The Colorado statesman., 1911-11-11
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

San Diego in 1915, has begun.
Col. Oscar E. Learned, pioneer, and
one of the founders of the Republican
party in Kansas, died at Lawrence,
aged seventy-nine.
For the first time in the history of
Milwaukee county, Wis, a woman has
been sentenced to life Imprisonment
for the murder of her husband.
Father Murphy, who for years en-
gagged in a contest with Bishop Bona
cum for the possession Of the Catholic
parish at Seward, Neb, was killed in
an automobile accident.
All records for youthful marriages in
South Dakota were broken when Coun-
ty Judge Russell at Deadwood united
Albert Holley, a miner, and Ada Cong
don, aged thirteen, of Lead.
Several persons were injured and
residents of Niles, Calf, thrown into
a panic when a herd of 300 steers,
frightened by a switch engine, STAN
peded through the business district.
John Smith, for thirty years presid-
ing patriarch of the Mormon church,
and nephew of it's founder and first
president, Joseph Smith, died in Salt
Lake, Utah, aged seventy-nine.
In the presence OF his father and
brother, William Glissin of Antelope,
Ore, aged forty-fiveS sheepherder,
stabbed and killed his aged mother,
who had demonstrated with him for
intemperance.
The possibility of corner in the
cranberry market that bids fair to
eliminate cranberry sauce as a feature
of Thanksgiving day has been estab-
lished in Chicago. Cranberries have
reached $10.50 a barrel, an increase
of nearly So from last year.
Arthur Metts and his brother-in-law
Albert Caswell, both of Ocosta, Wash,
fought a good old-fashioned duel with
revolvers The duel was prearranged
and took place early in the morning
Belts was wounded, but not seriously,
in the arm. When Caswell drew blood,
the duel was ended.
Negotiations which have been pend
ing for some time are practically
closed in Council Bluffs, for the sale of
the Atlantic, North & South railroad,
known as the Farmers line," to
syndicate headed by Leslie M. Shaw.
former secretary of the treasury of
the United States. The purchase price,
S4O2, 900, is to be paid into court Nc
vember 81.
Aviator Galbraith p. Rodgers, aD-
preaching a successful completion OF
his ocean to ocean jaunt across the
American continent, scared into Pasa-
dena, Calf, at a mile minute clip
On the last squirt of thirty miles from
Pomona, and dropped from an altitude
of several thousand feet to graceful
landing. He will fly to the coast, land
ing at the edge of the Pacific ocean,
His official record for the trip is 4,231
miles in 1924 minutes.
Farmers OF the South must withhold
from the market every remaining bale
of the seasons crop of cotton and fol-
low this with a concerted and binding
agreement to reduce next seasons
acreage at least twenty-five per cent
if they hope to restore the staple to a
normal Price and relieve the losses
sustained by present low prices. This
is the plan decided upon at the CON
ference of Southern governors at their
concluding session in New Orleans.
The thirty-third degree was con-
ferred upon five Masons at the Mason
ic temple in Denver. This is the larg
est number of men who have taken
this degree at one time in the history
of the order in Colorado. The men
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sons were Richard w. Corwin of Pu-
eblo, George w. Vallery of Denver,
James r. Killian of Denver, Darius A
Barton of Denver and II. Bruce Teller
of Denver.
John H. Hadley, for many years a
roadmaster for the Missouri Pacific
railway, and later employed by the
Denver & Rio Grande road, committed
suicide at independence, Kan, by
shooting. He sat on a curbstone on a
main business street and fired a bu!-
let through his brain. Hadley was to
have been tried in Canon City, Colo,
Nov. Is, on a charge of padding Den.
yer G Rio Grande payrolls. 1t is be
leved he was Respondent over the
coming trial.
Three bodies were recovered from
the wreckage of the east span of the
partly completed Mountain Quarries
Company bridge, at Auburn, Calf
which collapsed. Five injured were
taken from the tumble. 1t is though
that the clearing of the ruins will
yield still more bodies.
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