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LAST MINUTE
WIRE BRIEFS
Civil, ENGINEER DIES
LENOX. Mass., Nov. 3.—Col. Henry
Stevens Haines, 83, of Savannah, Ga.f
internationally known civil engineer
ami railroad man, died this morning1
at the home of Rt. Rev. Thomas F.
Davies, after an illness of several
weeks. He was born in Nantucket,
and educated in tlio south. At one
time he was vice president and later
president of the Plant system of
railroads in the south and built sev
eral of the important roads In
that part ow the country.
SAYS NEW YORK O. K.
NEW YORK. Nov. 3.—With a fare
well pat on the back and a reassur
ing opinion that New York isn’t as
bad as Kansas believes, Ed Howe,
the 70-year-old veteran editor of the
Atchison Globe and well known ven
dor of midwestern philosophy, has
departed for his winter’s fishing in
Florida. Howe spent six days in
New York, enjoying obscurity among
the crowds and finding good things
to say of a city whose reputation
bears the scars of countless scandals
and knocks.
SAFE AFTER SHIPWRECK
VERA CRU%, Nov. 3.—Eight ship
wrecked Americans, members of the
crew of the schooner Algoma which
sailed from Pensacola, Fla., October
10 have reached here board the
Swedish steamer Tampa which
picked them up after their vessel
foundered off the coast of Yucatan.
HEADS MASONIC RELIEF
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3.—Robert J.
Daly of Chicago today was elected
president of the Masonic Relief as
sociation of the United States and
Canada. The biennial meeting of the
association here also elected Walter
Li. Stock woll, Fargo, N. D., first
vice president; George W. Little,
Baltimore, second vice president; L.
B. Winsor, Grand Rapids. Michigan,
treasurer and Andrew J. O’Reilly, St.
Louis, secretary.
