The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1909-03-27

cAuci q ueClSlOn just rendered ny
the state corporation commission, the
maximum passenger rate on the Vir-
ginia railroads will hereafter be "a
cents.
A Melbourne dispatch says that the
commonwealth government has de-
clded not to offer a Dreadnought to
england, preferring to adhere to her
settled policy of defending Australia.
Emperor Nicholas has conferred the
order of the Grand Cross of Alexander
NeVsky upon President Diaz. The or
der is one of the highest within the
gift of the Russian sovereign.
Arrangements have been completed
under which the rifle shooting tourna-
ment which will be held at Camp
Perry, Ohio, next August, will be the
greatest shooting event which this
country has ever seen.
In an automobile race at Dayton,
o., March 23d, David Bruce Brown,
the millionaire amateur driver, ran
his machine a mile in thirty-three sec
onds, breaking the worlds amateur
record of 80 80, which was held by
him.
The Panama libel cases against the
Press Publishing Company and Caleb
Van Hamm, one of the editors of the
World, will not be dropped so long as
he is district attorney is the statement
made by United States Attorney Slim
son in New York
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of
Emperor William, in an illustrated
lecture before the Aero club at Kiel
concerning his five-hour voyage in the
Zeppelin airship of October 9th last.
expressed himself as skeptical of the
usefulness of air craft in the present
state Of development for war purposes.
The car which will act as pathfinder
for the international transcontinental
automobile contest for the NJ. Robert
Guggenheim trophy from New York
city to the Alaska Yukon-P Pacific Ex-
position on June list, started for Seat
tie from the city hall in New York at
noon March goth.
Sixty thousand bushels of foreign
potatoes were landed at Philadelphia
March 18th by the steamship Buenos
Ayres from Glasgow and Liverpool.
The tubers came from England, Ireland
and Scotland and the shipment was
made possible by reason of the short
crop in the United States.
American Consul w H. Bishop at
Palermo, Italy. has received letters
threatening his life and declaring that
the Malta will punish him even worse
than it did Lieutenant Petrosino II he
continues to prosecute Scilian Grim
inals who wish to find refuge in New
York.
When eight-yearold Willie Whitla.
who was kidnapped at Sharon, Pa, and
held several days until ransomed at
Cleveland, o., for $4,000, was carried
back home the National Guard COM
rany and Bull Rifles band turned out
end Joined in an ovation at which 5000
people were present.
Lieut.. e. Fl. Shackelton of the Brit
ish barkentine Nimrod, who reached
Ihvercargill, New Zealand, March 23rd,
ing expedition, succeeded in getting
within Ill miles Of the South Pole. He
reached and passed the southern Mag
netic pole at 20 degrees and 80 min
utes, finally reaching latitude $3.50.
Guilty of murder in the second de-
gree with twenty years Imprisonment
as the penalty was the verdict of the
jury at Nashville, Tenn, Saturday in
the case against Col. Duncan B. Coop
er and his son, Robin Cooper, charged
with the murder of former United
States Senator F. W. Carmack
Prof. Frederick Starr, anthropologist
of the University of Chicago, is out
with another prediction that ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt will not return from
Africa alive. He says: MIR. Roose-
welt is over fifty and that is against
his going into the tropics. No man
can go into the tropics for the first
time at his age and expect to come
out alive
At Russ. a remote town in Laclede
county, Mo-, March 22nd, Rev. Martin
ID Jackson, aged forty, shot and killed
Rev. Solomon Odell, aged forty-six.
Johnson is the Baptist minister of the
re.ghborhood, while Odell was the
Presbyterian divine at Russ. They
GGarreled over business matters re-
lated to rival telephone companies in
which they were interested.
Two hundred merchant tailors from
centers of fashion so far removed from
each other as Portland, Me, and Kan
sas City, Mo, were present at the
opening of the American Style and
Fashion show in New York City. 1t
appears that even the present freak
styles in coats are to be outdone the