The Ordway new era., 1911-04-14
GEN ERAI.

suffragette shining studio.
Commander Edward b. Latch. U. 8.
~, retired, died at his home in
Merton. Pa.
Orson W. Hayward. 101 years. Is
days. Waterbury. Conn.,, oldest resi-
dent. is dead.
Coral jewelry has been growing in
popularity OF late. according to New
York dealers and importers.
The Republican ticket was elected
by a safe majority in Michigan. but
it is difficult to estimate the ma
jority.
Chicago Is to have Il new trust
combination OF the theater ticket
scalpers. who have stations in all the
hotels.
a shortage OF $500 has been re.
ported in the wholesale stamped ell
velope department OF the Chicago
postoffice.
b. F. Bush. president Western Mary.
land Railway. has been selected to
succeed George J. Gould as president
OF the Missouri Pacific.
Major George W. Rue, who Is cred
tied with capturing the guerilla chief.
John Morgan. during the Civil War.
is dead at Hamilton, Ohio.
| Ellis Wainwright, millionaire ST.
Louis brewer, who was indicted in
1902 in the Doodle crusade OF Governor
| Folk and since then has remained In
exile in Paris. has appeared in court
and surrendered at St. Louis.
Circuit Judge Michael Donnelly Of
Napoleon. O.. pleaded not guilty to the
Indictment charging him with embez.
zling $4,000 of the Anchor Fire lnsur-
ance Company's checking account
with the defunct Citizens State bank.
Meats and cereals In Chicago, show
marked decline from the prices of a
year ago. Poultry. butter and eggs
are much lower, and the wholesale
price OF flour is about 81 a barrel low
er than for the corresponding period
of year ago.
An Iron Mountain passenger train
was boarded within the city limits of
st. Louis by an armed and masked
robber. who held up the white steward
on the dining car. four negro walters
and negro chef. The robber did not
get more than $40.
Carter II. Harrison, mayor of Chi.
cago from 1897 until 1905, and son of
Carter Fl. Harrison. Sr., who occupied
the mayors chair from 1879 to 1887
and was assassinated during the
worlds fair term, has been elected
mayor for the fifth time.
Inspector p. d. O'Brien announced
he had discovered plot to kill every
leader of the United Association of
Steamfitters and Plumbers in Chicago,
in war that already had been marked
by several pistol battles and two MUIR
ders.
One of the most serious mine disas-
ters which has ever visited that Sec
tion of the mining country occurred at
the little village of Throop, a short
distance from Scranton, Pa, when be-
tween fifty and sixty men and boys
lost their lives.
The government won its first case
in its fight to drive out of Chicago a
ring of Italian blackmailers known as
members of the Black Hand and said
| by the police to be responsible for
nearly fifty dynamite outrages and
many murders.
The total surplus freight cars in the
country March 29th was 196,217, a de-
crease of 1870 since March 18th, &C.
cording to the Railway Association.
Jacob Rothschild, proprietor of the
Majestic hotel in New York; and
known as one of the men of millions,
who are seldom mentioned as posses
sors of large fortunes, died suddenly.
Craige Lippincott, head Of the pub
fishing house Of J. B. Lippincott Com
pany, and prominent in the financial
and social life Of the city, shot and
killed himself in his magnificent home
| in Philadelphia.