The new era., 1910-12-15
GEN ERAl.

The population of Virginia is 2,o61,-
612, an increase of 207,42S, or 11.2 per
cent over 1900.
Tanner than for years, more than l.
900 deer were killed. it is estimated,
in Massachusetts, during the season.
At the age of 1O8 years, Martha
Gammons has been declared to be
sane in the Howard county (Mo) Cir
cult Court.
Fifteen persons were seriously in
jured when Missouri Pacific passen-
ger train was wrecked near Knob
noster, Mo.
AS a result of the protracted dry
weather this fall, there is an epidem-
ic of typhoid fever in virulent form
throughout northwest Missouri.
Twelve to twenty-four inches of
snow covers Chugwater valley, sixty
miles north of Cheyenne, Wyo:, with
an even foot in Lodge Pole valley.
During the deer hunting season,
November 10th to December 1st. there
were forty-six accidents in the upper
peninsula of Michigan, twenty fatal.
Mistaking a bottle containing car
bolic acid for castor oil, James Pet
erson. aged "a, of Newburg. N. Y,
drank the liquid and died in fifteen
minutes.
Judge James Brooks Dill. until re-
Gently a member of the New Jersey
Court of Errors and Appeals, and one
of the leading American authorities
on corporation law, died at East
Grange.
The antitrust campaign of Attorney
General Wickersham shifted to De-
tIoit with the result that indictments
jury against sixteen firms and thirty
two individuals alleged to have Sc
cured control of eighty-fiye per cent
of the annual output of enamel iron
ware bathtubs, sinks, lavatories, etc.,
in the United States.
Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy. the
leader and founder of the Christian
Science church, is dead. Natural
causes" explained the death accord
ing to DR.. George l. West, a district
medical examiner, who was sum-
moned a few hours after Mrs. Eddy
passed away. Later DR.. West added
that the more immediate cause prob
ably yas pneumonia. Mrs. Eddy was
born in Bow. N. H., July 16. 1921. and
was in her ninetieth year.
Mourned by many men prominent
in Boston's financial district Robert
e. Davie, known as the boy Broker"
with offices on State street, has dis
appeared. He is twenty-three years
old Between 100000 and $500,000
are said to be the losses of those with
whom he dealt. but the only specific
complaint so far charges the larceny
Of stock certificates valued at 100000
from Hannah Y. Greenwood Of Som
erville. To answer the charge. he is
being sought by the police.
The population OF the United States
should be 91.193,49O is the rate Of In
crese shown by states on which COM
plete returns have been received and
tabulated by the census offices is
maintained. Counting New Mexico
and Arizona, for present purposes, as
states. the full returns Of the enum-
Grafton have been tabulated for SO out
of the 40 and the District of Columbia
They show a grand total of 6.356.17s.
as against 55,299.636 for the same
area in 1900
Painting as he leaned out of an open
window in the Society for Savings
building in Cleveland, Ohio, ex-Judge
Conway w. Noble. aged 6s, fell seven
stories to the stone pavement court
and was killed.
Elbert H. Gary Of New York, chair
man of the United States Steel Cor
poration authorized a denial of re-
ports intimating that curtailment OF
operations and the discharge of thou
sands Of employees Is contemplated.
There is no reason to look for the
discharge Of number o. men," he
saic