The Colorado statesman., 1912-03-02
GEN NERAL.


Never before in the history Of New
York has there been such an epidemic
of robberies as within the last fort
night.
A Shanghai cablegram to Chicago
says General Huang, Chinese minister
of war, has ordered shot all soldiers
found smoking opium.
Presidential preference primaries
are not proving as popular as had
heen anticipated. Only seven states
will hold such elections.
Capt. Theodore F. Townsend, one of
the most noted weather experts in
this country died at his home at Cape
May. n. ]. aged seventy-four.
John Harmon, laborer was a vic
tim cf the storm in Chicago. His
body was found frozen in snow
drift in the yard of his home.
Almost the entire $3S,00O,0O0 left
by John w. Gates goes to his widow,
Mrs. Dellora Gates, it was learned
when the will of Mr.. Gates was filed
for probate at Geneva, Ill.
President Taft and the German am
bassador, Count Won Bernstorff, both
heartily favor the earliest consumma-
tion of an arbitration treaty with
Germany
James Weaver, a prisoner in the
Madison county, Ala, JAIL stood at the
bydrant in his cell and drank himself
TO death. Fellow prisoners say he
Il a,,ly
water.
After escaping from the Kansas pen
itentiary, reforming, marrying and liv-
ing honestly Pat Harrison was arrest
ed at Bonneville, Ark, and will be re-
turned to the Kansas penitentiary to
serve out his term.
The Central and South American
tour of American secretary of state
has begun auspiciously with big well
coming crowds at Colon and Panama
Knox went ashore at Colon from the
armored cruiser Washington and was
met by government officials.
Unprecedented prosperity is being
enjoyed by the Philippine islands,
principally as a result of free trade be-
tween them and the United States,
and the cry of hard times" there no
longer can be raised, say the members
of the Philippine commission in their
report for 1911. The United States has
Shared in this prosperity by increasing
its exports to the archipelago to $40,
100000, or more than $12,50O,00O dur
ing the year.
A binding snowstorm, backed by a
fifty-mile gale swooped down on the
Middle West, blocked. traffic, played
pranks with the routine of human af-
fairs and swept eastward in the direc-
tion of northern Ohio, Pennsylvania
and New York. temperature rang
ing between twenty-nine and twenty
four degrees made the wind and snow
bearable and little suffering was re-
| ported. Several deaths in wrecks are
attributed indirectly to the storm. The
storm reached its greatest intensity in
Chicago and northern and central Illi-
nois. although eastern Iowa and Mis-
souri,, southern Wisconsin. Michigan
and lLdiana felt the blizzard to a con-
siderable extent.
The storm which brought heavy
snow to the Middle Lake region and
rain and thunder on a line south of
the Ohio river. is moving rapidly east
ward. Snow is falling from the Lake
Erie region ON the north to Kentucky
and below the snow belt there is rain.
Mrs. Alice G. Rycroft of New York
won a verdict of $4,000 against Hen
ry Clay Pierce, the oil magnate. by a
jury in the Supreme Court She
charged that Pierce had obtained pos
session of her securities, valued at the
amount sued for, and had converted
them to his own use.