The Springfield herald., 1911-06-02
GEN ERAL.

Miss Sarah NJ. Scheidley. whose
holdings in Kansas City realty were
valued at $2.0OO.000. is dead.
Backed by prominent Boston men, a
hospital is to be established In Boston
which will be exclusively for the rich.
Thomas F. Ryan, the traction mag
nate. is seriously i'll at his home in
New York. according to the reports
sent out by his physician.
The cut in price of steel bars an
nounced by the Republican Iron &
Steel Company will be met by the
Carnegie Steel Company.
Paul Revere's old homestead at
Sharon. Mass, and powder mill,
built in Revolutionary days, were de-
stroyed by fire recently.
Dreamland, one of the show places
of Coney Island. n. Y. was practical
| ly wiped out by fire. Four lives were
lost and property loss is s2.OOO.0OO
A bill providing that no woman shall
be permitted to work more than nine
hours in any day or more than fifty
hours In any week in Missouri will
take effect June goth.
The Rev. DR.. William D. Grant of
Northumberland, Pa. of the Presby-
terian church. has been found guilty of
heresy by the commission which
heard the charges against him, at At.
iantic City. N. ].
Miss Eva Endurance H;ldler, of ST.
Lor:s. was graduated with a class OF
thirty-five men in mining from the
Missouri School of Mines and Metal
iurgy. She is believed to be the on
ly woman who has ever received di-
ploma as mining engineer in the
United States.
The National Steamship line steam
er Taboga struck rock off Punta
Mala and sank short time afterward.
OF the 100 passengers on board only
forty are known to have been saved.
The scene Of the accident is about 1dO
miles from Panama, the nearest tele-
| graph station.
Five years of agitation and effort to
restore navigation to the Missouri riv-
er will come to fruition soon, when the
first boat of the Kansas City Missouri
River Navigation Company will start
from st. Louis to Kansas City loaded
with a miscellaneous cargo of mer.
chandise. Within a month two other
boats will be in regular service.
1t has been decided by the general
board of appraisers in New York that
Chinese sausage is not bologna. Bo-
logna gets in free, and the importers
had claimed that the Chinese sausage
H. 10.
ian product and should be similarly
classified. The sausage will hereafter
pay tax.
The General Assembly of the South
ern Presbyterian church has with
drawn from the federal council of
the Church of Christ. While no Off
cial reason was given, it was stated
the reason was because the council
was regarded as semi-political in
character.
Nine girls and women OF Westmore-
land City, Pa, said to be wives and
daughters of striking miners. are pris-
oners in the county Jail at Green's
burg, serving twenty-day sentences on
charges of having disturbed the peace
The newest London styles for men
have made their appearance In Chi
cago and are screamingly ridiculous.
The coats look like dInky shawl,
hung over the shoulders, fastened
with one button and flaring out on all
sides.
Fifty-three babies under / year old,
most of them only few weeks old,
died during the four days of extreme
heat. from May 10th to May 10Th In.
elusive, in Chicago. The mortuary
records showed that the babies died
almost as rapidly as they came into
the world.