The Springfield herald., 1910-12-09
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Pueblo. Colo, next year.
Fifteen persons were seriously in
jured when a Missouri Pacific passen-
ger train was wrecked near Knob
noster, Mo.
Two hundred and fifty million dol
lars worth of articles classed as lux
uries were imported into the United
States during the fiscal year 1910.
During the deer hunting season.
November 10th to December 1st, there
were forty-six accidents in the upper
peninsula of Michigan. twenty fatal.
Mistaking bottle containing car
bolic acid for castor oil. James Pet
erson. aged "a. of Newburg. N. Y.
drank the liquid and died in fifteen
minutes.
After a struggle of thirty years to
win recognition as an artist and
achieve her own ideals of her art,
Miss Ella Finley died in Philadelphia.
of starvation.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook. the Brooklyn
explorer, in an article which will be
published in Hampton's magazine. con-
fesses that he does not know whether
he reached the North Pole.
The United States Steel corpora.
ton, it has been learned. is to an
nounce a pension plan for employees
between 60 and 20 years OF age, which
will become effective January LIST.
Judge James Brooks Dill. until re-
Gently member. of the New Jersey
Court of Errors and Appeals, and one
of the leading American authorities
on corporation law, died at East
Orange
Copper Hill. a town OF 1900 people,
located in the famous Duck Town
copper basin. Tennessee, was almost
completely wiped out by fire, 145
buildings being burned, with loss of
over $4,000.
Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, the
leader and founder of the Christian
Science church. Is dead. Natural
causes" explained the death accord
medical examiner, who was sum
moned few hours after Mrs. Eddy
rassed away. Later DR.. West added
that the more immediate cause prob
ably yas pneumonia. Mrs. Eddy was
born in Bow, n. H., July 1G, 1921, and
was in her nipetieth year.
| Mourned by many men prominent
in Boston's financial district Robert
E. Davie, known as the Boy Broker,
with offices on State street, has dis
appeared. He is twenty-three years
old. Between 100000 and $5O0,000
are said to be the losses of those with
whom he dealt, but the only specific
complaint so far charges the larceny
of stock certificates valued at 100000
from Hannah Y. Greenwood of Som
erville. To answer the charge, he is
being sought by the police.
The population of the United States
should be 91,193,490 is the rate of in
crese shown by states on which COM
plete returns have been received and
tabulated by the census offices is
maintained. Counting New Mexico
and Arizona, for present purposes, as
states. the full returns of the enum-
Grafton have been tabulated for 50 out
of the 40 and the District of Columbia.
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as against 55,290.G3G for the same
area in 1900
A life-saving service for the rescue
o. miners in time of disaster has just
heen inaugurated by the United States
! Bureau of Mines. Six specially con-
| structed cars, fully manned by a
CORPS of miners trained in rescue
work and equipped with the latest ap-
| paratus and first-aid applicances
have Leen located in the midst of the
great coal districts in different parts
of the country. These cars will be
ready at a moments notice to proceed
| to the scene of a disaster. where the
rescue corps, in cooperation with the
state mining officials, will do every
| thing possible to save entombed min
ers.
A northbound freight train, a double
header. was wrecked on the Carolina,
Clinchfield & Ohio railroad, mile
north of Clinch Port, Va. Three men
were killed, one man perhaps fatally
injured and two others slightly hurt.
The price of steel will not be cut.
Forty of the leading producers who
stand for approximately ninety-five
per cent of the production of the
country, met in New York and de-
cided it was for the good of the in
dustry to keep quotations where they
| are.
! Estimates of Secretary of the Navy
Meyer for tire fiscal year, 1912, which
shows a saving of $5,000,0O0. as com
pared with the appropriation for the
current year, provide for an expend!-
ture of $S,lS5.S27 for public works a.
navy yards and stations.
| Former Governor David B. Hill.
who died in Albany, n. Y, October
goth. left personal estate, exclusive
of household furnishings, effects and
library, estimated at 100000, and real
estate, assessed at $4,000. according
to the will filed for probate.