Putnam patriot., 1913-11-07
Editorial Scraps

Fire at Knoxville. Pa destroyed l5 business houses and the postoffce.
 Dorothy Eisley, five years old oboked to death on piece Of apple in the yard of her home at Newark
 Edward Lewis, of Trenton, \. J., Is dead as the result Of swallowing five biehloride of mercury tablets.
 President Wilson received by ex- press fat possum from Joe Farrow, colored. of Mcfarland. W. C.
 A proposition 10 eliminate bachelors as legislators received thunderous ap- plause at the Pennsylvania suffrage convention at Pittsburgh
 An armored automobile to protect money bags has been completed for the Bethlehem Steel Company, by Nj. J. Kneur Company of Newark
 The United States revenue cutter Manning arrived at Seattle, having completed a 16.000-mile cruise among the Aleutian Islands.
 Mrs. Jennie Eaton was acquitted of the murder of her husband. Rear Ad. miral Joseph c Eaton, at Plymouth. Mass
 Clarence AItes and Charles John son. of Mattoon. Ill., were burned to death when fire destroyed their boarding house.
 The Falmouth Bank at Falmouth. Mich, was broken into by burglars, who blew the safe and escaped with s5,000
 Mrs. F. A. Griswold, Of Litchied, Conn. is dead from hydrophobia, re sultng from dog bite received last August.
 Mrs Johanna Peet and her four. year.old daughter were killed by train of the Susquehanna Railroad at Jersey City
 F. k Jaequith. of Chicago. was ar rested at Hammondsport, N Y, charged with shooting ducks from q flying afr boat.
 Mitchell Day was celebrated fin the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania in honor of the anniversary of the sue cessfu strike of 1900.
 It was said that if too many changes were made in the Glass-Owen bill by the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, President Wilson would re- pudiate the measure
 Ida von Clausspn. who threatened to sue Roosevelt while President for $l 900 900, is in the Tombs, New York, on charge of blackmail in threaten ing to shoot Lawyer Charles Strause. Vice.President and Mrs. Thomas '. Marshall left Washington for Arizona Co visit friends for eight days. If the currency situation demands 1t MT. Marshall will return at any time.
 A s500.000 trust fund held for five year-Gld Harry Dwight Dillon Ripley, rreat-grandson of Sidney Dillon, was released by d decision of Surrogate Fowler of New York.
 As reward for serving an enlist ment in the U s. army. John F. Phil lIss. a private in Troop II, 18th Cav ". win receive $25 900 by the will oi 2 relative.
 A meeting in Chicago of dele faes representing over 45.o00 rail read employees on the lines west of tHe Missf.sppi plans were formulated fer a demand for higher wages and batter working conditions,
 Because The Senate Committee on Banking and Currency began by mak- ing changes in the Glass-Owea bin to which he is opposed fl was said tha' President Wilson might ask that it be taken from the committee and put through q caucus
 inquiry into the wreck of the Gilt Edge Express at Westerly, R. |. brought out that the New Haven Road does not use the rail recommended by the American Association of Rail way Engineers.
 Archie Bathrick. IS years old, and Dallas Palmatier, 20, were killed when motorcycle on which they were rlding crashed iuto a touring ear driy- CT by Miss Helen Pine near Red Hook. N. Y
 Joseph Mack, arrested at Boston, charged with malicious mischief, threw brick through the window of q restaurant because they charged him l5 cents for plate with 42 baked beans on it.
 The Fairmount Park Art Associa- tion win receive $500 000 for the cree tIUu or statue n ' aHAitdFAPLAas uAhtA the will of Mrs. Ellen Samuel, after the death of her husband" J. Bunford Samuel
 Practically the entire business sec. ton of Jackson. Ky, was destroyed hy fire,
 Policemen and flremen of Paterson. N J., have received an increase in wages of S10o year
 Commissioner Smith announced that one of the greatest dry docks in the world co accommodate the thousand foot ship" will be built by New York Clty in Brooklyn.
 Lawrence Lindbloom and Fred Hro' deck. Of Chicago. charged with mur der when their automobile ran down and killed Joseph Weiss, were sen feuced 10 l4 years each.