The Holly chieftain., 1910-11-25
GENERAL

is holding a two weeks session in st.
Louis.
Trenton. N. j.. has a population of
96.S15. according to the thirteenth
census statistics.
Fire destroyed the business session
of Edgemont. suburb of East St.
Louis; loss 100000.
The Iowa State University football
team won from the Washington uni
versity in St. Louis. by score of IS
to 0.
The known death roll at the
Delagua. Colo. mine disaster now
reaches the appalling total of seventy
nine.
]. Ogden Armour of Chicago, says
the whole tendency in the prices Of
stock yard products Is toward a lower
schedule.
When the next New York state Leg
islature convene sat Albany a bill will
be introduced legalizing public boxing
exhibitions.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook has finally
decided to emerge from his retreat
and press his claims as the real dis
coverer of the North Pole.
The presence of fifteen Mexican
secret service men in Laredo. Tex,
shows the Diaz government is alive to
the danger Of border uprising.
The population of San Francisco is
416,912, according to the thirteenth
census. This is an increase of 74,13O.
or ZIG per cent over 342,7S2 in 1900.
A premature explosion of dynamite
killed two men and injured three
others. one probably fatally, at camp
No. II in the town of Lebanon. Wis.
Estimates of the number filled in
the fight between soldiers and police
on one side and revolutionists on the
other at Puebla, Mexico, are placed at
100.
Four men, the crew of the sea-going
tug Sea Prince, were drowned in San
Francisco bay. when the British steam
er Greystoke Castle rammed and sank
the tug.
River authorities in Paris announce
that the flood has reached its turning
point and may be expected to drop
steadily for two or three days unless
bad weather sets in. a.f
The mining town Of Clifton has won
over Duncan in the fight for county
seat honors of the new county o.
Greenlee, Arizona, which borders on
Grant county, New Mexico.
A disastrous wreck on the Pennsyl-
vania, resulting in the death OF loco
motive engineer and two firemen and
the injury of three other trainmen, oc-
CURED at Altoona.
The recall proposition as recon-.
mended by the majority report of the
committee. was adopted by the Ari-
zona constitutional convention, 81 to
II.
Robert Woodruff, ranchman, liv-
ing near Conrad, Mont, took arsenic
by mistake for sulphur to relieve a
sore throat. He died shortly after
ward.
A single vote in a district where
more than 41,0OO ballots were cast No
vember 8, elected Charles Bennett
Smith, Democrat, of Buffalo mem
ber of Congress.
English, German and French banks
will participate in a loan OF fifty mil
lion dollars which an American syndi
cate will make to China. An agree.
ment to this effect has been signed.
Entering Ell Paso as silently as all
Arab troop, the construction crew OF
the Paulson Wireless Telegraph Com
pany, with force of twenty men, is
preparing to install wireless tele-
graph station in that city.
Twelve hundred school teachers
from all parts of Luzerne county,
Pennsylvania, have voted to unionize
and join the American Federation of
Labor in an effort to obtain higher
wages and better conditions.
The Lawson mine, at Black Dia-
mond, WASH. in which fifteen men
were killed by dust explosion re-
Gently, is apparently hopelessly
wrecked and it is not likely that tie
bodies of the dead will be recovered.
The fifth annual convention of the
Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway AS
sociation. to be held in st. Louis, be-
ginning this week, is expected to be
the largest in the history of the organ
ization. More than 5000 delegates
already have signified their intention
of being present.
Oklahoma City lost in the state cap-
tol fight when the Supreme Court de.