The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-16
GEN ERAL.

Congressman ]. P. Latta of Nebras-
ka is dead.
One of the worst rain and electrical
er Michigan causing extensive dam
age.
| A fee OF one thousand dollars to
marry John Jacob Astor and Miss
Force was refused by Edward C. John
son, DID.
Hundreds of families in Boston are
going without milk for breakfast be-
cause 200 milk wagon drivers struck
for higher wages.
Mrs. Samantha Breniholtz, who dur
ing the battle of Gettysburg was chief
telegrapher at that place, is dead at
Hagerstown, Md, aged seventyfive.
From 499 out of 521 cities, towns
and plantations in Maine, unofficial
returns gave a majority of 9O4 for re-
peal of the prohibitory constitutional
amendment
Nearly $4,000 persons engaged in
the New England textile industry
have resumed work after various Pc
policy OF curtailment.
At the age of twenty-nine Mrs. e.
w. Bender of Atlanta, Ga, was
grandmother of two children, and
three at 80 years. 1t is claimed that
Mrs. Bender is the youngest grand
mother on record.
Col. John Jacob Astor and Madeline
20 owl
were married at Beechwood, r. l., the
bridegroom's Newport house. The
bride was given away by her father,
William Force.
For preventing passenger train
from Omaha on the Chicago & N. w.
from running into a washout near
Mendoza, Mimi, Eugene Labby, aged
seventeen, was presented by the pas
sengers with 5000 and set of reso-
lutions.
For the first time in the history of
the United States, the coal mines OF
the country in 1910 were credited with
an output exceeding half a billion
short tons, the combined production
of anthracite, bituminous coal, and
Ignite having amounted to sol. .567,S95
short tons, with a spot value of $629,
529,745.
Charles II. jerks. an agent at Co
lumbia, Pa, of the Baltimore Life In
surance Company, is held in $1,000
bail by a United States commissioner
on a charge of using the mails to de-
fraud Postal inspectors say jerks
had been systematically defrauding
the company for three years. 1t is al
legged he collected more than 100000
in death benefits on policies of per-
sons who are still alive.
All the American naval strength
deemed necessary as precaunon is
being concentrated as near as pos
sible to the scene of serious disorders
in China. Admiral Murdock has cabled
the Navy Department that he sailed
on his flagship Saratoga, accompanied
by the cruisers New Orleans and
Helena from Shanghai for Marking.
The admiraPs report contained moth
ing regarding the situation in China.
The United States is facing the
most serious sugar famine in years.
The refiners have practically no stock
on hand; there has been almost no
trading in anything except seconds on
the New York market for weeks; the
refiners find it impossible to obtain
any more of the big European surplus.
and the fall crop for the United States
threatens to show serious diminu-
ton, as compared with previous years.
Revised returns on the question of
the repeal of the constitutional pro-
hibition law in the state of Maine re-
duced the majority against repeal to
295. The total vote is: For repeal,
6O,216; against repeal. 60.511.
The crop report issued by the De-
partment of Agriculture does not in
dicate generally much Improvement in
the condition of the crops over that
of a month ago. Some Improvement
was shown in corn September 1st,
over August 1st, but it only amounted
to seven-tenths of l per cent in the
aggregate.