The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-10-13
GEN e RAJ.

Senator IAFollette's surgical opera
be recovering rapidly.
Two men are dead and one seriously
Injured as the result OF an explosion
In the high explosives building of the
Washington navy yard Tuesday.
Thirty.eight persons were killed and
from l6 to % injured In n collision NJ
Dlckerson's curve on the Illinois Trac-
tion system two miles north OF Staun-
ton. ILL.,. Tuesday.
The estimate OF the losses sustained
by the Illinois Central railroad
through forming out Its car repairing
was raised at Chicago Tuesday until
officials now assert that nearly ST.
900 900 was taken from the company.
Deluged by the heaviest continuous
rainfall. In some places for forty years.
a wide strip Of country extending from
Eastern Texas across the northern
portion OF Louisiana and Mississippi
and over sections OF Arkansas. Ten
ne sscc, Kentucky. southern Indiana
and Ohio. almost to PittsburE is \ vcri-
table inland sea.
The house Of deputies OF the Pro,cs-
tsnt Episcopal church in Cincinnati.
Thursday passed an amendment to the
constitution providing for suffraSan
bishops throughout the church. The
debate brought out the fact that the
object OF the suffragan bishops was
not only TO look after the people OF \
particular nationality or race. but also
to assist bishops who preside over
large dioceses.
II. +. Zimmerlen. Legislative agent
OF the Lyons Sugar Refining company.
testified before the Legislative graft
committee that he had made hand
to-hand gift OF $4,000 to former Sena-
to former Senator John Raines and
I former Asscmblyman Jean l. Burnett
both now dead. He testified that the
gift was made 'in recognition Of good
work In securing the passage of legis-
lation beneficial to the Lyons Sugar
Refining company.
DIR. J. b. Murphy. president Of the
American Medical Association. In on
the eve OF an announcement OF what
physicians says Is one of the most i'm
portant discoveries in the history Of
surgery. The discovery is to the ef-
feet that ankylosis. or stiffening Of tho
joints. from any cause except tubercu-
losis is preventable. and that where
joints have become stiffened through
Inflammation. they may be cut open
and new pliab1e joints made.
The Standard OIL company through
its 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 / cent a gallon from OK to 8N
cents at the refinery. and refined oil
in tanks from 61z to 51 cents a gal
lon. In part the statement reads:
''The Standard Oil company has inau-
gurated campaign to increase the
worlds consumption of refined oil.
The level of prices for refined oil to-
day in the United St"es is lower than
at any time during recent years, and
as a direct result of these prices the
consumption OF refined oil in this
country is increasing. The same pol
icy is now being actively pursued
abroad"
John D. Rockefeller got the surprise
of his life Tuesday. The Commission
OF Scientists. to which he gave $1,000
900 to find out the best way to eradi-
cate the hookworm in the South. sent
a preliminary report to him in which
they declared kerosene was a cure.
DIR. Harry Thurston Peck, one
of the foremost Latin scholars
of the world. named defendant in
a 100000 breach OF promise suit
brought by Esther Quinn of Boston,
was dismissed AZ professor of Latin
and literature by the trustees OF Co
lumbia university Tuesday.