to ray a months visit
to Havana, playing three games .
week.
Another traffic census has been be-
gun in Massachusetts by the State
Highway Commission. According to
the preliminary figures in hand mo
tors provide firty-five per cent. of the
total traffic in the Bay State.
The Japanese commercial commits
sioners made trip from Boston to
Newport to place a wreath upon the
monument to Commodore Perry
whose expedition was the occasion OF
opening the ports of Japan to the
world.
F. Flourens. ex-minister of foreign
affairs, is circulating an address
among the French Catholics. which
later will be presented to King Al
fonso. denouncing the Ferrer demon
strations in France as an insult to the
chivalry OF the French people and the
Catholic religion.
AT Doncaster. England. October
26th. Leon De La Grange. the French
aviator, flying a Bleriot monoplane.
broke the worlds speed record. He
travelled a mile and $50 yards in one
minute and Al is seconds. This was
at the rate OF nearly fifty-four miles
an hour.
A terrible cloudburst occurred in the
state of Tabasco, Mex, October 25.
destroying crops and forests. From
north to south. across the state from
the Mescalapa and the Grijalva rivers.
the entire country was left waste.
Only the high mountain villages and
plateau farms escaped from the rush
ing waters.
A mining property covering four
square miles and valued at 1850. 900.
on the Island OF Jamaica. will be sold
this week by DR.. John NJ. Morgan OF
Boston to large mining interests. The
property is one of the most phenom-
enal OF its kind. having made million
aires of It's owners in less than three
years. One-half of the property is
owned by the Boston physicians.
Some storm records were broken in
the recent Philippine typhoon which
crossed northern Luzon and the Gen
guet mountains. Eighteen inches OF
rain fell In nine hours and twenty-six
inches fell in the twenty-four hours
the storm lasted. The Bued river
rose sixty feet. The wind gauge at
the observatory broke when the wind
attained n velocity OF ninety-five miles
an hour.
With n view to stemming the tide
OF emigration which threatens to de-
plete the country OF agricultural Ia
borers, a national subscription has
been started in Sweden to obtain
funds for loans to laborers left un-
employed after the recent big strike.
The loans are intended to enable the
purchase OF small farms and Will be
made repayable within ten years. The
fund will be administered by the Anti
Emigration Society OF Sweden.
The will OF Francisco Ferrer. who
was executed at Barcelona for CON
spiracy against the government OK
Spain. has been published In Paris. II
charges the executor to continue the
publication OF Ferrer's works on mod
ern schools and education. The tes-
tator stated that history would vindi-
cate his innocence. but he abjured his
friends not to bother about his mem
ory. as "in this life only acts count
Four weighers at the port CT New
York made a confession of fraud and
named the bribers. resulting in con
viction and punishment. For this the
weighers we're promised immunity and
continuance in the service. The ac-
ton of Collector William Loeb, Jr. in
this case has been strongly denounced
by Federal Judge Holt, but is de-
Tended by the collector on the plea
that he could find no other method OF
stopping the frauds.
At College Park. Nd. October 26th.
Wilbur Wright's two army officer stu
dents made their first independent
flights. Lieutenant Humphreys stayed
up twenty-four minutes and Lieuten-
ant Lahm thirty-nine minutes. Lieu
tenant Lahm on his final flight of the
evening. circled the field again and
again in darkness. 1t was the first
time in the United States that a
Wright aeroplane had been guided
through the air without carrying
either OF the Wright brothers.
A judicial opinion which appears to
be likely to overthrow the govern
ment's entire criminal case under the
antitrust law against the American
Sugar Refining Company and its d.
rectors, has been handed down by
Justice Holt of the United States Cir
cult Court at New York. Justice Holt
in dismissing the indictments against
Gustav L. Kissel and Thomas b. Har-
ned, connected with those against the
sugar company, declares that the op-
Grafton OF the statute Of limitations
invalidates any action against them.
inasmuch as the offense was COM
mitted more than three years ago.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.