The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-06-01
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holdings in Kansas City realty were.
valued at $1,000 900. is dead.
Fire destroyed the Northwestern Car
company's building. a five-story brick
structure. causing loss Of 100000.
Backed by prominent Boston men.
hospital is to be established In Boston
which will be exclusively for the rich.
Three persons were drowned by the.
overturning OF a canoe In the city
reservoir on the outskirts of Hamil.
ton. Ohio.
Wells Fargo Express Company has
taken ever the business OF the Pa
cific Express. which operates over
the Missouri Pacific.
boy threw fire cracker into, 100
pounds OF dynamite at Jefferson City.
Mo-. and one man will die and five
persons were injured.
More than 10000 lives and $4,000
sacrificed to fire In the United States.
during the last fifteen years.
A bill providing that no woman shall
be permitted to work more than nine
hours in any day or more than fifty
hours In any week In Missouri will
take effect June Goth.
President F. A. Delano of Chicago
of the Wabash railroad system. speak
ing before the Chicago Traffic Club.
advocated the regulation Of newsps-
pers by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission as semi-public utilities.
Nine girls and women OF Westmore-
land City, Pa. said to be wives and
daughters OF striking miners. are pris-
oners in the county jail at Green's
burg. serving twenty-day sentences ON
charges Of having disturbed the peace.
Developments in the steel and iron
trade point to a rupture between at
lease one of the so-called 'independ
ent" companies-the Republic Iron &
Stee. Company-in which John w.
Gates is a factor-and the United
States Steel Corporation.
In the hurry attendant upon the last
night of the session of the Missouri
legislature, the revenue bill providing
the tax levy under which appropria-
tions amounting to SIS. 900 are to
be raised got lost in the Senate and
made the next day.
That the big lumber companies
agreed on the curtailment of produc-
ton that prices were fixed by COM
mittee and that printed price lists
were sent to all the firms as means
of controlling the market. was testi-
fled in the initial hearing of the states
custer suit against the alleged lumber
trust at st. Louis.
1t has been decided by the general
board of appraisers in New York that
Chinese sausage is not bologna. Bo-
logna gets in free. and the importers
had claimed that the Chinese sausage
had come subtle affinity with the Ital-
ian product and should be similarly
classified. The sausage will hereafter
pay tax.
Five years of agitation and effort to
restore navigation to the Missouri riv-
er will come to fruition soon. when the
first boat of the Kansas City Missouri
River Navigation Company will start
from ST. Louis to Kansas City loaded
with miscellaneous cargo of mer.
chandise. Within a month two other
boats will be in regular service.
The newest London styles for men
have made their appearance in Chi
cago and are screamingly ridiculous.
The coats look like dinky shawl,
hung over the shoulders, fastened
with one button and flaring out on all
sides.
| Fifty-three babies under / year old.
most of them only a few weeks old,
died during the four days OF extreme
heat, from May 18th to May 18th in
elusive. in Chicago. The mortuary
records showed that the babies died
almost as rapidly as they came into
the world.