The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-02-11
GEN ERAL.


Al Re, Of Everett, Mass, claims to
have the shortest name of any man
III the country.
The bodies OF the ten negroes who
met death in caisson at the bottom
of the Passaic river at Newark, n. J.,
have been recovered
Frank Hotchkiss, known to Yale
men for two generations as the Off
cial in charge of the university build
ngs, is dead.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton OF New York announced an in
crease OF the price OF tin plate from
$3.50 to s3.7o per 100 pounds.
The deadlock over the election of
United States senator continues un
broken in New York. There was no
change in the relatives strength of
any of the candidates on the seven
teenth joint ballot.
Helen Vivien. second daughter of
George J. Gould, was married at ST
Bartholomew Episcopal church in
Madison avenue in New York to Lord
Decies. an English army officer. She
is eighteen and he is foriy-four.
Congress passed the Senate bill pro
yiding for a commission to secure
plans and designs for a suitable monu
ment of memorial to Abraham Lincoli
in Washington. 1t is estimated tbs
memorial will cost $2.000,000.
The board of trustees Of the new
postal savings system in Washington
is receiving complaints from almost
every state because the postal banks
refuse to receive deposits except thosa
made in person by patrons OF the Of
flee.
Everybody Works but Father will.
be sadly cut OF tune in Chicago when
the new court of domestic relations
opens for business. The new tribunal
is designed to deal especially with
men who sit at home all day. while
their wives take in washing 10 sup
port the family.
With gala spirit that excelled any
OF the far-famed festivals ever held
IN that city, San Francisco celobrat ed
the adoption by the House of Repre-
sentatives in Washington of the reso-
luton naming the metropolis of the
Pacific as the site of the Panama
acific International Exposition, to be
held in 1916
According to a statement made by
C. II. Drake. president of the Phila-
celphia Produce Exchange. specula-
tors in second grade butter in New
/ York and Chicago have been unable to
find a market for all of their cold stor-
age holdings and will be compelled to
ship 100000 pounds of the product
% Europe to save themselves from abb
solute loss.
Within less than ten months after
the initiation by President Taft of me-
gotations with the Canadian govern
ment, there was laid simultaneously
before the American Congress at
Washington and the Canadian Parlia-
ment at Ottawa, a 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.
A cargo of dynamite in transit
from a freight car to the hold of a
lighter moored at Pier No. Z, Com.
niunipaw, n. j., exploded $50 yards
south of the Jersey City terminal of
the Central railroad of New Jersey.
and in the widespread ruin that fol-
lowed seven are known to have been
killed, seven more are missing, hun
ureds We're wounded and varying re-
ports leave from fifteen to twenty
more unaccounted for.
That James Whitcomb Riley, the In.
diana poet, has been i'll since last sum.
rier, the public is aware. but the real
seriousness of his illness has not been
known except to his close friends in
Indianapolis. His condition is critical
In one of the most disastrous explo-
sions ever recorded in Upper Michi-
gan, ten men met instant death at the
plant of the Pluto Powder Company on
the outskirts of Ishpeming. The ex-
plosion took place in the gelatine
rowder house. Every man in this
building was blown to pieces.