The Springfield herald., 1909-06-25
CONDENSATION
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STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

]. G. Stroud, a millionaire lumber
man of Williston, N. D., and Miss Ma
bel Leverance. were married at Wau-
kesha, Wis. few days since after
an acquaintance of less than an hour.
The Baptist ministers conference at
Chicago by vote of thirty-seven to
fourteen, decided against expelling
from membership Prof. George Bur-
man Foster of the University of Chi
cago for alleged infidel opinions.
Lightning struck the Holy Cross
Catholic church at Bay Settlement.
north of Green Bay, Wis, during mass
on the 18th inst, killing one man,
shocking and injuring sixteen others,
two of whom may not survive. The
crash caused panic.
Special agents of the Union Pacific
are making war on brakemen and
other trainmen who take money from
tramps and give them permission to
beat their way over the road in freight
cars. At Rawlins, ]. ]. Carter was
sentenced to fifteen months in the
penitentiary.
In the suit at Jefferson City to oust
the International Harvester Company
for alleged violations of the Missouri
antitrust law, John B. Caldwell, local
agent for the corporation at ST.
Mary's, Kan, testified that local
agents were free to cut prices to farm,
ers to keep rival agents IRON making
sales.
At Colorado Springs, while their
victims slept, thieves entered the Pull
man hotel car Billings, standing on
sidetrack in the Rio Grande yards, and
occupied by s.. Louis grocers return
ing from their convention at Portland,
Ore. They secured money, clothing,
railroad tickets and jSwelry valued at
more than 800.
Governor Hadley has vetoed the bill
providing for an expenditure of $4,000
for a Missouri exhibit at the Seattle
fair. The governor said the state
needed this money worse for educat-
signed the bill prohibiting the mar
riage of Caucasians with Chinese, Jap
anese and other Asiatics.
The Very Rev. Benjamin Brewster
was consecrated Bishop of Western
Colorado at Salt Lake on the 18th
inst, in the presence of represen-
tative church audience, including
Presiding Bishop Tuttle of st. Louis,
Bishops Brewster of Connecticut,
Nichols of California. Griswold of
Kansas and Paddock of Oregon.
The historic sloop Gjoa, in which
Capt. Road Amundsen successfully
navigated the Northwest Passage for
the first time and the only time in
maritime annals, has been presented
to the city of San Francisco for per-
manent exhibition and will be trans
ported overland to a small lake in
Golden Gate park, which will be its
final harbor.
Guy c. Barton, a millionaire several
times over, former president of the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany and the Omaha Street Railway
Company, died at Omaha on the 18th
inst, aged seventy. During the last
five years, Mr.. Barton has visited most
of the health resorts in the United
States and abroad, seeking relief that
he did not find.
Governor Hadley of Missouri has
signed the bill amending the law to
permit fraternal beneficiary societies
to issue endowment policies and grant
extended insurance. The bill was
passed for the special benefit of the in
surance department of the knights of
Pythias, but will assist other fraternals
which are getting on the adequate rate
basis and give their members some of
the privileges heretofore restricted to
the legal reserYe cOmnanieS