Putnam patriot., 1911-07-28
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ing mol only four townships but over hundred lives.
 After trying prohibition for two years, the Montgomery fAla.j folks have decided-2, ,5O0 to G00-that they have had all Of it they want.
 The Baltimore Sun contemplating those thirteen test questions for gentle men who want to run against William II. Taft next year, stands astonished at MT. Bryan's impotence.
 The struggle between the House of Commons and the House of Lords in Great Britain, is sure to end in victo- Y for the former, which will result in Home Rule for Ireland.
 The commisson form of government was adopted by Che citizens Of Passaic N. l., Tuesday night, making the third New Jersey city to favor the change.
 The senate Tuesday passed the "trol= ley searchlightn bill after warm de- bate. The bill provides that motor men on cars must turn off their search lights when approaching within two hundred feet of vehicle on a high way.
 The amount of taxable property in the state of Connecticut in 1910, accord ing to figures compiled by State Tax Commissioner W. II. Corbin, is S997, boo, ,644, an increase over 1909 of s3l, 879, ,s97.
 The warship Maine that is being rescued from the bottom of the harbor in Havana, is being freed sfrom the ac- eumulation of mud in which il is em- bedded, when the true cause of the ex- plosion which destroyed her will be known.
 "Every indication points to an ex- cellent olive crop this season" writes Consul William Coffin sfrom Jerusa- lem. "The trees in this district-as throughout northern Palestine-are heavily laden with blossoms.'
 Within ten days thousands of men will begin borrowing under the city of New York in making the most elabo- rate system of underground thorough. fares in the world. The system in- wolves an expenditure of S225 5,0000 000.
 Notwithstanding the bright antiei- pations for universal peace, the world Is more lagitated over impending war than for any time in the past decade, Hayti is in revolution, so is Persia, and France, Germany, and other Europe an nations are in bellieose mood over M orocco, and out of which war is re- garded as impending.
 Cholera has got lodgment in this country through4 emigrants who come from cholera infected districts. Over dozen deaths have occurred in New York, and one in Boston. No public alarm has been manifested inIregard to its spreading, as il is certain To be ie trieted in its damaging mischief
 The federal government Tuesday scored heavily in it's effort to break up the alleged "Nire trust, when S2 of S3 men indicted June 20 withdrew the plea of "Not guilty anu accepted sen tenee, without trial, on pleas of "Nolo contendre Upon this passive ad- mission of guilt, Judge Archibald, in the United States district court, inn posed fines of from Sl ,oo0 to Sl, 700 and costs in each case.
 
 That the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad company was criminally negligent and that Arthur NJ. Curtis of New York, the engineer of the Federal express, was also criminal ly negligent, Is the finding Of Coroner Wilson as a result of his inquest into the wreck of the Federal express on the morning of July Il, when fourteen were killed and forty injured. The company's negligence was based on maintaining a short cross.over on a trunk express line, and the engineer $ negligence on running over il al such a high rate of speed.
 The Canada Reciprocity Agree ement received the sanction of the Senate on Saturday, being passed by a vote of two to one. It had already passed the House twice by larger majority, :and without amendment, but just as 1t was originally prepared by both the con. tracting parties. It has still to be passed by the Canadian Parliament, oi which there is no doubt, although Il has been opposed in that country with the same determination as II had been in this. If Ii proves in any way dis appointing 10 the interests of either country, it can be al once repealed by either party. President Taft staked his future political destinyton its being . measure to benefit both countries, and to be proved within a year after being adopted. Its passage was SC. cured by the aid of Democratic votes in both Houses, and the President praises that party for their indispenss- ble aid in words Of grateful public sc. Acknowledgement.