Lower coast gazette., 1910-11-26
NATIONAL NEWS.

Thousands Of dollars changed hands
in New York on Wednesday, NOvem-
Der 8. as the result OF election bets.
The prohibition amendment to the
constitution of the state Of Florida was
defeated, as was state wide prohibition
in Utah.
Fifty-one miners lost their lives in an
explosion in the Delagua, Colorado mine
on election day.
The report Of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, recently made pub
lie, shows an appalling slaughter Of
human beings by the railroads of the
United States. For the year ending
June 1910 there We're 3,804 persons
killed and 1854 injured by the rail
roads, 42l Of the killed were passengers
and 1888 were employees. This dread
full slaughter occurred on steam rail-
roads alone, the electric lines having
their own mortuary records. For the
eight years l903-l9l0 inclusive, there
We're 80, 1928 persons killed and 81, 064
wounded by the railroads. What a howl
would be set up if these deaths were
caused by some uncomfortable epidemic.
but the railroads apparently are al
lowed to go on their own sweet muir
derous way.
The exposition tax amendment to the
California constitution was carried in
the election.
President Taft sailed from Charles
ton, South Carolina, on board cruiser
| Tennessee, bound for Panama.
The Chicago Board of Education is
planning to furnish penny luncheons to
the public school children Of that city,
the luncheons to consist Of hot soup and
bread and butter. The experiment will
be tried in six schools az first and if
successful, will be installed in all the
schools. FireleSs cookers will be used
and it is planned to have these cookers
made by the children in the manual
training schools.
The New York Office Of the FL Pro-
gress Banana Co. was raIded by the u.
s. Post Office Inspectors and it was de-
! ciared a fraudulent company.
In the national house of Representa-
tives, in which the Democrats will pre-
ponderate, the control will be held by
the South, as there will be l27 southern
democratic congressman, against 80
northern democratic congressman.
U. S. Senator A. S. Clay, of Georgia
died suddenly in Atlanta on Nov. l3.
A New Jersey minister has started a
crusade against eXtraVagant dressing
by women. With it he should couple a
crusade against the extravaganza Of
men in regard to smoking, drinking
and card playing, so as to even matters
up.
One of the most recent airship
achievements was the flight of Eugene
Ely in an %aeroplane from the deck Of
the American cruiser Birmingham at
Hampton Roades on November IA. The
airship used was a Curtiss biplane.
The announcement is made that the
Pullman Car Co., in confOrmance with
the orders of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, will charge a lower price
for upper berths than that paid for
lower berths. Whether they will get
around this by raising the price of low
ers remains to be seen.
w. J. Bryan, and he ought to know,
says that the recent political Occurances
remove Roosevelt as a possible presl-
dental candidate.
Kansas people are capable of going
some when they get started and a re-
cent evidence of this is the fact that
eighteen miles of good road between
the towns of independence and Coffey-
vile, were built in one day. There
some 1900 men engaged in the work,
practically every man in the county
helping.
The prices of foodstutfs all over the
country are declining, meats taking the
lead IN the lower prices, lamb falling
FIVE cents and pork from four to five
cent, with greater reductions promised
all along the line. Thanks for this re-
lief are due, it is said, to the bumper
corr crop and heavy cattle receipts.
One more name is added to the rapid
ly increasing number Of %aeroplane vic
tins, this one being Ralph tombstone,