The Springfield herald., 1911-09-01
GEN ERAL.

GENERAL.
The national convention of Loyal
Order of Moose appropriated $4,000
for the organization of Moose indus
trial school.
Fifty-one societies were represented
with about 200 delegate at the con-
vention of Associated Fraternities at
Niagara Falls.
General business of the country Is
In good condition, as reflected by the
official report of the American Rail-
way Association.
Judge William Jeff Pollard of st.
Louis, President Taft's special repre-
sentative to the international congress
against alcoholism at The Hague. says
the consumption of alcohol is on the
decrease.
When the National Synod Of the
Reform Presbyterian church meets in
st. Louis in September 1t is probable
that its constitution will be revised in
order that Its members may vote upon
the liquor question.
William Lee, aged twenty-five has
confessed that he murdered his father.
Richard Lee; his mother and younger
brother, Clarence, and then set fire to
the family home at Boonville. Ind. In
the hope of concealing the crime.
The revival of the country life COM
mission is possibility OF the Nation
al Conservation Congress in Kansas
City, Sept. 1921, according to present
plans of some of the men most active
ly engaged in conservation work.
AS result of a quarrel in which r.
G. Whidden. deacon of country
church near Ashburn, Ca, vowed the
Rev. Duncan Massey should never
preach in the church again, Whidden
shot and killed ]. NJ. Lawson, another
ieacon.
Christopher Columbus Wilson. Fran
els X. Butler and William w. Thomp
kins are in Jail in New York. where
they will serve sentences for misus-
ing the mails in defrauding investors
in stock of the United Wireless Com
pany.
In a senseless panic In moving pic
ture show in the opera house at Can
nonsburg, Pa, twenty-six persons were
suffocated or trampled to death, twen-
ty-five were seriously injured and
thirty were less severely hurt. accord
ing to revised figures.
Twenty-Five persons are known to
have lost their lives and between fifty
and sixty have been injured, many of
them seriously, in the wreck OF Lehigh
Valley train No. on trestle near
Manchester, N. Y. The train carried
many veterans returning from the
Grand Army encampment at Roches-
ter, two of whom were killed.
A long conference between Vice Pres
ident julius Kruttschnitt OF the Union
and Southern Pacific railroads, and j.
w. Kline. International president OF
the Blacksmiths' union, was held in
Chicago without any step being taken
toward a settlement of differences in
volving $4,000 shopmen employed by
the Hartman lines.
Charles G. Gates, who with his moth
er, will inherit the large estate of his
father, John w. Gates, has announced
that all the plans mapped out by his
father would be carried out by his
mother and himself. Mr.. Gates said he
would make his home in Texas, al
though he will maintain offices In New
York and continue his business con-
nections in this city.
Weakened by continuous question
ing for almost thirty hours. William
Lee of Boonville, Ind, made written
statement in which he said he had
killed his father, Richard Lee. in self
defense after the father had murdered
his wife and younger son. Clarence.
A race of people who never before
beheld white man has been discov-
cred in the Arctic regions Of British
Columbia by Whitman Stefansson. lead
er of the American museums scien-
tific expedition, which left New York
in April, 1908, according to letter re-
ceived from him.
The new comet recently discovered
by DR.. w. r. Brooks, director OF OBJ
servatory and professor of astronomy.
Hobart college, and named by him the
Brooks comet, has become so bright as
to be seen with opera glasses or small
telescope, and will soon be visible to
the naked EYE.
An alcohol lamp on the platform in
the Congregational church in Eastford
Village, Conn, where the annual fair
of the Ladies' Aid Society was In
progress, became so ashamed of being
full Of alcohol in such company tina.
lit blew up.