The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-16
GEN ERAL.

A Greentown, Pike county, Pa, boil
er blew up, four employees being killed
and one fatally injured.
United States District Judge Car
penter refused to take from the jury
the case of the ten Chicago meat
packers.
Andrew Herd, well-known athlete,
and for years life guard on the
beach at Atlantic City, sneezed him.
self to death.
Thirty of the men indicted by the
federal grand jury for connection with
the dynamite conspiracy are in In
dianapolis.
The stockholders of the Standard
Oil Company of indianapolis recently
voted to increase the capital stock of
the indiana corporation from $1,000,
600 to $3O,OO0,O0O.
Philip Lavery, twenty, a millworker
of Worchester, Mass, received SIT 900
for an invention which prevents a
third person from overhearing tele.
phone conversations.
At South Norwalk, Conn, a cat rub.
bed against a lamp in the home OF
Joseph A. McElroy. The loss was
$25,00o. A trunk containing SIS,
600 worth of jewels was rescued.
Samuel Winterton of Keyport, N J.
holds the worlds record for perfect
attendance at Sunday school. Next
month he will complete fifty consecu
tive years of perfect attendance. Prep
arations are being made for the
event.
After it had been shown to the salts
faction of the state senators that the
blue grass has flower the upper
house of the Legislature voted to
adopt the blue grass as the Kentucky
state flower, and the tulip as the state
tree.
Colonel Strong, commandant OF
Fortress Monroe, Va, has Officially
put under the ban the grizzly bear
turkey trot," the "terrapin dandle,"
the 'fuzzy-wuzzy," the "pickaninny
dandle" and other similar dances that
"Not Guilty" was the plea of forty
six men arraigned in the Federal
Court at Indianapolis, Ind, on indict
ments charging completely in the al
legged conspiracy unlawfully to trans.
port dynamite from state to state.
Judge A. B. Anderson overruled all
demurrers of the defense but granted
thirty days for the filing of exceptions
to the ruling.
The Supreme Court of the United
States declined to block the secretary
of the interior in his refusal to accept
applications for land under the timber
and stone laws when the applicants
do not swear they have seen the land
1t was claimed that the laws merely
required an affidavit showing that the
applicant, ito his best knowledge and
belief" believed the lands came under
the timber and stone acts.
Under the new apportionment OF
representatives in Congress, and with
the admission of New Mexico and Arl.
zona the electoral college will be re,
constructed and new basis estab.
lished for representation at the ma
tional conventions. Each state has as
many electoral votes as it has senators
and representatives. In 1909 there
were 4S3 members of the electoral col
lege. Next year there will be 532. Sc
267 votes will be necessary to elect.
Belief of leaders in the textile work
ers' strike at Lawrence, Mass, thai
the end is near with considerable
victory for the strikers by the grant
ing of general increases in wages
caused no let-up in preparations foI
continuing the struggle.
The houn' dawg song. which Mis-
souri, minstrels have nominated FOL
chief Democratic honors as cam
raign hymn, was not born in the Or
ark mountains, as the followers OF
Champ Clark have asserted. Accord.
ing to musicians it is an old German
cradle song written prior to 1899.