The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-09-28
GENE RAJ.

CLOSE MS lOuTuhy SWING through
Michigan and headed for the West.
The piers Of the Hudson river day
line at Poughkeepsie. n. Y. burned.
Loss. $4,000.
Fire on the Mystic river front in
Charleston destroyed 100000 worth
OF valuable lumber.
The third aviator to start on the
transcontinental race. C. p. Rogers.
has started from New York to San
Francisco.
A new counterfeit $40 national bank
note on the Blair County National
Bank OF Tyrone. Pa. has been report
ed by the secret service.
Samuel II. Hyde. confessed slayer OF
his young wife and father-!n-lsw. at
Anderson. S. c.. was convicted OF
murder In the first degree.
Three men were asphy yx.ated In q
vat ut the Grassslli Chemical Works
In Cleveland. o., and two others. who
but will recover.
New high records have been estab-
lished in the coffee market in New
York and for the first time in sixteen
years the entire list sold above the
lc-cent mark.
s. w. Merrill, veteran of the Civil
War. died at Carthage. ILL.,. aged s6.
He was the father OF Edmond Merrill.
claim agent OF the Colorado 4 South.
crn at Denver.
Paul Peck. the young Washington
aviator. fell eighty feet into q creek
while making an exhibition flight near
Harrisburg. Pa. Peck's back was
slightly injured.
Another perpendicular advance OF II
points has occurred in the price OF
raw sugar. making Cuba centri-
iugal. &c test. 5.92 cents. which is the
highest figure In many years. A sale
of 10000 bags took place on that basis
and more was wanted, but spot sup
plies are light.
With the object OF initiating an or
ganized effort TO stop the away-from-
Missouri-farms drift, the first Mis-
souri, rural life conference will be
held at Kirksv!lle. Mo-, September
2Sth to October Ist. The conference
will be under the auspices OF the
State Normal School.
Although the statement is not OFF,
cial. it is said that members of the
Bakery and Confectionery Makers
Union of America will be assessed 10
cents each per month for maintenance
of the bakeries which the union will
soon establish In opposition to the
bread trust" shops.
The Increase in membership in
Scottish Rite Masonic bodies during
the last year has been the greatest
in the history OF the order. according
TO reports OF the ninty-ninth annual
session of the Supreme Council for
the northern district of the United
States at Saratoga. n. Y.
Peter S. GrosscuR presiding Judge
of the United States Circuit Court Of
Appeals OF the Seventh District, has
announced to his associates that he
would resign about October 1st and
resume the practice of law in Chicago.
The most notable case in which he
acted was in the opinion OF the Circuit
Court in setting aside the $29,000,000
Standard Oil Company, which decision
was prepared and read by Grosscup.
One of the most persistent legal ef-
forts of husband to free himself
from marital obligations was ended in
Philadelphia after thirteen years OF
dragging through the court OF com
mon pleas when Judge Breezy refused
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and George II. Rothengatter. who had
engaged in the long years Of litiga-
ton.
The ninety-ninth annual session OF
the Supreme Council of Ancient Ac
ceptcd Scottish Rite Masons for the
northern jurisdiction of the iTrited
States has closed at Saratoga. N. Y