Putnam patriot., 1912-02-16
Come At Once

Mrs. Shourds, wife of the embez- zling vault superintendent of the Mer- chants Union Trust Company of Philadelphia, notified officials of that institution that she will break off negotiations for the return of the cash and securities unless her hus- band is promised immunity
 Forty-two hundred acres lying on the north shore of Long Island at Fort Pond Bay, near Montauk Point, have been purchased by foreign syn dieate for building one of the great est harbors in the world.
 Differences have developed between the supporters of Roosevelt and La Toilette which threaten to affect the Progressive movement
 The Interstate-C Commerce Commis- sion learned that the big express com panies were virtually in partnership because of their holdings in one an- others stocks.
 Indictments were returned against the Cudahy Packing Company in the United States District Court, charging the local branch of the packing house with making false returns on sales of oleomargarine.
 4 joint committee of tho Massachu- setts Legislature made a systematic attempt to end the Lawrence strike
 Conditions in Mexico have grown 50 much worse more United States troops are to be hurried to the border.
 George De Hart for forty-five years 'the village blacksmith" of New Brunswick, N J., is dead at his home in that city. He never rode on a train.
 Governor Dix has removed F. Wyck- CT from the office of sheriff of Onon- daga County for farming out convict labor for his own profit.
 F. M. Ryan, president of the Inter- national Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, called for . special fund of s7,00o monthly
 David Graham Phillips, the author, who was murdered in 1911, by mad man, left an estate of 5000. The roy alties on his books amounted to $12,- 225
  large garage were destroyed in a fire in Kansas City. Mo. A can of gasoline exploded The loss was s120,000.
 After having 15,0O0 volts of elec- tricity pass through his body Wilbur Scrudders of Johnstown, Pa, went to work the next day with only little stiffness in his muscles.
 Solicitor McCabe, of the Depart ment of Agriculture, issued state ment denying the charges made against the department in connection with the Florida Everglades.
 A Polish girl, known only as Fran cis, employed in the home of L. Fried man, Brooklyn, was frozen to death while crossing the meadows between Canarsie Landing and Barren Island.
 Supporters of President Taft decid- ed to open headquarters in Washing ton, with Representative William B. Mckinley, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, in charge.
 Charles W. Morse, the banker who was released from prison on commuta- ton of sentence by the President fol lowing the report of physicians that he had "only few days to live re- turned to New York.
 Automobile owners and chauffeurs have contributed s373,290 to the state for licenses for the fiscal year which began February 1, according to a statement by Edward Lag 4nsky, Secre- tary of State, made public at Albany.
 All the walters of the United States Military Academy at West Point went on strike against extra kitchen work. Cadets had to wait for their dinner un- til some of the soldiers from the regu- lar army could be pressed into ser vice.
 Fifty delegates have been elected at Nome to the Alaska Republican Terri torfal Convention. They were all in- structed for the re-nomination of President Taft They will have to travel 1900 miles on dog sleds to at tend the convention which will be held aa Cordova-
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