The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-06
GEN ERAL.

Former United States Senator An
thony Higgins of Delaware is dead. He
was seventy-one years old.
A new pipe organ. one of the largest
in the world, has been installed in the
Tabernacle at Zion, ILL.,
The Independent Telephone Compa-
ny's plant (automaticl at Omaha, was
sold at a receivers sale for $995.OOO.
Arasmus Page, aged 1O3. the oldest
newsboy in the world, is dead at joliet,
Ill. He worked up to the time Of
death
Clerks and assistant managers of ho-
tells from thirty-three states gathered
in Chicago to attend the annual con-
vention of the Greeters of America.
Low tide prevented heavy loss of
life when the steamer Grand Manan,
carrying 600 excursionists, struck
dredge in the st. Croix river at Calais,
Maine.
]. Henry Alexandra, vice president
of the National Hunt and Steeple-
chase Association and a member of
many sporting clubs, died in New
York recently.
Leaders in New York estimated that
1000 sailors and 1000 firemen and oil
ers are on strike in that port, and that
1000 men We're out at Boston, Phi!a-
delphia, Galveston and Norfolk
Harriet Quimby, the woman aviator,
who was flying with passenger, w.
A. p. Willard, in the aviation meet at
Atlantic, Mass, fell from a height of
1000 feet into Dorchester bay. Both
were killed
In line with the action of other steel
concerns the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany, it has been announced, advanced
the price of structural steel and steel
bars 81 a ton and also increased its
rate on steel billets by 81 ton.
Rev. DR.. w. d. Farland, prominent
educator of Pittsburg, Pa, who was
found guilty of causing the death of
his secretary, Elsie Dodds Coe, by an
operation, was sentenced to serve one
year in Jail and fined six and one
fourth cents with costs.
Fifty persons were killed and 275
seriously injured in June by vehicles
in the streets of New York city. Au-
tomobiles killed twenty-siX and injured
1873, street cars killed nineteen and in
jured ninety-nine, and wagons caused
the death of fourteen and the injury OF
twenty-three.
William Marshall Bullitt of Louis
vile, KY, will be named by President
Taft to succeed Frederick w. Lehman
of st. Louis as solicitor general of the
United States, according to CabinIt
officer who talked with the President.
No official announcement has been
made, but it is thought Mr.. Bullitt mas
accepted the place.
The national convention OF the
Roosevelt third party will be held in
Chicago, beginning August /. Almost
simultaneously with the announce
ment of the nomination of Woodrow
Wilson of New Jersey by the Demo
cratic national convention, Senator
Joseph Dixon, acting on behalf of
Roosevelt, announced that the call
was being made.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan, with four companies of troops
for St. Michael and Fort Davis, in
Alaska, is still imprisoned in the ice
which is drifting toward the Arctic
ocean. In five days the Sheridan has
moved 100 miles westward and may be
carried through Bering straits into she
| Arctic ocean.
| Seven thousand cases have been re-
ported since the outbreak of bubonic
plague in Porto Rico and this is hav-
ing a serious effect. particularly in
San Juan. 1t is estimated that 5000
persons have left that city.