The Springfield herald., 1910-08-12
GEN e RAJ.

GENERAL.
President Taft assisted in the dedi-
cation of the Pilgrim monument at
Provincetown. Mass, Friday.
Fifty-eight cases OF infantile paraly-
sis are reported at Mason City. Iowa:
seventy-one cases at Springfield.
Mass.
A corporation has been formed by q
New York inventor to exploit a mono
plane. backed by son-in-law OF John
d. Rockefeller and an officer OF the
International Harvester Company.
The strike of conductors. trainmen
and yardmen which began on the
Grand Trunk and Central Vermont
systems July IS, was officially called
off Tuesday. Said to be an increase Of
80 per cent In wages.
Charges OF graft which defrauded
the Fraternal Order Of Eagles-a soci-
ETY. Of 100000 members In Canada and
the United States-of thousands Of dol
lars, were made Tuesday in connection
with suit for recovery of $4,000.
Secretary Ballinger has denied that
his conference with Senator Crane in
Minneapolis, MINI. related to or would
be, followed by his resignation. He
said the matter discussed was not even
OF direct interest to him.
The Ferguson Contracting Company,
contractors for railroad construction,
went into the hands of receiver in
bankruptcy proceedings. Liabilities are
100000 and assets $64O,11O, besides
several large claims which are in liti-
CATION.
In the teeth OF a gale blowing from
thirty to sixty miles an hour, ]. c.
Mars treated 10000 persons to short
but sensational exhibition at the Bru-
not's island (Pa) aviation meet. Mr.
Mars made his flight against the ad
vice Of Capt. Thomas S. Baldwin and
Glenn H. Curtiss. neither of whom
would attempt to fly, owing to the gale.
Negotiations have been completed
for the merger of the two largest re-
tail drug companies in the United
States-the William b. Riker & Son
Company and Hegeman & Co. 1t Is
understood that the capital OF the new
ed under the title of the Riker & Hege-
man company. would be $5,OOO.OO0 in
preferred stock and slO.O0O,OOO in COM
mon stock.
With Senator Thomas P. Gore re-as-
sorting his charge that he had been
offered bride of $4,000 or $4,000
to influence his action in Congress,
and with Jacob Hamon, accused by
the senator of having offered the
bribe. denying he had ever done any
such thing, the investigation of the
Oklahoma Indian land deals by COM
mittee of the House of Representa-
tives Friday simmered down to a mass
of denials.
The grand encampment of the
Knights of Pythias at Milkauwee elect
ed officers as follows: Supreme pre-
late. j. W. Spearing of louisiana; su.
preme vice chancellor. Thomas ]. Car
ting. Macon. Ca; supreme keeper of
records and seal. Fred E. Wheaton,
Minneapolis; supreme prelate, Rev. Jo-
seph H. Spearing. Shreveport, La; SUI
preme master of exchequer. Joseph D.
Mears, Wilmington, N. c.: supreme
master at arms, Edward Horton, St.
Thomas, Ont; supreme inner guard,
Harry A. Drachman, Arizona; supreme
outer guard, II. w. Wadsworth, Phila-
delphia; members of board of control
insurance department, George A.
Bangs, Grand Forks, N. D., w. A. Dbl
vail, Kansas.
The delegates attending the conven
ton of knights of Columbus in Que
bee reelected four directors whose
terms had expired. They were Joseph
MERCER, Montreal; Victor ]. Dorr.
Augusta, Ca; John H. Reddin. Denver,
and w. D. Dwyer. st. Paul, MINI.
War to the knife exists between
Tom L. Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers, and the state officials
in Illinois, and in the southwest terri
tory, which may result in split at
the special convention which will open
at Indianapolis next week.
A rare operation involving the trans
planting of portion of the cornea
from the eyeball of man to that of a
woman who has been blind from in
fancy, resulting in the restoration of
her sight, has been performed in Phil
adelphia. At the Medico-Chirursica
hospital, where the operation was per-
formed, surgeons are watching the
case with keen interest. 1t will be sew
eral weeks before it can be determined |
definitely whether the restoration will |
he permanent. but at present. physi |
clans say. all indications point to sue
cess.