The Springfield herald., 1911-12-22
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Carolina have ginned thus far this
year more cotton that even before.
The bank and postoffice at Fancy
Prairie. forty miles southwest of
Bloomington, ILL.,, were blown by four
bandits.
The Atlantic Coast Line train from
Savannah, Ca, to New York, was
stopped by robbers near Vaudeville,
S. C. Several sacks of registered mail
were taken.
The mills at Lamanville. R. l., and
those at Manton, Greenville and Pas
coag, employing in all nearly thou
sand hands, are all running on an ex-
ira time schedule.
Major General Leonard Wood, chief
of staff of the army, favors the restor-
alton of the canteen to army posts. He
declares in his annual report that the
concensus of opinion in the army is
that the canteen should be re-estab-
| lished.
An exquisite necklace of pearls Of an
estimated value of 100000 is the
Christmas gift of Frank j. Gould to
his young wife in New York. The
rope of pearls is arranged in two per-
fectly graduated strands and third
may soon be added. 1t is said.
1t is reported that Miss Katherine
Force, elder daughter OF William II.
Force, and sister of Mrs. John Jacob
Aston, is to be married soon after
January 10, in New York, to Henry
Harnickall. young broker. Miss
Katherine. whose beauty is Of the
same classic type as her sisters. has
not followed Mrs. Astor's example in
the choice of a husband.
The second trial of DR.. B. Clarke
Hyde on charge of numbering Col.
Thomas H. Swope. ended In mistrial.
Harry w. Waldron, the Hyde juror
who escaped from the custory of a
| deputy marshal, returned home and
was found insane by Judge Porter
| field, and all of the jury was dis
charged. Waldron was not punished
and was permitted to do home.
As direct lead into the heart of
the alleged dynamite conspiracy. Dis
trict Attorney Charles w. Miller, while
nearing in the case in Indianapolis,
took up the question as to who fur
nished the money for purchasing and
paying the expense of carrying about
the country the explosives by which
more than 100 structures were blown
up.
Fifteen experimental farms of forty
| ,x-iI ha IN ha
spring under the charge of instructors
of the agricultural colleges of Louis
lana and Mississippi. where the farms
will be selected. The Illinois Central
railroad will pay for their mainte-
nance. The land will be worked by
the owners from which 1t is leased.
but under the direction of the schools.
Each farm will be open to inspection
of farmers living near by.
With little trace of friction. the Re-
publican national committee met with
| open doors in Washinton and formu-
lated preliminary plans for the cam
paign of 1912. The program agreed
| upon was carried out eXpeditiously in
two short sessions. Chicago was chos-
the call was issued for the assembling
of delegates on Tuesday, June 18th.
| The vote on convention city resulted.
Chicago, 40; Denver. Z; st. Louis, /.
Charges that vote buying and sell
ing is done in the open market" in
Fayette county. Pennsylvania; that
notorious trafficking there rivals the
sensational disclosures made in Ad.
ans county, Ohio; and that the United
States Steel Corporation, through its
subsidiary companies, is a party to the
bribery and intimidation of voters
were made in Washington by Jesse H.
Wise of Waynesburg. Pa, defeated
candidate for Congress-, before the
House Committee on Elections.
| Fifty-nine are known to be dead.
victims of the Cross Mountain mine
explosion, Briceville, Tenn. Forty
| nine bodies have been taken out of the
mine and ten other dead bodies To-
| Gated. Two of the number found mad
been dead less than twenty-four hours.
George Bonnet, whose sixty-five
years made him the Oldest downstown
Chicago, recently. He lived the life
of miser in a cheap lodging house.
Public Administrator John A. Devine
values his estate at $4,000. He can
not find an heir.
Four women and a man were bound.
gagged and excepting one woman,
robbed in Chicago in one day re-
Gently. by what the police believe to
be the same band of robbers.
Every transatlantic liner that sails
through The Narrows. to or from New
York these days, is treasure ship.
Four vessels within the last four days
have carried abroad s4,000,000, New.
York's annual Christmas present to the
old world. That city will have sent
| s10,O0o,000 abroad when the last gift
aden liner leaves her pier within the
i next few days.