The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-09-14
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
c. E. Griffin, mayor of Jackson.
Tenn. stands indicted In Criminal
Court for the offense OF public drunk.
enness.
A fee OF cNe thousand dollars to
marry John Jacob Astor and Miss
Force was refused by Edward C. John.
son. DID.
A total production Ct 12.91S.200
bales Of cotton as the final yield this
yead is indicated by the Department
OF Agriculture.
The last OF the Forty-niners will say
farewell next month. Because OF the
old age OF its members. the organiza.
ton will disband.
Capt. II. f. Honeywell made 4 flight
in Kansas City with four women pas
sengers in balloon. travelling q dis
tance of sixteen miles.
Three men were killed and twenty.
five received minor injuries In q pool
rom fight at Montana. Ark. \ coal
camp near Clarksville.
President Taft in his address before
the American Bar Association. in Bos-
ton. declared emphatically that there
Is room for improvement in procedure
in the federal courts.
Following n quarrel over a business
transaction, Pleas Southern, young
farmer living at Stony Fork. KY. near
Middlesboro. fired six shots into the
body OF his father. Dave Southern.
killing him instantly.
A remarkable speed OF 81 minutes
35 l-5 seconds for 80 miles. over wa.
ter, carrying a passenger. was made
In an aeroplane by Claude Graham
White az Boston. Grahame-W White sue
ceeded in winning the Boston Light
race.
Mrs. Delilah Cook. eighty-four. OF
Finley. O.. has sued for divorce from
the man who has been her husband
for sixty years. Stephen Cook, eighty
four. farmer living near Finley. She
claims that he no longer will provide
for her.
The money which Col John Jacob
Astor settled upon his flance. Miss
Madeline Force. In marriage agree
ment signed at Newport recently, was
S5.000.000 instead OF $4,000, 900, the
sum at which Newport society had
placed 1t.
An investigation into alleged unrea.
sonable rates on shipments o: wool
and hides from western points to
eastern markets has been begun in
Chicago by United States Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Prouty. Prou.
ty will hold similar sessions at Den
YER. Colo. and Albuquerque. N. NJ.
President Markham of the Illinois
Central railroad ended hopes of an i'm
mediate settlement of the labor diff
culties of the road by directing q let
ter to w. F. Kramer. secretary OF the
international Blacksmiths' union, re.
fusing to meet representatives OF the
federated shop employees, as he had
been requested.
Preparations for the celebration OF
Labor Day at Toledo. Ohio. were halt
ed while citizens lent aid in the search
for the bodies of city officers and EN-.
ployes who were drowned when a
launch was rammed and sunk by the
barge Philip Minch. and only one of
the eight passengers in the launch es-
capped watery grave.
The incorporation Of the Atlantic &
Pacific Transport Company OF New
Jersey. with an authorized capital of
SIS. 100000 has been announced. The
headquarters are to be az Baltimore
with branch offices at the principal
seaboard cities on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts and the Gulf The COM
pany proposes to carry the mail from
both Atlantic and Pacific points to
and from Panama and Colon.
Twenty-four states will be visited by
President Taft on the swing around
the circuit. according to his partly
completed schedule. He will start Sep
tember Is and will pass through these
states: Massachusetts. New York
Pennsylvania. Ohio. Michigan, Illinois,
Indiana. Missouri. Iowa. Kansas, Ne
braska. Colorado. Wyoming. Utah. Ne
vada. California. Oregon, Washington.
Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Mime.
sofa, Wisconsin and Maryland.
The raw sugar market is strong and
excited and prices have scored an ad-
vance of twenty points, one Of the
largest individual advances made In
years, and at the same time new rec
ords were established both at New
York and abroad.
Separate indictments. accusing Ma
than Allen Of Kenosha, Wis. and John
R. Collins Of Memphis, Tenn, reput-
ed millionaires, of smuggling gems
valued at thousands of dollars into
the port of New York, have been
brought to light in the offices of Unit
led States District Attorney Wise.