The Colorado statesman., 1910-07-23
ERAL.

The forty-second biennial convention
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
is in session at Portland, Ore.
Four thousand Louisville shop EN-
ployes of the Louisville & Nashville
Railroad received an unsolicited in
crease of six per cent.
Chicago is to have a railroad connec-
ton with Winnipeg which VIII divert to
it a large part of the wheat traffic Of
the Canadian northwest
Found guilty of conspiracy, William
has been sentenced to three years in
the house OF correction and fined ST.
900.
Resenting a reduction of 10 per cent
in the wage scale, 800 miners employed
by the American Lead, Zinc and Smelt-
ing Company at Webb City, Mo-, have
quit work.
Statewide prohibition is the leading
issue of the campaign now on in the
Democratic party of Texas to seleet
nominees for all state officers from
governor down to constable.
Dean c. Worcester. secretary of
the interior for the Philippines, was
set upon by renegade Moros, on the
Island of Palawan, Monday and es-
capped assassination only through the
alertness of his bodyguard
/. G. Rawn, president of the Chica-
go G Indianapolis Railway (Monon
Route) was shot and killed by burg
lar at his residence in Winnetka, a
north shore suburb of Chicago, early
Wednesday morning.
President Woodrow Wilson of
Princeton University has announced
that he would accept the Democratic
nomination for governor of this state
if he were convinced that majority
Of the party desired him to run.
A special council of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen has been called
to meet in st. Louis August LIST to out
line the demands for increased wages,
shorter working hours and better work
ing conditions upon which the train
men on all railroads operating between
Chicago and the Pacific coast and the
Gulf of Mexico, to. and including Can
ada, will insist, even to the extent of
striking if necessary to obtain them.
Josephine is the prize COW of the
Missouri College of Agriculture and
holds the worlds record for milk pro-
auction for one day, one month and
four months, taking all three places
from Colante's fourth Johanna of Reis
endale, Wis. Josephine produced in
one month 2,960 pounds, as against the
previous worlds record of 2,7S3 pounds.
Her record for milk in one day is HOP
pounds, as against the previous record
Of 100 pounds.
A peace agreement of great import
ance to organized labor was made in
Cincinnati Tuesday night between of
ficers of the American Federation of
Labor on one side and members of the
Stove Founders National Defense AS
sociation on the other. The effect of
the agreement is to end the bitter
warfare between the Federation of
Labor and the Bucks Stove and Range
Company of st. Louis, and effects the
associations withdrawal from the
prosecution against President Comp
ers, Vice President John Mitchell and
Secretary Morrison of the American
Federation of Labor in the contempt
cases now pending against them.
A bill making it a misdemeanor to
bet on an election has been passed by
the Georgia House of Representatives
The bill is not aimed at freak bets, but
seeks to prevent the wager of money
or articles of value. The measure still
has to be passed by the Senate.
Judge Kelly, in the Supreme Court
In Brooklyn, enjoined the Supreme
Council of the Royal Arcanum from
raising the assessment rates of the
members of the organization higher
than they were when they joined the
order.