The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-23
GEN ERAL.

John F. Hill, former governor OF
Maine, acting chairman of the Repub-
lican National committee, died in Bos-
ton recently.
A Mobile & Ohio passenger train
was held up near Corinth, Miss, and
the express safe blown open and $780,
600 in currency taken.
A police magistrate in Sterling, ILL.,,
fined his wife $25 for contempt of
court and ordered the bailiff to lock
her up if the fine was not paid.
Seventeen hundred of the thirty-four
hundred mine workers who quit work
in the Panther Creek valley at Potts
Vile, Pa, have returned to work
? Mahlon Pitney of New Jersey re-
Gently took the oath of office and as
sulned the duties of associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United
States at Washington, d. c.
Business in the steel industry is ac-
companied by developments of unusu-
al interest and Importance. The coal
strike in Europe is responsible for
greater activity in steel products in
New York and the prospective sus-
pension of mining operations in this
country has stimulated placing orders
for both finished and semi-finished
steel for prompt shipment.
Under lowering skies and a heavy
sea the old battleship Maine, resur-
rected after fourteen years burial in
Havana harbor, plunged with her col
flVinp n hpr
fathoms deep, in the waters of the
gulf. The sinking of the hulk was
carried out precisely as planned,
marking the end of the work begun
more than year and a half ago.
The Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern railroad was found guilty in Unit
ed States District Court in Buffalo of
violating the commodities clause of
the Hepburn act and was fined 81 900.
The company was indicted on 20
counts and faced a maximum penalty
of 100000, the charge being that it
shipped free from Buffalo to Scranton,
Pa, a quantity of hay to be used in
feeding mules in the mines.
Wage increases aggregating more
than $10,0O0,O0O will go into the pock-
cts of New England textile workers
during the next twelve months, ac-
cording to authoritative estimates of
the result of the present upward trend
of wages in cotton and wooden mills.
On the basis of an annual payroll OF
100000 in the woolen mills, the in
crease there will amount to $4,000 900,
while cotton mill operatives will re-
ceive an advance of S5,0O0,000.
Read Admiral George w. Melville,
U. S. Navy, retired, died at his home
in Philadelphia of paralysis. He was
national commander of the Loyal Le-
gion at the time of his death. Rear
Admiral Melville, who was placed on
the retired list January 10, 1908, was
seventy-two years old. For sixteen
years he was chief of the bureau OF
steam engineering in the Navy De-
partment, and was member of both
the Jeanette and the Greeley relief
expeditions to the Arctic Circle.
The end of the chase of the Hills
Vile, Va, raiders brought the death
list of the courthouse tragedy and its
StQuSl up W llNC. anu 10y u
Allen, two of the chiefs of the band
which rode down ON the Carroll coun-
ty court house and assassinated the
Judge, the prosecutor and the sheriff,
are in captivity-both wounded severe
ly. Sidna Aliens wife is dead, shot
in pitched battle with posse in the
mountains while helping to defend
her outlaw husband. The fifth death
was that of Nancy Ayres, a nineteen
year-old girl, accidentally shot during
the fusillade in the court house.
A tornado struck New Douglas.
Madison county, Illinois, unroofed sew
eral houses, wrecked the Pange flour
mill and broke scores of windows.
Smithboro and Greenville and other
small towns were damaged. In Green
vile 125 houses were wrecked.
President Taft may take a hand in
the coal situation to avert a strike
in the anthracite fields. The President
is said to be preparing to follow the
precedent established by his predeoes-
sor and bring pressure to bear on the
anthracite coal operators 10 make con-
cessions in the interests Of peace.