The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1911-12-08
GEN NERAL.


Irving Bedell Dudley. United States
ambassador to Brazil, died in Balti-
more from heart failure. aged 80.
Ortie McManigal will be carried to
Milwaukee for trial of local dyna-
hitting in 1910 II he is free in the West.
The Interior Department has at last
receded from its position Of not ad-
hitting automobiles into national
parks.
The Missouri courts have sustained
the right OF the insurance department
Of the Knights Of Pythias to increase
its assessments.
| A severe snowstorm. driven by a
wind that at times blew sixty miles
an hour. ragged over Kansas. Oklahoma
and a great part OF Missouri.
That the battleship Maine was
blown up from the outside will be the
Joint finding of the army and navy
board of inspection. now in session.
1t is proposed that the $4,000 sub
scribed by labor unions to aid the
McNamaras be turned over to the rela-
lines disaster.
Death came suddenly at his home
| in North Easton, Mass, to Rear Ad-
miral George Francis Faxon Wilde, U.
s. NJ, retired. He suffered from heart
disease. He was 81 years old.
A spike placed between rail joints
by children resulted in the wreckage
of the queen & Crescent passenger
train, twelve miles below Somerset.
Ky. Two locomotives were turned
| over.
For the first time in Georgia that
white man has paid the death PEN
atty for killing q negro, A. ]. O'Berry
was hanged at st. Mary's. O'Berry
had killed a negro woman and her
daughter, the motive being robbery.
Independent tobacco interests will
ask the United States Supreme Court
for leave to file a petition for writ
of mandamus directing the judges of
the Circuit Court of New York to va
cate their decree approving the re-
organization of the American Tobacco
Company.
The Standard OIL Company will not
longer control the affairs, as the hold
ing company. of more than thirty cor
porations, in various branches Of the
oil business. Those subsidiaries un-
der the decree of the Supreme Court,
will now assume entire management
| OF their own affairs.
Unless the friar lands in the Phil
| 1R hnv
will become heavy financial drain on
the Philippine government. says c. R.
Edwards, the chief of the Bureau Of
Insular Affairs, and in his annual re-
port, recommends that these lands be
sold
Capt. e. A. Swaney and four men,
bers of the crew of the towboat Dia-
mond were killed in the explosion OF
the boats boilers while she was lying
in the Ohio river off Avalon, six
miles south of Pittsburg. Five others
were injured, two fatally. The boat
| lies at the bottom of the Ohio.
Reports from the wooden mills in
many parts of New England indicate
that the period of depression, which
was reported year or more ago. has
passed The mills are preparing to
put all hands on an extra-work sched-
ule, made necessary by the large Or
ders on hand and those that will come.
Full forces have been at work for
weeks, but have been unable to re-
duce the stacks of orders lying upon
managers desks.
The board of governors of the Ma
tional Irrigation Congress have COM
pleted arrangements for the nine
teenth annual meeting of the organi-
cation which will be held in Chicago.
The members of the board are, r.
Insinger, Spokane, Wash. chairman:
B. A. Fowler, Phoenix, Ariz.. vice
chairman; Arthur Hooker. Spokane.
Wash, secretary and treasurer;
Robert R. Mccormick and w. G. De-
cole, Chicago, and w. ]. MCGEE, Wash
ington, D. C.
Mrs. Gertrude Gibson Patterson has
arrived in Sandoval. ILL.,. at the home
of her parents where she spent her
childhood. About twenty-five of her
relatives had gathered there and pre-
pared for a family feast and jollifica-
ton over Mrs. Patterson's acquittal OF
the murder OF her husband at Denver.
She said to newspaper correspon-
dent that she had come to her old
home to seek rest and quiet and would
probably remain here two or three
months before deciding what she
would do.
The much-discussed report of the
tariff board on the wool schedule of
the Payne tariff and on the wool in
dustry will be in the hands of Presi-
dent Taft not later than December
18th. This prediction was made at
the White House, following visit of
Chairman Emery and A. II. Sanders of
the board. The cotton report will be
sent to the White House few days
later. Mr.. Taft spent almost an hour
with the two members of the board,
and urged them to make all possible
haste in the preparation of both &C.
ports.