The Colorado statesman., 1911-12-23
GEN ERAL.

6ENEhAL.
George, North Carolina. and South
Carolina have ginned thus far this
year more cotton that even before.
The bank and postoffice at Fancy
Prairie, forty miles southwest of
Bloomington, H., were blown by four
bandits.
Ten more bodies have been re
moved from Cross Mountain mine at
Briceville, Tenn, bringing the number
of victims up to So.
Charles w. Morse is slowly dying,
officers of the army hospital, at Fort
Mcpherson, Georgia.
A grandmother at twenty-nine,
mother of eight children and sister
in-law of her daughter, is Mrs. Will
liam Golden of Norris, Ill.
The Atlantic Coast Line train from
Savannah, Ga, to New York, was
stopped by robbers near Hardeeville,
S. C. Several sacks of registered mail
were taken.
The mills at Lamanville, R. l., and
those at Manton, Greenville and Pas
coag, employing in all nearly thou
sand hands, are all running on ahNSx-
ira time schedule.
The jury that is to try the ten
Chicago packers charged with violation
of the criminal provisions of the Sher-
man antitrust law, has been complet-
ed and the opening statement of Dis
trict Attorney Wilkerson begun.
John Bigelow, the venerable diplo-
mat and author, died at his home in
New York Mr.. Bigelow died in the
ninety-fifth year of his age, in the old
fashioned house on Gramercy Park
that had long been his residence.
Major General Leonard Wood, chief
of staff of the army, favors the restor-
alton of the canteen to army posts. He
declares in his anual report that the
concensus of opinion in the army is
that the canteen should be re-estab-
lished.
That the action of the United States
in abrogating the Russian treaty OF
1882 may precipitate II war with that
country was the assertion OF both
United States Senator Hepburn of Ida
no and Governor Mann of Virginia in
speeches at a dinner of the New Jer-
sey Society at Philadelphia.
Nathaniel Towles, negro, alleged
to have slashed the throat of Miss Iva
O'Connell, a telephone operator at
Lafayette, Ind, was trailed and caught
by the aid of bloodhounds and would
have been the victim of revolver in
the hands of the girls father at the
police station had not the plunger
snapped on the only empty shell in
the weapon,
Every transatlantic liner that sails
through The Narrows, to or from New
York these days, is a treasure ship.
Four vessels within the last four days
have carried abroad S4,000,000, New
Yorks annual Christmas present to the
old world. That city will have sent
10000, 900 abroad when the last gift
laden liner leaves her pier within the
next few days.
Aviators of the United States army,
the men who are to conduct expert
ments to demonstrate the usefulness
of biplanes in war, have opened a
camp at Atlanta, Ca, where they will
work during the winter months. Most
of the paraphernalia has been taken
from College park, near Washington,
and a series OF hangers are being
erected for the use of machines and
men.
An exquisite necklace of pearls of an
estimated value of 100000 is the
Christmas gift of Frank ]. Gould to
his young wife in New York. The
rope of pearls is arranged in two per-
fectly graduated strands and third
may soon be added, it is said.
Twelve persons were killed and a
score injured in a collision at Odessa,
Mimi, when the second section OF the
Columbian Flyer, from the Pacific
coast, bound for st. Paul, on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road.
crashed into the rear end of the first
! section of that train.