The Colorado statesman., 1911-02-04
GEN ERAL.

The University of Michigan has
graduated 26.979 men and women
since it was founded.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward,
author and lecturer, died in Newton,
Mass, after a short illness at the age
of 81.
The Maryland College for Women
at Lutherville, Md, was practically
destroyed by fire, entailing loss of
100000.
One of the most sweeping quaran-
tines in the history of Philadelphia,
was put in force following discovery
of smallpox.
The entire police and detective
force of Pittsburg, Pa, and of pri-
vate detective agency are endeavoring
to solve the robbery of $4,000 worth
of jewelry from the home of Mrs. Will
liam Tbaw, Jr
Death came to four persons while
walking on Market street, the busy
thoroughfare of Philadelphia, when a
sign on building near Tenth street,
blown from its fastenings by high
wind, crashed down upon them.
Deposits of individuals in the 1900
National banks of the United States
decreased $191, ,566,4SS between Nov
10 and Jan. Ia situation probably
unprecedented in the reports made to
Washington.
After struggling for more than TWEEN.
ty-four hours with the testimony, the
jury in the case of Mrs. Laura Farms
worth Schnek, charged with poison
ing her husband, John o. Schenk, at
! Wheeling, W. Va, announced that it
could not reach a verdict. Judge Jor-
dan discharged the jurors and Mrs.
Schnek isagain in jail to await another
trial.
| Latest government reports confirm
the previous advices that 300 persons
were killed by the earthquakes and
eruption of Mount Taal, in the Philip
pines No American are among the
number. 1t is impossible to estimate
how many natives on the west shore
were buried in the ashes, but it Is
known that twenty-one were suffocat-
ed and five fatally burned.
]. A. d. McCurdy, a Canadian by
birth, but now affiliated with Ameri-
can aviators, set new record in over
the-water flights, covering nearly 100
miles, from Key West to within ten
miles of Havana, when from slight
accident he was compelled to drop into
the sea- There he remained, his BIZ
plane floated by pontoons until the life
boat of the torpedo boat destroyer Ter
ry picked him up.
Within less than ten months after
the initiation by President Taft of ne
| sotiations with the Canadian govern
ment there was laid simultaneously
before the American Congress at
Washington and the Canadian Parlia-
ment at Ottawa, reciprocity arrange
ment which, if approved, will do
much. in the opinion of the negotia-
tors, to enlarge trade between the
United States and Canada.
Disclosures of a sensational nature
we're made of the fact that in raid
en- an opium den in New York recently
by customs inspectors, a mass of
documentary eNlueHCe was IOuhu
which probably will result in the solu-
ton OF the Elsie Sigel and other muir
Ger mysteries and which establishes
beyond question the existence of cor
rupt relations between syndicate of
Chinese criminals and police officials
In this and other cities.
The executive committee of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
lines have voted to complete double
tracking of the lines from the Missouri
river to San Francisco. They also
voted to double-track the Oregon Short
Line from the junction with the Union
Pacific main line at Granger, Wyo., to
Huntington, Ore, also the line along
the Columbia river in Oregon to Port
land.
Horsewhipping in public may be-
come the method of Furnishing tobacco
chewers and smokers in Zion City,
near Chicago.