The Springfield herald., 1911-11-10
GEN ERAt.

"a
Michigan and Wisconsin with heavy
snow and a cold wave.
Forest fires are now raging in the
timber lands near Ely on the Vermil-
lion range north Of Duluth, MINI.
Mayor Gaynor of New York has
been presented with box Of fine Col
orado apples from Canon City district.
For the first time since 1888 the
Postoffice Department during the fis.
cal year ended June 80, 1911, was con-
Quoted at profit.
The naval aeroplane, Triad. manned
by Lieuts. Ellyson and Towers, COM
pleted a seventy-mile flight from Point
No Point to Annapolis, Md. in eighty
minutes.
Chicago business men have formed
a committee to appeal to the Republi-
can and Democratic parties to bring
their national conventions to that city
next year.
Mrs. Louise yermilya, who was ar
rested in Chicago on a charge Of hav-
ing murdered policeman by poison
ing him, made a daring attempt to
commit suicide by taking mineral
poison.
The first American Road Congress
of the American Association for High
way Improvement and affiliated or
ganizations meets In Richmond Novem-
Der 29-3O. Many Western states will
be represented.
While the retailers have failed to
cut their prices, wholesale butchers in
New York declare that mutton and
lamb is being sold to the small dealer
cheaper than in many years. For some
cuts it is cheaper than 1t was twenty
years ago.
The possibility of corner In the
cranberry market that bids faif to
eliminate cranberry sauce as a feature
of Thanksgiving day has been estab-
lished in Chicago. Cranberries have
reached $1O50 barrel, an increase
of nearly IS from last year.
Baby carriages upon the streets of
Minnesota towns and villages will be
required to have white lights in front
and red one behind to warn traffic"
Women who go out with their peram-
bulators after dark will have to pro-
vide some form of lighting system.
The cyclone season being now safe.
ly over, careful and conservative esti-
mates of the Cuba sugar crop indicate
that it will reach between 100000
and 100000 tons. The latter figure,
it is said, is likely to be reached
should warm weather. which is favor
able to the growth of the cane, con-
tinues throughout November.
A new campaign against tipping in
hotels, restaurants and other places by
the travelling public was launched
when P. e. Dove. president of the
Commercial Travellers ationai
League, issued an ultimatum to own
ers and managers of hotels that the
members of the league would with
draw their support unless the tipping
system is abolished.
Nearly a third of a billion dollars
was added to the wealth of the United
States from the mineral production of
the Western states during 1910, ac-
cording to the figures of the United
States Geological Survey. This in
cludes about $6G,OO0.000 worth of coal.
the remaining production, principally
metals having a value of practically
quarter of billion dollars.
President Tafts second swing
tn
Pittsburg, Pa. in the most enthusias-
tic and by far the noisiest dcmonstra-
ton he has experienced in the 10000
miles he has Travelled. Pittsburg cell
ebrated the centennial of steam naviga-
ton on western rivers and Mr.. Taft
was the star attraction.
The United States Steel corpora
tion's first step in the legal battle with
the government for its existence will
be taken on Monday, December 4, in
Washington, ID. c.
Colorado's display. particularly the
potatoes, sugar beets and grains, at
tracted great attention at the opening
session of New York's great land show.
declared by many to be the best ever
held in the country. Thousands tbrong
the Madison Square Garden.
Proprietors of the Triangle Waist
Company in New York. in whose place
on the eighth, ninth and tenth floors
of the Asch buildin. 143 girls and men
were burned to death, March rs last.
will have to go to trial soon under in
dictments of manslaughter in the first
degree.