The Lamar register., 1910-12-28
GEN ERAt.

New York has a policeman poet.
and Mayor Gaynor says his poems are
good. He Is Theodore Dulfer.
three-cushion billiard championship of
the world from Alfred De Orc. the
tuban.
Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago,
must pay an inheritance tax of $780,
upon the 81 100000 she received as
prenuptial settlement from the late
Marshall Field. BY a decision OF the
Supreme Court wealth thus given is
held not to be exempt from the in.
heritance tax.
Attorney General O'Mailey OF the
State OF New York. received a COM
munication from Milton Bucky of
New York City. a lawyer. asking him
10 begin suit to cancel the certificate
OF the Knights Of Pythias' conduct of
life insurance business In that state
and appointing a receiver for property
in the state. Bucky il acting for
Thomas Baber. of Brooklyn. who al
leges the information furnished by
the Supreme Lodge Of the order shows
the present carrying Of Insurance of
the fourth class amounting to $780,
800. with only cash on hand Of
36l5.56s. The attorney general has
taken the matter under advisement.
More than q score OF lives were
snuffed out as the result OF a fire
which destroyed a leather goods fac
tory In Philadelphia and as many more
were injured. many OF them fatally.
While the firemen were fighting the
flames from the roofs Of adjoining
dwellings the south wall Of the factory
collapsed. burying nearly two score of
firemen. As soon as the extent Of the
calamity became known, policemen
were hurried to the scene In an eff.
fort to save those who were still alive
In the debris. by tearing down the
north wall. which was totterine. This
wall collapsed. killing eleven police
men.
From thirty to thirty-five firemen
are believed to be dead In Chicago,
ten bodies have been recovered and
at least a score are seriously injured.
several fatally. in a fire which des-
troyed the big beef storage house of
Nelson Morris & Co.. and for a time
threatened to wipe out the whole Chi
cago stockyards. Foremost among
the victims OF the fire was the head of
the Chicago. Fire Department. Chief
James Koran. who. with his second as
sistant. William Burroughs. and more
than q score of men. was killed when
terrific explosion Of ammonia tore
off the roof OF the burning structure.
forcing out its walls and trapping the
fire chief and his party under an over
hanging canopy and against line Of
freight cars, where they roasted to
Death while rescuers vainly fought the
gusts Of flames.
Stanislaus Pettanza, one OF ten Ital-
ians charged with kidnapping Gus
cppe Longo and Michael Rizzo. In New
York. was convicted and given fifty
years in prison.
Fire in the modern factory district
of Cincinnati caused damage estimated
at 100000. the death OF a fireman
and an unknown white boy and the
injury of six other firemen.
In the rear-end collision OF freight
and passenger train on the New
York-Trenton branch Of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad near Milestone Junction,
n. j., two men were killed.
Felix Swope Of Midway. KY. nephew
Of the late Colonel Thomas Swope,
who threatened to bring suit against
the estate left by his uncle. Is said to
have received 100000 in settlement of
his claim. The nephew has dropped
the suit.
Six thousand Bibles are to be placed
in the hotel bedrooms of Chicago. They
will not be chained down. IL guest
steals a Bible to read it the book will
be replaced and the loss charged t.,
the credit account, because the pur-
pose OF the project is to encourage b.
BILE reading.