The Springfield herald., 1911-04-14
GEN ERAI.

The latest thing in ST. Louis is
suffragette shining studio.
Commander Edward d. Latch. U. S.
N, retired. died at his home in
Merton. Pa.
orson w. Hayward. 1O1 years, IS
days. Waterbury, Conn.,, Oldest resi-
dent, is dead.
A large part of the business Sec
ton of Dalton, Ca, was swept by fire.
The loss is estimated at $275,0OO.
The Republican ticket was elected
by safe majority in Michigan. but
it is difficult to estimate the ma
jority.
Chicago is to have new trust
combination of the theater ticket
scalpers, who have stations in all the
hotels.
A shortage of $500 has been re-
ported in the wholesale stamped en-
velope department Of the Chicago
postoffice.
AS the result of two recent mine ex-
rlosions, one near Scranton. Pa, and
the other near Birmingham, Ala, 191
men are dead.
By the explosion of kerosene stove
six children and their mother, Mrs.
Luddie Pototil. were fatally burned in
a suburb of Chicago.
The total surplus freight cars in the
country. March 29th was 196,217, de-
crease OF 1870 since March 18th, ac-
cording to the Railway Association.
AS a result of suicide pact, S.
l.. Dania. Spaniard, 81 years old, and
Eva Bovee, his young adopted daugh-
ter, lie at the county hospital in Los
Angeles. in critical condition.
Ellis Wainwright, millionaire St.
>Eouis brewer, who was indicted in
1902 in the Doodle crusade of Governor
Folk and since then has remained in
exile in Paris, has appeared in court
and surrendered at St. Louis.
An Iron Mountain passenger train
was boarded within the city limits of
st. Louis by an armed and masked
robber, who held up the white steward
on the dining car, four negro walters
and a negro chef. The robber did not
get more than $40
Inspector p. d. OBrien announced
he had discovered plot to kill every
leader of the United Association of
Steamfitters and Plumbers in Chicago,
in a war that already had been marked
by several pistol battles and two muir
ders.
One of the most serious mine disas,
ters which has ever visited that sec
tion of the mining country occurred at
the little village of Throop. a short
distance from Scranton, Pa, when be-
tween fifty and sixty men and boys
lost their lives.
The government won its first case
in its fight to drive out of Chicago a
ring of Italian blackmailers known as
members of the Black Hand and said
by the police to be responsible for
nearly fifty dynamite outrages and
many murders.
In driving the last interlocking steel
piles of the last of the twenty caissons
forming the inclosing wall of the huge
cofferdam, surrounding the wreck OF
the battleship Maine, at Havana, the
first stage in the work of removing the
shattered remains of the warship has
been concluded.
Intense feeling against the negroes
of the town was evident among the
whites at Laurel, Del, following the
| recent outbreak, when party of des-
perate blacks shot up the town, kill
ing one man, and wounding several,
and further trouble is feared.
Sixty-six babies from the New York
Founding hospital left in a special car
on their journey to as many childless
homes in the West and the Southwest.
Some will be taken to homes in Kan
sas and the Middle West; the others
will fill cradles now vacant in Arkan-
sas. Oklahoma, Louisiana and Texas.
Six thousand freight handlers in
Chicago and other cities throughout
| the country, as far west as Denver
have prepared demands for a wage
increase of 20 per cent, which will
be presented to w. j. Jackson, presi.
dent Of the General Managers Asso
| citation.
A new high quotation was made on
the gold dollar of the issue of 1863
at the auction sale of old American
coins held in the rooms of the Chica
20 Numismatic Society. The new price
is $3.50, the former record being $35
for that coin.