The Springfield herald., 1911-06-30
GEN e RAJ.

The alleged powder trust dominated
by E. l. Du Pont Company has been
ordered dissolved by the U. 8. Circuit
Court of Delaware.
While bathing in the bayou near
Pensacola. Fla. ten small negroes
were caught by the tide. carried be-
yond their depth and drowned.
The New York Senate passed the
Grady bill. which requires that every
shall bear tie name of the writer.
D. H. Woolf of Kansas City and his
wife have arrived in Washington, hav-
ing covered more than 5000 miles Of
proposed 7,OOO-miie walk from
Kansas City to New York and return.
The consolidation of the conti-
mental Commercial and Hibernia
Banking Association will give Chicago
the largest bank in the United States.
Its total assets will aggregate $685.
100000.
Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad,
the two young women who have been
IN Jail insNew York. on charge Of
shooting w. E. D. Stokes with intent
to kill him, have been given their lib
erty on bail.
Owing to the extreme heat vege-
table prices are soaring. Prices OF
potatoes have reached the highest
point in Chicago ever known. Vir-
ginia new potatoes are selling for
$6.40 barrel.
The governments petition to enjoin
the Union Pacific railroad from con-
tinuing to control the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company has been dis
missed by the United States Circuit
Court of the Eighth district in St.
Louis.
Two hundred and twenty-five mil
lion dollars increase In the value of
personal property in Cook county. ILL.,,
in the last year, was announced by the
board of assessors. The increase In
assessed valuation is $4,000 .OOO-one
third of the actual values
What Is termed poor mans "anti-
jag" law will go into effect in Illinois
July 1st and on and after that date all
persons who drink intoxicating liquor
on any railroad train except in a din
ing, buffet or sleeping car will be sub
ject to both a fine and Imprisonment.
Declaring it appeared to be impossi-
BILE to procure convictions in cases
pertaining to bribery and corruption
in Sangamon county States Attorney
Edmund Burke, in the central court at
Springfield nolled the case pending
against Lee O'Neil Browne.
The southbound Shasta limited was
held up and the mail car robbed by
two highwaymen between Drain and
Yoncalla. Oregon. The robbers en-
tered the mail car, held up the clerks
and looted the car. They stopped the
train at Yoncalla and escaped.
Henry w. Taft. brother Of the
President, was carried by Thomas
Sopwith, the English aviator. in an
aeroplane flight at Mineola, N. Y.
Mr.. Taft had fine flight, the biplane
travelling about ten miles all told, and
reaching a considerable altitude.
The program for the Combination
Grand and Great Western circuits
race meeting to be held in Kalamazoo,
Mich. from July 18th to 21st, has
been announced. The 100000 paper
mills stake for 2:14 trotters will be
held on July 18th.
Announcement is made at the fed
eral building in New York that the
federal grand jury has been making a
secret investigation into the affairs
~ the limited States Steep Corpora
tion for the last three weeks and that
at least one indictment will be re-
turned in the near future.
Judge George A. Carpenter in the
United States District Court in Chica-
90, denied a motion Of j. Ogden Ar
mour and nine other Chicago packers
for a rehearing of their motion to
quash indictments charging violation
of the Sherman ANTITRUST act.