The Colorado statesman., 1912-10-19
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
q BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

William j. Bryan addressed a large
crowd OF women on the high cost OF
living at Fargo, n. d.
The torrential rains caused flood
conditions at Gypsum, Kan, becoming
SO grave that the inhabitants fled to
high ground.
Speculation is rife among the legal
fraternity at Los Angeles over the rea-
son for postponing the second trial of
Attorney Darrow.
Mrs. j. Fernandez and her three
small Children were burned to death
when a can of gasoline exploded, set
ting fire to their home at OXnard, Cal.
Charles Brown, Roosevelt support
er, was shot at Cleveland, Ohio, by a
fanatic who was apparently celebrat-
Ing the shooting of Colonel Roosevelt.
Mrs. Helen Hughes Laramie, one of
the be st known women in the younger
social set of Minneapolis. was robbed
of jewels valued at $4,000 in Chicago,
her apartment being rifled.
Two hundred men going to work at
the Steptoe smelter at McGill, near
Ely, New, were met by fifty Greek and
Austrian strikers, armed with revol-
yers and cluls, and driven away
Burr Mcintosh, actor, war CORE
Spondent ana artist, was seriously in
jured by falling twenty-five feet down
an elevator shaft in the building where
he has his studio in San Francisco.
Mrs. John l.. Campbell, supposed to
be from Alma, Mich, leaped through
q window of Santa Fe sleeping car
as the train was approaching Barstow,
Cal. On her waist was found pinned a
note requesting the authorities to no.
tify Newton Stillwell of Millersburg,
Ohio.
Checks by which the government
charges the executive board of the
International Association OF Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers allowed
]. ]. MCNAMARA $1,000 a month to buy
explosives were identified by Mrs. A.
]. Hull of Omaha at the dynamite
conspiracy" trial at indianapolis.
Ths ridding herself of an inconven-
reason for lola Jeanette Strong-Ley-
McAvoy of st. Louis in telling her
amazing story of the 100000 estate
which she said was left her by New
Orleans woman, whom she, as a Red
Cross nurse. saved from death by yell
low fever.
Sixteen picture brides" from Japan
were detained at San Francisco when
they arrived by the liner Siberia. They
will be examined for hookworms and
If found infested will be treated on
Angel island before being permitted to
land. After November l no alien
foun to have hookworms will be given
once.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was
shot in the abdominal region shortly
before s o'clock Monday night while
sitting in his automobile in front of
the Gilpatrick House in Milwaukee,
about to start for the Auditorium to
deliver his scheduled address. The
would-be murderer was John Schrank,
of New York city, man apparently
demented on the subject of the third
term. He was captured and locked
up. The assassin is small of stature,
He admitted firing the shot and said
that ANY man looking for a third
term ought to be shot" He formerly
lived at $40 East Tenth street. New
York. He is a laundryman who left
there about a month ago and has a
wife and child there, and is known
as a rabid Socialist.