The Holly chieftain., 1912-12-20
The LATEST IMPORTANT DIE
PATCHES PUT INTO SNORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHs.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS o.
EvEHrs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN lANOs.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Mrs. Emma NJ. Vanvetchen, former
treasurer Of the National Federation
OF Women's Clubs. died at her home
in Cedar Rapids. Ia.
Mrs. Jack Johnson. formerly Lucille
Cameron. was refused service and
elected from the Pompeiian room of the
Congress hotel in Chicago.
Mrs. Clara Schumann, twenty-nine
years old. jumped to her death from
the fifteenth story of the New Bank
of Commerce building In st. Louis.
Benjamin Franklin Mckinley, uncle
of the late President, William Nc
Kinley. is dead at his home In San
Francisco. so years old. He died of
pneumonia, after brief illness.
Rudolph H. Miller. fifty-six years
old. for twenty-three years in the rail-
way mail service. and formerly a
preacher, pleaded guilty in court at
Lincoln, Neb., to stealing letters from
the mails.
A Port Arthur. Texas, dispatch
states that G. Sand, skipper Of the
Standard Oil barge No. 81 and the nine
members of his crew were drowned in
the gulf when heavy storm tore the
barge from its tow and 1t turned tur-
tie.
Robert T. McElvenny, superintendent,
of Tacoma Smelling Company's plant.
has been added to the state university
faculty as special lecturer in the
school of mines. McElvenny was grad
uated from Colorado School Of Mines
at Golden.
Susan Lincoln Mills, founder Of
Mills college. the first college for
women on the Pacific coast. died at
her home on the college campus at
Oakland. Cal. Less than month ago
she celebrated her eighty-seventh
birthday. rs
According to Nogales, Arizona, dis
patch. arms furnished by the United
States government for the protection
of Americans at Cananea, Mexico, are
in the hands of some 1000 Mexicans
who threaten strike based on an
anti-American movement.
-Four muTueT eTS-INODle EdulUeTi
F. Garrison, Michael Morgan and H. E.
RobertsAwere hanged in the state
penitentiary at Salem, Ore, within an
hour. The men were hanged in pairs,
Garrison and Faulder being the first
to be summoned to the death cham
ber.
Marvin w. Handy, the twenty-five
year-old express messenger, whose car
on the Sunset Western train of the
Santa Fe railroad was robbed of $20-
145-in gold near Bakersfield, Cal.
broke down and confessed he had
robbed the safe with the aid of his six
teen-year-old brother, Melvin.
Mrs. D. Peckham of villisca, Ia,
died in Bozeman, Mont, the ninth vic
tim of the tragedy which shocked the
people Of Villisca last June when ].
B. Moore, his wife and four children
and two visitors were butchered in
their beds by an assassin to whose
identity no clew has ever been found.
According to advices received from
Washington, Mrs. ]. D. Whitmore, for
many years resident of Colorado. has
been recommended to the President
for the appointment on the commits.
sion on industrial relations, author
ized by the last session of Congress.
Her name was suggested by Senator
Guggenheim.
Jail on charges of perjury for Fred
erick w. Zeiss, Chicago, union iron
worker; the testimony of Thomas Tag.
gart, Democratic national committee
man. about an explosion, and speeches
and reports in which the ironworkers'
international union was accused of ap.
proving of the defiance Of law in its
strike, were developments at the dyna-
mite conspiracy trial in indianapolis.