Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-01-19
GEN ERAL.


The director of the mint estimated
the worlds gold production of 1911 at
approximately $466,OOO.OOO.
The plant of the Knabe Brothers
Piano Company in Norwood, Ohio,
was burned with loss of 100000.
Robert Bacon, ambassador of the
United States at Paris, has confirmed
the report of his resignation.
Records for cold weather for years
over Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma
were broken, with temperatures of 6
10 21 below.
DIR. Harry Elgin Webster, in court
in Oregon, ILL.,. formally pleaded gull
ty to the charge of numbering his
wife, Bessie Kent Webster.
Wisconsin's income tax law, en-
acted by the last Legislature. was
held to be constitutional in. deci-
sion of the State Supreme Court.
Five children of Irwin Carlile. were
burned to death and Mr.. Carlile was
seriously burned in fire which de-
stroyed their home at Brainerd, Mimi
The Calumet & Hecla Copper Min
ing Company of Boston. have advanced
its price for the metal to Is cents in
Europe and 1is4 cents in the domes-
tic market.
John Grier Hibben. Ph.D., professor
of logic and philosophy of Princeton
university has been elected the fourth
president of the institution by the
unanimous vote of the board of trus.
tees.
Relief from the low temperatures
prevailing over Iowa, Nebraska, Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Oklahoma is in
sight. 1t is raining in the Northwest
and the storm center is turning this
way.
Mayor Shank took 1t upon himself
to see that the poor did not suffer
from the pangs of hunger, as well as
the cold. In the basement of the
market house, the mayor personslly
conducted free lunch counter, at
Indianapolis.
Investigations by Miss Catherine A.
Freeman, an agent of the Society tor
Helping Destitute Mothers and In
fants, have unearthed a baby farm at
Providence, r. l., where Miss Free
man declares children have been Of
fered for sale.
Committees of representative Ger
man citizens will begin. within the
next few weeks, to raise a fund of
$4,000 for the international tourna-
ment of the North Amrican Gymnas-
tic Union. which is to he neld in Den
yer in July, 1913. More than 10000
athletes from the United States and
Europe will attend.
More than $50,000.00O in stocks and
bonds were recovered from one of the
smaller vaults in the burned Equita-
BILE Life Assurance Society building in
New York, but 1t will be some time
before the great vaults of the society
and those of the Mercantile Safe De-
posit Company give UP their half bill
lion or more in securities.
Reports of the contest between
Bombardier Wells, the British heavy
weight champion, who is to come to
America soon. and Fred Storbeck. shs
South African whom Wells defeated
in eleven rounds, do not show Wells
in any more favorable light than he
was six months ago when he was Le-
ing groomed for a match with Jaaa
Johnson.
The home of the Equitable Life AS
surance Society, the immense marble
and granite structure covering a
block in lower Broadway, an historic
landmark of New York's early period
of skyscraper buildings and one of
the city's important financial centcrs,
was destroyed by fire with loss of
six lives and probably S6,000.00O in
property. A dozen persons were in
jured. Valuable records, including
the biography of E. H. Hartman and
two priceless Libraries, which cannot
be replaced, went up in flames.
With the appearance of man who
had abandoned all hope OF life, Rev.
Clarence v. Il. Richeson stood at the
bar of justice. in Boston, declared his
guilt of the premeditated murder OF
mis- former sweetheart, Miss Avis Lin
nell, and without a tremor heard
Judge Sanderson sentence him to
death in the electric chair during the
week beginning May 10Th.
Money talked in the contest before
the National Democratic committee
and enabled Baltimore with cash Of
fer of 100000 to capture the conven'
ton.