The Springfield herald., 1911-03-24
GEN E RAJ.

The grand jury has begun an inves-
tigation into the affairs of the Carne-
gle Trust Company. closed by the sup
erintendent of banks, February LIST.
Two persons were killed and four in
jured when a Delaware & Lackawanna
passenger train running at high speed
crashed into street at Buffalo, N. Y.
That the transplanting of human
kidneys from dying to a living man
is simply like plumbers job. is the
declaration of DR.. A. NJ. Shipley, pro-
fessor of surgical pathology at the
University of Maryland.
Failure to fortify the Panama canal
would be an act of criminal folly" de-
clared Theodore Roosevelt at the
Dallas Chamber of Commerce He
said that only two treaties relative to
the canal existed. those with England
and Panama, and hence any other ma
tion would be at liberty to destroy it in
case of war
The Milwaukee Socialist City Council
decided to buy a stretch of 500 acres
along three miles of the upper river
front for a public park at cost of
81 100000, TO be paid in twenty annual
installments. The Republican and
Democratic minority fought the propo-
sition on the ground that the city has
already reached it's bonded debt limit
At Grand Canon, Ariz., Col. Theodore
Roosevelt lunched beside the boiling
waters of the Colorado river, 4,2O0
feet below the rim of the Grand canon.
1t was his first visit and he is the
first occupant of the White House
who ever made the fourteen miles
round trip to what is often declared
to be the most striking sight nature
has provided in all the world
President Taft has followed with in
terest the discussion of the last few
days in the English parliament on the
international arbitration treaty pro-
posed by him. He is delighted with
the manner in which the proposal has
been received in Great Britain. The
President is hopeful that the treaty
may be adopted by both countries and
believes it will be a great step toward
the abolition of war. And, with war
practically impossible between the two
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is every reason to hope, according to
the Presidents view that other ma
tions may come into such an agree
ment and thus make for universal
peace. The treaty is a broad one, and
proposes that all disputes including
even those of national honor and ter
ritory shall be settled by arbitration.
Fourteen hundred telegraphers in
the employ of the Illinois Central rail-
road between Chicago and New Or
leans threaten to strike as the result
of refusal to grant 25 per cent
increase with thirty cents an hour for
overtime.
President Taft and Representative
Martin w. Littleton of New York
played an interesting game of golf.
In way it was heralded as
contest between the Republican
and Democratic parties, and the Presi-
dent, as the representative of the
former. Unexpectedly won.
Unless the striking Adams Express
empoyes change their minds, COM
mittee will call upon Andrew Carnegie
at his home, Fifth avenue and
Ninety-first street, New York, to ask
him to arbitrate their grievances. The
leaders decided upon the course.
No president of the Missouri
Pacific to succeed George Gould
has yet been chosen, and if no selec-
ton has been made for the place by
March 21st, when the meeting of di-
rectors is expected to be held In
New York, it is probable that Gould
| will continue in office