The Colorado statesman., 1911-09-23
GEN ERAL.

Complete official returns from the
special elections shows Maine voted
wet by 26 votes.
The wholesale price of refined SUI
gar in Chicago now stands at IA
cents a pound, the highest price in
90 years.
The third aviator to start on the
has started from New York to San
Francisco.
Farmers are fleeing in boats from
the lowlands near the Marmilton
river, at Nevada, Io., which is high
than ever before.
Samuel H. Hyde, confessed slayer Of
his young wife and father-in-law, at
Anderson, S. c., was convicted of
murder in the first degree.
S. w. Merrill, veteran of the Civil
War, died at Carthage, Ill, aged Sc.
He was the father of Edmond Merrill,
claim agent of the Colorado & South
ern at Denver.
Paul Peck, the young Washington
aviator, fell eighty feet into a creek
while making an exhibition flight near
Harrisburg, Pa. Peck's back was
slightly injured.
A 12-year-old child was run over and
instantly killed by Thomas A. Edison's
automobile at Lauf, Bavaria short
distance from Nuremburg, a special
despatch to New York from Lauf says.
Two persons were killed and third
probably fatally injured when a street
car leaped from the tracks and
plunged over hundred-foot hill in
Kansas City. There were but the
three passengers in the car.
Captain Paul Beck, of the United
States army, is the aviator who will
carry the first special delivery mail
sack that has ever been transported
through the air. He will make trips
twice daily from Nassau boulevard,
Long Island, to Brooklyn.
Although the statement is not Off
cial, it is said that members of the
Bakery and Confectionery Makers
Union of America will be assessed is
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.
Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry
in the Department of Agriculture, DR..
Harvey W. Wiley, will not be asked to
resign by President Taft, despite rec
concentrations to that effect made by
the personnel board of the department
and Endorsed by Attorney General
Wickersham.
C. p. Rodgers and ]. j. Ward, the
aviators who are flying to the Pacific
coast from New York for the Hearst
prize of $4,000, are companions in
misfortune. Rodgers flyer is a wreck
at Middletown, where he landed after
an initial flight of about so miles from
the Sheepshead bay race track, and
Ward is at Corning, about 2S0 miles
from New York, with the engine of his
machine so badly burned that it is
useless.
Peter S. Grosscup, 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
fine imposed by Judge Lands on the
Standard Oil Company, which decision
was prepared and read by Grosscup.
Six men connected with the United
Shoe Machinery Company have been
indicted by the federal grand jury in
Boston, for alleged violations of the
Sherman antitrust law. The indict-
ments allege maintenance of unlawful
combination in restraint of trade.
To date the Geological Survey has
passed upon and recommended for en-
try under the Mondell $50 acre home
stead act, 100 0,394,927 acres. over 49,.
600 acres were passed upon in the
month of August, and the work is be-
ing carried forward at about this rate
each month.