The Springfield herald., 1909-07-16
CONDENSATION
Of FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
sHowiNo THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

A speed of eighty-five miles an hour
in the straight stretch was shown by
the big racing cars in the try-outs
around the eight and four-tenths miles
course at Santa Monica, Calf.
The convention of the National Edu-
cation Association at Denver was not
success in point of numbers, only
about G.O00 being in attendance, when
10000 to $4,000 had been expected.
Five thousand dollars for each lost
tos on his left foot, or $25.00O in all,
was the verdict of the jury at Butte,
Mont, in the $4,000 damage suit of
Frank H. Knuckey. miner. against
the Butte Electric Railway Company.
Lightning and tornado losses are un-
usually heavy in the central West this
summer. One Des Moines insurance
company recently received 200 claims
in a single mail from policyholders in
the vicinity of Storm Lake and Fon-
tanelle, Iowa, in June.
Ira w. La Munyon, said to be the
last survivor of the mass meeting held
in jackson, Mich, July 6, 1854, when
the Republican party was formed, and
the Oldest member of that party in
point of service, died at his home in
Denver on the 7th inst. from the ef-
fects of stroke of apoplexy.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has
refused the Equitable, Metropolitan and
Prudential Life Insurance Companies
a re-hearing of the case refusing them
a license to do business in the state
because of the statute which prohibits
the payment of $4,000 salary to any
officer. They will appeal to the United
States Supreme Court.
Judge Clifford. of the Superior Court,
Tacoma, Wash, has declared the new
anti-cigarette law of that state to be
unconstitutional, on the grounds that
1t is in conflict with the provisions of
the interstate commerce law. The
court holds that while the state may
regulate the sale of any article of COM
merce by exercise of it's police powers
it must not attempt to nullify fed
eral statute.
Fred Warren, business manager of
the Appeal to Reason, Socialist pa
per published at Girard, Kan, has
been sentenced to six months in jail
and a fine of $1,000 by Federal Judge
Pollock. Warren was convicted for
alleged violation of the postal regula-
tions in sending through the mails a
printed offer of reward of 81 900 to
anyone who would kidnap Ex-Governor
William S. Taylor of Kentucky and
return him to that state.
Delegates from District No. %.
United Mine Workers of America.
which covers the entire Wyoming
coal mining district. and representa-
tives of the operators reached an
agreement upon wage scales and
working conditions for the year begin
ming September list, at a joint confer
ence at Ogden July I'd. The same
scale and conditions which were
agreed upon in Cheyenne last year
will continue in force until September
1, 1910.
Private tests have been made at Vic
toria, B. c., of an airship which the
inventor, William Gibson, mechani-
cal engineer, wagered $1,000 will carry
him safely to Seattle, n distance of
sixty-five miles, within half an hour.
when he is ready for the flight and
do the Victoria to San Francisco flight
within five hours. The craft, now al
most completed, is monoplane, sixty
five feet long and radically different
from other designs, having a width of
only fourteen feet.
DR.. Henry Sewell, who recently re-
turned to Denver from visit to Eng
land and France, where he investi-
gated the methods that have been
adopted to combat tuberculosis, as
serts that the crying need of Colorado
in general and Denver in particular
is hospital conducted for. and in
which could be housed, the invalid
consumptives who are unable to work
and thus keep them off the streets and
out of the parks. and prevent the
spread of the disease.