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Connecticut western news., 1911-08-31
GRIM Es AND


 CASUALTIES. police that a Black Hand band of kidnapers had taken his seven-year-old son, Vincenzo junior, and Is holding him for ransom He says he has received six letters de- manding $10.0oO since the disappear ance of the boy.
 Twelve bombs have been hurled in New York city since Aug. l, and as yet the police have failed to make an arrest. The last two that were thrown hurt no one, but several thousand dol lars worth of property was destroyed, panics were started in two different sections of the city, and many lives were endangered.
 One man was crushed to death and four others injured three so seriously that they had to be taken to the hos pttal, when the cable of the big freight elevator in a New York wagon fac tory gave way. The heavy counter balance, weighing more than a ton, re- leased by the parted cable. fell on top of him.
 Five men were killed and five in- jured in the collapse of a bridge over the UmpQua river, sixteen miles north west of Roseburg, Ore. The bridge fell into the river sixty feet below. Defects in timber in the framework of the bridges main span, on which the ten men were working, caused the ac- cident.
 Three million men, women and chtl- dren are on the verge of starvation in largeS area throughout Bengal, India, as a result of the famine. The failure of the seasou's monsoon rains, causing crops to de, has left the peo- pie without grain. The English gov ernment Is taking steps to give relief.
 William Lee of Boenville, Ind, was arrested in that town, charged. with brother. He hit them on the head with a hammer while they were asleep, 1t is said, and then set fire to the house. The charred bodies were found when firemen entered the house.
 The choir loft collapsed during the r services at a church in Viniew, near Wongrowitz, in Germany, and eighty TWO pGTSOuS WGTS UuElcu uud0L LhC AS- bris. Twenty three of these sufocated before they could be, rescued. The other fifty-nine were taken out Inoce or less seriously injured.
 Following Black Hand threats, the home of John Sarvia of Browntown, Pa, was dynamited and the whole front of his house was torn off. Sarvia's f1ve-year-old child, which was playing front of the house, was se- verely injured.
 Robert Woodruff, f1fty-year-old ma chinist, who was struck and terribly beaten in a riot at the Queensboro Bridge plaza, New York, died without having regained consciousness
 Five men were killed by a dynamite explosion at Whitesburg. Ky. All were foreign laborers.
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-31
GEN ERAL
 NEWS aan%--A

across the Atlantic ocean on Oct. ,22 has been shipped from Akron, O., to Atlantic City, where the start is to be made The balloon is 26S feet long, or twenty feet longer than the "Amer- ica," in which Walter Wellman start ed for Europe and which was lost be- fore he had travelled many miles.
 Miss Alma Kraft, twenty-two years old, daughter of Frederick Kraft, business manager of the Volks-Zei- tng, German daily paper in New York city, was arrested in East Hart ford, Conn, on the complaint of her father, and in default of bail the young woman is a prisoner at the town, lookup. In a cell adjoining that occupied by Miss Kraft is Benjamin Kitchen of New York, chauffeur by occupation, who had eloped with Miss Kraft. ....a
 Because Andrew Edwards ignored the social custom of Washington, Ind, which demands that bridegroom treat" be is suffering from wrench ed shoulder, gash on the head and blackened eyes. Edwards. had DO cigars for crowd of men and boys who Chartvaried the couple, and they r forced an entrance to his house and threw him out of the door down a flight of steps.
 Mrs. Roberta Corwin Hill, the daugh- ter of Morris c. Menges, a horseman and real estate operator of Sheepshead Bay, left this country on the White star liner Olympic and, according to her friends, will never return to her native land. Mrs. Hill was fmpris- oned for three days in the Tombs last l February after her conviction for smuggling a 5000 sable coat into this country.
 When the power house on the farm of Reginald c. Vanderbilt at. Ports mouth, near Newport R. l., caught fire, Mrs. Vanderbilt hastily dressed and went out and directed the efforts of the farmhands to subdue the flames.
 pr. Edmund Richter, the German engineer who was kidnapped by brig ands on May 25, has been found safe and well on the Greek frontier.
 Twenty-seven lions were killed in th1rty-fve days by Paul Rainey and his party in their first hunt near Mai robi, British East Africa. Rainey modestly refrafhs from taking any credit for the lion killing. He gives all credit to his dogs. The lions, how ever, have taken revenge on the fancy priced pack of hounds that Rainey gathered for the trip.
 Homeward bound, Admiral Togo has sailed on the Japanese liner Tambn Maru on the last leg of his tour around the world. Americans and Japanese crowded about the wharf at Seattle, Wash, to get a farewell glimpse of him, and when he mounted the gang plank the crowd cheered vociferously he smilingly lowing an acknowledg- nent.
 Preparation of a force to guard the Panama canal has begun in Washing ton. The entire Tenth infantry, com. manded by Colonel Henry A. Greene was ordered from San Antonio to the canal zone, near the Pacific entrance as its permanent station. It is planned to establish a brigade in the cana zone.
 When by Feb. 1, 1912, the govern
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-31

