The Raymer enterprise., 1911-12-07
GEN ERAL.


ambassador to Brazil, died in Balti.
more from heart failure, aged so.
Ortie McManigal will be carried to
Milwaukee for trial Of local dyna-
hitting in 1910 IL he is free in the West.
The Interior Department has at last
receded from Its position Of not ad.
mitting automobiles into national
parks.
The Missouri courts have sustained
the right of the insurance department
of the Knights of Pythias to increase
Its assessments.
A severe snowstorm, driven by a
wind that at times blew sixty miles
an hour, ragged over Kansas, Oklahoma
and a great part of Missouri.
That the battleship Maine was
blown up from the outside will be the
joint finding Of the. army and navy
board Of inspection, now in session.
1t is proposed that the $4,000 sub.
scribed by labor unions to aid the
McNamaras be turned over to the rela.
tives of the victims Of the Los Angeles
Times disaster.
Death came suddenly at his home
in North Easton. Mass, to Rear Ad.
miral George Francis Faxon Wilde. U.
s. n, retired. He suffered from heart
disease. He was 67 years old.
A spike placed between rail joints
by children resulted in the wreckage
of the queen & Crescent passenger
train, twelve miles below Somerset,
Ky. Two locomotives were turned
over.
For the first time in Georgia that
white man has paid the death pen.
atty for killing negro, A. ]. O'Berry
was hanged at st. Mary's. O'Belry
had killed a negro woman and her
daughter, the motive being robbery.
Independent tobacco interests will
ask the United States Supreme Court
for leave to file petition for a writ
of mandamus directing the judges of
the Circuit Court of New York to va.
cate their decree approving the re.
organization of the American Tobacco
Company.
The Standard OIL Company will not
longer control the affairs. as the hold.
Ing company. Of more than thirty cor.
porations. in various branches of the
oil business. Those subsidiaries un.
der the decree Of the Supreme Court,
will now assume entire management
Of their. own affairs.
Unless the friar lands In the Phil.
ippines are speedily disposed Of they
will become heavy financial drain on
the Philippine government, says c. r.
Edwards, the chief Of the Bureau Of
lnsular Affairs, and in his annual re.
port, recommends that these lands be
sold.
Capt. E. A. Swaney and four mem.
bers Of the crew Of the towboat Dia.
mond were killed In the explosion OF
the boats boilers while she was lying
In the Ohio river off Avalon, six
miles south Of Pittsburg. Five others
were injured, Two fatally. The boat
lies at the bottom Of the Ohio.
/ Reports from the woolen mills In
many parts Of New England indicate
that the period Of depression, which
was reported q year or more ago, has
passed. The mills are preparing to
put all hands on an extra.work sched.
ule, made necessary by the large or.
ders on hand and those that will come.
Full forces have been at work for
weeks but have been unable to re.
duce the stacks OF orders lying upon
managers desks.
The board Of governors Of the Ma.
tional Irrigation Congress have com.
pleted arrangements for the nine.
teenth annual meeting OF the organi.
zation which will be held In Chicago.
The members Of the board are: r.
lnslnger, Spokane. Wash, chairman;
B. A. Fowler, Phoenix, Ariz., vice
chairman; Arthur Hooker, Spokane.
Wash, secretary and treasurer;
Robert r. Mccormick and w. g. De.
collie. Chicago. and W. J. MCGEE. Wash.
ington. D. G.