Fair play., 1910-12-24

At noon. with the streets crowded
with persons rushing to their homes
for dinner, three masked men astride
horses rode into Prue. Ok, dismount
ID in front of the State bank, held
citizens at bay, forced the cashier.
| J. II. Conner, at point OF revolver, to
| open the vault. obtained 81 500 and
rode out of town.
Cattle are dying on the ranges in
the Panhandle country of Texas he
cause of the prolonged drought.
According to a report, the name of
William II. Lewis the Boston negro
| whom President Taft had decided to
appoint assistant attorney general of
the United states, will not be placed
before the senate. The place. it is
said, will be left vacant.
The trial of the ten Chicago pack
ers indicted under the Sherman anti
| trust act in the formation of the al
legged beef trust was postponed by
| United States District Judge Carpen-
| ter, pending the outcome of the civil
suit against the National Packing COM
pany. They are to be indicted again,
charged with manipulating the vast
interests of the trusts.
In a frenzied rush of 700 panic
| stricken school children to escape
! from fire in the Immaculate Concep.
| ton school in Holyoke, Mass, one
boy was fatally injured and a score
/ Of others seriously hurt
Indications point to an adjournment
Of the special session of the Okla
aoma legislature without the passage
Of capital bill. Following the adop-
lion Of committee report, in which
he Putnam offer was disapproved and
! condemned in strong terms, the SEN
ate voted to adjourn sine die with
she consent of the house. When the
senate resolution providing for the
acceptance of the northeast site
reached the house it was tabled with
a unanimous vote, accompanied by tu-
multuous applause
Roberta De Janon, the 17-year-old
girl who caused a countrywide SEN
sation a year ago by running away
with a hotel waiter much her elder
and possessed of a wife, is now an
heiress to millions through the death
of her grandfather, Robert Buist,
the millionaire Philadelphia seeds.
man. Buist's fortune is believed to
reach s1O,OO00O0.
One man was killed and 80 injured,
several probably fatally, when Santa
| Fe passengeg train No. II was wreck
| ed on Big Canyon bridge over the
ouachita riveR 20 miles north of Ard
more, Ok. The train split a switch
and the baggage, smoking and chair
cars left the track and plunged 40
| feet into the Ouachita river, landing
| bottom side up. The engine and
Pullmans remained on the track
Andrew Carnegie has transferred
/ 10 board of trustees $10,000,000 in
five per cent mortgage bonds of a
market value of S11 100000, the rev.
enue of which will be used to hasten
the abolition of international war
and establish lasting world peace
Two men were killed and five were
| Injured in the Northwestern Improve
ment companys mine at Ravensdale,
Wash, as the result of an explosion
,f gas.
James Dalton, life prisoner, recent
ly paroled from the Kansas peniten-
tiary by Governor Stubbs, has left
Lansing for Hutchinson, Kas., where
he will install the Bertillon system
In the state reformatory.
In Pittsburg John Bennett, 20 years
old, a veteran of the Civil war, plead
ed guilty to the murder of Carl Peter
son. According to the testimony, Pc.
terson annoyed a married daughter of
Benefits with his attentions.
Chief Wilkie of the United States
secret service received dispatch
from Customs Collector Statter at
Portland, Ore, that 1000 pounds of
opium had been seized. Within the
last two weeks customs officers have
seized more than a ton of smuggled
opium.
Floating ice and low water have
brought TO a close the most disas-
trous season of river traffic known
to the upper Mississippi for many
years.
Forty children and fourteen babies
were carried to safety from the fam,
ing. building of the Springfield MO- }
Children's home. Ralph Barnes, aged
7, who was i'll with mumps in the
sick ward, was forgotten and burned
to death. The fire started from the
furnace and gained such headway that
efforts of the firemen were without
avail and the building was destroyed
The total population of the United
States with all her possessions is
about 101 100000 This number in
cludes 7,6S5,426 in the Philippine
islands, as enumerated in the census
there in 1908 and estimates for the
population of the island of Guam, the
American possession in Samoa, and
persons in the Panama canal zone
The population of the United States
exclusive of the Philippine islands is
92,402151. This is the total number
of people enumerated throughout the
states, territories, District of Column
bia, Alaska, Hawaii and Porto Rico.
After robber had stolen $l06 from
her home in broad daylight in st
Louis and was about to escape un
noticed, Mrs. Rosie MayrowitZ fought
desperately with him, wrested a jew
elry casket from him and chased him
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