The Holly chieftain., 1911-11-24
GENERAL.

Chicago believes that it has cinched
the Republican national convention for
1912.
William ]. Bryan announced in Chi
cago he was going into politics with
renewed vigor.
Secretary Of the Navy Meyer, in his
annual report. will advocate increased
pay for the government clerks. and
age retirement.
The nations bank clearings continue
to expand. Last weeks disclosed a
gain of $255. 100000 over the CORE
spending period of 1910
Wellesley College girls of Boston
have started shoe Shining parlor in
the basement of the college building
They earned $50 the first week.
Express Messenger Irving G. Barger
| was killed and the safe in his car on
the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western
road looted of $1,000 to $4,000, near
Scranton, Pa.
Support Of the Catholic church for
the arbitration treaties, for which Pres.
ident Taft is working. was assured
| when an intervie wgiyen by Cardinal
Gibbons was made public in Washing
ton.
Moving picture show promoters re.
ceived blow when the United States
Supreme Court decided that moving
pictures based on scenes of copyright
| books may constitute an infringement
of copyright rights.
The Army Ordnance Bureau has
been obliged to go abroad to place a
| contract for 100 armor piercing shells
for the big fourteen-inch guns now be-
| ing turned out. The contract has gone
to the Hadfield Steel Foundry Compa-
ny of England.
Charges that Chicago gamblers kept
fund on hand of $4,000 for use in
easing up public Officials" were made
by Harry Brolaski. former gambler,
before. the Civil serkA Commission
in its Investigation ofpublic gambling
and vice.
| Currency reform and the proposed
change in the banking system OF the
country. as outlined by the National
Monetary Commission, was the cen
trail theme under consideration by the
delegates to the Transmississippi
Commercial Congress, which convened
in Kansas City in annual session.
| A contract has been let at New York
to the American Bridge Company, for
bridge across He'll Gate. The bridge
| viii be three miles in length and the
| largest of its kind in the world Work
upon the steel fabric will commence in
Pittsburg at once and the contract
must be completed in two years and \
half.
In order to maintain the parity of
the postal savings bonds. the trustees
| of the postal savings banks have an
nounced that they would purchase the
securities at par from persons com
PEELED to relinquish them. This action
| resulted from the recent report that
the market value of these bonds is
only 92.
Rough plans for two huge battle
| ships viii be laid before Congress this
winter. The projected ships are to be
OF 10000 tons displacement, armed
| with ten fourteen-inch rifles, each
nearly seventy feet long, with broad
belts Of the highest type of hardened
armor, and with steaming capacity
enough to carry them back and forth
| across the Atlantic
Mrs. Alexander B. White of Paris,
Tenn, was elected president of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
on the second ballot at Richmond, Va.
Mrs. Livingston X. Schuyler of New
York, who had the support of the Geor-
gia~delegation of 212, was defeated by
1896 votes, the vote standing 1917 for
Mrs. White and 742 for Mrs. Schuyler
The other general offices were unani-
mously reelected.
Beet sugar manufactures who have
been meeting in Chicago for the last
few days, closed their session after
formulating plans to combat the propa-
ganda in the interest Of free sugar, al
legged to be carried on by the cane
sugar refiners and the New York i'm.
porting interests. The beep sugar men
declare that they produce annually
100000 tons Of sugar. draw material
from sixteen states, extending from
Ohio to California, and pay the Amer
lean farmer $30,0O0,0o0 annually there
for. They contend that by putting raw
sugar on the fire. list the domestic in.
dustry would be destroyed. all compe.
tition eliminated, and that thereafter