Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1910-10-13

The Independents OF Ne" YORK VIA
put full ticket in the field.
John 4. Dix was nominated for gov.
ernor by the democrats Of New York.
Frank l.. McVey was inaugurated
president Of the University Of North
Dakota
Aviator Wynmalen. In biplane ~
Bovey. France, rose to height OF
1856 feet.
China is believed to be on the
verge OF an upheayel similar to that
Of tho boxers.
Rear Admiral Charles r. Rocker.
retired. died in Washington. aged
sixty-nine years.
Virginia Harmed Sothern filed suit
for divorce against Edward r. Soth-
ern In the district court at Reno.
Nevada.
The German ministry of war an
nounced it would give $4,000 - .
price for an overland aviation com
petition.
Elwin. three-year-old son OF c. A.
Johnson. republican candidate ior
governor Of North Dakota, was
burned to death.
Walter Brookins, the hero OF the
Chicago-to- Springfield will attempt .
flight continuously from Springfield TO
ST. Louis. distance of eighty-tiye
miles.
Private advices from Italy assert
Italian emlgrants from the cholera
Inf ri it-tr {<.to f,f fttot
being embarked at Genoa for
America.
A slo.o0o00o merger of all the
powder companies in Canada with the
exception Of the Giant Powder com
pany. branch factory at Telegraph
Bay, has just been effected.
Because of the cholera scare In
Europe, two incoming transatlantic
liners the Lapland from Antwerp and
the Perussia from Naples, were de
tanned at quarantine for inspection.
The commission named by Presi-
dent Taft TO determine how the gov
eminent may best supervise the is
suance OF railway securities will hold
its first session in Washington No
yember 49, Quarters will be opened
there at once and force Of clerks
hired.
The state OF Missouri has popula-
ton of 3.293,335, according to the en-
lmeration made during the thirteenth
census. statistics of which were an
aounced by the census bureau. This
is an increase OF 186,570, OF per
cent over the population In 1900 OF
3.1o6.605.
The Los Angeles Times building
was wrecked by dynamite and subse-
luently destroyed by fire. Twenty or
more lives were lost and great
printing plant utterly destroyed The
outrage is attributed to labor
troubles. the Times having for a
long time been an open office. So
far there is no clue to the guilty
parties.
The Standard Oil company through
is official publicity representative. j.
l. c. Clarke. has announced that the
company has inaugurated cam
paign to increase the worlds con-
sumption of refined oil" and Is lower
ing prices of kerosene In Europe and
the far east This action follows that
Of August last, when the Standard OIL
company reduced refined oil in bar
rels | cents a gallon from OK to
sa cents at the refinery, and refined
oil in tanks from Gh to 5@ cents a
gallon In part the statement reads:
The Standard Oil company has In
augurated campaign to Increase the
worlds consumption of refined oil.
The level of prices for refined Oil to-
day in the United States is lower
than at any time during recent years.
and as direct result of these prices
the consumption of refined oil in this
icy is now being actively pursued
abroad"
AS tragic sequel to the death Of
Edmond Poillt. the French aviator.
his iiancee, who had shown almost
uncomfortable grief went to his grave
Sunday and fired q bullet into her
heart Poillot was Killed on Sep
TENDER Is while making flight with
a passenger. While at height Of
ninety feet a wing collapsed and the
machine fell backward.
vances in trans-continental
freight charges varying from to 10
cents hundred pounds from points
of eastern origin to Pacific coast
terminals were suspended by the in.
terstate commerce commission until
February i, 1911, pending an investi
cation by the commission into the
reasonableness of the increase.
The executive committee OF the
brotherhood of machinists, through
Secretary Robert NJ. Lackey, sent to
the interstate commerce commission
protest against the recent petition
presented to the commission by Of
fcials of various organizations OF rail
road employees urging that the pro
posed advance Of freight rates should
be approved