The Springfield herald., 1911-09-15
GEN ERAl.

GENERAL.
| c. f. Griffin, mayor OF Jackson,
Tenn. stands indicted in Criminal
lCourt for the offense of public oru TX
enness.
A fee of one thousand dollars 10
marry John Jacob Astor and Miss
Force was refused by Edward C. John
son, DID.
Henry Clay Beattie, who has been
on trial at Chesterfield Courthouse,
Va, for some time, on a charge Of
numbering his wife, was found guilty
Of murder in the first degree and his
punishment assessed at death.
With total of twenty-five persons
killed within a week in New York
and vicinity by eating toadstools, the
Board of Health has posted warning
notices. Thirty-three persons are still
critically ILL.,
Col. John Jacob Astor and Madeline
Halmage Force. both of New York.
were married at Beechwood. r. l.. the
bridegroom's Newport house. The
bride was given away by her father.
William Force.
Mayor Thomas E. Knots. five of the
nine members of the City Council.
City Engineer w. A. Williston and a
son of one of the aldermen of Gary,
Ind, have been arrested on charges
OF accepting and soliciting bribes in
heating franchise deal.
Arraigned in Probate Court in Lis
bon, Ohio. on a charge OF hitching his
wife to a plow and beating her be-
cause she failed to pull it. Jacob Zim-
| norman, of Wellsville, pleaded guilty
and sought the mercy of the court.
He was given ninety days in the work
| house.
The millionaire iron manufacturer,
R. T. Crane. of Chicago, made public
arraignment of the big universities.
He charges alarming prevalence of
drinking and gaming among the stu
dents. Columbia he ranks the worst,
but conditions at Harvard, Princeton
and Cornell, he declares. are almost
as bad.
The crop report issued by the De-
partment of Agriculture does not in.
dicate generally much improvement in
the condition of the crops over that
of month ago. Some improvement
was shown in corn September lst.
over August LIST, but il only amounted
to seven-tenths OF ! per cent in the
aggregate.
One thousand acres of land in Ohio,
including the entire site of Whining.
ton, town of 5000 people. is claimed
by Mrs. Margaret Ray of Moscow,
Idaho. as her property. Mrs. Ray has
now placed her claim in the hands of
a Spokane attorney, who is investigat-
ing the case with the intention OF
bringing suit in the Ohio courts for
the property.
Charles II. jerks, an agent at Co
lumbia, Pa, of the Baltimore Life In
surance Company, is held in $1,000
bail by United States commissioner
on charge of using the mails to de-
fraud. Postal inspectors say jerks
had been Systematically defrauding
the company for three years. 1t is al
legged he collected more than $4,000
in death benefits on policies of per-
sons who are still alive.
The United States is facing the
most serious sugar famine in years.
The refiners have practically no stock
on hand; there has been almost no
trading in anything except seconds on
the New York market for weeks: the
refners find 1t impossible to obtain
any more of the big European surplus,
and the fall crop for the United States
threatens to show a serious dimnu-
tion, a. compared with previous years.
A remarkable speed of u minutes
80 l-5 seconds for 33 miles, over wa
ter. carving passenger, was made
in an aeroplane by Claude Graham
White at Bosom urdname-W White sue.
ceeded in winning the Boston Ligh.
race.
In a new Wright biplane especial
ly built for experiments as to the
practicability of using aeroplanes in
conjunction with warships, Lieut..
John Rodgers of the navy flew from
Annapolis to Washington and back
as far as College park after landing
near the White House.
ne raw sugar market is strong ana
excited and prices have scored an ad,
vance of twenty points, one of the
largest individual advances made in
years, and at the same time new rec
ords were established both at New
York and abroad.
An investigation into alleged unrea-
sonable rates or shipments OF wool
and hides from western points to
eastern markets has been begun in
Chicago by United States Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Prouty. Prou
ty will hold similar sessions at Den
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