The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-10-30

fonso. denouncing the Ferrer demoar
strations In France as An insult to the
chivalry Of the French people and the
Catholic religion.
Robert S. Lovett has been elected
president Of the Union Pacific Rail.
road to succeed the late E. H. Harri.
man.
A dozen of the Detroit baseball play
ers are going to pay a months visit
to Havana. playing three games .
week.
At Pensacola, Fla. October 21st. the
enormous amount Of 1926 inches of
rain fell In one hour. The water ran
four inches deep in many streets.
The visit Of the Russian emperor to
Italy is commented upon in London
as marking q further loosening of the
ties binding Italy to the triple alli-
ance.
The manager of the New York
clearing house states the bank clear
ings of the country at $15s.559, ,4S7 900
during the fiscal year ending Septem-
Der 30th. This is an increase over the
previous year of $32.410.153.2O0.
A Calcutta dispatch says that the
recent earthquake in Beluchistan was
the worst that has occurred over such
a wide area in many years. 1t is re-
ported that the fatalities were 126
and that 154 persons were injured.
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.
Capitalists at Cleveland, O.. will
organize An Aero club. promoted by
Glenn H. Curtiss, the aeroplanist. 1t
is planned to purchase land and erect
sheds. 1t is not proposed to manu-
facture flying machines, but only to
experiment with the machines and
promote the art OF flying.
Mrs. Henrietta Morgan Duke, wife
OF Gen. Basil w. Duke, known in his
tory as "Morgans right hand man."
was found dead in bed at her resi-
dence in Louisville on the goth inst.
She was the sister of Gen. John H.
Morgan. was socially prominent, and
an active member OF the Daughters
of the Confederacy.
At the port of New York q few days
since. 1,O45 Greek immigrants were
vaccinated at the rate of two a minute.
All immigrants are vaccinated before
embarkation, but the Greeks have
failed to provide pure virus. hence the
work was done over by DIR. A. H. Doty.
federal health officer of the port, and
three assistants.
The New York Tribune founded by
Horace Greeley in 1S41. announces
that two radical changes have been
made-the price has been cut from 3
cents to Cent, while the familiar six.
column makeup has been changed to
seven columns. The changes created
wide comment throughout the city.
The Herald now remains the only g.
cent morning paper in New York.
Colonel Roosevelt, accompanied by
R. J. Cunningham, the hunter and
guide, arrived at Naivashf on the goth
inst. With the exception of Colonel
Roosevelt, the members of the expedi-
tion have at one time or another ex-
perienced slight attacks of fever as
the result Of frequent changes of tenn
perature. All are now in good
health.
A mining property covering four
square miles and valued at $7,500,000.
on the Island Of Jamaica. will be sold
this week by DR.. John M. Morgan of
Boston to large mining interests. The
property Is one of the most phenom-
email 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 Cen
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 velocity of ninety-five miles
an hour.
With 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.
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