Persons arriving from
 Coiombrest, Mexico, say the inhabitants have deserted the city
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-31

James Kingsley Blake, secretary of the Yale
 Alumni association for
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-31

Vinccnzo Sabella, an Italian of New York. has reported to the nnIinn thnt a RInnk
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-31

The big dirigible bal loon in which Melvin Vantman and five oth-
Connecticut western news., 1911-08-31
B(@'NESS CARDS

GEORGER. WlLGOA. BLACKSMITH Horse shueinp, wood work and
 iron work. RAILROAD ST. CANAAh. CONN.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-28
eIBsoN's ONE GOOD POINT
weighed Any slight Error In
orthosraphy.

The old man had given his son .
very fair education. and had taken
him into his shop. The young fellow
was over-nice about a great many
things. but the father made no COM
ment. One day an order came in
from q customer.
Il wish to goodness" exclaimed tho
son, that Gibson would learn to
spell"
whats the matter with IT." IN
quired the father. cheerfully.
why. he spells coffee with a *"
Modes he? I never noticed it,.
"Of course you never did," said the
son. pettishly. You never notice any
thing like that"
Perhaps not, my son." replied the
old man. gently: but there 10 ono
thing l do notice. which you will
learn by and by. and that is that Glib
son pays cash."
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-28
FoREioN.

In a 300.foot fall of his Farman bi.
plane Captain Edward Tarron of the
army engineers was instantly killed in
Paris.
The city hall at Schaerbeck. a su.
burb Of BRUSSELS. together with its
priceless works OF art. was destroyed
by fire.
Three hundred insurgent troops
have taken possession of Concordia.
which has been made the provisional
capital of Sinaloa. The town was cap.
tured without firing a shot. The in.
surgents have demanded the immedi.
ate surrender OF villa Union, but the
federal troops there are preparing to
defend 1T.
The most important battle of the
Mexican revolution was fought at
Aqua Prieta between 1000 federals
under command of Lieut.. Col. Diaz
and 1000 rebels under Balasario Gar.
cia, and resulted in the repulse of the
former. Seven persons in Douglas,
Ariz., were wounded from flying bull.
lets, regardless of the warning from
the officials at Washington.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-28
Western Land Convention.

Denver.-The land convention to be
called by Governor Shairoth In accord-
ance withsthe resolution passed by the
present Legislature may not meet un.
til October. The first meeting OF the
committee that is to have charge Of
the convention was held in the COVER
nor's office recently. when the Ques-
ton as to the date Of the convention
was raised.
1t was originally planned to hold It
in August or July. but the fact that
1t Is desired that ali the congressman
from the Western states be In attend
ance may lead to a postponment until
September or October. 1t is believed
by some that the extra session Of Con.
gress may not adjourn until fall.
Il am sure that this convention is
going to- be a most important one"
declared Governor Shafroth in discuss.
ing the plans for the big meeting
which is to be attended by representa-
tives from every state in which there
is more than 100000 acres of public
domain.
1.-THE time has arrived when the
West must assert its rights and fight
for fair play from the national govern
ment. The theory that the federal gov.
ernment has the right to withdraw
from entry and hold for an indefinite
length of time any considerable por.
tion Of the territory of Colorado or
any other Western state is Of a COM
paratively recent growth. It has been
spreading Of late, however. and a de.
cided stand by the Western state is
needed to show the people Of the coun-
try the rank injustice Of such a pro-
ceeding," said Gov. Shafroth.
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coIorado's Farming Growth.

