The Springfield herald., 1909-06-04
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
GRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND
OTHER COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poiNca ANN hAppENlNaS
DOiNGS AND HAPPENINGS
THAT MARK THE PROG
REss OF THE AGE.
WESTERN NEWS.

Wheat harvesting was begun in
Wichita county. Texas. on May 26th.
Actual construction work on the
San Diego & Arizona railroad was be-
gun May 27th.
A bill abolishing capital punishment
In Illinois has passed the House. 1t
substitutes life Imprisonment for the
death penalty.
President Winchell of the Rock
Island says that the ratio Of increase
In business over that of year ago
has been fully maintained.
The new Masonic building just ded-
icated at Indianapolis cost 100000
and is believed to be the finest temple
of the order in the world.
Governor Davidson Of Wisconsin
has vetoed bill providing heavy PEN
alties for profanity and another i'm
posing severe restrictions on mutual
fire insurance companies.
The Missouri Legislature amended
the low governing fire insurance COM
panies SO as to permit them to make
all kinds Of insurance on automobiles.
This will include losses by theft.
Two cantaloupes, the vanguard Of the
1909 crop from the Imperial valley,
shipped into Los Angeles, as part OF
a consignment from Hebar, Cal. sold
at IS each. The melons were large
and well ripened.
Fire at Eugene, Ore, May 25th,
burned livery stable and eight or
ten frame warehouses in the rear OF
stores. The Christian Science church,
three blocks distant, was partially
burned LOSS between $4,000 and
100000.
On the ninety-f1fth ballot, after
deadlock that lasted many weeks. the
Illinois Legislature. May 26th. elected
Congressman William Lorimer of Chi
cago to the United States Senate to
succeed Albert ]. Hopkins. whose term
expired Marth 4th.
Indictments against Governor Chas.
N. Haskell and five others were re-
turned by the federal grand jury at
Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are charged
with obtaining titles from the govern
ment to town lots in Muskogee, Okla,
by illegal methods.
Mrs. Bertha Hillman of Petersburg.
Ind, has been awarded $4,000 in her
damage suit against William E. Stew
art, a saloonkeeper of Jimtown. She
alleged that her husband was drowned
while under the influence of liquor
sold him by Stewart.
Governor Stubbs of Kansas sent
pardon by long distance telephone to
John Hays, thought to be dying at
Pittsburg, Kas., from a mine accident.
Hays had been paroled from the peni-
tentiary by former Governor Hoch, but
had his friends ask for a pardon, that
he might die free man.
Postoffce inspectors have asked to
unravel the mystery surrounding the
receipt by number of residents OF
Panora. Iowa, of letters containing
hundred dollar bills. No signature is
attached to the letters, one of which
bears the postmark of Portland. Ore.
Five persons admit having received
money totalling $1.125.
On Wednesday. May 26th, light
earthquake shock was felt at Chicago
1t extended to numerous points in In
diana, Illinois, Wisconsin. Michigan,
Iowa, Missouri and contiguous terri
tory. The only damage seems to havo
been done in the breaking of few
dishes and the overturning of an oc-
casional chimney.
The special train containing the pri.
vate cars Of James McCrea, president
Of the Pennsylvania road. and A. l..
Mohler, general manager Of the Union
Pacific, made the run of 11S miles be-
tween Laramie, Wyo., and Rawlins in
two hours and forty-fve minutes. The
schedule time for the fastest train is
three hours, seventeen minutes.
Edward Payson Weston, the pedes-
trian, reached Denver on the morning
of May 9th on his 4,300 mile trip
from New York to San Francisco and
left at midnight, having about 1,S0o
miles yet to cover. So far. he has
averaged forty miles day, walking
being bad owing to spring storms and
muddy roads.