The new era., 1911-02-16
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
AL Re, of Everett, Mass, claims to
have the shortest name of any man
III the country.
The bodies of the ten negroes who
met death in a caisson at the bottom
of the Passaic river at Newark, N. j.,
have been recovered
Frank Hotchkiss. known to Yale
men for two generations as the Off
cial in charge of the university build
ings, is dead
The United States Steel Corpora.
tion of New York announced an in.
crease of the price OF tin plate from
$500 to $3.70 per 100 pounds.
The deadlock over the election of
United States senator continues un-
broken in New York. There was no
change in the relatives strength of
any of the candidates on the seven
teenth joint ballot
Helen Vivien, second daughter of
George ]. Gould, was married at ST.
Bartholomew's Episcopal church in
Madison avenue in New York to Lord
Decies, an English army officer. She
is eighteen and he is fortyfour.
Congress passed the Senate bill pro
viding for a commission to secure
plans and designs for suitable monu
ment Of memorial to Abraham Lincoln
in Washington. 1t is estimated this
memorial will cost s2.OOO.Oo0.
The board of trustees of the new
postal savings system in Washington
is receiving complaints from almost
every state because the postal banks
refuse to receive deposits except those
made in person by patrons of the Of
flee.
Everybody Works but Father" will
the new court of domestic relations
opens for business. The new tribunal
is designed to deal especially witt,
men who sit at home all day, while
their wives take in washing to sup
port the family.
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of the far-famed festivals ever held
IN that city, San Francisco celebrated
the adoption by the House of Repre-
sentatives in Washington of the reso-
luton naming the metropolis Of the
Pacific as the site of the Panama
Pacific International Exposition, to be
held in 1915.
| According to statement made by
C. NJ. Drake, president of the Phila-
celphia Produce Exchange, specula-
tors in second grade butter in New
York and Chicago have been unable to
find a market for all of their cold stor-
| age holdings and will be compelled to
ship 100000 pounds of the product
% Europe to save themselves from abb
solute loss.
| Within less than ten months after
the initiation by President Taft of ne
gotiations with the Canadian govern
ment, there was laid simultaneously
before the American Congress at
| Washington and the Canadian Parlia-
ment at Ottawa, reciprocity arrange
ment which, if approved. will do
much, in the opinion of the negotia-
tors, to enlarge trade between the
United States and Canada
A cargo of dynamite in transit
from freight car to the hold of a
lighter moored at Pier No. z, Com
nlunipaw, N. j., exploded $50 yards
south of the Jersey City terminal of
the Central railroad of New Jersey,
and in the widespread ruin that fol-
lowed seven are known to have been
killed, seven more are missing, hun
dreds were wounded and varying re-
ports leave from fifteen to twenty
more .unaccounted for.
That James Whitcomb Riley, the In.
diana poet, has been i'll since last sum-
rler, the public is aware, but the real
| seriousness of his illness has not been
known except to his close friends in
| indianapolis. His condition is critical.
| In one of the most disastrous explo-
sions ever recorded in Upper Michi-
gan, ten men met instant death at the
plant of the Pluto Powder Company on
the outskirts of Ishpeming. The ex-
plosion took place in the gelatine
powder house. Every man in this
] building was blown to pieces.