The Springfield herald., 1910-09-30
GEN ERAL.

President Taft had thoroughly en-
joyable time Wednesday among his
home folks of Cincinnati.
AS result of eating toad stools in
mistake for mushrooms. two are dead
and two dying at Orange. N. j.
Gen. Charles R. Brayton. the blind
leader of the Rhode Island Republi-
cans. died at Providence, r. L.. Friday.
Mrs. Frances Victorit Sankey, Wild
ow of Ira d. Sankey. the singing evan
gelist, died Sunday morning in Brook
Ign.
Indianapolis has been selected as the
next convention city by the sovereign
grand lodge, Independent Order Of Odd
Fellows.
Forty-two persons were killed in an
interurban trolley wreck between
Bluffton and Fort Wayne, Ind.
Wednesday.
Three persons were killed and two
seriously injured at Gloucester, N. j.,
Sunday night when an electric train
struck an auto.
The national encampment of the G.
A. R.. at its final session. postponed
action of placing statue of Robert E.
Lee in statuary hall
There will be no shortage of money
this fall. anywhere in the United
States, according to the view of the
treasury department. The danger mark
is passed.
Telegraph operators on the Monon
railroad were notified of a per cent
raise in wages, effective September 1.
The operators also obtained other con-
cessions.
Packages of all American cigarettes
and tobaccos are being reduced in size
by the manufacturers to make up for
the increased revenue taxes imposed
by the tariff.
The lowest death rate on record for
the United States is reported by the
Census Bureau bulletin on mortality
statistics for 1909. The rate. which is
given at fifteen per thousand of the
Professionally estimated population last
year was four-tenths per cent, less
than the estimate made in the year
1909 for the registration area. An era
of lower mortality is predicted from
now on by the census officers.
Representatives of Mrs. Mathilda M.
Chesbrough of Newton, Mass, have
paid over $4,000 to the custom author
tiles in settlement of $4,000 fine i'm
posed on her for smuggling and in re-
demption of q pearl necklace seized
last year. The case has been long con-
tested but Mrs. Chesbrough was con-
WINGED that the only way for her to get
her necklace was by paying the fine
and the value of the goods seized.
Samples of the new Red Cross
Christmas seals to be used this year
were received Thursday by the Ma
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention of tuberculosis. While
the sticker is perforated like those
used last year. it is intended for use
only as seal on the back of letters.
The seal is one inch square, with the
conventional red cross In the center,
and the words Merry Christmas. Hap
py New Year. American Red Cross" in
circle about it. The colors are red and
green. Twenty-Five millions of these
seals are being printed, and 1t is hoped
to sell 100 100000 before New Year.
Announcement was made here Fri
day by the Morris Packing Company
of Chicago of the purchase in Mex
leo of 100000 acres of land, which is
to comprise one of the largest ranches
in the world.
By means of minute electric lamp
which made it possible to see down
woman's throat and clear into the
lower lobe of the right lung and to in
sert through the trachea eXtensible
forceps, Toledo physician removed
fragment of a tooth from the right
lung of Mrs. G. Cole of Vanwert and
without doubt saved her life.
The office of the Nashville Ameri-
can was closed Sunday night, that pa
per being merged with the Nashville
Tennessean under the name Of the
Tennessean, and American. 1t will
support B. w. Hooper, Republican and
fusion candidate for governor.
Bobby Leach of Niagara Falls, Ont,
Saturday made a trip through the
whirlpool rapids in a barrel. starting
from the Old Maid of the Mist, land
ing near the cantilever bridge. Except
for few scratches and bruises, Leach,
eral times before. was unhurt.