The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-09
GENERAL.

C. E. Griffin, mayor of Jackson,
Tenn, stands indicted in Criminal
Court for the offense of public drunk
enness.
A total production CT 12.91S,200
bales of cotton as the final yield this
yead is indicated by the Department
Of Agriculture.
The last of the Forty-niners will say
farewell next month. Because of the
old age of its members, the organiza-
ton will disband
Capt. II. e. Honeywell made flight
in Kansas City with four women pas
sengers in a balloon. travelling dis
tance of sixteen miles.
Three men were killed and twenty
five received minor injuries in pool
rom fight at Montana, Ark, a coal
camp near Clarksville.
Creations modelled after thoughts
suggested by Chicago's aviation meet
will be the basis for designs for wo-
mems headwear this winter.
President Taft in his address before
the American Bar Association, in Bos-
ton, declared emphatically that there
is room for improvement in procedure
in the federal courts.
Mrs. Delilah Cook, eighty-four, of
Finley, O., has sued for divorce from
the man who has been her husband
for sixty years, Stephen Cook, eighty
four, a farmer living near Finley. She
claims that he no longer will provide
for her.
The money which Col John Jacob
Astor settled upon his fiance, Miss
Madeline Force, in marriage agree
ment signed at Newport recently, was
S5, 100000 instead of 100000, the
sum at which Newport society had
placed 1t.
The raw sugar market is strong and
excited and prices have scored an ad-
vance of twenty points. one of the
largest individual advances made in
years, and at the same time new rec
ords were established both at New
York and abroad.
There is concern shown in grocery
circles over the high prices now pre-
vailing in the sugar market There has
been another advance in granulated to
s6.25, representing a full cent rise in
the last few weeks, and the highest
level in many years.
After a balloon ascension at Lake
wood park, at Charlotte, S. c., a pleas
ure resort, and making fireworks
display from the car; H. C. Brown, a
daring young aeronaut of Michigan,
fell with his parachute into lake and
was burned to death.
The incorporation of the Atlantic &
Pacific Transport Company of New
| Jersey, with an authorized capital OF
| $15 900 900 has been announced. The
Headquarters are to be at Baltimore
with branch offices at the principal
seaboard cities on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts and the Gulf. The COM
pany proposes to carry the mail from
both Atlantic and Pacific points to
and from Panama and Colon.
Twenty-four states will be visited by
President Taft on the swing around
the circuit, according to his partly
completed schedule. He will start Sep
tember Is and will pass through these
states: Massachusetts. New York
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Ne
vada, California. Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, Montana, South Dakota. Mime
sofa, Wisconsin and Maryland.
Behind the arrest of John PTin, an
opener and packer in the government
appraisers stores, in New York, on
the specific charge of stealing $50
worth of merchandise consigned to an
lporter, is the story of the robbery
of Mrs. ]. Pierpont Morgan of valu-
able ring and a series of gigantic
swindles operated by government en-
ployes and outsiders, which have al
ready cost importers several hundred
thousand dollars.
President Markham of the Illinois
Central railroad ended hopes of an i'm
mediate settlement of the labor diff
culties of the road by directing a let
ter to w. F. Kramer. secretary of the
| international Blacksmiths union, re-
fusing to meet representatives of the
federated shop employees, as he had
been requested.
Following a quarrel over a business
transaction, Pleas Southern, young
farmer living at Stony Fork, KY, near
Middlesboro. fired six shots into the
body of his father. Dave Southern,
killing him instantly.