The Springfield herald., 1910-09-23
GEN e RAJ.

President Taft was SO years old last
Thursday.
Mrs. A. d. Winship. aged so. regis
tered Friday as a student in the Ohio
State university.
Starting from the New York Yacht
club pier, Rose Pitonof 16-year-old
girl, swan to Coney Island, seventeen
miles.
NJ. L. Peaden, farmer of Pitt coun-
ty, South Carolina, is threatened with
entire Justification of the limbs and
body. supposed to be caused by the
hookworm.
Four men were killed and two in
jured in a head-on- collision between
Mobile G. Ohio and Iron Mountain
freight trains seven miles north OF
Cairo. ILL.,, Sunday morning.
The first flight of the first woman
aviator to attempt to get flying ma
chine into the air at the aviation fell
at Mineola, l.. L.. ended disastrously
Friday morning, but fortunately the
woman escaped with only a few
bruises and scratches. Mrs. Frank
Raiche was the woman who narrowly
missed death.
The present population of Chicago
is 2,1S5.2S3. This is a gain of 3SG,70S.
or 27.7 per cent. since 1900. AS the
second city in America, Chicago is
practically in class by itself. New
York far outstrips 1t. with 4,766.SS3.
and Philadelphia. which is its nearest
rival for the second honor this year.
showed a population of 1.549,00S.
The protest against the erection of
the statue of General Robert E. Lee
in the rotunda of the capitol may be
dropped and movement begun for a
monster monument to be erected by
the people of the country and dedi-
Gated, not to the heroes of the north,
or brave men of the south, but rather
to the men who sacrificed their all for
the cause that they thought was right.
At Niagara Falls, N. Y, Captain
Klaus Larsen, in his little motor boat.
the Ferro, Sunday made successful
trip from the foot of the cataract
through the whirlpool rapids to within
mile of Lewiston, distance of four
and one-half miles. He started from
the Maid OF the Mist dock and ran on
rock near the American shore. De-
spite the battering Of the whirlpool
rapids, Larsen went through safely.
but his boat was leaking badly at the
finish and through the trip.
The bond of sentiment that has
welded together the hearts of the
north and the south was never more
IN evidence than at the formal opening
of the forty-fourth national encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public. 1t is probable that there may
never be another encampment held by
the G. A. r. The movement to bring
together all the survivors of the civil
war has grown wonderfully. Samuel
X. VanSant, one time governor OF Mir
pesota. declared himself in favor of the
idea. General Daniel E. Sickles also
favored the plan. Two great demon
STATIONS of patriotism and love drew
together thousands of survivors.
A cablegram from Copenhagen
saws: 1.-TWO Eskimos who were DR..
Cooks companions on his alleged trip
to the North pole insist that the pole
had been reached" This will prob
ably be surprising news to DR.. Cook
Holt, Mo.-One man was killed and
IS persons injured when two passen-
ger trains met in a head-on collision
on the Chicago. Burlington &Quincy
railroad. one mile north of Holt. Mo-,
Friday night. The trains which col
lided were the Burlington's from Kan
sas City and the Rock Islands from
Chicago.
Many national questions of import.
ance are to be considered at the TWEEN.
ty.frst annual session Of the Trans.
mississippi Commercial congress, to
be held at San Antonio. Tex. Novem'
her 1925, the call for which was is
sued Sunday.
At meeting at Kansas City which
ended Sunday night the representa-
tjyes of the miners in the southwest
ern field ratified the agreement made
with the operators and will resume
work next Tuesday. The contract as
i. now stands is said to be victory
for the miners.