The Springfield herald., 1911-02-24
GENERAL.

Joseph D. Rockefeller. cousin of
John ID. Rockefeller, died at his home
Iii South Bend. Ind. at the age OF 90.
The Tennessee Packing & Provision
Company. a $2.OOO.OOO corporation of
Nashville, has been thrown into bank
ruptcy.
w. S. O'Brien. forty-two years old,
enc of the best known trainers of trot-
ting horses in the United States, died
at Waukegan, Ill.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Hyman 9erkowitz and
tIeir five children were killed by IL
dominating gas in their home in the
| Ghetto in Philadelphia.
Fire destroyed the Calumet ele-
vator, six-story structure, in Chica-
go. containing 100000 bushels of
grain, causing loss of 100000.
The condition of Miss Clara Bar
ton, founder of the Red Cross, who
has been ill with bronchitis at her
Rome in Glen Echo, Md. suburb OF
Washington. is greatly improved.
| Pressed by the Rockefeller and
Kuhn-Loeb interests George j. Gould is
shortly to relinquish the presidency of
the Missouri Pacific Railway Compa-
ny, a POSITION in which his father
placed him eighteen years ago.
Shortly after midnight Frank Cof-
! fyn broke the worlds record for alu-
tude in a Wright biplane in Augusta,
Ga. He rose 500 feet. The previous
night record was held by the late
. r;tl
To provide pure milk for New York
children the Sinking Fund Commits
sion has authorized the leasing of
twelve sites for depots. The work of
distributing the milk supply is to be
under the jurisdiction of the Board of
Health.
Thomao ]. Ham, one of the Oldest
newspaper men in Pennsylvania and
probably the last survivor of the din
rer given to Charles Dickens in New
York in 1852, by newspaper editors
and publishers, died at Lakewood,
New Jersey, following stroke of par
alysis. He was seventy-five years old
Milton ]. Durham. former comptrol-
Ter of the treasury and former con-
sressman from the Eighth district of
Kentucky. died in Lexington of pneu.
monia. Judge Durham was eighty
seven years old. He was a leading
Cdd Fellow. having once served as
grandsire of the order in the United
States.
Washington.-Re Benne.
of New York, one of the Republicans
who voted against Canadian reciproc.
ity, has introduced in the House a res
olution requesting the President to en-.
ter into negotiations with the British
government looking to the annexation
of Canada by the United States. The
resolution was referred to the commit.
tee on foreign affairs.
The high cost of living received a
setback when eggs in the Kansas City
market declined two cents a dozen
and hog prices went twenty cents a
rundred pounds lower. Eggs were
fourteen to sixteen cents wholesale,
which is sixteen cents lower than at
the beginning of the year. Hogs are
selling SIPS lower than last year; cat
lie fifty cents to one dollar lower, and
sheep 81 lower.
In fulfillment of a compact made
with her husband during his lingering
Illness. which death ended, Mrs. Lyn-
wood S. Keene of Oxford, Me-. took
her own life after having fatally shot
her fourteen-year-o son Gerald.
| Philadelphia.-The funeral of the
Right Rev. OH Whitaker, Bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Pennsylvania, was held from the
Church of Our Saviour, interment TAX
ing place in the graveyard of the
Church of st. James the Less, Falls
| Of Schuylkill, this city.
Conquest by seldge of unknown
polar seas in search of new lands is
planned by Rudolph Francke, who is
in New York preparing for a new ex-
redition to the frozen North. He pro-
poses to lead party of several sci
entsts and Eskimos.
Charles F. Morek, professional,
though comparatively inexperienced,
aviator, was forced to dive into the
Hudson river with an aeroplane while
trying to fly from a point near the
New Jersey palisades to Central park
en- Manhattan island. He narrowly
escaped with his life.