Eastern Colorado times., 1912-04-05
GEN ERAL.

The Ohio constitutional convention
adopted an initiative and referendum
measure.
John Arbuckle, the well known cof.
fee man, died in Brooklyn. He was
seventy-four and leaves many millions.
Sufragists have announced that
they will print a daily paper in Chica-
go, devoted to the cause of equal suf-
frage.
There are 15,O15,569 Catholics in the
United States proper, according to the
1912 edition of Kennedy's Official
Catholic Directory.
The total value of imports of farm
products into the United States in
1910 was s1.556.947.4sO. as against ST..
226,562,446 in 1906.
The law department OF Chicago will
be asked to decide whether the city is
liable for claim of $40, filed with thu
council finance committee for the loss
of a pet parrot.
Massachusetts is to send a commit
tee, made up principally of wage earn
ers, to Europe to investigate labor con-
ditions. The committee is specifical-
ly directed to visit great manufactur-
ing institutions.
Prices of carpeting and rugs are
likely to advance sharply during the
next two months. according to trade
announcements, owing to. the scarcity
of desirable carpet woods in the mar
kets of the world.
The Michigan House, by a vote Of
rs to 10, passed the bill providing for
vote at the fall election on constl-
tutional amendment granting women
suffrage in that state. 1t now goes to
the governor.
The ground water of the United
States, upon which the agricultural
wealth of the country depends, is low
ering at the rate Of nearly two feet
decade. according to Professor w. ].
MCGEE, soil and water expert Of the
Department of Agriculture.
Starving, helpless and fatigued,
Claude Swanson Allen came out Of the
Laurel thicket in the Blue Ridge near
Hillsville, Va, pointed two six-shoot-
ers toward the sky and gave himself
up to the posse which for nearly two
weeks had hunted him.
The Senate rejected the Sherwood
dollar-a-day pension bill, which had
passed the House, and then adopted.
sc to 16, the Smoot general age and
service pension measure, under which
the pension roll would be increased
by $2O,OOO,OOO annually during the
next five years.
Although strikes are still in prog
ress in various Massachusetts textile
centers, the week has brought about a
noticeable improvement IN, general
conditions. Several of the smaller Ia
Dor difficulties have been settled and
a strike of 100000 cotton mill opera
tives at New Bedford was averted by
the granting Of the ten per cent ad-
vance. Similar advances were made In
other mills in New England, so that
at least 100000 operatives will share
in tho distribution.
After being out for twenty-four
hours. the jury which has been trying
the officials Of the sugar trust on the
charge of criminal conspiracy growing
out OF the closing of the plant Of the
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Compa-
ny following loan of $1,250,00O to
its owner, Adolph Segal of Philadel-
phia, reported that 1t was unable to
agree and was discharged by Federal
Judge Hand.
Woman suffrage and the election OF
United States Senators by direct vote
were defeated In the State Senate Of
Massachusetts bv close votes.
Senator Stephenson Of Wisconsin,
octogenarian millionaire banker and
lumberman, retains his seat in the Sen.
ate. By vote Of 40 to "a the Sem
ate declared his election valid and re-
jected the charge that $1O7,793 which
the senator admitted spending in the
Wisconsin primaries had been used
corruptly.
The report Of the state charities
commission recommends that all cor
poral punishment in public or private
institutions caring for children be pro-
hibited by law.