The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-14
GENE ERAL.


The recent floods in the Black river
in Wisconsin wiped out the business
section of the town of Black River
Falls.
Willis Jackson, negro, under arrest
for an attack on a little girl, was
hanged to a telegraph pole by mob
at Greenwich, S. c.
A discrepancy of over $3,2SS,271 be-
tween the material on hand and tina.
called for by the books of the Wash
ington navy yard was shown by the
inventory just completed
Quietness prevails in Chicago in
the strike of shop workers on the
Illinois Central and other Hartman
railroads, according to the announce
ments of railroad officials.
The Wall street news agencies re-
port that Henry c. Frick, the steel
magnate and, next to ]. p. Morgan,
the most masterful personality in the
steel trust, is about to retire from the
corporation, having sold most of his
stock.
More than 500 cases awaited the
consideration of the Supreme Court
of the United States when it opened
in Washington. This was the largest
number that had faced the court on
beginning of a term in about twenty
years.
Exceeding the worlds record for
cross-country aeroplane flight by 133
miles and speeding through the air at
times at the rate of seventy miles an
hour, C. p. Rodgers landed in Mar
shall, Mo-. on his air voyage from New
York to San Francisco. The former
record, 1,265 miles, was made by Har-
ry Atwood in a recent flight from st.
Louis to New York. Rodgers had
flown 1898 miles according to rail
road mileage.
Out of the testimony given before
the United States Senate committee in
Milwaukee, which is investigating
charges that corruption contributed
to the election of Senator Isaac Steph'
enson was developed evidence that the
Stephenson campaign managers re-
garded the $107,793, admittedly eY-
ton, as small compared to $150,000 or
100000 which might have been spent
for campaign more systematically
conducted.
w. X. Chung, dean of Canton Chris
tian college and president of the Can
ton Board of Trade at Canton, China,
while speaking in Boston, declared
that his country is about to be en-
quilted in a civil war greater than any
since the dawn of civilization. He
says that the number of Christian
Chinese has doubled since the Boxer
war and that the 100000 native Chris
tions in China will be increasd to 4OO,-
600 in 1920. The Christian Chinese
and the thousands of students grad
uated from the Chinese colleges and
the universities of Europe and Ameri-
ca will form the nucleus that will give
the revolution birth.
Disastrous weather conditions
which prevailed throughout the coun-
try earlier in the growing season
abated in September and the condi
tion of most of the important unhar-
vested crops on October 1st showed
Corn was one-tenth of
one per cent higher than it was on
September 1st; potatoes improved 81
per cent; tobacco, 9.4 per cent; flax,
1.2 per cent; apples, sc per cent;
rice declined Is per cent. The effect
of hot weather and drought through
out the growing season was shown in
the official preliminary estimates of
the production of spring wheat, oats
and barley. These showed a loss in
production over last years harvest OF
an aggregate of 301 100000 bushels.
The contempt proceedings against
President Gompers, Vice President
Mitchell and Secretary Morrison. of
the American Federation of Labor. for
alleged violation of an order of the
District of Columbia Supreme Court,
have been begun anew.
The sinking of an unknown British
barkentine. said to have sailed from
Bridgeton, N. s., off the entrance to
the Bay of Fundy recently with all
on board. was reported in Boston by
Captain Goodwin of the fishing
schooner Good Luck. 1t is thought thir-
ty were lost.