The Springfield herald., 1909-04-30
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIG.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
WESTERN NEWS.

A bill prohibiting prize fights in
California on Memorial Day has been
signed by Governor Gillett.
Los Angeles will make heavy bid
Tor the Jeffries-Johnson prize fight. 1t
has already wired an offer of $4,000
by the Pacific Athletic Club.
Charles Warren Stoddard, poet. au-
thor, traveller and lecturer, died April
oath at his residence in Monterey, Cal
ifornia, after an illness extending over
three months.
James B. Finley, captain Of the ia
nous Chicago board Of trade battery
in the Civil war, died of heart disease
at Danville. H., April Gath. His rela-
tives live in Chicago.
The Cudahy Packing company at
Kansas City, Kas., has been indicted
on the charge of defrauding the gov
ernment out of $4,000 in revenues on
colored oleomargarine.
In the motor cycle races at Los
Angeles April 10Th, ]. B. Roster OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, rode 100 miles in 81
minutes, SO seconds. beating the
worlds record 9 minutes. Al seconds.
Six persons were killed, nine per-
haps fatally hurt, at least fifty less
seriously injured and 100000 worth
of property destroyed in tornado
which swept through Cleveland and
northern Ohio April 2lst.
Frank Gotch, champion wrestler
of the world. and Freddie Beell,
the greatest grappler in the country OF
his iLches, and almost the equal OF
Gotch, have agreed to meet in Den
yer during the later part OF the week
beginning May End.
Edward Noonan, a ranch hand near
Billings, Mont. died from the effects OF
drinking quart of whisky at one
eraught. Noonan had been left alone
in the ranch house when he found the
whisky He soon lapsed into uncon-
sciousness after drinking the liquor.
One pc. son was killed, three others
were injured and propertJ damaged to
he extent of $4,000 by tornado
which swept through Oglesby, Tex,
Wednesday night. The man killed,
James Arbuckle, was caught beneath
the roof of his home, which was de-
molished.
The Dry Farming Congress will be
held at Billings, Mont, October 26th,
27th and 2Sth, according TO the an
nouncement of Chairman F. C. Bow
man of the board of governors OF the
congress. The dates are fixed in ac-
cordance with the recommendation of
the Montana board of control.
The arrest at La Platte, Neb., of four
men in house in which about $1,000
worth of goods alleged to have been
stolen from freight trains in the vicin-
ity of Omaha, was followed by full
confession from the leader of the gang
whic', is said to implicate several 9TH
ers. including some prominent Omaha
business firms where their plunder
had been sold.
At 3 O'Clock Monday morning a mob
OF zoo men stormed the county jail at
Ada, Okla, and after overpowering the
sheriff, lynched four white men. The
lynched men are ]. B. Miller of Fort
Worth, Texas. charged with the muir
der OF A. A. Bobbitt, a wealthy cattle
man of this section. and d. b. Bur
rell. Jesse West and Joseph Allen, al
legged accomplices.
The directors of the Laramie, Hahn's
Peak & Pacific railway have author
lied the president and secretary to
call special meeting of shareholders
to vote upon a proposition to authorize
the execution of a mortgage on the
property and franchises and ratify the
action of the directors in executing
deed of trust to the Guaranty Trust
Company OF New York.
w E. Cochran. postoffice inspector
at Denver. has received news OF the
loss of over 500 letters, some of them
four years old, which has just been
discovered. The letters were found
under the floor of n mail car running
between Salt Lake and Butte and the
loss was caused by an undiscovered
crack in one of the compartments in
which the letters were thrown. The
letters will be forwarded to their own
ers.