The Colorado statesman., 1910-12-03
GEN e RAJ.


The estate of George Crocker, which
was filed at the surrogate court in
New York, is valued at $12,000,000.
George f. Seward, president of the
Fidelity & Casualty Company, died at
his home in New York at the age of
20.
Michael Cudahy, founder of the
packing firm bearing his name, died
at hospital in Chicago of double
pneumonia.
Three persons were killed and two
badly hurt when Wheeling & Lake
Erie train struck a crowded surrey in
Canton, Ohio.
Near Garden City, Kansas, COM
pany has been organized to irrigate
1000 acres of land from the under
flow of the Arkansas river.
Two hundred and fifty million dol
lars worth of articles classed as lux
uries we're imported into the United
States during the fiscal year 1910.
Baltimore & Ohio passenger train
No. Z, New York express, wrecked
near Tltamont, w. Va. Three train
men were killed and three injured.
M. S. Clauber, a wealthy retired
merchant of Madison, Wis, and w. S.
Watrous of Chicago were drowned in
McDermott's lake, near Emerson, Wis.
The United States grand jury re-
turned an indictment in New Orleans
against William Adler, former presi-
dent of the State National bank of
that city.
SO many men are buying their way
out of the army and refusing to re-
enlist after serving term that Off
GERS of the service have become
alarmed.
That the population of the United
States and its possessions now ex-
ceeds 1OO,OOO,00O is the estimate made
from the census figures SO far an
nounced.
Mrs. Anna Hubbell of Aurora, Ohio,
not far from Cleveland, was buried as
dead and resurrected, according to
daughter of Mrs. Hubbell who lives in
Cleveland.
The experiment under control of the
board of education, of maintaining
lunch room for the benefit of school
children, is to be given trial in
New York.
Unless the liquor interests are sue
cessful in their fight to secure the sig
nature of 81 per cent of the voters to
their petitions of consent to operate
Des Moines will go dry.
The United States Steel corpora
ton, it has been learned, is to an
nounce a pension plan for employees
between 60 and 70 years of age, which
will become effective January 1st.
Owen Moran, the British light
weight, who knocked out Battling Mel
son in the eleventh round of their
fight in San Francisco has received
several offers to appear on the stage.
George Tufts, former cashier of the
Rockport (Mass.) National bank, who
was recently indicted for the alleged
larceny of about $4,000 from the bank
committed suicide by shooting.
Twenty-Five governors and gov
ernors-elect met in Frankfort, KY,
at the third annual conference
of governors, among them being
Governors John F. Shafroth of
Colorado and Spry of Utah.
Realizing that the law did not pro-
vide adequate punishment for man
who brutally thrashed his wife when
ever the humor seized him, Justice of
the Peace ]. c. Hayden of Swoyers-
vile, Pa, vigorously lashed Albert
Gay, of the same place, with heavy
horsewhip, and when he had finished,
the wifi 5eater, weeping and begging
for mercy, promised never to strike his
wife again.
The federal government has began
one of its important actions against
great corporations which are said to
have violated the Sherman antitrust
law. Henry A. Wise, United States dis
trict attorney, filed in the United
States court for the southern district
of New York, a petition asking for the
dissolution of the American Sugar Re-
filming Company and 29 other corpor-
ations which compose the socalled su-
gar trust.
Rats, puffs, switches and other
such prevalent devices to reinforce
nature may become so cheap as to
cease to be distinguishing mark of
the up-to-date woman" This is the
comment made by United States Con-
sui E. Carleton Baker at Antung,
China, on the fact that 100000
Koreans "have amputated their top
knots since the annexation Of Korea
by Japan" In consequence Of this in
creased supply of human hair the
price has fallen materially.
Helen Boyle, serving sentence of
twenty-five years in the Pennsyl-
vania penitentiary for the kidnapping