Denyer-While the increase In acre
age of Colorado forms from 1900 to
1910 was less than fifty per cent. the
Census Bureau reports an increase in
the total value OF all farm land alone
300 PEI cent; in the total value Of farm
land and buildings. 2s3 per cent; in the
total value Of farm buildings. 1S3
per cent; In the average value per
acre of farm land alone, 1S2
per cent: in the average value per acre
Of farm land and buildings. 10 per
cent; In the total value Of all farm i'm.
plements and machinery. 160 per
cent; in the total expenditures for Ia
Dor. 161 per cent; in the total expen-
ditures for fertilizers. 152 per cent;
In the total improved farm acreage.
eighty mine per cent: in the whole
number OF farms, eighty.six per cent.
and In the total farm acreage. forty
two per cent.
The only decrease during the decade.
among the items for which per-
centages are given. In the first section
of the summary. occurred in the aver
aoge acres per farm. and amounted to
twenty.four per cent.
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Condensed REcoRp OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM all SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o . N q 9, ACHIEVE.
MENrs, sUFFERIN0s, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
WESTERN

Col. Charles M. OCOnnOr ana inc
Sixth cavalry, stationed at Fort Des
Moies, have left Des Moines for Arizo-
ma.
Locomotive firemen on all the west
ern railroads are in a new dispute
with the managers over the wages for
certain work.
A fall of rock In a slope on the 600
foot level Of the Homestake mine at
Lead. s. D., killed Gust T. Beckrath
and seriously injured Ben Battson.
Two troops Of cavalry at Fort Vel
lowstone. Yellowstone park. have re-
ceived orders to be in readiness to go
to San Antonio at moments notice.
BY the will of Ernest v. Cowell.
which was filed in the Probate Court
in San Francisco, the University OF
California is given three bequests OF
total value of $75O.OOO.
Marshall Edward Kirkpatrick. So
cialist. was elected mayor Of Granite
City. ILL.,. city Of $4,000 people and
the next largest town to Milwaukee
to put Socialist into the chief execu-
tive chair.
The University Of Iowa rifle team
has defeated Massachusetts, Agricui-
tural college by a score Of 1891 to
1880, winning the national intercolle-
giate shoot with fifteen straight VIC
tories.
Engineer Harold Porter was killed
and three other persons injured. one
fatally. in a headon collision between
trains Nos. 1 and on the Miss ouri.
Kansas & Texas railway at Caero-
kee Junction, Kans.
The Santa Fe has solved the water
problem on Its Southern Kansas divi.
sion by the construction Of six enor-
nous reservoirs. They really are
lakes. covering hundreds Of acres Of
land. The largest OF these reservoirs
is at Chanute.
The cost Of living is decreasing.
Hosewives may not have noticed 1t
especially. but such Is the case. at
least as far as certain staple articles
are concerned. For example. flour Is
20 cents q barrel cheaper than two
weeks ago.
While Mrs. John Norman was walk
Ing along the beach at Long Beach.
Calf, with her twenty-two.months
old baby boy toddling by her side. \
gigantic wave suddenly swept In and
tore the child from his mothers grasp.
The baby drowned.
Through the opening Of wide gaps
in the ground In the eastern part Of
White Pine county. Nevada, cattlemen
report losses that are gaining serious
proportions. In Jake's Valley Capt.
Moorman has already lost forty-eight
head. The gashes in the range vary
from eight to twenty feet in width
and there is no explanation Of the phe-
nomena except the fact that the coun-
try Is Of volcanic formation.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-28

wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for advice. In
Q short time I had gained my average
weight and am now strong and WELL"
Mrs. SALAIE STEVENS, B. F. D., No.,
8, Boz 81, Waurika, Okla. Z
Another Grateful Woman.
Huntington, MasA-"I was in ner.
vous, run down condi tion and for three
years could find no help.
II owe my present good health to
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and Blood Purifier which I BE-
Geve saved my life.
my doctor knows what helped mo
and does not say one word against it."
Mrs. MARI JANETTE BATES, Box
1874, Huntington, Mass.
Because your case is q difficult one.
doctors having done you no good, do
not continue to suffer without giving
Lydia E. PinkhamB Vegetable Com
pound . trial. It surely has cured
many cases of female ills, such Is In
dammation, liberation, displacements,
11broid tumors, Irregularities, periodic
pains, backache, that bearing down
feeling. and nervous prostration.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-28
SPORT.

