The Colorado statesman., 1910-11-19
GENERAL.


Louis.
Trenton, N. J., has a population of
96,S15, according to the thirteenth
census statistics.
The population of the state of Flori-
da is 751 ,139, an increase of 42.1 per
cent, or 222,597 over 52S,542 in 1900.
Arizona, according to the new CEN
sus has a population of 204,354,
gain in ten years of sixty-six per cent.
j. ogden Armour of Chicago, says
the whole tendency in the prices OF
stock yard products is toward lower
schedule.
When the next New York state Leg
islature convene sat Albany bill will
be introduced legalizing public boxing
exhibitions.
According to indications retail
prices of meats in Chicago and sur
rounding territory will suffer
marked decrease.
A premature explosion of dynamite
killed two men and injured three
others, one probably fatally, at camp
| No. II in the town of Lebanon, Wis.
After an illness of several months,
following a minor operation performed
in New York last spring, John La
Fargo, the famous artist, died at the
Butler hospital in Providence, r. l.
A negro named Walker, who killed
Marshal Charles X. Bush of Montezu-
ma, Ca, two weeks ago, was taken
from the Macon Jail by mob and
lynched.
Robin ]. Cooper was given verdict
of not guilty in the criminal court OF
Nashville, for the alleged murder of
former Senator Edward w. Carmack
Thus was brought to a close the final
chapter in one of the most celebrated
cases in the annals of the courts of
Tennessee.
Race suicide is given as the cause
for Baltimore dropping from sixth to
seventh place among American cities.
1t was race suicide, not of the foreign
born element, but of native Americans.
Thus, in the Eleventh ward, where ma
tive born Americans preponderate to
the extent of 95 per cent, there were
only 151 births from Jan. 1 to Sept.
80.
The Panama canal will be completed
December 1, 1913, within the $780,
100000 already authorized. This in
formation was given to President Taft
while inspecting the famous Gatun
dam. The official date of the open
ing remains January 1, 1915, Lieuten-
ant Colonel Goethals desiring one year
in which to get the machinery work
ing smoothly.
Aerial navigation has proven that
it is a factor which must be dealt with
in the naval tactics of the future, If
the successful flight made by Eugene
B. Ely in a Curtiss biplane from the
deck of the cruiser Birmingham at
Fort Monroe, Va, can be taken as a
criterion. From Hampton Roads, the
scene forty-five years ago of another
epoch in the history of naval warfare,
when an ironclad proved its superior
ity over the former type of fighting
vessel, the aviator flew across the
lower end of Chesapeake bay, landing
on the shore opposite from Fort Mon
roe.
Alexander Stephen Clay, Junior
United States senator from Georgia.
died of heart disease at Atlanta. Sen
ator Clay was 81 years old and was
serving his third term in the United
States Senate.
Nearly $500 persons lost their lives
by violence in the state of Washing
ton during the two years preceding
October 1, 1910, proportion greater
than in any other registration district
in the civilized world. OF these vio-
lent deaths 2,110 were accidental,
eighty-nine by accidental poisoning.
ass by suicide and 146 by homicide.