The Springfield herald., 1906-12-14


292.9S0 bushels. Sumner was the
banner county, raising 4.390.6G5 bush
els.
TIL Interstate Commerce commits
sion sas begun an investigation at
Pueblo. Col. into alleged land frauds
and the relations existing between the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company, and
the various railroads in that section.
The robber who shot and killed w.
p. Dilworth, merchant, in his store
at Oklahoma City, Ok, has been cap
tured.
The keel plates of another Dread.
naught. larger and more powerful
than the first, were recently laid at
Portsmouth. Eng.
The reports of the illness of King
Menelik, of Abyssinia, which have
been attracting considerable atten-
tion in Europe, are authoritatively
denied.
William Walter Webb, D. D., has
been made bishop of the Episcopal
diocese of Milwaukee.
1t has been announced at Washing
ton that the president will reappoint
Judson B. Clements as member or
the Interstate Commerce commission.
The United States supreme court
has decided that through trains on
the Illinois Central railroad cannot bo
compelled to stop at small station in
Mississippi
Forty men are reported blown to
atoms in an explosion in a mine at
Houghton, Mich.
One OF the worst floods in the his.
tory of Eastern Arizona occurred in
the region about Clifton recently. A
large number of people were reported
drowned and many buildings were
wrecked.
factory recently eight young women
were burned. four of them seriously
The battleship Kansas, one of the
most formidable of the new war yes.
sells, has gone to the New England
coast for her trial trip.
After adopting resolutions request
ing the legislatures of the various
states to demand of congress that a
constitutional convention be called for
the purpose of submitting an amend
ment for the election of United States
senators by popular vote, the Inter
state senatorial conference completed
a permanent organization at Des
Moine5, Ia.
A suggested solution of the entire
Japanese problem, which has reached
an acute stage. is treaty between
the two countries excluding the Ia
boring element of each from the other.
The incoming freight house of the
Burlington system at Chicago was
burned recently causing loss oi
$4,000
At the annual meeting of the Amer
lean Association of State Fair and Ex.
positions at Chicago, F. L. Eaton, oi
Sioux City, Iowa, was chosen presi.
dent and Thomas Warnell, of Liberty
Mo-, vice president.
Garland Moore, mail carrier. who
recently murdered Miss Clara West a:
Bois dare, Missouri, because she re.
fused to marry him, has surrendered
to the authorities and is In Jail al
Springfield.
Arthur C. Harper. the democratic
nominee, was elected over the non.
partisan candidate as mayor of Los
CAL, by plurality of more
than 1000 votes.
A boiler explosion in the Harney
shoe factory at Lynn, Mass. started
a fire which destroyed three other
factories, the railroad station and II
dwelling houses. Eleven persons
were injured.
Secretary Coburn, of the Kansas
state board of agriculture. has secured
reduced rates for those wishing to at
tend the annual meeting of the board
in Topeka January 9-l2.
The federal grand jury at Salt Lake
Utah. which has been investigating
the coal land frauds. has returned in.
dictments against the Hartman and
Gould corporations in Utal.
The supreme co1:t OF Missouri re-
versed and remanded The case of the
three convicts who k"ad guard
while attempting to escaps from the
state penitentiary at jefferson City.
The supreme court of the United
States has ordered re-argument OF
the Iowa savings bank cases involv.
ing the taxation of government secur.
tiles held by the banks.
The new Spanish cabinet has al
ready resigned.
Historic old Falls church in Vir.
ginia in which President Washing.
ton worshipped for years is to be re-
Kansas has sS,SG2,Oe0.3G invs sted
in bonds according to the state treas
rrer's report.
Four students and three firemen
were killed and severe: students seii,
ously injured by the burning of the
C.i Psi fraternity house at Cornell
university recently.
The national drainage convention
recently in session at Oklahoma City
adopted constitution and framed
memorial to congress. St. Paul.
Mimi, was chosen as tn, next place
of meeting.
The Chicago friends of John Alex
aDdpr nnwja strenuous1y depv that