The Springfield herald., 1911-10-20
GEN ERAI.

in Wisconsin wiped out the business
section of the town of Black River
Falls.
Hearings in the Lorimer investiga-
tion before the United States Senate
committee, have been resumed in Chi
cago.
Supreme Justice Harlan has been i'll
for several days, when he contracted
severe cold. His condition is
serious.
John r. Walsh. ex-banker and
former head of railroad enterprises.
has been paroled from the federal
prison at Leavenworth.
Willis Jackson. negro, under arrest
for an attack on a little girl. was
hanged to telegraph pole by mob
at Greenwich. S. C.
A discrepancy of over $3,2SS,271 be-
tween the material on hand and thae
called for by the books of the Wash
ington navy yard was shown by the
inventory just completed.
Bertha Westbrook of New York
wants $4,000 damages because DIR.
Albert Plant "blundered" when he
mended her face. causing one eye to
be larger than the other, SO she can't
be good actress.
Wilmington, Del.-Mrs. Mary Eliza
beth Graham. aged 20 years, who. al
though well-to-do, lived alone at Ken
ton, Del, was found caught in fold
ing bed in her home. She had been
prisoner four days and nights and
was in dying condition.
That the railways of the country
take over the express companies
business was virtually recommended
to the annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Railway Com
missioners in session in Washington
by the committee on express service.
The practice at almost all Roman
Catholic churches OF asking contri-
button at the door or of charging fee
for a seat in church, is ordered discon-
tinued in circular letter addressed
to all archbishops and bishops of the
church in the United States that has
been sent out by Monsignor d. Fal-
COMO. apostolic delegate at Washing
ton.
By the sweeping decree entered In
the United States Circuit Court at
Toledo, the backbone of the so-called
Electrical Trust was broken and, in
the judgment of Attorney General
Wickersham, the government was
equipped with precedents of genuine
value in its prosecutions of CONNER
cial combinations forbidden by the
Sherman law.
Exceeding the worlds record for a
cross-country aeroplane flight by 1873
miles and speeding through the air at
times at the rate of seventy miles an
hour. C. p Rodgers landed in Mar
shall, Mo-, on his air voyage from New
York to San Francisco. The former
record, 1865 miles, was made by Har-
ry Atwood in recent flight from st.
Louis to New York. Rodgers had
flown 1898 miles according to rail
road mileage.
In the cathedral in Baltimore, where
fifty years ago he was ordained a
priest, then successfully consecrated
bishop, invested with the pall.um of
an archbishop and twenty years after
his ordination received the red beretta
of cardinal, Cardinal James Gibbons,
archbishop OF Baltimore, received
homage from illustrous prelates and
laymen from both this country and
foreign lands. The ecclesiastical cele-
bration of the cardinals dual jubilee
began with pontifical high mass, cele-
brated by the cardinal. Archbishop
John j. Glennon of st. Louis delivered
the sermon.
Disastrous weather conditions
which prevailed throughout the coun-
try earlier in the growing season
abated in September and the condi
ton of most of the important unhar-
vested crops on October list showed
improvement. Corn was one-tenth of
one per cent. higher than it was on
September list; potatoes improved 81
per cent; tobacco. "a per cent; flax,
IL per cent. apples, SO per cent;
rice declined Is per cent. The effect
of hot weather and drought through
out the growing season was shown iE
the official preliminary estimates Of
the production of spring wheat, oats
and barley. These showed loss in
production over last years harvest OF
al aggregate of sol 100000 bushels.
The criminal cases against more
than score of firms and individuals
alleged to be in the ''bathtub" trust
probably will come up at the No
vember term of the Federal Court in
Detroit. All the defendants have
pleaded not guilty
In the United States Circuit Court
in Baltimore. Judge Rose rendered
decision in favor of the government
in its dissolution suit against the
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
Company and others of the so-called
''bathtub trust Judge Pritchard con-
Cured with Judge Rose.