The Colorado statesman., 1911-12-02
GEN ERAL.

ambassador to Brazil, died in Balti-
more from heart failure. aged so.
The National Horse Show, the last
to be held under the roof of old Mad
ison Square Garden, New York, has
closed.
The Missouri courts have sustained
the right of the insurance department
of the Knights of Pythias to increase
it's assessments.
A severe snowstorm, driven by a
wind that at times blew sixty miles
an hour, ragged over Kansas, Oklahoma
and great part of Missouri.
That the battleship Maine was
blown up from the outside viii be the
joint finding of the army and navy
board of inspection, now in session.
By the grave of the wife whom he
murdered July 18th. the body of Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr., who was electrocuted
at Richmond, Va, was buried in Maury
cemetery.
=. The increase in last years pro-
duction of coal over that of 1909-40-
7S1,762 tons-is equal to nearly three
times the total annual production of
the United States at the. beginning
of the Civil War, according to the
figures of the United States Geological
Survey.
The Gary steel plant of Chicago,
which is considered a creditable baro-
meter of business conditions in the
Middle West, is producing more steel
J., CT
is much activity in all departments
and there are $500 men on the pay
rolls of the steel works alone.
Tortured by the mental picture of
his headless wife and her paramour,
whom he slew, at Kenosha, Wis, Pas
quale Marchesi, twenty-seven years
old, went to a priest and confessed
the double crime, which had thereto
fore not been discovered. The young
avenger was turned over to the police.
John f. Dryden, founder OF the Pru-
Dental Insurance Company of America
and at its head practically all of his
life, member of the United States
Senate and multi-nlilsioDaire, died at
his home in Newark, N. j. Death was
due to pneumonia, which developed
after an operation which he under
went week ago for gallstones. Dry
den was seventy-two years old. He
was native of Pennington, Me.
In every state of the union there
will pass out of existence on January
1st an historic court practically as old
as the state itself On that day seven
ty-seven United States Circuit Courts
will cease to do business at the 276
different places they have been ac-
customed to meet. Arrangements for
this change are now being perfected
in Washington and throughout the cir
cults.
That successful method of treat
ment of disease from which hun
dreds of children in the city's tene-
ment district are suffering has been
discovered by DR.. Fred ii. Albee, at
tending surgeon of the Seabreeze hos
pital, was announced by the Society
for Improving the Condition of the
Poor. This disease, known as Potts
disease, or tuberculosis of the spine,
which causes the deformity called
'hunchback," yearly sends many suf-
ferers to the Seabreeze hospital, where
until now the only method of treat
ment was by use of the Bradford
frames.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer has
devised plan for utilizing in time CT
war The golfers and supply vessels of
the Panama canal service, and he also
will emphasize in his annual report
to President Taft, which shortly will
be made, that the Navy Department
Is encouraging the production OF
aeroplanes specially designed for use
from shipboard. Declaration that gov
ernment ownership and operation of
all Panama canal facilities would be
OF great benefit, economically, as well
as from the standpoint of naval pre-
paredness. Secretary Meyer goes on to
say that If "the canal colliers, oil
tankers and supply vessels are pro-
vided as parts of the canal establish
ment these vessels will be available
for use as fleet auxiliaries in time
of war and thus the necessity for add
ing just that many expensive vessels
to the regular naval establishment
would be obviated.
Brig. Gen. John Tyler Cutting is
dead in Canada, aged 81. He served in
the Civil War as member of the Chi
cago mercantile battalion, then went
to California, where he was for years
prominent in the national guard. re-
-iring in 1891 with the rank of brig Z,
idier general, to enter Congress.
For the first time in Georgia that
| wkite man has paid the death pen
.lty for killing negro, A. ]. O'Berry
vas hanged at st. A.ary's. O'Beir,
lad killed negro woman and hei
laughter. the motive being robbery.