Putnam patriot., 1911-05-12
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M 4EaEf4 #4aAHffE -5I AAa HH4I-t paf 44 .3ecl tbe investigation sf gAe plaeae. passed resolutions ai Ils closing session eommeudlue fhr eHHeze eetefameHt l fer its pEsmptHes- and efficiency la handling Gae plague epidemic as seea as Is ssf isue-s @a5 realized and pfaIsing Chat government fsf the ofF onunity t Had given fI#e world s sciea. ! fists thoroughly 10 investigate the l plague.
 Unable to stop bis train in time to i avoid a burning bridge encountered as the locomotive rounded sharpe curve ] an engineer on the Southern Pacific ! Railroad look a big chance with fate. i opened hts throttle 10 the last notch l and brought the 2y0 passengers behind | him safely through the flames. Just 1 as the train cleared the bridge tae ! structure collapsed.
 \ general strike Of every working i man in the nited state. to be called [ on the day J. J. McNamara comes to l trial. in connection with blowing up Of ] the Times Building al Los Angeles last i fall, is to De laoor's protest against the i alleged Kidnapping Of McAanara, ac- cofding to circular prepared by the Industrial Workers Of the World, a Chicago organization controlling 59,00e men.
 The United States government at Washington accepted sl ls0. .000 in con- promise of the suits against Duveen Bros, the New York art firm accused Of customs frauds. The books and papers will be retained fofieyidenee in criminal action. Two Of the Duveen brothers now under indictment are out on bail and not In the Uniled States. fl is the announced intention of the treasury department To prosecute them if they ever come within the jurisdie- ton Of the courts Of this country. Tbe settlement in the Dugeen case iasol- we'd the largest sum collected in any Of the customs eases with the exception oi the sugar frauds.
 The state treasury department has published the list of fates Of taxation per share of the national and state banks, trust and investment companies Of Connecticut. that the treasufers of the towns and cities may be able to properly ascertain the taxes from thes institutions.
 Theodore Lilley, son of the late Governor George Leayens Lilley, and Miss Evelyn Dutton, daughter of A. Ii Dutton, phsrm macist In Grace Hos' pital, Boston, were married March 22 in Havana, Cuba. The ceremony was performed in the office of the American consul general. The couple were visit ing ID Cuba.
 "Finaneial neutrality 9f the refusal Of loans of money to nations at war, was the interesting suggestion offered at the third National Peace Congress in New York last week by James Spe- yer of the New York banking house Of s.eyer X Co. Huntington Wilson, assistant secretary of state, who presid- ed at the morning session, interpreted "Dollaf Diplomacy the newly coin ed phrase applied to the expansion Of American business interest through the efforts of the state department of the United States, ,to mean the "substi- taiton of dollars for bullets, the creation of prosperity which will be preferred ta predatory stfife and "a practical mode at pursuing tho ideal of world $ peace
 Dr. Mase- Greeley Parker, of Lowell, 3a-s. sesasled president general Of ta fae Amefieaa Revolution al tes annual t1usress at Louisville, ky. la-a ares Wednesday.
 F5s nEFa HHItlafiJIes haFe been in .ned ss fHa army engineer, charged aIla feH f.r aratH gl The Maine ffar8 ita aaa aafI.f. lAal the cousifa- e3a aa aAe eass. eali-t3sm has been orap piefe.i a91 tbe tsafs al pumping Il eat si5l aeglu Mas 2s Tue na. de. bartuaaas tss44 s-nd a collier In Has ans to Inke aboard ans material oi historic salas lhag may Ue talsed, aa weil a- tas uoDes ot any @, ihe victims of the explosion.
 Exportafigns of manufactures in March Nefe al the rate of more than one oillioa dollais a year exceeding by more than B million dollars those o 1910. should the exports of the re rnalning three months of the fisca year be al approximately the same rale aa those Of March, the total exports ol manufaetureS, including those ready for consumption and those for further use in manufacturing, would exceed so0 million dollars In the fiscal year
 The recent sale Of the Robert Hoe library totaled s997 .368.b0, the greatest public auction of books ever recorded. The three highest prices were, s50, ,ooo for the Gutenberg Bible, s42, 800 for coxtonis edition of the "MoFte Ar thur" and t35l .0o0 for Pembroke Hours"