The Elk Mountain pilot., 1911-11-30
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
Range cattle are selling on the Chi
cago market for $3.50 per hundred.
The American Federation OF Labor
will make no direct appropriation for
the defense OF the McNamaras.
Henry Clay Beattie. charged with
the murder OF his young wife. was put
10 death at Richmond. Va. in the cleo
tric chair.
Lafayette Choate of Liberty. Mo-,
pleaded guilty TO a charge OF harness
ing his wife with mule and com
pclling her to help harrow a field.
Three murderers were put to death
by electricity in Sing Sing prison at
dawn, November 20. The executions
began at 5:2S o'clock and lasted only
twenty-three minutes.
With 9.96s.I72 bales OF cotton OF
the growth OF 1911 ginncd prior to
November /, as announced by the Cen
sus Bureau. the promised pecord-break-
ing cotton crop OF this season is fast
being made ready for the manufac-
turers.
The New York State Athletic Com.
mission made the ruling that boxing
In the theaters is Illegal. The ruling
is in line with the provisions of the
boxing law that bouts may be held
only in rings OF chartered athletic
clubs
William Walker. aged twenty-thrcc.
is under arrest ut Fort Wayne, Ind
ON a charge OF numbering his wife
Sept. % and burying her body In his
back yard. Walker made n complete
confession, telling the police exactly
where they will find the BODY. ID,
With but one dissenting vote the
American Bankers Association in New
Orleans gave its unqualified approval
TO the proposed Aldrich plan for the
reform OF the currency. Congress was
urged to deal with the proposition rs
an economic question outside the do
main OF party politics.
c. w. Morse, the New York banker.
now in the Atlanta penitentiary. VIII,
II there Is no legal objection, be re-
moved from that institution within q
few days to a point near Atlanta and
placed under observation by physi-
clans to determine whether or not his
physical condition is such that he
should be granted a pardon by Presi-
dent Taft.
An independent sugar refinery
which 1t is declared will be a relent-
less and formidable rival of the So
called sugar trust, has been organized
in Philadelphia by George II. Earle.
Jr., the wizard of finance" who has
effected it by building from the ashes
of suicide and bankruptcy a corpora
ton to be capitalized at $4.0OO.0OO
with plant to cost the same amount.
New York bankers who have been
comforting for several days with rep
resentatives of the governors confer
ence and the Southern Cotton Con
I gress, announced that they had raised
a fund of $50 100000 to be placed inn
mediately in the cotton belt states for
1.-the purpose of handling the cotton
crop of 1911 and enabling growers
to participate in any rise in the mar
ket.
Two victims were claimed on the
Savannah, Ca, automobile race
course, over which the grand prize
and Vanderbilt cup races will be run
The first accident was n general pile
up. Joe Dawson was badly hurt. ]
d. McNay was killed in the secont
accident. His car turned over and he
was pinned underneath. Maxwell
McNay's mechanician, was seriousl,
hurt.
John F. Dryden, founder of the Pru
Dental Insurance Company of Americf
and at its head practically all OF his
life, member of the United States
Senate and a multi-millionaire, died a
his home in Newark, N. j. Death wa.
due to pneumonia, which developed
after an operation which he under
went a week ago for gallstones. Dry
den was seventy-two years old. HI
was a native of Pennington, Me.
Support of the Catholic church fo1
The arbitration treaties, for which Pres
dent Taft is working, was assured
yhen an intervie wgiven by Cardina
Gibbons was made public in Washing
ton.
Eighteen men were killed in a Goa
dust explosion which occurred in th'
/. Bottom Greek mine of the Bot
tom Creek Coal & Coke Compan.
at Vivian, w. Va. Over $50 men wer
the mine at the time of the explo
: sion, but all escaped except eighteen
} of the twenty-five who were in the ex
plosion zone.