Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-11-08
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
= BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
eleN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

What is said to be the largest crop
of walnuts ever known in southwest
Missouri is being harvested this fall.
Gustave Kostupulos. Greek. alleged
slayer of Mrs. Augusta Robinson in
Denver on May G, was arrested at Mil
waukee.
]. Beal Sneed, slayer Of AL. Boyce,
Jr. at Amarillo. Tex. was granted bail
by the Court of Criminal Appeals un-
der $4,000 bond
Burns Lyman Smith has begun the
erection Of a forty-two-story office
building in Seattle. 1t will be the tall
est and largest on the Pacific coast.
A firing squad executed Thomas
Riley at the state prison in Salt Lake.
Riley is the second man to die for the
murder of George Fassell in March,
1910, in holdup.
An increase in wages of 25 cents n
day for all employees of the Utah Cop
per Company was announced at Salt
Lake by d. C. Jackling The increase
was effective November L.
General Homer Lea. American citi-
zen, the brain behind the forces that
made China republic-a military gen
ius that commanded the worlds ad-
miration-is dead in Ocean Park, Cal.
Sixteen persons were injured. sew
eral of them seriously, when an open
switch caused two westbound Atchi-
son. Topeka & Santa Fe passenger
trains to collide in the railway yards
at Kansas City.
Little Alvin Lima, years old. whose
mother ran away with an affinity" on
September 90, is believed by the sis
ters of st. Francis convent at San
Francisco to be dying OF grief over her
disappearance.
Charged with exceeding the speed
limit In his automobile hearse, George
w. Robertson of Worth Bergen, under
taker, must pay fine OF SO assessed
by Police Judge Thomas Costello OF
Passaic, n. j.
United States Commissioner Moul of
Deadwood, S. D.. handed over Thelma
Campbell, housekeeper in resort in
Lead, to the federal grand jury,
charged with violation OF the Mann
white slavery act.
That Colonel Roosevelt will come to
Milwaukee and beg the local courts to
inflict minimum sentence instead OF
the expected maximum OF fifteen years
is what John Schrank, who attempted
to slay the former President, says he
expects.
Alvin Roehr, SO, young farmer of
Plymouth. Wis, shot and killed his
father-in-law. Philip J. OFT, Mrs. OFT
and Mrs. OTIS father. Fred Haut, so.
when he was refused permission to see
his wife, with whom he had not been
living.
Medipah Temple, the new s650,OO0
home of the Chicago Shriners. was
dedicated by William J. Cunningham
OF Baltimore. Md. imperiaP potentate
of the order for North America. The
temple is the largest of its kind in
North America.
After following tracks in the snow
leading to the stronghold OF Richard
son, Burke and BaXtrum, escaped con
victs from the state prison at Rawlins,
Wyo., sheriff's posse engaged in a
sun fight with the men, killing Rich
ardson and Baxtrum. Burke escaped.
Utah counties through which the
proposed transcontinental automobile
road by way of Denver and Salt Lake
City will run, will build their share OF
the Grand Junction-Salt Lake City di-
vision, whether the state of Utah ap-
propriates any money for the purpose
or not.