The Colorado statesman., 1911-10-07
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EleN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
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President Taft arrived in Denver
On the morning of October 3, and aft
er spending fifteen hours in that city
departed for Cheyenne, Wyo.
Gov. ]. NJ. Carey of Wyoming was
the principal speaker at luncheon OF
the Denver chapter of the American
Institute OF Banking in Denver.
Five hundred Italians living in San
Francisco have notified the Italian
consul that they are ready to return
to their native land for military sery-
ice.
Acting without reference to the re-
fineries at New York or San Fran
cisco, Tacoma jobbers have reduced
the price of all grades of sugar 70
cents a hundred pounds.
Progress by the ocean-to-ocean avia-
tors has not been so great during the
week So small has been the number
of miles made by any that there seems
little chance the big prize Will be won
Gen. Irving Hale, whose record at
West Point and in the Spanish-Amer-
lean war has made him nationally
known, was stricken with apoplexy in
the street of Denver and his condition
is serious.
Fire which broke out in a ware
house in Wichita, Kan, was not con-
trolied until the property loss was
100000 and two firemen and three
spectators were reported buried under
a fallen wall.
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daughter were found dead in their
beds in Monmouth, ILL.,. the skulls OF
each crushed in. Dawson was the
caretaker of the First Presbyterian
Church.
United state Senator Isaac Stephen
son of Wisconsin, probably has taken
the witness stand in his own defense
against charges that the corrupt use
of money contributed to his election
March 4. 1909.
Moving pictures and their effects
upon the lives of children were dis
cussed at the session of the American
Humane Association in San Francisco,
and the convention went on record as
favoring the strictest censoring of
films displayed.
A special from Wallace, Idaho, says
three men were killed and eight in
iured on the Milwaukee logging rail-
road, twelve miles from Herrick, when
the brake on the locomotive failed and
the train ran wild through the derail-
ing switch.
President Taft presented loving
an automobile to Manager Jack Hen
bricks, of the Denver Baseball Climb.
The presentation was made at the
Broadway park on behalf of the Den
yer fans.
The Southern California conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church
adopted almost unanimously a resolu-
ton asking the general conference to
strike from the discipline of the
church the rule against card playing,
theater going and dancing.
Barney f. Lally, once private secre
tary to William Mckinley, died at his
home in Tulsa, Okla. Beginning on
the day President Mckinley was shot
in Buffalo, Lally always wore white
carnation in his buttonhole in mem
ory of the dead President.
Fresh from his triumph, when he
topped the Rocky Mountains in a sen
sational flight from Helena, Cromwell
Dixon, the 19-year-old aviator, fell
from height of 100 feet in his initial
performance at the Spokane Inter
state fair grounds and was fatally
mangled
The Public Lands convention in Den
yer was run according to program, but
a considerable number of the delegates
were dissatisfied with the methods en-
ployed, they say, to give control to
Colorado. Some favored conservation
and the government policy toward
public lands. Some are opposed to
this and want the public domain
turned over to the several states. All
resolutions were referred to a COM
mittee of ten men.