Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-01-06
GENE ERAL.

Two men were killed and four In.
jured by the falling of boom used in
repairing bridges at Unionville. Mo.
Two persons are dead. a third is
" ounded and fourth is probably dy.
ing as a result of fights southeast o.
Waycross, Ga.
News of an assault on A. A. Will
hanson. the American vice consul of
Dalny. Manchuria, has reached the
State Department in Washington.
Rene Simon. French aviator. broke
the worlds record for monoplanes
when he circled mile track In 20-mile
wind in 81 seconds flat. In New Or.
leans.
In a campaign against palmists,
mediums. phrenologists and fortune
tellers, the police made simultaneous
raids in Manhattan and Brooklyn and
arrested more than forty persons.
Neddie Connors. trotting stallion
valued at $4,000 and owned by DR.. w.
II. Hors. Maysville. KY. died OF urae-
mic poisoning. The track record of
the horse was 2:O9.
Jay b. Jordan. telegraph operator Of
Kansas City, was fined $500 for hug
Eing his wife SO hard as to break two
nf her ribs. Jordan was arrested on
complaint of his wife. who told po-
liceman that her husband was cruel
to her.
Spirally gliding from an altitude OF
almost 5000 feet with frozen carbure-
ter dead engine. and blown five
miles from his course by forty-mile-
an.hour wind. John b. Moissant swept
down to within twenty feet OF the
ground at 100 miles an hour at the
aviation field at New Orleans.
Unusually cold weather. with freez-
ing temperatures almost to the gulf.
Prevails throughout large portion Of
the South. The cold wave follows
closely upon the heels of n general
weather disturbance which took the
form of thunderstorm in the central
valleys and snow in northern Texas.
Disclosures following the forced H.
Quidation Of the Quanah National
bank OF Quanah. Texas. caused the
comptroller OF the currency to issue
ar order directing every one of the
7.100 national banks in the United
States to install what practically
amounts to uniform system OF book
Keeping.
Clothed in rags and living in
wreched novels destitute OF food and
fuel. forty to fifty families, including
nearly 200 children are reported to be
in danger Of starvation in the stone
quarry districts near Sandusky. Ohio.
They are the wives and children of
Guarrymen who have been out OF work
for months.
The secretary Of the interior has
approved the contract entered into by
Supervising Engineer Savage OF the
reclamation service on behalf of the
United States, with Samuel Thomas
of Byron. Wyo., for the construction
CT dis;ributory bitches under the
t'rannie canal and lateral A, OF the
Shoshone irrigation project. Wyoming.
The lives OF sixteen workmen were
ended by the explosion of n boiler at
the plant Of the Norwood Lake Ice
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south of Pittsfield. Mass. Twelve men
we're instantly killed. one died shortly
after the accident and three others
Gied in the hospital. In addition
twelve men were injured. and 1t is
said at the House of Mercy. the hos
rital to which they were removed, that
two of the patients may die.
Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the
President. has promulgated cam
Eaign of early hours among the young
er members Of the social set. II the
campaign is successful. late hours will
be given up and the all-night dance
Stunned.
The Northern Bank of New York,
with $6.9l2.5s2 in its nine branches at
the time of its published statement,
has been closed by o. II. Cheney,
superintendent Of banks. for the
benefit Of depositors" because of
certain conditions" also certain ir-
regularities."