The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-10-19
GEN ERAL.

The recent floods in the Black river
in Wisconsin wiped out the business
section of the town of Black River
Falls.
Hearings in the Lorimer investiga-
tion before the United States Senate
committee, have been resumed in Chi
cago.
Supreme Justice Harlan has been i'll
for several days. when he contracted
severe cold. His condition is
serious.
John r. Walsh. ex-banker and
former head of railroad enterprises.
has been paroled from the federal
priEon at Leavenworth.
Willis Jackson. negro. under arrest
for an attack on a little girl. was
hanged to a telegraph pole by a mob
at Greenwich. S. C.
A discrepancy OF over s3.2Ss.27I be-
tween the material on hand and tha-
called for by the books OF the Wash
ington navy yard was shown by the
inventory Just completed.
Bertha Westbrook OF New York
wants $4,000 damages because Dr.
Albert Plant ''blundered" when he
mended her face. causing one eye to
be larger than the other. so she can't
be good actress.
Wilmington. Del.-Mrs. Mary Eliza
beth Graham. aged 20 years, who. al
though well-to-do. lived alone at Ken
ton. Del. was found caught in fold
ing bed In her home. She had been
a prisoner four days and nights and
was in a dying condition.
That the railways Of the country
take over the express companies
business was virtually recomme nded
to the annual convention Of the Ma
tional Association OF Railway Com
missioners in session in Washington
by the committee on express service.
The practice at almost all Roman
Catholic churches OF asking a contri-
button at the door or of charging a fee
for a seat in church. is ordered discon-
tinued in a circular letter addressed
to all archhishops and bishops of the
church in the United States that has
been sent out by Monslgnor D. Fal-
ARhAef alREAAAsN AHAt NAAt a. W dEuAAA-
ton.
BY the sweeping decree entered in
the United States Circuit Court at
Toledo. the backbone OF the so-called
Electrical Trust was broken and. IN
the judgment OF Attorney General
Wickersham. the government was
equipped with preccdents OF genuine
value in its prosecutions OF CONNER
cial combinations forbidden by the
Sherman law.
Exceeding the worlds record for
cross-country aeroplane flight by 1873
miles and speeding through the air at
times at the rate OF seventy miles an
hour. c. =. Rodgers landed In Mar
shall. Mo. on his air voyage from New
York TO San Francisco. The former
record. l.265 miles. was made by Har-
ry Atwood in a recent flight from ST.
Louis to New York. Rodgers had
flown 1898 miles according to rail-
road mileage.
In the cathedral in Baltimore. where
fifty years ago he was ordained a
priest. then successfully consecrated
bishop. invested with the pall.um of
an archbishop and twenty years after
mis- ordination received the red beretta
of cardinal. Cardinal James Gibbons,
archbishop of Baltimore. received
homage from illustrous prelates and
laymen from both this country and
foreign lands. The ecclesiastical cele-
bration of the cardinals dual jubilee
began with pontifical high mass. cele-
brated by the cardinal. Archbishop
John ]. Glennon of St. Louis delivered
the sermon.
Disastrous weather conditions
which prevailed throughout the coun-
try earlier in the growing season
abated in September and the condi
tion of most of the important unhar-
vested crops on October LIST showed
improvement. Corn was one-tenth of
one per cent. higher than II was on
September LIST; potatoes improved 81
per cent: tobacco, "a per cent; flax,
l.2 per cent: apples. SO per cent;
rice declined is per cent. The effect
of hot weather and drought through
out the growing season was shown In
the official preliminary estimates of
the produ :tion of spring wheat. oats
and barley. These showed n loss in
production over last years harvest OF