The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13
GEN ERAL.

Seven dead and many prostrations
was the summary in Chicago at the
close of the hottest day this year.
July 5.
The City Council of Pittsburg, Pa,
has voted an appropriation for farm
river wharf.
Damage aggregating 100000 was
caused by an electrical storm which
swept over Chicago. Lightning struck
twelve houses.
Contracts will be signed soon under
which all the members of the New
York Police department will have
their lives insured.
Four men were killed and four seri-
usly wounded in a pitched battle be-
tween Union and non-union workers
and guards at Lake Charles, La.
The existence of bubonic plague in
Havana has been definitely deter
mined A special board of physicians
has pronounced the case at Las Ami
mas hospital true bubonic.
Three men, Giuseppi Cirolli, George
Williams, negro, and Santa Zanza.
were put to death in the electric chair
in quick succession at Sing Sing pris-
on July Sth. All were convicted muir
derers.
Gen. r. F. Hoke, Confederate Off
Ger, said to have been the personal
choice of General Lee to succeed him
in case he was killed in battle, died
at his home in Lincolnton, North
Carolina, recently.
AS a result of eating barbecued
meat at the reunion of the Canady fam
lily on July A. at August, Ca, four per-
sons have died from ptomaine pois-
oning and forty-one are i'll, seven OF
whom are beyond hope of living.
Advocates of woman suffrage lost
their fight in the Louisiana Legisla-
ture for a constitutional amendment
which would permit women to serve
on school boards. The vote was 81 to
8. Two-thirds majority was required.
Realizing their determination to as
tonish the natives of the Olympic sta
dium, Stockholm, the American team
signalized the second days athletic
tournament by /. clean sweep of the
100-metre race, and a bumper crop Of
other notable victories.
Thomas B. Mills of Superior, Wis,
chairman of the board of grand trus-
tees, was elected grand exalted ruler
of the Benevolent and Protective Or
der of Elks, by acclamation at Port
land, Ore. Rochester was selected for
meeting place of next convention.
A call to the people of the United
States who are in sympathy with the
National Progressive movement" to
send delegates to a national conven-
tion to open in Chicago August 5th
has been given out by United States
Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon of Montana,
Theodore Roosevelts campaign man
ager.
Deluged with threatening letters
warning of danger and demands for
money, William Vincent Astor of New
York, youthful head of the Astor fam
lily, has armed himself with q revol-
yer, stationed guards about his home
is constantly trailed by an armed
guard when he goes about the city q:
to the country.
Twenty-seven persons were killed
and thirty injured. number fatally,
as result of wreck on the Ligonier
valley railroad at Wilpen. Pa. An
overloaded passenger coach pushed
by an engine was struck by a double
header freight train of coal cars.
crushing the coach like paper and
spreading death and injury to all but
one aboard the train.
James N. Fill, son of ]. ]. Hill. and
vice president of the Northern Pacific
railway, has retired from the vice
presidency OF that road. He will be
succeeded by Col. William H. Clough.