The Keio baseball club sailed from
Toxic. Japan. on the steamer Manchu.
ria for a tour of America.
The Santa Clara. Cal. baseball team
defeated the Japanese players from
Waseda university by a score Of 10
to /.
Harry Forbes, bantamweight cham.
pion, and Jimmy Walsh of Boston win
fight ten rounds at Kenosha, Wis.
May 10.
Jim Flynn. the Pueblo fireman, and
Al Kaufman, the most hopeful an
pearing hope" of the white race.
have agreed to fight ten rounds here
May 5th, in Kansas City.
Maud S. trotter owned by the
late George NJ. Stearns, was shot to
death in Springfield. KY. as provided
for in Stearns' will. Maud S. was 50
years old and blind.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-28
Want OIL Law Amended.

washington.-Upon the petition Of
nearly 200 citizens of Denver and Colo
RADIO Springs. an effort will be made
to secure an important amendment to
the oil land act OF June 25. 1910. of
great interest to the West. The petit
TONERS are those who had initiated
rights to coal lands in Routt county.
Colorado. prior to the withdrawal act
-expending from 800 to $3.50 on each
claim. They seek an amendment OF
the oil act to save to them the same
rights as extended to oil prospectors
under that measure. and such bill
will be introduced soon. The act of
June rs. 1910. expressly recognized
the initiated rights Of oil prospectors.
whose titles were not affected by the
new law. The coal locators now plead
for the same protection. One Colo
RADIO case was taken to the secretary
OF the interior on appeal. but met with
an adverse decision both here and at
the local land office.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-28
GENERAL.

In four Chicago has received more
than $6.000.000 as its share Of the earn
ings Of the street railways.
Governor Hadley Of Missouri vetoed
the bill which sought to prevent re-
duction In passenger rates In that
state.
Ninety thousand citizens of the
United States have petitioned Congress
to withdraw the troops from the Mexi-
can border.
The New York Senate passed the
posed income tax amendment to the
federal constitution.
Robert T. Lincoln Of Chicago. pres.
ident Of the Pullman company. is
about to retire as head OF tie 1920, O,0OO..
900 corporation.
The Michigan Senate killed the
bills for a popular vote on a consti-
tutional amendment providing for the
initiative and referendum.
In ten years from 1900 to 1910 the
net revenues OF the American Tele-
graph & Telephone Company were
multiplied by five. increasing from $5.-
4s6.O5s to $26.s55.s93.
Clyde Ensley. pitcher for the wichi-
ia club of the Western Baseball
League, died Of spinal meningitis. He
was 21 years old. He was with To-
peka and Wichita a part Of last
season.
Number Of cigarettes consumed in
the United States in 1910, $500, O,OO0,-
900; estimated number of women
smokers. 100000; estimated number
of women in New York who smoke.
95, 900; estimated number OF cigar
cites they smoke in one year, 34,675,-
900.
A trunk filled with gold watch cases,
valued at 100000, consigned to a man
ufacturer in Chicago from Cincinnati.
was stolen from an express wagon.
Henry E: Hutting of New York
nephew OF the late Coils P. Hunting.
ton. jaid s15o.o00 for Velasquez's "Por-
trait of a Young Ecclesiastic."
Will Potter. a negro. was the CEN
trail figure in tragedy in Livermore.
KY. when fifty citizens dragged him
upon the opera house stage and after
hanging him. riddled the body with
bullets.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-28
Steamer Foundered; Many Drowned

Manila-The steamer Charles Poi.
zat. operating between Manila and
Corregidor. foundered in typhoon. 1t
is estimated that fifteen persons were
drowned. Fishermen rescued a num-
ber OF the crew and passengers. One
American Is missing.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-28
NEGROES Approve Emigration.

