Putnam patriot., 1910-10-21
Latest News Condensed.

The export figures Of the United Etalcs for the month Of September show a distinct upward movement. the total value Of exports for the month being larger than in any preceding September In the history Of the export trade, and also larger than in any earlier month Of the current year. The l excess Of exports over imports was also larger than Tn any preceding Sep. l tembef except In 1900 and is97 The 1 total exports of ihc year were slss,s | s5s .6e3, against sI58, ,9o2 .s95 in 5eptem. 4srf :. Inst year. The Imports were siIe,z7i OH, Against si2i 6i4ie30 Tn .Espiember Of last year.
 Nearly sixteen million dollars Of fa. cotton was, in the asenl year 1910, imported Into the United states fhe worlds gfeatezt eetten-rfodncing | country, the exact figures being ss,- | O3e,8gi pounds, valued at Sibssl6, ias. l This k larger sum sent out Of the | United States to buy cotton than ever | before, except the year i907, when the | total was si9,9D,9ss. Most Of this 1 cotton from abroad is produced in Egypt, but more than dozen other countries and ali the continents com tribute to the grand total though pre- sumably none Of that coming from Europe Is the production of that sec lion of the world.
 United States Senator Jonathan Prentiss Deliver of Iowa died al his residence at Fort Dodge about X o'clock Saturday night of dilation Of the heart. He had been confined to his bed for week.
 Yenkio 0zaki, mayor of Tokio, Jap an, was recent visitor in New York. He has been mayor for seven years and because of some of his reforms is called "the Seth Lowe Of Japane afteI ex-Msyor Lowe Of New York.
 Ii is estimated that sl7 ,920, ,s4s vii be required to continue the eonstruc tion of the Panama canal during ths fiscal year beginning July next The principal items are sio, ,ao6 fo labor and sio, ,lso, 75i for supplies. Tn, total appropriations on account of th, canal to date are s2Is oo2 ,6is.
 The New Haven road Is after nor, holdings in New England. They hay, offered tloo share for the New Bed ford, Nantucket, Maftha's Vinegar, Steamship company.
 President Taft has signified his in tention to go to Panama in Novembe 10 inspect The work and get informa tion first-hsnd, which will be useful il legislation this winter.
 The Connecticut tobacco crop is re ported to be the largest and best |, twenty years.
 great peace jubilee will be one 0 The features of the fiftieth anniversar, celebration tn 1913 of the battle q Gettysburg. IL was decided that th celebration shall cover four days, Jul, |, 7, 5 and |, and that the fourth ia, In the nature ot peace jubilee. 1 was further decided that within thirt, daNe all of the representatives of th Nailous states submit to the Pennsyl Nsnla commission plans Tor tho eele bralion, and that The commission il turn submit a general plan to the rep resentaiises and governors of the vafi oas states and territories for sugges tions or approval.
 Thomas J. Riggs. Jr., government sf..,k ka q !. Alaskan boundary survey, reports th discovery, far north of the Arctic cir ele, oi what he believes 10 be the high est mountain on the American conti nent, exceeding Mount Mckinley b, nearly 2,ueo feel. The height Of Noun Mckinley k x. o.aoo.
 An American plan department sten is about 10 ne established In Amster store of the kind In the Netherlands Nearly S2,osa,ooo are to be invested al the outset, and department hianagen are 10 be procured in the United States
 The enormous growth of some of th, western cities, AS shown by the ceusn, returns, % amazed the director of th, census that an investigation was start ed which disclosed wholesale padding of the returns in . number of cities IL was found in Tacoma that sa, ,sss names had been illegally placed on the rolls. In several other cities frauds weN uncovered and there are more to cor
 Stili another new star has been dis covered by Mrs. William Fleming. of the Harvard Collsge ohsessaaosy. Thes havs heen oply saxteep new stars found during the laas twenty fivs yean and dpf 3hese thisseen have hssn dissoveys1 hy aAs vou,ep as9lssants of Haivafd Neheessasesys A6s. sfsesAlne' previously discovering ten. Ths new seaS b in she cnaa1ollaaioa Ara and was z11nnnvaeod o0 Onenof l3