Fair play., 1910-12-31
NE EWS OF THE WEEK
LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD
TERSGLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Happenings In Foreign Lands and
Throughout the Nation Chron-
ieled In Paragraphs.

president of the Gulf Refining COM
pany and pipe line company Of Pitts
burg, who started his career as rail
road laborer, was elected to succeed
James f. Harahan as president of
the railroad. The action was taken
at the meeting of the board of diroc-
tors in New York.
President Taft is going to take a
rest. Announcement has been made
at the White House that from now
until the reconvening OF congress,
January 5, he will pay as little atten-
tion to the routine of office as pos
sible.
News was brought to Victoria, B..
c., By the steamship Aymeric of
floods that caused large loss OF life
and of severe famine in the Anhdi
province of China affecting 2,5O0OO
persons.
The worst disaster in the history OF
Englkh mining in the last decade
occurred in the Ulton colliery, near
Bolton, England, when a terrific ex
plosion trapped the entire working
the surface. More than 250 of the
miners were killed instantly and prob
ably more than 500 are dead There
were 337 men in the colliery at the
time the explosion occurred.
Count Reventlow, the eminent Ger.
man naval expert, is bitterly angry
at the fraternation of the American
English and French fleets. He says
the omission of the American fleet
to visit Germany is deliberately un-
friendly act toward the kaiser and
his subjects.
The most destructive fire ever ex'
perienced in Cincinnati swept through
the manufacturing section of the city,
costing three lives and damage esti.
mated at $2,500000 Seventeen per
sons were injured,
Fire destroyed the recently con
structed corn meal mill and package
department of the Great Western
Cereal companys plant in Fort Dodge
la. The loss is $4,000. partially GOV
cred by insurance.
In Rock Springs, Tex, the district
grand jury adjourned without return
ing the anticipated indictments in
connection with the recent burning
of Antonio Rodriguez, the alleged
slayer of Mrs. Lem Henderson, wife
of ranch owner, over which riots
were caused by MeXicans.
Fred Cady, 40 years old, was killed
instantly; Joseph Estes. 30, injured
fatally, and William Harter 81, hurt
badly, by the fall of 40-foot crane
at the new courthouse under construo
tion at Salem, Ill.
Major General Leonard A. Wood,
chief of staff of the United States
army, in an address at banquet at
the Burnside post, G. A. r., in Wash
ington, characterized the so-called war
scare as silly"
Additional police were sworn in fol
lowing the strike riots in Winnipeg,
Man, when 21 street cars we're
wrecked by the striking motormen
and conductors.
Charles d. Drew and Charles n.
Nardell, former boss government
weighers, who were convicted last
September in the United States cir
emit court of taking bribe money from
Thomas S. Doyle, employed on the
Arbuckle docks, Brooklyn, N. Y, were
sentenced by Judge Martin to ten
months each in the New York peniten
tiary on Blackwell's Island.
John Feagles, who had been held on
caarge of murder in connection with
the quadruple killing On the Bernhard
faim in Jackson county, Kas, was
freed by Sheriff John Steed in Olathe
HIS release came simultaneously witt
d report from the coroner's jury that
the murders had been committed by
persons "to the jury unknSwn"
Both parties to the controversy oven
wages between sixty-one railroads op'
Grating west of Chicago and the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
have agreed to mediation under the
Erdman act.
Associate Justice Edward Douglass
White of the United States supreme
court has been elevated to the CHIEF
White is a Democrat.
For the first time in many years
the senate sustained an appeal from
the decision of the vice president and
revoked ruling by which senators
announcing their pairs were counted
along with senators recording aye anu
nay votes in order to make quorum
Arthur Y. Hill, manager of a Phila
delphia loan company the first per
son to be convicted in Pennsylvania
under a decision that classes money
loanng offices where usurious rates
are charged as disorderly houses, has
been sentenced to pay fine of $500
and costs.
Nearly another month has been add
ed to the long drought that ha
parched Oklahoma from Arkansas to
the Texas panhandle.
Edward ID. White, the new chief JUS
tice of the United States supreme
court, has been formally sworn in