Denver.-The recent land grant by
the Liberian government to the Afri.
can Colonization Company of Colo
RADIO, and the effort Of the company to
induce emigration. is meeting with en-
thusiasm among the negroes Of the
city and state. The Afro-American
Minister'S union Of Denver commends
the movement and expresses its graft.
fication.
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mand anu. proceedings Begun.

MahodmUS PFoceeoIhHS 6e0U"'
Fort Collins.-M. G. Nelson, the new
ly elected city treasurer, went into
District Court and secured writ Of
mandamus to compel the former treas
urer. w. ]. RALPH, to turn over $780,
900 in cash held in the First National
Bank on certificates of deposit.
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MEN CHARGED WITH DYNAMlT-
ING LOS ANGELES TIMES
BUILDING CAUGHT. m
BRIBERY IS Attempted
UNION OFFICER TRIES TO BUY
FREEDOM WITH LARGE SUM
.I. OF MONEY. 5rf...!

Chicago.-The blackest page in the
history of organized labor was turned
when high official of the Interna-
tional Association Of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, was arrested
on the charge of having engineered
the dynamiting Of the Los Angeles
Times building last fall. -....
At almost the same moment the Of
ficial. John J. Mcnamara, secretary
treasurer of the union, was arrested
in his indianapolis office. sinister
little party slipped out of Chicago on
a special train bound for Los Angeles.
bearing with them the secrets Of the
long and disastrous war against the
open shop. For two Of the men, the
unions chiefs of staff in the war, the
shadow OF the gallows turks at the
other end Of their transcontinental
Journey.
One of the prisoners in the party
that left Chicago was the mysterious
-. B. Bryce" to whom the dynamite
ing of the Times building had been
traced and who has been held re-
sponsible by a grand jury for the muir
der Of the twenty-one persons who
persisted in the explosion. ..U.
He proved to be none other than
James Mcnamara. brother Of the Ia
bor official. who for years has been
head Of the secret, red-handed wreck
ing crew." in the employ Of Secretary
Mcnamara.
The other prisoner was a Chicago
man. Ortise E. McManigal. whose home
is at Ala South Sangamon street. and
who is a member Of Local 5. Of the
iron workers Chicago branch. .
Both men were arrested in Detroit
April 18th. as they were making
ready to destroy the new 100000
railroad terminal there.
Following the arrest Of Secretary
Mcnamara In Indianapolis. his private
vault was searched and 100 quarts Of
nitroglycerine were removed.
That John J. Mcnamara. who Ii de-
clared to be the brains OF the open
shop war. might be taken into custody
at the proper moment. their arrest
was suppressed. They were tricked
to Chicago from Detroit without legal
resistance and since then have been
held there.
On the way from Detroit. the detec-
tives assert. Mcnamara attempted to
win freedom through bribery. He is
said to have offered first $4,000 and
then $4,000 to be allowed to slip off
the train with his companion.
Los Angeles.--Labor union circles all
over the country are deeply stirred by
the arrest and hasty extradition from
Ohio Of the three Los Angeles sus-
poets, and frequent comparisons OF
this case and that Of Meyer. Hay
wood and Pettibone in Colorado have
been made by leaders.
Los Angeles authorities, fearing
further violence either by friends of
the suspects or by indignant citizens
in whose memory the horrors Of the
Times explosion remains firmly fixed
are taking great precautions to keep
secret the routes taken by the prison.
ers and their guards and the time Of
their arrival on the coast.
Further evidence. said to be con-
vincing beyond possible doubt. has
been unearthed by Detective William
]. Burns and Indianapolis officers.
Books of the Iron Workers Associa-
tion have been seized and another
plant of dynamite has been discov-
cred and confiscated in Ohio.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-28
Organize Coal Company.

Boulder.-Gustav c. Bartel, James
H. Blood and Earl C. Bartel filed In
corporation papers here for the Rider
Coal Company. capitalized with $780,
900, to operate in Boulder. Fremont
Las Animas and Huerfano counties.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-04-28

Indianapolis.-A message received
here from Tiffin. o., where Detective
William J. Burns, who led the raid on
the officers of the International As
sociation of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, asserted a plant" O.
between 800 and 400 pounds of dyna-
mite was found there.