Putnam patriot., 1914-02-06
Editorial Scraps

Stock Exchange was sold Tor s355DOh.
 A blazing meteor fell near Albu. euerque, N. Nj.
 The Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Altoona, Pa, resumed operations.
 Burglars broke into the Bank Of Logansport, Pa, and stole S20,00O.
 Fire caused a loss Of S500.o00 in the business district of Manchester, N. II.
 The American Hide & Leather Com Pany's tannery at Woburn, Mass, was destroyed by fire at loss of SlOO,00O.
 Two girls and one man were killed when A wagon rolled down a mountain side near Harrisburg, Pa.
 The Cleveland Railway Company announced one-cent increase in fares effective March 1.
 Babies Row." an apartment in Chi cago, was destroyed by fire. The loss is s3O0.000
 Single fare on surface ear lines was put into effect in Chicago. A person can now ride 2S miles on one nickel.
 Fire, which destroyed the Walters Piano factory on East Sixtythird street, New York. caused damage es- timated at $200,o00.
 Representative Ainey, Of Pennsyl vania. announced his candidacy for United States Senator on th Bepub- lloan ticket
 General James Grant Wilson, Civil War veteran and famous as a writer and lecturer, is dead in New York, aged s2.
 Claiming that her husband has not taken bath for two years, Mrs Bella Hurrell. of Ann Arbor, Mich, Is suing for divorce.
 removed the board of License Com missioners. The commissioners will appeal to the courts.
 Brigadier-General Alfred C. Girard chief surgeon Of the Second Army Corps during the Spanish War, is dead in Washington.
 Lincoln Beachey, the aviator. was injured when his aeroplane fell Into a tree from an altitude of $50 feet near Los Angeles.
 During 1913 total of 150 1b9 .291 pounds of oleomargarine was produced in the United States, compared with 139. .606.341 pounds in 1912.
 Arrested on suspicion of having stol- en 12 parcel post stamps, Joseph Greg ory, of Washington, committed sui- eide by hanging himself in his cell
 Henry Detloff. crippled with rheu- atism, was killed when he tried to rave his wife from Are in their home in Brooklyn. She was rescued by policemen.
 Police Chief Long. of Newark. N J. ordered the police to prohibit theatri- cal performances or moving pictures on Sunday.
 Frank W. Jones. an eccentric mil. lionaire. was buried in a grave on q granite crag ncaE his estate at New Hartford. Conn
 The Morgan Manufacturing Com pany's furniture plant at Charleston. W Va. was destroyed hy fire. The less is s200.000
 The Old Dominion steamship Mon roe, the stanehest vessel of the com panys fleet. northbound from Norfolk. Va, was rammed and sunk in a thick fog on the Winter Quarter Shoals Lightship on the Virginia coast by the Merehants' and Miners steamship Nantucket, bound to Baltimore from Boston, Forty-four persons on the Monroe lost their lives, and ninety four were saved.
 There were 20 persons drowned in the storm in the English Channel.
 The Moors sustained heavy losses in battle with the Spanish troops at Beni-Salem, Morocco.
 Canada announced 1t would appro- priate funds for an official exhibit at the Panama Pacific Fair In 1915.
 Benjamin L. Rhein, an American dentist committed suicide in a London prison. where he was detained on charges of attacking girl
 Gustav Hamel, the British aviator, looped the loop 14 times in an aero, plane before King George aud Queen Mary.
 uaston Gayiuetti. notorious gambler of Panama. who made a fortune by running roulette games since 1888, Was murdered In front of his place
 The Panama Cabinet approved a contract for the construction of rail. road in the province of ChirQui at cost of s1.60o.0o0.
 The entire Chinese section of Blue fields, Nicaragua, was burned.
 The khedive will attend the base ball game of the New York Giants and the Chicago White Sox at Cairo.
 President Menocal of Cuba signed the award of s1o,oo0 .eO0 five per cent. loan to J. P Morgan X Co.
 rsnsaanu catch-as-catch-cAn wrestling in the Olympic games at Berlin and at all future olymples. A letter asking for the support of the United States for this recommendation w.s received by Secretary James E. Sullivan of the A. A U.
 According to Frank Farrell. of sey- enteen players whom Frank Chance got rid of since becoming manager of the New York Americans Chase Is the only one remaining in big league cir eles.