The Holly chieftain., 1911-11-03
GEN ERAl.

Miss Fola La Toilette, daughter OF
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin, was
iarried at her home in Washington
to George Middleton of New York.
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the
New York World and the st. Louis
Post dispatch. died aboard his yacht,
the Liberty, in Charleston. s. c., har-
Dor. The immediate cause of Mr.. Pull
tiers death was heart failure.
Secretary Fisher of the Interior De-
partment has announced himself as
unqualifiedly in favor of the retire
ment system for the civil employees OF
the government. He also favored an
increase in pay for employees in the
intermediate grades of the Executive
Departments.
For the second time, Capt. Klaus
Larsen Of Detroit. successfully navi-
gated in a motor boat the turbulent
waters Of the lower Niagara river at
Niagara Falls, and the great mael-
strom at the point where the stream
turns on its journey to Lewiston
| This. he declares, will be his last
Niagara trip.
The tariff boards report on the
woolen industry is to be transmitted
to Congress upon the opening Of the
next session in December, in Washing
ton, and the boards report on cotton
will follow probably before January.
This, 1t became known, is the admin
istration's programme with relation to
the big tariff fight that will be waged
in Congress this winter.
DR.. B. Clark Hyde of Kansas City
is for second time on trial, charged
with numbering Colonel Thomas H.
Swope by poison. The verdict of the
first jury which on May 16, 1910,
found DR.. Hyde guilty and fixed his
punishment at life Imprisonment was
reversed and the case remanded for
retrial by the Missouri Supreme Court
April IL last.
The annual meeting of the boards
OF home and foreign missions of the
Trinity Methodist Episcopal church
will take place in Denver November
10 to 20. The bishops of the church
as well as missionery authorities from
all over the United States will be in
attendance. The meetings will be held
in the Trinity Methodist Episcopal
church. The first session will be that
Of the home board. Friday. Nov. 10.
George Dyott, an Englishman, fly
ing Duperdussin monoplane with
capt. Patrick Campbell Hamilton, an
English army officer, as a passenger,
at Hampstead, demonstrated the pos.
sibilities of an aeroplane for night fly.
ing. when with the aid of powerful
searchlight attached to the running
gear of his aeroplane and connected
by electric wires. he flew all about
the vicinity of the Nassau aerodrome
and landed without even straining a
wire.
The governments long planned suit
to break up the so-called "Steel Trust"
was begun in Trenton. N. j., in the
United States Circuit Court. 1t ia the
most sweeping antitrust action ever
brought by the Department of Justice.
The government asks not only the dis
solution of the United States Steel
corporation, but for the dissolution of
all constituent or subsidiary COM
panies which are alleged to have COM
bined in violation Of the Sherman law
to maintain or attempt to maintain,
monopoly of the steel business"
Thirty-six subsidiary corporations are
named as defendants. J. Pierpont
Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew
Carnegie, Charles M. Schwab, George
w. Perkins, E. H. Gary, John d.
Rockefeller, Jr, Henry Frick. Charles
Steele, James Gayley, William H.
Moore, ]. H. Moore, Edmund C. Con-
verse. Percival Roberts, Jr., Daniel G.
Reid, Norman B. Ream. p. A. Widener
and William p. Palmer are named IN.
dividually as defendants.