The Elk Mountain pilot., 1912-02-08
GEN ERAL.


Women all over the United States
are planning to boycott butter In an
effort to bring the price back to nor
NAL.
A syndicate that will guarantee the
destruction Of property by fire at the
rate of $3.50 fire, is said to exist in
New York City.
The proposed municipal dance halls
in Cincinnati will also be matrimonial
bureaus IL conducted on the lines set
forth by Mayor Hunt.
The proposal to adopt the commits
sion form OF government was defeated
at Madison, Wis. the total vote being
2.193 for, 1868 against.
Albert w. Wolter. the youth who
murdered and burned Ruth Wheeler
in New York nearly two years ago.
was executed at Sing Sing prison.
Fannie Ramsey of Weston, w. Va.
11S years old and said to have been
the nurse of General Stonewall Jack
son when he was an infant, is dead.
Clarence w. Kuhn, member of the
former banking firm of 8. Kuhn &
Bros. OF Cincinnati. and a cousin of
the head Of the banking firm Of Kuhn,
Loeb & Co.. of New York. is dead.
A mob OF 500 men stormed the Jail
at Cotdelle. Ca, where Albert Hamil-
ton, the negro assailant of white girl,
was confined. took him forth and
hanged him to a tree. Troops ordered
here failed to arrive in time to save
the negro's life. The girl identified
the negro.
Glass and commodity freight rates
to Denver and other points in Colora-
do from Chicago. Peoria. Mississippi
river and Missouri river territories
are attacked as unreasonable, discrim.
inator. and unduly preferential in
petition filed with the Interstate Com
merce Commission by the Colorado
Manufacturers Association and the
Denver Chamber Of Commerce.
The federal grand jury which has
been investigating the dynamite con-
spiracy in Indianapolis begun what il
expected to be the last week of its
work. Reports about the district at
torney's office are that at least thir-
ty indictments have been drawn up.
District Attorney Miller said the in
dictments, IL any are returned, will be
secret, the names OF those indicted
being withheld until arrests are
made.
There Is every indication to believe
that the American State Department
will resist any attempt of British
syndicate or of the British govern
men. to assert sovereignty over Pal
myra island, in the Pacific ocean.
The United States and Great Britain
may have to submit to international
arbitration the question Of sovereign
ty. Governor Frear of Hawaii notified
the State Department that the island
long had been In the possession of
Judge Henry E. Cooper of the Hawaii
an Supreme Court, who was much dis
turbed over the report that Great Brit
tain was about to claim title.
The worst rioting in the fort
night of the Lawrence, Mass, tex
tile strike. involving 10000 persons.
occurred when street cars were held
up and stoned by mobs which refused
| to let operatives go into the mills.
| One woman was struck and killed
by a stray bullet. a patrolman was
| stabbed in the back, militia captain
was badly cut by brick and several
| others hurt by stones as well as by
the clubs of the police and militia.
| Governor Foss ordered twelve addi-
| tional companies of infantry and two
cavalry troops to proceed at once to
Lawrence to reinforce the nine com
panies already there.
When the figures are complete it is
| expected that the fire losses OF the
country for the month of January will
exceed $4,000, 900. For the first three
weeks of the year they averaged more
than $1,000.000 day.
reduction of approximately thirty
per cent. in the express rates of the
country, it developed. is the desire of
the shippers pressing the inquiry in
to the express business before the In.
terstate Commerce Commission in
Washington. Testimony of witnesses
indicated that this was the motive be-
hind the inquiry.