The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-07-28
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
The forty-second biennial convention
Of the Ancient Order OF Hibernians
Is In session At Portland, Ore.
Four thousand Louisville shop en-
ployes Of the louisville 4 Nashville
Railroad received An unsolicited In
crease Of six per cent.
Chicago Is to have = railroad connec-
ton with Winnipeg which will divert to
II large Part of the wheat traffic Of
the Canadian northwest.
Resenting q reduction OF 10 per cent
in the wage scale. 400 miners employed
by the American Lead. Zinc and Smelt-
ing Company at Webb City. Mo-. have
quit work.
Statewide prohibition IL the leading
issue Of the campaign now on in the
Democratic party Of Texas to select
nominees for all Rtate officers from
governor down to constable.
Dean c. Worcester. secretary Of
the interior for the Philippines. was
set upon by renegade Moros. on the
Island Of Palawan. Monday and es-
capped assassination only through the
alertness Of his bodyguard.
/. G. Rawn. president Of the Chica-
20 4 Indianapolis Railway (Monon
Route) was shot and killed by = burg
lar At his residence In WinnetkA. .
north shore suburb Of Chicago. early
Wednesday morning.
Des Moines. Ia.-J. C. Nichols was
arrested at Brooklyn. Ia. by United
States Marshal Bidwell. charged with
shooting three elk in Yellowstone park
several months ago. Although he broke
his ankle In his flight. Nichols escaped
from Wyoming officers at the time Of
the shooting.
The movement headed by President
Magnus Brown Of the Minnesota Wool
Growers' Association. to lease the
plant OF the Rio Grande Woolen Mills
mt Albuquerque for western wool grow
trs. and conduct from thcrc . fight for
independence. has already caused .
stampede Of eastern buyers to Masda-
lena. the wool shipping center OF cen
trail New Mxico.
A special council Of the Brotherhood
OF Railway Trainmen has been called
to meet in st. Louis August 1st to out
line the demands for increased wages,
shorter working hours and better work
ing conditions upon which the train
men on all railroads operating between
Chicago and the Pacific coast and the
Gulf of Mexico. to and including Can
ada. will insist. even to the extent of
striking II necessary to obtain them.
Josephine is the prize COW of the
Missouri College Of Agriculture and
holds the worlds record for milk pro-
duction for one day. one month and
four months. taking all three places
from Colante's fourth Johanna of Refs
endale, Wis. Josephine produced in
one month 1880 pounds. as against the
previous worlds record of 2.7s3 pounds.
pounds. as against the previous record
o, 100 pounds.
A peace agreement OF great import
ance to organized labor was made In
Cincinnati Tuesday night between Of
ficers of the American Federation Of
Labor on one side and members Of the
Stove Founders' National Defense AS.
ISOLATION on the other. The effect Of
the agreement Is to end the bitter
warfare between the Federation Of
Labor and the Bucks Stove and Range
Company OF st. Louis. and effects the
associations withdrawal from, the
prosecution against President Comp
ers. Vice President John Mitchell and
Secretary Morrison Of the American
Federation Of Labor In the contempt
cases now pending against them.
President Woodrow Wilson OF
Princeton University hae announced
that he would accept the Democratic
for governor of this state
n he were convinced that . majority
of the party desired him to run.
The population Of Chicago has
passed the two million mark. accord
ing to the 1910 school census made
public Wednesday. The total minor
population Of the city 10 s1l,116. an In
crease Of ss.7es over the census Of
1908. Based ON the minor count the
total population il 100000.