The Springfield herald., 1911-07-07
GEN ERAI.

When the roof of the Buffalo water
works new station collapsed seven
men were killed and seven injured.
Federal Judge Newman denied the
application of Charles w. Morse for
release from the federal prison, at At
lanta, Ga.
The Connecticut House of Represen-
tatives has passed a bill to pay Civil
War veterans state pension of $50
a year.
Forty-nine automobiles. valued at
more than $125.OOO, have been stolen
in Chicago since June 1, according to
the police records.
In a race war between Americans
and Italians at Elkins. w. Va, four
Italians were fatally wounded and sew
eral other men seriously injured.
In an attempt to kill his son and
daughter, Granville Johns. fifty years
old of Redwood, w. Va, shot and
killed R. T. Ulet, twenty-five years old,
boarder at his home, and then COM
mitted suicide when hard pressed by
mob.
lanes Conroy, who was struck by
| lightning while working 1,5O0 feet un'
der ground in the Courtdale tunnel
of the Kingston Coal Company. near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, is in such precari-
GUS condition that his recovery is not
expected.
Twelve masked men held up and
robbed fast passenger on the Phila-
delphia G. Erie railroad. near Erie, Pa,
and escaped. The mail and express
cars were rifled and three Of the train
crew were shot. How much money OBJ
tanned was not learned.
Recently the state of Idaho made ar
arrangements to extensively advertise
that state, and one of the schemes was
to send good takers about over the
country talking for the state on the
street corners with groups of men or
individuals, as the case may be, in a
sort of heart to heart way.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has issued an order to the at
torney general directing him to in
struct the lower courts to carry out
the Supreme Courts decision provid-
ing for the dissolution Of the Ameri-
days allowed the company to ask for
rehearing has expired.
The Missouri Pacific railway and
the Cumberland Gap Despatch, operat-
ing via the Old Dominion steamship
and Norfolk G. Western lines, have en-.
tered into a traffic alliance for the
operation of daily through merchan-
disc cars from Norfolk, Va, to Denver,
Pueblo and Salt Lake, handling busi-
ness originating at New York, Phila-
delphia and other seaboard territory.
At Plymouth, Pa, three hundred
graves were torn apart and carried
down several feet at two cemeteries
by the mine workings beneath them
settling. 1t is feared that the cave-in
will include large number of 9th n
graves.
Nine indictments charging restraint
of trade in violation of the Sherman
antitrust law were returned by fed
eral grand jury in New York against
as many associations and long list
of individuals comprising the so-called
wire tSust" affiliated with the steel
industry.
One of the human flies whose agility
and lack of nerves makes skyscrapers
possible, lost his balance and toppled
from the twentieth story of the Heisen
building. in Chicago. a combination
of fortunate circumstances prevented
his injury and he is again on the beam
from which he fell.
Rising fifty feet, circling the avia-
tion field twice and landing. Miss
Harriet Quimby and Miss Blanche
Scott made flights in monoplane at
Garden City, L. l. They are the first
women aviators in this country to fl.
a monoplane.