The new era., 1912-04-25
GEN ERAL.

Charles A. Pfeiffcr has been inaugu.
rated mayor OF ST. Joseph. Mo. He is
the first Republican mayor that city
has had In eight years.
With dramatic suddenness the Sen.
ate investigation OF the Titanic dis
aster came to an end SO far as the
New York hearing IVES concerned 1t
has been resumed In Washington.
Belief that John Jacob Astor died
when millionaires and peasants went
down together OH the Titanic has he
come conviction In New York and
Newport. He IL estimated to be
worth l50OOO.0OO.
DR.. d. X. Pearsons. philanthropist.
who has given his entire fortune OF
more than $G.O0O.000 to educational In.
stitutions. recently celebrated his 92nd
birthday at the Hinsdale sanitarium.
Chicago. where he resides.
An address found In a package OF
tobacco bought In Peabody. KAN. re-
Gently by Ed Maloney. a travelling
salesman. told Maloney the where.
abouts Of his cister, from whom he was
separated thirty.five years ago when
both were children.
Unless the managers OF the railroads
In the territories east OF Chicago ana
north OF the Ohio river reconsidc.
their fiat refusal to advance wages OF
the engineers. the worst railroad strike
in the history OF the United States
may be prccipitatcd.
There are about seventy govern.
mcnt commercial and experimental
registered wireless telegraph stations
talong the Atlantic seaboard In the
United States. nnd the majority Of
these are powerful enough to pick up
messages from liners In the position
Of the Titanic when 1t sank.
News from the flooded area Of the
Mississippi valley In Arkansas. Missis.
sippi and Louisiana continues increas.
ingly grave. Thousands Of those who
were compelled to- flee to higher
places when the flood invaded their
homes have been cared for. but there
are many more In need OF aid. 1t Is
estimated that fifty towns and vii.
lages have left the effects OF the flood.
Some places are under two to fifteen
feet OF water. In all 200 lives have
been lost.
The break in the main line levce on
the Mississippi river Tour miles below
Roscdale. Miss. and another on the
Arkansas river added $4,000 persons to
the flood sufferers In Arkansas, I.ouisl.
ana and Mississippi. The levee at An.
COLA, la. on the east bank Of the
Mississippi river. broke and two thou.
sand acres OF planted cane will be
wiped out. Hundreds are marooned In
isolated places. many have been with.
ont food for days and scores are sui.
rcrng from want Of clothing.
From the scene Of the wreck of the
Titanic comes the news by wireless
that sixty.four bodies Of victims have
been recovered and are now on board
the cable ship Mackay Bennett. which
IL searching the entire region where
the catastrophe occurred. Dispatches
we're meagre. hut 1t was indicated that
the sixty.four bodies are possible of
identification. Others. the messages
say were found impossible OF identifi.
CltlOn ana were Ut Std. I1oN
many of these there were is not even
limited at.
Five persons we're robbed of money.
or valuables. or both, by three masked
men who went through the sleeper
nottingham Of the Rock Islands west
bound Golden State Limited, at Shci-
field, ILL.,. forty miles east Of Moline.
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Thirty-two persons are known to be
dead, half a score are so severely III.
jured they may die. and a hundred
and fifty others were hurt In two tor
radoes which swept over southern
Illinois in one instance. and across
northern Illinois into Indiana in the
other.