The Springfield herald., 1908-12-04
WESTERN NEWS.

| Samuel Gompers was reelected pres
ident of the American Federation OF
Labor at the Denver convention.
The flood in the Cottonwood river
| in Oklahoma Sunday is estimated to
have left 5000 people homeless.
The report of the state mine inspec-
! tor shows South Dakota's gold produc-
tion foi last year to have been 81 AGO.
900, which is the highest in the history
of the state.
BY majorities of 100, 600 and 975,
Jefferson. Sandusky and Clermont
counties. Ohio, voted dry November
23rd, knocking out 210 saloons. HUI
ron county voted wet by Is.
A Los Angeles paper says that DR..
ID. X. Pearson, the noted philanthro-
pist, is not in straitened circum-
stances, as was reported, but still has
$S,000,000 to give to educational insti-
tutions.
The pay as you enter" system Of
collecting fares has been introduced
successfully en- one of the street car
lines in Chicago In rush hours it is
said seventy-five persons minute can
be loaded.
President Roosevelt will not make n
display at the Alaska Yukon Pacific ex-
position of the trophies of his South At
rican hunt next year. In reply to a for
NAL request sent two weeks ago, Sec
retary Loeb for the President has re-
piled that it will be impossible to COM
ply.
AT the recent election an amendment
to the Minnesota constitution was sub
mitted providing for the establishment
of a state fund for hail and tornado IN
surance. A majority of all the votes
cast was necessary and this was not
secured. as many citizens failed to vote
either way.
Ray Lamphere was convicted of ar
son in setting fire to the building in
which Mrs. Belle Guinness and her
three children were burned at La
Porte, Ind, and within five minutes af
ter tha verdict the judge sentenced him
to twenty-one years in the State Pen
itentiary at Michigan City.
Adelina Guttila, three years old,
daughter of Dominica Guttilla, who has
been exhibited in many of the large
CltleS, anu WHO WIS olle Vi lue Wou-
ders of the medical profession died at
Springfield. o.. few days since of
pneumonia. She was forty inches high
and weighed 140 pounds. She was con
sidered the largest baby in the world.
At Seattle Friday, Hugh Mcmahon,
manager of the American cafe, and a
we'll known business man, was muir
dered in the front ward of a residence
next door to his own home. His face
had been battered to a pulp, his skull
fractured, and a finger nearly torn off
from which s4OO diamond had been
wrenched. The police believe the muir
der was the work of thugs.
AS a result of war on Clubs" in
which liquor bas been sold on Sundays
and during the hours that saloons were
closed, 81 clubs were raided in St
Louis and S32 men arrested. When ar
raigned in police court most of the
prisoners We're discharged, their re
lease being greeted with cheering from
hundreds OF spectators. The raids
were ordered by Fovernor Folk.
That the Missouri Pacific has de-
cided to double track its system from
Kansas City to Pueblo is the positive
announcement given out by Superin
tendent j. e. Snedeker in an interview
at Ottawa, kas. This, he said, is part
of a plan of improvement which the
Missouri Pacific has determined on,
and which provides for an expendi-
ture of $1O,000,O00 year for ten years
in permanent work