Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-10-20
GENE E7sL.

Tie recent floods In the Black river
n Wisconsin wiped o1t the bzEnsss
section of the toEu Of Black RiTs-
Fzlls-
Hearings n TIE Lorimer inveztigz-
tiOn before the United States sens.s
committee. have been resumed in chi
ezgo.
Supreme Justice Harlan has been II
Tor several days, shen he contracted
= severe cold His condition IS
serious
Willis Jackson. negro. under arrest
for an attack On = little girl, vas
hanged to a .elegrzph pole By mob
Al Greenwich. s. c.
4 discrepancy Of over ss,zss,27I Be
tween the material On hand and thz:
called for By the books Of the Wash
ington navy yard =ss shown by tbs
inventory Just completed
The criminal cases against more
than . seore Of firms and individuals
alleged to be in the -bathtub- trust
probably will come Up at the No
Tenber term Of The Federal Court in
Detroit All the defendants have
pleaded not guilty.
That the railways Of the country
take over the express companies
business vas virtually recommended
TO the annual convention Of the Ma
tionsl Association OF Railway Com
miEsioners in session in Washington
by the committee On express service
The contempt proceedings against
President Gompers. Vice President
Mitchell and Secretary Morrison. o.,
the American Federation Of Labor. for
alleged violation Of an order Of the
District Of Columbia Supreme Court,
have been begun anew.
BY the sweeping decree entered in
the United States CiTcui; Court at
Toledo, the backbone Of the so-called
Electrical Trust vas broken and, II
the judgment of Attorney General
Wiekersham, the government was
equipped with lprecedents Of genuine
value in its prosecutions Of CONNER
cial combinations forbidden BY the
Sherman law.
The practice at almost all Roman
Catholic churches Of asking q contri-
button at the door or Of charging a fee
for 4 seat in church. is ordered discon-
tinued in a circular letter addressed
TO all srchbishops and bishops Of the
church in the United States that has
been sent out by 3lonsignor D. Fal
clnio, apostolic delegate at Washing
ton.
Exceeding the worlds record for a
.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, 1,2G5 miles. was made by Har-
~ Atwood in a recent flight from ST.
Louis to New York. Rodgers had
flown 1898 miles according TO rail-
road mileage.
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
improvement. 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,
IL per cent; apples. SO 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 3O1, 100000 bushels.
Action by the Supreme Court of the
United States to stop alleged viola
tions Of the Sherman antitrust law by
the principal railroads and coal com
panies in the Pennsylvania anthracite
regions was urged by ]. C. Mercy
nolds, special assistant to the attor-
uey general, in a three-hour argument
before that tribunal
Statements about John D. Rookie
felIer's improved health are borne out
by the announcement that he has
gained twelve pounds during the last
four months. Rockefeller now weighs
1856 pounds.