The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-20
GENERAL.

Three people died in Chicago from
the heat, Sunday, July IA.
Robert Harris, a drug crazed negro.
went on rampage in Tampa, Fla,
and killed four negroes before he was
slain.
Two white men and four negroes
were killed in an explosion in the
mines of the Gayton Coal Company
near Richmond, Va, recently.
The board of directors of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad has voted
$250,000 to be expended at once in
changing the gauge of the trackage
between Salida and Montrose, Colo.
The use of copper salts in the
'greening" of foods, principally canned
peas and beans, will be prohibited
after January l, next, by pure food
decision signed by Secretary Wilson.
The new battleship Wyoming, which
left Philadelphia on her trial trip, is
stuck on sandbar at Three-Quarters
point, about a mile and half below
Wilmington, Del. Government tugs
went to her assistance.
Four persons were drowned at All
ton, Illinois, by a cloudburst. The
storm destroyed two miles of streets,
wrecked six buildings and the gas
plant of the Alton Gas & Electri,
Company. Damage is S25O,OOO.
Eugene w. Chafin of Arizona and
Illinois was nominated for President
Of the United States by the National
Prohibition party in convention in At,
lantic City, n. ]. Aaron S. Watkins
of Ohio was nominated for vice pres
!dent
Rat catchers are busy all along the
Boston waterfront. Under the direc-
ton of the Board of Health they will
endeavor to eliminate all possible
sources of the bubonic plague All ves-
sells from southern ports are being fC-
migated
A prisoner in chains for twenty
years, with his parents his jailers, is
said to be the strange experience OF
an insane man who was received as
patient at the DiXmont asylum in
Pittsburg from Indiana, Pa The au-
thorities of the asylum admit that he
was shipped to them in a rough pine
box from his home in Indiana county.
Woman's heroism and self-sacrifice
during the Civil War probably will be
immortalized by the erection in Wash
ington of a home for the American
Red Cross. The House public build
ings and grounds committee reported
favorably resolution. already passed
by the Senate, granting 100000 to,
ward the cost of such building. The
structure will be monumental in char
acter and devoted solely to the offices
and work of the Red Cross.
Dashing through heavy fog at the
rate of sixty miles an hour, rushing
past all signals and even ignoring the
cracking torpedoes placed on the track
as a last desperate effort to avoid
wreck, the great steel-jacketed Omaha
mail train on the Burlington railroad
crashed into a stalled transcontinen.
tai limited at Western Springs, Ill.
Fourteen persons met instant death,
two died while being rushed to the
hospital, and forty were injured, at
least four of whom are lowering be-
tween life and death.
The heat wave, which began to
make itself felt in the eastern section
of the country on July 4, continues
with temperatures above 80, causing
scattered deaths and general suffer
ing. The total number of deaths re-
ported during the present siege is 113,
A mass meeting of those interested
in the See America First idea will be
held in Chicago in October, to which
representatives of transportation COM
panies, hotels and organizations in all
parts of North America and the posses
sions of the United States, will be in
vited