The Holly chieftain., 1912-03-22
GENERAL.

0GNGnNGs
United States District Judge Car
penter refused to take from the Jury
the case of the ten Chicago meat
packers.
John F. Hill, former governor OF
Maine, acting chairman of the Repub-
lican National committee, died in Bos-
ton recently.
A statement of the results of the
thirteenth census shows that in 1910
there were 71,5s0,27O persons ten
years OF age or over in the United
States, of whom 5,517.60s were unable
to read or write, constituting II per
cent of the population.
Not Guilty" was the plea of forty
six men arraigned in the Federal
Court at Indianapolis, Ind, on indict-
ments charging completely in the al
legged conspiracy unlawfully to trans
port dynamite from state to state.
Judge A. B. Anderson overruled all
demurrers OF the defense but granted
thirty days for the filing of exceptions
to the ruling.
Business in the steel industry is ac.
companied by developments of unusu-
al interest and Importance. The coal
strike in Europe is responsible for
greater activity In steel products in
New York and the prospective sus.
pension of mining operations in this
country has stimulated placing orders
for both finished and semi-finished
steel for prompt shipment.
Under lowering skies and heavy
sea the old battleship Maine, resur.
rected after fourteen years burial in
Havana harbor, plunged with her col
ors flying to her everlasting rest, 600
fathoms deep, in the waters of the
gulf The sinking of the hulk was
carried out precisely as planned,
marking the end of the work begun
more than year and half ago.
Wage increases aggregating more
than $10,000,000 will go into the pock-
cts of New England textile workers
during the next twelve months, &C.
cording to authoritative estimates OF
me result OF the present upward trend
of wages in cotton and woolen mills.
On the basis of an annual payroll Of
$79,000,000 in the woolen mills. the in.
crease there will amount to $5,6O0,0OO,
while cotton mill operatives will re-
ceiye an advance of $5,000,00O.
Under the new apportionment of
representatives in Congress, and with
the admission Of New Mexico and Ari-
zona the electoral college will be re.
constructed and new basis estab-
lished for representation at the ma.
tional conventions. Each state has as
many electoral votes as it has senators
and representatives. In 1909 there
were 4s3 members of the electoral col
lege. Next year there will be 532. So
2G7 votes will be necessary to elect.
Read Admiral George w. Melville,
U. S. Navy, retired, died at his home
in Philadelphia of paralysis. He was
national commander of the Loyal Le.
gion at the time of his death. Rear
Admiral Melville, who was placed on
the retired list January 10, 1903, was
seventy.two years old. For sixteen
years he was chief of the bureau of
steam engineering in the Navy De-
partment, and was member of both
the Jeanette and the Greeley relief
expeditions to the Arctic Circle.
The end of the chase of the Hills
Vile, Va, raiders brought the death
list of the courthouse tragedy and its
sequel up to five. Sidna and Floyd
Allen, two of the chiefs OF the band
which rode down on the Carroll coun-
ty court house and assassinated the
Judge, the prosecutor and the sheriff,
are in captivity-both wounded severe
". Sidna Aliens wife is dead, shot
in pitched battle with posse in the
mountains while helping to defend
her outlaw husband. The fifth death
was that of Nancy Ayres, nineteen.
year-old girl, accidentally shot during
the fusillade In the court house.