Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-12-08
GEN ERAL.

ambassador to Brazil, died in Balti-
more from heart failure, aged 80.
The National Horse Show. the last
ison Square Garden, New York, has
closed.
The Missouri courts have sustained
the right of the insurance department
of the knights of Pythias to increase
its assessments.
A severe snowstorm. driven by
wind that at times blew sixty miles
an hour, ragged over Kansas, Oklahoma
and great part of Missouri.
That the battleship Maine was
blown up from the outside will be the
joint finding of the army and navy
board of inspection, now in session.
BY the grave OF the wife whom he
murdered July 18th, the body of Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr., who was electrocuted
at Richmond, Va. was buried in Maury
cemetery.
The Standard Oil Company will not
longer control the affairs, as the hold
ing company, of more than thirty cor
porations, in various branches of the
oil business. Those subsidiaries UNI
der the decree of the Supreme Court.
will now assume entire management
of their own affairs.
The. Gary steel plant of Chicago.
which is considered a creditable baro-
meter of business conditions in the
Middle West, is producing more steel
than ever before in the history. There
is much activity in all departments
and there are $500 men on the pay
rolls of the steel works alone.
Brig. Gen. John Tyler Cutting is
dead in Canada, aged 81. He seryedlin
the Civil War as a member Of the Chi
cago mercantile battalion. then went
to California, where he was for years
prominent in the national guard, re-
firing in 1891 with the rank of brig
adler general, TO enter Congress.
Tortured by the mental picture of
his headless wife and her paramount,
whom he slew. at Kenosha, Wis, Pas
quale Marchesi, twenty-seven years
old, went to priest and confessed
the double crime, WI oh had thereto-
fore not been discove I'd. The young
avenger was turned over to the police.
In every state of the union there
will pass out of existence on January
LIST an historic court practically as old
as the state itself. On that day seven
ty-seven United States Circuit Courts
will cease to do business at the 276
different places they have been ac-
customed to meet. Arrangements for
this change are now being perfected
in Washington and throughout the cir
cults.
That successful method of treat
ment of disease from which hun
dreds of children in the city's tene-
ment district are suffering has been
discovered by Dr. Fred II. Albee. at
tending surgeon of the Seabreeze hos
pital. was announced by the Society
for Improving the Condition of the
Poor This disease, known as Potts
disease. or tuberculosis of the spine,
which causes the deformity called
"hunchback," yearly sends many suf-
ferers to the Seabreeze hospital, where
until now the only method of treat
ment was by use of the Bradford
frames.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer has
devised a plan for utilizing in time Of
war me Golfers and supply vessels Of
the Panama canal service, and he also
will emphasize in his annual report
n
be made, that the Navy Department
is encouraging the production Of
aeroplanes specially designed for use
from shipboard. Declaration that gov
eminent ownership and operation of
all Panama canal facilities would be
OF great benefit, economically, as well
is from the standpoint of naval pre-
paredness. Secretary Meyer goes on to
say that If the canal Golfers, oil
tankers ana supply vessels are pro-
vided as parts OF the canal establish
ment these vessels will be available
for use as fleet auxiliaries in time
of war and thus the necessity for add
ing Just that many expensive vessels
to the regular naval establishment
would be obviated.
A spike placed between rail joints
by children resulted in the wreckage
of the queen & Crescent passenger
train, twelve miles below Somerset
] Ky. Two locomotives were turned
over.
The increase in last years pro
duction of coal over that Of 1909-40
7s1,762 tons--is equal to nearly three
times the total annual production oil
the United States at the beginning
of the Civil War, according to the