The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-30
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE,
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Cracksmen robbed the safe of sa-
loon at Washington, Cal, of $4,000 and
some costly jewelry.
A peculiar disease has attacked
many horses in the Platteville, Colo,
vicinity and farmers report losses of
valuable animals.
Reuben Harris, 81 years old, mar
shal of Quitman, Mo-, is dying as
result of the excitement attendant on
his first arrest.
The Butte, Mont, miners union of
the Western Federation OF Miners
voted to take a referendum vote upon
the question of striking.
One life sacrificed for each million
tons of coal produced, was the human
toll exacted by the coal mining indus
try of Colorado of 1911.
The ten millionaire packers charged
with criminal responsibility for pack
ing combine were found not guilty in
Federal Court in Chicago.
Employees of railroads. when riding
on passes in future, will be required
to give preference to cash passengers
Two men were killed and a score in
jured when a cupola filled with mol
ten metal exploded in the pot foundry
of the Mccormick Harvester Com
pany in Chicago.
Three of the train crew were killed
when the westbound limited freight
on the Great Northern plunged into a
rock slide six miles west of Sand
Point, Idaho.
Fourteen boys whose average age is
fourteen years have incorcorpated the
youngest bank instituted in New Eng
land. at Quincy, Mass. They will de-
posit 80 cents a week until the fund
is large enough to invest in business.
The town of Gregory, Mo-, twelve
miles south of Keokuk, Ia, is reported
to have been inundated by the Missis-
sippi river which rose out of its banks
between Alexandria and Gregory.
Houses are floating down the river
and people are fleeing from the town.
Foreign capital. mostly American
aggregating $125,O00,000 and invested
in the border Mexican states of Du-
range, Coahuila and Chihuahua, is
non-productive and threatened by rea-
son of the revolution, according to
information in the possession of Ell
Paso bankers.
The war department is considering
the advisability of removing to some
western reservation the remnant of
the Apache band captured at the time
of the surrender of Geronimo. The
males from the original band, six in
number, are still held at Fort Sill,
Okla, as prisoners of war
At Rock Island, ILL.,, three persons
wer killed and nine injured when the
police fired into a mob that attacked
the police station as a result of the
riotous conditions that have prevailed
for the last few days. The sheriff
telegraphed to Governor Deneen for
militia to quell the disturbance and
help the police in maintaining order.
The state flags of Washington, Ida
no, A.ontana and Utah have been plant
ed on the Panama Pacific Internation-
al exposition grounds in San Francisco
on sites for state buildings selected by
Governors Hay, Hawley, Norris and
Spry, respectively. The sites adjoin
the Oregon and Nevada plots, the Ida
no and Montana grounds next the bay
shore and the Utah and Washington
plots across a highway from them.
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion decided that the proposed in
crease of 33 1-3 per cent in the trans
portation rate on feeder" cattle and
sheep made by all the western rail
roads was not justified. The commits
sion expects the carriers to cancel the
proposed advances by April 15. If they
should fail to do SO voluntarily, the
commission will issue a preemptory
order. Existing rates on feeder" cat
tie are approximately rs per cent of
the rates on fat cattle.