Putnam patriot., 1911-12-08

When Homer Austin Sr-,. .,l1ss'' farmer, went the rounds of his traps. he found panther weightnp 7o pounds in a fox trap. "
 Two persons. a man and a woman e ll-e returning from the opera were shot to death by highwaymen in diff ierent parts of Chicago.
 It IS estimated by K. R. Keaua sup- er'Isof '. or the Wisconsin income tax that the state will realize at least sl. VVo'oOo from the tax the first year
 Lord George Sanger. the veteran retired snowman, known as the Bar mum of England, was murdered by an employe on his farm. He was S4 years Of age. =''' :
 Henry B. Martin of the Antitrust League has filed a petition of i'm. peachment against Martin Littleton With the Speaker of the House at Washington.
 Walter Drew, chief counsel to the National Erectors' Association. said labor leaders were rushing to tell everything they knew to get immuni. U.
 Several persons, including convicts. were injured and four buildings dyna. mited before fire which broke out in the state penitentiary at Huntsville. Texas, was extinguished.
 The Union National Bank of Colum- bus. Ohio, suspended business: the last statement of the banks condition showed resources aggregating $S. S.6o0.. 300.
 Benjamin J Duyeen of the snug. gling art firm which defrauded the Government of millions of dollars was fined $15,oOO by Judge Holt, in New York.
 Suit against the National Cash Regi- ster Company, of Dayton, Ohio, was filed in the United States Circuit Court at Cincinnati; the company was charged with being in a conspiracy in restraint or competition.
 Attorneys for the indicted Chicago meat-packers in an effort to put eff their trial on criminal charges. peti- tioned the United States Supreme Court to declare the criminal sections of the Sherman act unconstitutional.
 The Government sued the National Cash Register Company. charging con spiraey in restraint of trade, but not seeking it's dissolution because it would be impossible to restore former conditions
 Ernest Weekly of Valley, Neb., leap. ed in front of a train and threw to safety woman who had become con- fused by the glare of the locomotive headlight and was knocked down and crushed to death.
 Forty of the fortyfour stores of Jamestown. Kan, and the entire busi. ness section of Glasco, Kan, were de stroyed by fire; Elbing, Kan, was saved from destruction by the crew and passengers of Rock Island train
 Bert H. Franklin, former deputy United States marshal, now employed by the MeNamara defence as an in vestigator. was held in s10,000 bail in Los Angeles, to answer charges oi bribery and attempted bribery in con neetion with the McNamara case.
 In a heretofore unpublished part oi his confession Ortie MeManigal said the McNamaras had intended to keeI up a campaign of terrorism in Los An geles until 1915 and if the city had noi mended it's way by them practically to destroy it.
 United States Senator Rayner, O Maryland, told a delegation of Jew ish citiens of Baltimore that he would work with all his zeal in supporting the Senate resolution for the abroga ton of the treaty of 1882 between tht United States and Russia,
 At the funeral service in a Nicks burg. Miss. negro church, just as tht pastor exhorted the congregation t( be ready to die, a crash followed ane LOGO negroes dropped down 15 fec with the floor of the church. Fifty were injured, of whom three will die
 Dock Commissioner Tomkins O New York. in letter to the Chamber of Commerce, urged the building of publicly controlled elevated freigh railway along the Hudson River, fol use by other roads as well as the New York Central, and the construction O freight tunnels under both rivers ane the Narrows.