The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-23

of Utah has become a topic widely
| discussed since the legislature con
vened in Salt Lake City. The latest
idea expressed is that condemned
criminals be allowed to take then
own lives, after they have exhausted
every means to have the death sen
tence set aside. The state law now
provides that condemned. criminals be
executed either by shooting or hang,
ing, the choice to be made by the
person to be executed.
| War on high prices of butter has
been declared by the Housewives
League of New York City. They state
that there is plenty of butter in the
market and that new butter is COM
ing in we'll. Freezer butter was put
away at rs and ~ cents and could be
sold at a profit of SO to 80 cents best.
! They state that the high price of but
| ter is absolutely unwarranted.
William Boone Eldred, who believes
that by eating gallon of molasses
week he had prolonged his life
many years, died at Wakefield, Mass,
at the age of 81 years. He ate molas-
ses on all his food When 70 years
old, Eldred began riding bicycle
for exercise, and according to his own
figures covered 10000 miles during
the last seventeen years. He was
descendant of Daniel Boone.
When President-elect Wilson ar
rives in Washington on the night OF
March 8, he will lbe greeted with a
Princeton locomotive" cheer issuing
from the Nassau undergraduates, &C.
cording to plans for attending the in
augural ceremonies being made by
the Princeton University Woodrow
Wilson club. Active preparations for
the trip will be started at Princeton,
N J., when those in charge of the
arrangements will start a canvass to
ascertain just how many students will
attend the inaugural ceremonies.
Although suffering from shaking
palsy" and unable to speak above a
whisper, William Rockefeller could
undergo a brief examination" before
the house money trust committee if
his testimony was of paramount i'm
portance."
Raymond Nicholas Landry Poin-
care, for the past L months premier
of the French cabinet, was elected
president of the republic of France
by the national assembly, composed
of the members of both chambers of
parliament, in succession to President
Armand Fallieres, whose 7year term
expires February IL.
The will Of James r. Keene, veter-
an stock market operator and turf
man, as filed for probate in New
York City, leaves his widow, Sara J.
Keene, his entire estate.
"1zzy,'' the painter, head of the
New York City's "rnderword arson
trust,'' came from Sing Sing prison
to confess to putting the torch to
200 houses within the past few
The Turkish cruiser Medjidieh, dur
ing a heavy fog, steamed out of the
Dardanelles and passed unperceived
through the lines of the Greek de-
stroyers cruising off the straits She
appeared off the island of syria, one
of the Cyclades, and bombarded the
powder magazine and coal depots.
These werenot damaged, but the cleo
trical public station was wrecked
That the Warren Livestock compa-
ny, of which Senator Francis E. War
rem of Wyoming was the head, was in
1906 maintaining unlawful inclos-
ures' of public lands in Wyoming and
Colorado, was the substance of a re-
port adopted by the house committee
on expendituresin the interior de-
partment
A flood of petitions for damages
through the los sof the Titanic includ
ed one from Mrs. Irene Wallace Har-
ris, who claims 100000 for loss of
her husband, Henry D. Harris, the
theatrical manager. This is the heav.
lest of the 279 claims so far filed.
Mrs. May Futrelle of Scituate, Mass,
asks 100000 compensation for the
loss of her husband, Jacques Futrelle,
Alarmed by the approach Of the
rebel forces and apprehensive Of the |
fate of the Americans in the event |
of occupation, Clement S. Edwards,
American consul at Acapulco, Next
co, in the state of Guerrero, has sgu-
gested the presence of an American |
at Acapulco.