The Springfield herald., 1911-10-27
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GENERAL.
| Philip Andrews will become head OF
the all.powerful bureau OF navigation
in the Navy Department on January
1st.
The bull movement in coffee in
New York received a sudden check
points lower.
Benjamin F. Bush is to become
president of the Denver & Rio Grande
and Western Pacific as well as OF the
Missouri Pacific.
| The Southern Presbyterian Foreign
Missions committee at Nashville,
Tenn. has received cablegram from
S. l. Woodbridge at Shanghai, China,
saying all missionaries there are safe.
In the arrest of Richard Alternately.
a manufacturer at Spartanburg, S. c.,
on charge of having murdered Will
liam A. Abbott in 1879, George A. Abb
bot, a painter, believes his quest OF
thirty-two years for the slayer OF his
brother is ended. 1t has been George
Abbott's one life purpose to avenge
his brothers death.
That a spirited, If not unfriendly,
contest for the removal OF the national
headquarters from New York to Chi
cago, will be entered Into. by the dele
gates to the forty-third annual conven.
ton of the National American Wo1A-
an Suffrage Association, now in ses-
sion in Louisville, KY, has been indl.
Gated.
The plan of the Harvard gold
coasters" known as the wealthiest
students in college. to carry away the
honor of electing one of their MEM
bers president of the junior class was
| foiled, when Horace jeremiah Smith
of 1850 Lafayette street, Denver. rep
resenting the yard" or studious ele
ment, defeated S. NJ. FELTON,, ILL.,, ana
A. M. Goodale. both prominent ath-
letes and residents of the gilded thor.
oughfare. for class president.
The Wright brothers, Orville and
Wilbur, inventors of the aeroplane.
have perfected discovery expected
to add vastly to the safety of avia-
ton. Orville Wright has decided to
give the announcement of his inven-
ton to the world and to put the de-
vice into practical use for the first
time. In brief Mr.. Wright's statement
was that he had perfected device
for the automatic controlling Of glid-
ere and power-driver aeroplanes. to
keep such machines at proper balance
in the air. 1t is expected to relieve
him of the work of balancing it in the
air. enormously increasing the safety
of the aviator and of the machine.
Former Senator Aldrich. of Rhode
Island, submitted to the National
Monetary Commission at Washington.
of which he is chairman. a revision
of his plan for monetary legislation.
The commission may use it as the
basis of its recommendations to Con-
gress. The basic principles of the re-
| vsed plan are substantially the same
as those embodied in MIR. Aldrich's
first proposal, sent to the commits
sion last January. which he said he
expected would serve as a basis for
national discussion. Briefly. the plan
still provides for the organization of
the national reserve association with
capital of approximately $300,000,000
in which the United States govern
ment and the banks owning shares
| in the association shall be the only
| depos!tors.
Caught by a safety strap that had
been used to hold him in his high
chair, one-year-old Alec Tobias, in
New York, was strangled to death
while his brother and sister, both ba-
bies, looked on, neither able to give
him any aid.
The judiciary of the United States
must be brought within the control
and made answerable to the well
thought out judgment of the people. is
/ the opinion of Theodore Roosevelt,
who spoke on THE Conservation of
Womanhood and Childhood" before
the Civic Forum in New York.
Eugene Ely. aviator. met death at
the state fair grounds at Macon, Ca.
when his machine failed to rise from
sensational dip and plunged with
him fifty feet to the ground. He fell
in the field of the race track. after
almost clearing the machine by des
perate leap when he realized his peril
| Bones were broken in a score OF
,.aces. Ely died a few minutes later.
regaining consciousness Just before
the end long enough to mutter: IL
lost control-I know am going to
die"