Putnam patriot., 1912-08-16
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One sf fHe afg asHts aga5pzk tHs TafEFIelaiaa feeIes9etf paeL nas tbat il offered to Canada ttle CT upgalaR which the democratic tariff program would not Vlgs Canada Ia common with other countries and NltaeHi ans cntangllng alliance On Our part. The democratic platform declaration for tariff reform is cieaf-cut and 8nmis- takabIe There k no mention Of reel pfoclty Tn the platform. indeedi any declaration ln support 0f reciprocity would be supeffuoas
 Boston WAS selected ~ the meeting place nezl year of lbe Knights of co- lumbus. i resolution uas passed uam. Ing Washington as the choice Of tbe order for building a national home
 One Of Milwaukee rich girls, Mss Ie5nofe Gawker, has been appointed mnuicipal dog catcher ca salary Of s5e month. a-he HiIl maintain A free pound says the dispatch, pfo- Qide au automobile deg ambulance employ two .maieJ assistants, and painlessly put Q death animals moi called for by ebeif owners within sixty days
 This year. grain efsps in the [ nited Hiales will be far in excess Of last years yield, Il was estimated by the Department of Agricultural iu its crop report for August l. VIII be better than the average crop for the last ten years, and in several products will make a new record. If present estimates hfe mol 0VefthfoWn bY conditions now unforeseen. This eountfy's corn crop estimated af .ali .0o .0e0 bushels will be the largest n the nations history with The exception ef i506, and l5l9, former being the banner year with Z,- az7 .eib. .fsFi b8sfeis As for the wheat crop, estimated at Ga9,g0 .G0g bushels, thnt will rank fifth iu size during the last twenty years. The eals crop will be the largest the country has galhef- cd, sutpaa4lng by 2 44 ol1 basaeis that Of t9lgI the previous record
 Four hundred and nay square miles Of Connecticut sol became saturday night at o'clock an armed camp that before ten duys ate over, expects tg make al previous W aierioos aud Get. tysburgs Of sham battle history look Ike Indian skifuishes With the pitching Of the tents of twenty thgus- and fegulnf and militia troops, Gene raj Taskef II. Bliss, chief ump pife oi manocuyfe campaign will have under his hands gigantic ehessbosfdt upon which are "fedn and blue men Of various values.
 General Cinelnnatus Beeonte, pfesi- dent of the republic ot iisyti, was Kill e1 last week in q fire which destroyed the national palace. IL was caused by an explosion of the powder magazine attached to the palace. The casualty list in dead and wounded amounts to a0o persons. At 3.ib o'clock In the morning an expolsion shook violently every house in the city and caused all Inc population to rush Into the streets. Everybody rushed toward the national palace where 1t was found that the powder magazine had blown up.
 Ganllet Thrown Down to Europe2 "Ameriean Monopoly Of the Panama Canal these are evening papers on the vote of the United states Senate on Inc, canal bill The French news papers anticipate that France will back up the British protest. Al the Foreign office, however Il was said that no decision hnd yet been taken.
 The interruption of teleKtaphic com munlcation makes it very difficult to obtain accurate details ol the disastrous seismic disturbances which occurred August on both sides of the bafda- neles No aeeataie figures of the number ol victims can yet be tabuislcd, though some estimates place the death list al 1000 and the uumbcr of Injured from 1000 to 60eo.
 seven murdetcfs were taken from their cells in Sing Sing prison Monday morning and put to death in the elee trie ehaif This Is the largest numbe of criminals to suffer the death penalt, by electricity on any one day since thu electric chair WAS adopted as q metho, of punishment.
 Physicians of the Johns iiopkin hospital are planning experiments 10 perfeeting new treatment for Pott' disease commonly known as huneh back, entirely eliminating the old me chanleal devices. Gfptting of bone vii form . conspicuous parl. For man, years much success has been ohtaiGe' in the old way, although there alway has been desired a treatment whie will secure absolute immobiliSation c ihe diseased joints, which will reliev the pressure. The new treatment doe this.
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