The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1910-10-28
GEN ERAL.
dence.

David Bennett Hills life work is
ended. The former senator died SUD-
denly Thursday morning.
The Hoffman house at Broadway
and Twenty-fifth street, one of New
York's famous hotels, has been thrown
into bankruptcy.
Horace G. Smith, naturalist of the
Colorado State Historical Society, as
serts that the robin radbreast does not
have a red breast. and furthermore.
that robin is not a robin at all.
Zion City is soon to be governed by
the same strict blue laws under the
same secret espionage that dis
tinguished it during the reign of John
Alexander Dowie, it's founder.
New York's Chinatown is to be
cleaned up as it has never been
cleaned before. This is the decision
of the new police administration. The
police have already been instructed
to order all white persons from the
district.
DR.. Kendric Babcock, president OF
the University of Arizona, has been
appointed specialist in higher educa-
ton in the United States Bureau of
Education. His appointment is in line
with the present commissioner of the
bureau of paying specialists to study
the various phases of education. His
salary is $4,000 year.
Too late for census but earnestly
doing her share in Cleveiand's re-
markable growth. Mrs. William G..
Clarke, Lakeside avenue matron,
Friday became the mother of her
third set of triplets. Busy at her
usual homework, she showed the
family Bible, which displayed the fact
that she is also the mother of four
pairs of twins and that she herself is
the only sister of twenty brothers.
Edgar Allan Poe is at last in. the
Hall of Fame. Years of effort on the
part of staunch supporters to get his
name added to the list were rewarded
by the announcement of DR.. John H.
McCracken, chairman of the senate
of New York university, that the au-
thor of 1.-THE Raven" with ten others,
had been accorded this honor. The
eleven names added follow. Har.
riet Beecher Stowe, IA votes Oliv-
er Wendell Holmes and Edgar AL
Ian Poe, SO votes each: Roger VIII
liams, ga; James Fenimore Cooper,
GO; Philips Brooks. Co; William Cullen
Bryant, 50; Frances E. Willard, SC.
Andrew Jackson, George Bancroft, SO
each, and John Lathrop Motley, 61.
Aeronauts Alan r. Hawley and
Augustus oPst of New York. in the
America H., are supposed to have
dropped somewhere in the wilds of
Canada. That the wilderness may be
forced to yield the lost ones, thou
sands of men working under the di-
rection of the Canadian and American
governments are spending every en-
ergy. Sir Wilfred Laurier here and
Sir James Whitney at Toronto have
given widespread orders. The federal
and provincial governments are work
ing hand in hand
The German balloon Germania. Can.
Hugo Won Abercron, pilot, and August
Blancketz. aide. has landed at Coo.
coocash. Quebec. 179 miles north of
Quebec. This is approximately 11o5
miles. and may mean that all world,a
records have been broken. The Aero
club called upon Gen. Allen, chief Of
the signal corps at Washington, d. C..
to have the revenue cutters patrolin,,
the Great Lakes look for wreckage T.,
Lake Huron. Steamship companies
which have vessels plying Lake Huroo
and Georgian bay have been requested
20 join in the search.