The Colorado statesman., 1912-02-03
GEN ERAL.

Women all over the United States
are planning to boycott butter in an
effort to bring the price back to nor
NAL.
Charles Schultz, his wife and their
foster son were found dead late at
their home in Milwaukee from ahphyx-
iation
The proposal to adopt the commits
sion form of government was defeated
at Madison, Wis, the total vote being
2,193 for, 1868 against.
Albert w. Wolter, the youth who
murdered and burned Ruth Wheeler
in New York nearly two years ago,
was executed at Sing Sing prison.
Fannie Ramsey of Weston, w. Va,
113 years old and said to have been
the nurse of General Stonewall Jack
son when he was an infant, is dead.
An investigation will be made of
the charges that the price of butter
is being manipulated by combina-
tion in New York and other large
cities.
That $4,000 consigned by a Pitts
burg bank to bank at Butler, Pa,
through the Wells Fargo Express Com
pany, mysteriously disappeared recent
ly has become known.
James Whitcomb Riley was awarded
the gold medal for distinction in poet
ry at the annual meeting of the Amer
lean Academy OF Arts and Letters and
the National Institute of Arts and Let
ters in Philadelphia. A telegram no.
tifying him of the honor was sent to
the poet, who is ill.
Thirteen persons are believed to
have been drowned in the Mississippi
river two miles south of Cairo, ILL.,,
when rowboat in which they were
being brought to that city from Birds
Point became lost in an ice jam. The
passengers were part Of 1876 who left
Cotton Belt train at Birds Point,
Mo.
Glass and commodity freight rates
to Denver and other points in Colora-
do from Chicago, Peoria, Mississippi
river and Missouri river territories
are attacked as unreasonable, discrim-
inatory and unduly preferential in
|
merce Commission by the Colorado
Manufacturers Association and the
Denver Chamber OF Commerce.
| One OF the most notable achieve
ments of American foreign commerce
in recent years, according to state
ment by the bureua of statistics OF
the Department of Commerce and La
bor, was in the automobile business in
1911. More than $20,000.O00 worth Of
automobiles were exported from the
United States. During the year. twen-
| ty times as much as a decade ago. At
the same time the importations have
| decreased from year to year.
| Fort Logan, Colorado, and Fort
D. A Russell, Wyoming. are un-
der prescription by the War De-
partment, and are doomed to abandon
ment If the plans announced by Secre-
tary Stimson are carried out. The Sec
retary, acting upon an exhaustive re-
port by the general staff, has decided
upon the concentration of the United
States army in eight posts, instead of
the forty-nine now in operation. BY
this means, he believes that the eff
cheney of the army will be multiplied,
while at the same time the govern
plent will make saving of S5,500,000
year.
The worst rioting in the fort
night of the Lawrence, Mass, tex
tile strike, involving 10000 persons,
occurred when street cars were held
up and stoned by mobs which refused
to let operatives go into the mills.
One woman was struck and killed
by a stray bullet, patrolman was
stabbed in the back. militia captain
was badly cut by brick and several
others hurt by stones as well as by
the clubs of the police and militia.
Governor Foss ordered twelve addi-
! tional companies of infantry and two
cavalry troops to proceed at once to
Lawrence to reinforce the nine COM
panies already there.
The federal grand jury which has
been investigating the dynamite con-
spiracy in Indianapolis begun what ia
expected to be the last week of its
work Reports about the district at
| torney's office are that at least thir-
ty indictments have been drawn up.
District Attorney Miller said the in
dictments, if any are returned, will be
secret, the names of those indicted
being withheld until arrests are
made.
Rear. Admiral Lewis o. Heilner. re-
tired, died in New York at the age
l of sixty years.