The Springfield herald., 1911-12-29
GENERAL.

GENEHAl.
Fire. which wrecked two factory
buildings in the Williamsburg district
at Brooklyn, caused loss estimated
at 100000. 4AG asBG
Ten more bodies have !, been re-
moved from Cross Mountain mine at
Briceville. Tenn. bringing the number
Of victims up to SIS. 49,.
A grandmother at twenty-nine.
mother of eight children and sister
in-law of her daughter. is Mrs. VIII
liam Golden of Norris. Ill.
Joseph Reed and Thomas Levan.
miners, were buried alive when thou
sands of tons of coal fell In the Backer
No. colliery, at Shenandoah, Pa.
The government has filed suit in the
United States Circuit Court against
the Keystone Watch Case Company,
declaring 1t an unlawful combination
in violation of the Sherman antitrust
act
While trying to show how he had
lost the forefinger of his right hand,
Francis Lotosky. employe in a Granite
City. ILL.,. foundry. put the forefinger
of his left hand up on whirling saw
and 1t was cut off.
The Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, au-
thor of "In His Steps," has resigned
the pastorate OF the Central Congrega-
tional church of Topeka, which he has
held for twenty-three years. He'will
make tour of the world. .ls-
John Bigelow. the venerable diplo-
mat and author, died at his home in
New York. Mr.. Bigelow died in the
ninety-fifth year of his age. in the old
fashioned house on Gramercy Park
that had long been his residence.
With more than 3OO.O0O.VOo dozen
eggs in storage in New York City,
enough to supply the city for months
to come. the cold storage trust is push
ing the price of eggs beyond anything
ever before known at this season OF
the year.
AS a punishment for carrying
stock swindle by mail. alleged to have
extended over two years and said to
have netted millions in profit, four
promoters OF the firm of Burr Broth.
ers. New York. Incorporated, were
each sentenced to years imprison-
ment on Blackwell's Island.
That the action of the United States
in abrogating the Russian treaty OF
1882 may precipitate d war with that
country was the assertion Of both
United States Senator Hepburn Of Ida.
no and Governor Mann of Virginia In
speeches at dinner Of the New der
sey Society at Philadelphia.
Twelve persons were killed and .
score injured in collision at Odessa,
Mimi, when the second section of the
Columbian Flyer, from the Pacific
coast, bound for st. Paul, on the Chi
cago. Milwaukee & st. Paul road,
crashed into the rear end OF the first
section of that train. +.
Nathaniel Towles, a negro, alleged
to have slashed the throat of Miss Iva
O'Connell, telephone operator at
Lafayette, Ind, was trailed and caught
by the aid of bloodhounds and would
have been the victim of a revolver in
the hands of the girls father at the
police station had not the plunger
snapped on the only empty shell in
the weapon.
Using keyring in place OF the GUS
tomary gold band. emitting the word
"obey" from the service, and with the
justice of the peace who performed the
the ceremony and all the witnesses in
their shirt sleeves, Lorenzo lingo
Jones and Miss Nellie Moore Josethon,
both of Brooklyn, were married at
Union Hill. N. j., by Peter McCosken,
justice of the peace.
Reindeer meat from Alaska soon
may be food common to the Ameri
can table, says William r. Lopp, in
charge of the government reindeer
service there. "In twenty-five years,
at the present rate of increase" he
says, there should be 100000 prime
reindeer in Alaska, on which the peo-
pie of this country can depend for
much of their flesh diet. In taste,
reindeer meat is a cross between NUT
ton and beef, but more palatable than
either"
With the ultimate object of stan
dardizing all hash served in public
places in Kansas the State Board of
Health has instituted an investigation
as to the ingredients commonly used
by restaurants and hotels in the con-
coction of the dish. r.--
A Kansas man has bet $4,000 that
rain will fall in Thomas county, Kan
sas, between March LIST and May LIST
of next year. II the rain comes
Jim" Fiske will clean up $4,000 next
summer, go to Europe, wear patent
leather shoes and silk hat, and kill
it" generally.
The full bench of the United States
Circuit Court has overruled the de-
murrers interposed by the Hamburg
American Steamship Company and
other transatlantic lines forming the
Atlantic conference" against the gov
ernment's suit for their dissolution.
The governments contention is that
the conference" is, by reason Of an al
lged pooling agreement on passenger
rates, trust in restrain OF trade, and
injunction is asked to restrain the
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