Eastern Colorado times., 1912-04-26
GEN ERAL.


Louis Sapieha of Chicago, according
to an advertisement in a newspaper.
With dramatic suddenness the Sem
ate investigation Of the Titanic dis
aster came. to an end SO far as the
New York hearing was concerned It
has been resumed in Washington.
Belief that John Jacob Astor died
when millionaires and peasants went
come conviction in New York and
Newport. He is estimated to be
worth $15O.OOO.COO.
DR.. D. X. Pearsons. philanthropist,
who has given his entire fortune OF
more than $6,0OO,000 to educational in
stitutions, recently celebrated his 92nd
birthday at the Hinsdale sanitarium,
Chicago. where he resides.
An address found in a package OF
tobacco bought in Peabody, Kan, re-
Gently by Ed Maloney, travelling
salesman, told Maloney the where
abouts of his sister, from whom he was
separated thirty-five years ago when
both were children.
Unless the managers of the railroads
in the territories east Of Chicago and
north Of the Ohio river reconsider
their flat refusal to advance wages Of
the engineers, the worst railroad strike
in the history Of the United States
may be precip:tated.
There are about seventy govern
ment commercial and experimental
registered wireless telegraph stations
along the Atlantic seaboard in the
United States, and the majority Of
these are powerful enough TO pick up
messages from liners in the position
Of the Titanic when it sank.
News from the flooded area of the
Mississippi valley in Arkansas, Missis-
sippi and Louisiana continues increas.
ingly grave. Thousands of those who
were compelled to flee to higher
places when the flood invaded their
homes have been cared for. but there
are many more in need of aid. 1t Is
estimated that fifty towns and vii
lagos have left the effects of the flood.
Some places are under two to fifteen
feet of water. In all 200 lives have
been lost.
The break in the main line levee on
the Mississippi river four miles below
Rosedale, Miss, and another on the
Arkansas river added $4,000 persons to
the flood sufferers in Arkansas, Louisi-
ana and Mississippi. The levee at An,
COLA, La, on the east hank of the
Mississippi river, broke and two thou
sand acres of planted cane will be
wiped out. Hundreds are marooned in
isolated places, many have been with.
out food for days and scores are suf-
fering frCm want of clothing.
From the scene Of the wreck of the
Titanic comes the news by wireless
that siXty-four bodies Of victims have
been recovered and are now on board
the cable ship Mackay- Bennett, which
Is searching the entire region where
the catastrophe occurred. Dispatches
were meagre, but it was indicated that
the sixty-four bodies are possible Of
Identification. Others, the messages
say were found impossible of identifi-
cation and were buried at sea. How
many of these there were is not even
hinted at.
Five persons were robbed of money,
or valuables, or both, by three masked
men who went through the sleeper
Nottingham of the Rock Islands west.
bound Golden State Limited, at Shelf
field, ILL.,, forty miles east of Moline.
One passenger was robbed Of $1,000.
Thirty-two persons are known to be
dead, half a score are so severely in
jured they may die, and hundred
and fifty others were hurt in two tor
nadoes which swept over southern
Illinois in one instance, and across
northern Illinois into Indiana in the
other.
The government steamer Earl Grey
struck rock between Tony River
and Cape John and sank, according
to reports from Pictou, N. s. 1t Is be-
lieved all the 200 passengers and the
crew were saved. Before the steamer
sank the life-boats were manned and
the women on board were first put
off in them. The men passengers,
officers and members Of the crew
followed. They were being unloaded