Fair play., 1911-03-18
A monster parade, representing

Atlanta, Ga, occupied by President
Taft foreign ambassadors and scores
of statesmen The parade represented
the business forces OF the south" and
II marked the session of the Southern
Commercial congress.
\ snowslide racing down the noun.
tain side swept to death ten men and
one woman, employees of the Hydro
Electric company plant, at Jordan,
Nevada.
The oregon plan of electing United
States senators by direct vote was
adopted in the house. 1t had already
passed the senate.
President Taft's scheme OF economy
in public expenses has resulted In a
saving of only $2,411,s in the ap,
preparations of congress during the
past session.
Miss Susan G. McComber, a s1s.a
week bookkeeper, ~ years old, who
admits robbing the John Lane Pub.
fishing company in New York, her
employers. of $4,000 and is charged
with taking between $4,000 and $40.
900, was sent to the Tombs In default
of $4,000 bail.
Ninety boys who were students at
Kemper Military academy In Boom
vile, Mo-, are camping two miles west
OF that city. 1t Is an insurrecto camp
that the cadets have established. They
struck because two boys who refused
to sign a pledge for their future good
behavior, after staying away from the
school the night of March I, were ex-
PEELED.
M. F. Cox, state examiner of munici-
pal accounts, has reported TO Mayor
Maloney of Council Bluffs. Ia, that A.
w. Cassidy, suspended city clerk, was
short in his accounts $7400.
Three sailors from U. s. s. Tennes-
see were found dead from gas in a
room in a hotel in Hoboksn, n. J.
The gas Jet In the room was turned
on.
With a roar that was heard for fifty
miles, q glare that was seen fully as
far, and with concussion that broke
windows more than a hundred miles
away. three carloads of dynamite ex-
ploded at the powder plant of the
Dupont Nemours company, one mile
northwest OF Pleasant Prairie Wis. 1t
will be impossible for some time to
tell accurately the number Of dead
but fully $50 persons are injured
Nearly every house in the village,
which contains 700 residents, has
been greatly damaged and some of
them wholly demolished
The lives of 80 miners were sup
posed to have been endangered when
what appeared as an attempt was
made to blow up the mine of the Cap
ital Coal company near Springfield
III. Two explosions resulting from
dynamite occurred.
Before a crowded court room in
Hopkinsville, KY, Milton oliver, con-
fessed night rider, revealed the Sc.
crets of the band and told OF the at
tack on Hopkinsville when two to-
bacco warehouses were burned. Oil
ve-'s story, the first from the inside
OF the marauding organization, Gre
ated a sensation. He declared that
DR.. David A. Amos, who is on trial,
was leader of the band. Since Oliver
agreed to turn states evidence and
testify against his confederates his
life has been attempted several times
and during the last few months he
has been guarded constantly by state
militia.
In Oscelo, Ark, negro craps game
killing was followed by desperate
battle between the slayer and a posse
of officers, In which the negro was
killed, Later the bodies of three 9TH
er negroes were found upon the pub
lie highway near Osceola riddled with
bullets. II is believed that they, too,
participated in the battle with the
officers
Three subordinate otncers in the
Venice (ltaly) Notifications depart
ment were arrested as suspects in
the poisoning of Colonel Scolari, head
of the department. In the belief that
Scolari's death was part OF COM
plicated espionage plot, involving
Austria, the department is being
thoroughly searched TO determine
whether any papers are missing.
Two regiments of infantry, the
Thirteenth, from the Preside, San
Francisco, under Colonel Chubb, and
the Eighth, from Monterey, Cal, com
manded by Colonel Mason, have been
ordered to the Mexican border. The
troops, comprising % companies and
four machine guns, are making hasty
preparations to depart on special
trains for San Diego.
One of the most disastrous fires
Minneapolis has ever known destroyed
the Syndicate block on Nicolet ave-
nue., between Fifth and Sixth streets. |
The total loss is estimated at $1,000
900, and at least two lives are believed |
to have been lost. Twelve persons
were rescued from the upper stories of
the building, while the flames were |
roaring around them. Some OF these !
sustained slight injuries, but none was |
seriously hurt The origin OF the fire |
Is unknown
Francisco Beltran has been agreed |
on as provisional president OF Hon
duras to serve until q successor of |
President Davilla is elected in Octo-
ber.
Two hundred and fifty Mexican fed
erals have been killed and wounded in
battle between detachment OF Gen
eral Madero's insurrecto army and a
force of federals under Colonel Escu-