The Springfield herald., 1911-06-16
GEN e RAJ.

Andrew Carnegie, 1t is announced,
has donated $205.0OO for heroic fund
in Holland.
The first death of the year as re-
suit of the heat in Oklahoma has been
reported from Oklahoma City.
June 10 seven deaths were caused by
the extreme heat. and many prostra-
tions reported in Chicago. The ther-
mometer registered 9S.3.
For the first time In the history of
the Albany. N. Y, law school. wom-
an carried off the highest honors of
commencement this year.
The signature of Governor Foss is
all that is now needed to enact into
law the direct nominations bill for
Massachusetts.
There was never June day in Chica'
go as hot as June 9th in forty years in
which temperature record has been
kept. The thermometer climbed until
9S.5 degrees was registered.
The Wisconsin Senate adopted a
resolution declaring Senator Ike
Stephenson bought his seat in the
United States Senate. and requesting
that body to investigate his election.
A government investigation of con.
ditions in the lumber industry. look,
ing toward the prosecution of the So
called lumber trust" has begun be-
fore a special grand jury in the fed.
eral District Court in Chicago.
Eighty years of age and still enjoy
ing college life, Mrs. Amy D. Winship
of Racine. Wis, will enter the Uni
versity of Wisconsin next fall as tie
only octogenarian coed in the United
States, and probably in, the world
Physicians of Manchester. Conn,
have organized a medical and surgical
trust and arranged a scale of prices.
The price for amputation of one toe or
finger is $40. IS for each finger or toe
additional 1t will cost s5 more to have
twins than babies one at a time.
-Four railroad presidents, two inter
state commerce commissioners. a for
mer cabinet officer, bankers, manufac-
turers. college professors. lawyers and
labor leaders will meet in New York,
June %. to frame a model law for uni
form state public utilities Legislation.
Six persons were drowned in Utah
lake at Salt Lake City, when the
launch Galilee. in which sixteen Ieo
pie were attending a party given in
honor of the approaching marriage OF
Miss Vera Brown and Edward B.
Holmes, capsized. Among those
drowned were the engaged young cou
Pile.
Disguised by Mayor Doris, who an.
nounced that all white persons con
victed of drunkenness, must either ac
| company him to church for ten con
secutiye Sundays or serve thirty days
on the streets. chronic drinkers are
| fleeing from Cordele. Ga.
Present indications point to this
years cotton crop as the largest the
country ever has produced, according
to government experts. The crop will
be greater by about 100000 bales
than the average and larger by nearly
| 100000 bales than the biggest crop
the country ever raised-that of 1904.
The salaries of 1000 postmasters in
| every state and territory will be in.
creased on July LIST next as the result
of the annual adjustment of compen.
sation announced by the postoffice
| department The increases are mostly
| siOO year, a few running $500.
After serving as hostelry for over
three-quarters OF century the old Gait
house. famous in the history Of the
South, went under the acutioneer's )
hammer. bringing only $4,000. The
original cost OF the building and its
contents is said to have been upwards
ot 100000.