The Colorado statesman., 1911-12-30
GEN ERAL.

Postmaster General Hitchcock in.
tends to extend the practice of carry
| ing second class mail by fast freight
trains
Fire, which wrecked two factory
buildings in the Williamsburg district
at Brooklyn, caused a loss estimated
at 100000.
Thirty-eight days from Tsingtau,
China, the British bark Calcutta has
arrived, establishing a new record for
the journey.
Joseph Reed and Thomas Levan,
miners, were buried alive when thou
sands of tons of coal fell in the Backer
No. 4 colliery, at Shenandoah, Pa.
Twelve hundred letters of Christ
mas greeting and sympathy came to
James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier
poet, who has been i'll several months.
The st. Louis Livery and Undertake
ing Association has announced an in
crease of 81 on every carriage and 81
on every hearse used in funerals in
that city.
Miss Clara Barton, founder and first
president of the American Red Cross
Society, was showered with greetings
and good wishes on the ninetieth an
niversary of her birth.
The government has filed suit in the
United States Circuit Court against
the keystone Watch Case Company,
declaring it an unlawful combination
in violation of the Sherman antitrust
| act.
While trying to show how he had
lost the forefinger of his right hand,
Francis Lotosky, employe in Granite
City, ILL.,, foundry, put the forefinger
of his left hand up on whirling saw
and it was cut off.
Many earthquakes and one or ARo
days in which she encountered un-
usually heavy seas featured the voy-
age of the Pacific mail liner, Penn
sylvania, which arrived in port from
Panama.
The Rev. Charles n. Sheldon, au-
thor of "In His Steps," has resigned
the pastorate of the Central Congrega-
tional church of Topeka, which he has
held for twenty-three years. He will
make tour of the world.
With the ultimate object of STAN
dardizing all hash served in public
places in Kansas the State Board of
Health has instituted an investigation
as to the ingredients commonly used
by restaurants and hotels in the con-
coction of the dish.
Arthur F. Griffith of Milford, Ind,
| lightning calculator who has bewil-
dered vaudeville attendants through.
out the country for number of years
| by his mathematical wizardy, was
found dead of apoplexy in his bed at
Springfield, Mass, hospital.
AS a punishment for carrying
stock swindle by mail, alleged to have
extended over two years and said to
have netted millions in profit, four
promoters of the firm of Burr Broth
ers, New York, incorporated. were
each sentenced to a years imprison-
ment on Blackwell's Island.
Reindeer meat from Alaska soon
may be a food common to the Ameri-
can table, says William F. Lopp, in
charge of the government reindeer
service there. "In twenty-five years
at the present rate of increase" he
says, there should be 100000 prime
reindeer in Alaska, on which the peo-
pie of this country can depend for
much of their flesh diet. In taste,
reindeer meat is a cross between NUT
ton and beef, but more palatable than
either"
The full bench of the United States
Circuit Court has overruled the de-
murrers interposed by the Hamburg
American Steamship Company and
other transatlantic lines forming the
atlantic conference" against the gov
ernment's suit for their dissolution.
The governments contention is that
the conference" is, by reason of an al
| lged pooling agreement on passenger
rates, trust in restrain of trade, and
injunction is asked to restrain the
companies from further execution Of
the agreement.
That frost has reached at least twen-
ty per cent of the orange crop in the
interior of southern California is in
dicated by reports received. Whether
this fruit will be ruined depends, the
growers say, on the weather condi.
tions for the next few days.
A Kansas man has bet $4,000 that
rain will fall in Thomas county, Kan
sas, between March 1st and May 1st
of next year. If the rain comes
Jim" Fiske will clean up $4,000 next
summer, go to Europe. wear patent
leather shoes and silk hat, and kill
! it" generally.