The Delta independent., 1910-03-04

dog turns aroun1 three times before
lying down. He's probably looking for
the head of his bed.
The American Telephone & Telegraph
Company have adopted rule that all
telephone girls mnst be five feet tall.
No "sawed-offs" need apply.
Phil Allen, Jr, former vice president
of the First National Bank, of Mineral
Point, Wis, arrived at the federal
prison, Leavenworlh, under a ten-year
sentence.
The naval tug Nina, which has heen
lost for several weeks, has been given
up entirely. Annuities for the families
of the men who were lost were voted
by the naval league of America.
In fire of incendiary origin in a
Varick street tenement, New York,
fifteen persons were burned or injured,
two SO seriously that they probably
will die. The property loss was small
John Anderson, aged "a, editor of the
Skandinaven, local newspaper, died
in Chicago. He was born in Norway in
1886, came to this country in 1s45 and
started publishing the Skandinaven in
1856.
Fifteen hundred women's suffrage
advocates stormed Beacon Hill and be-
fore the committee on constitutional
amendments of the Massachusetts, leg
islature, made their annual plea for the
ballot.
The Illinois mine workers and the op-
orators opened negotiations at Peoria,
ILL.,, in the interests of settling differ
ences which affect the mines of Illinois
alone. The miners heard from the
scale committee.
A negro branch of the political equali-
ty association has been formed by Mrs.
o. H. P. Belmont and twenty men and
women who favor the granting of the
ballet to negro women have been en-
rolled as charter members.
An attempt has been made to bribe
Prosecutor Garven, of Hudson county,
New Jersey, to drop the prosecution of
the meat packers, according to state
ment made by an official of Mr.. Gar
ven's office in Jersey City.
Centennial Hall, the new national
home of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, which has been about seven
years building, was finished Wednes-
day and the officials of the organiza-
ton moved into their offices.
Demands for increased pay have been
presented by the engineers, firemen and
telegraphers of the Delaware and Hud-
son Company. The demands, it was
learned today, range from per cent to
20 per cent, but the average increase
approximates 20 per cent.
With the strict injunction that he
was not to be represented as favoring
votes for women, President Taft ac-
cepted an invitation to address the
opening session of the annual conven-
ton of the National Women's Suffrage
Association to be held in Washington,
April Ia.
A jury in the supreme court at White
Plains, n. Y, has decided that the fin
gers of workman's left hand are worth
81, 900 piece. 1t awarded verdict of
$4,000 to Peter Mandy, of Ossining. for
the loss of four fingers which were cut
off in planer at the factory where he
was employed.
Drawing his will and placing it in his
pocket with the address of the men
who should be notified, Sylvester
Young, well-to-do real estate man
hanged himself to the rafters of the
house in which he was residing at New
ton, N. ]. The estate is left to his
wife and two daughters.
Pres. L. w. Hill announced the ap-
pointment of RichardJ faction as gen.
eral counsel for the Great Northern to
succeed w. r. Begg, resigned. The
of Mr.. jackson, who for
merely was chairman of the board of
directors of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railroad, will become ef-
fective March l5,