The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1911-12-01
GEN ERAl.

GENERAL.
Range cattle are selling on the Chi
cago market for $3.50 per hundred.
The American Federation of Labor
will make no direct appropriation for
the defense of the McNamaras.
Henry Clay Beattie. charged with
the murder Of his young wife, was put
10 death at Richmond, Va. in the cleo
trio chair.
Lafayette Choate of Liberty. Mo-.
pleaded guilty to charge of harness
ing his wife with a mule and com
pelling her to help harrow q field.
Three murderers were put to death
by electricity in Sing Sing prison at
dawn. November 20. The executions
began at 5:2S o'clock and lasted only
twenty-three minutes.
With 9,s6s,172 bales of cotton of
the growth OF 1911 glnned prior to
November 1, as announced by the Cen
sus Bureau. the promised record-break-
ing cotton crop of this season Is fast
being made ready for the manufac-
turers.
The New York State Athletic Com
in the theaters is Illegal. The ruling
is in line with the provisions of the
boxing law that bouts may be held
only in rings of chartered athletic
clubs.
William Walker. aged twenty-threc,
Is under arrest at Fort Wayne, Ind
on a charge of numbering his wife
Sept. 23 and burying her body In his
back yard. Walker made complete
confession, telling the police exactly
where they will find the body.
With but one dissenting vote the
American Bankers Association in New
Orleans gave its unqualified approval
to the proposed Aldrich plan for the
reform of the currency. Congress was
urged to deal with the proposition as
an economic question outside the do
main Of party politics.
C. w. Morse, the New York banker,
now in the Atlanta penitentiary, will,
IL there is no legal objection. be re-
moved from that Institution within
few days to point near Atlanta and
placed under observation by physi-
clans to determine whether or not his
physical condition is such that he
should be granted a pardon by Presi-
dent Taft.
An independent sugar refinery
which it is declared will be relent-
less and formidable rival of the So
called sugar trust. has been organized
in Philadelphia by George H. Earle.
Jr., the wizard of finance" who has
effected it by building from the ashes
of suicide and bankruptcy corpora
tion to be capitalized at $4.OOO.OOo
with plant to cost the same amount.
New York bankers who have been
comforting for several days with rep
resentatiyes of the governors confer
ence and the Southern Cotton Con
gress, announced that they had raised
fund of $50,000,000 to be placed i'm
mediately In the cotton belt states for
the purpose of handling the cotton
crop of 1911 and enabling growers
to participate in any rise in the mar
ket.
Two victims were claimed on the
Savannah, Ca, automobile race
course, over which the grand prize
and Wander bilt cup races will be run
The first accident was general pile
UP. Joe Dawson was badly hurt. j.
| d. McNay was killed in the second
accident. His car turned over and he
was pinned underneath. Maxwell.
| McNay's mechanician, was seriously
hurt.
John F. Dryden, founder of the Pru-
iential Insurance Company of America
and at its head practically all of his
| life, member of the United States
Senate and multi-millionaire, died at
his home in Newark. N. j. Death was
due to pneumonia, which developed
after an operation which he under
went week ago for gallstones. Dry
den was seventy-two years old. He
| was a native of Pennington, Me.
Support of the Catholic church for
The arbitration treaties for which Pres,
ident Taft is working. was assured
when an intervie wgi"eh by Cardinal
Gibbons was made public in Washing
ton.
Eighteen men were killed in coal
dust explosion which occurred in the
Bottom Creek mine of the Bot
tom Creek Coal & Coke Company
at Vivian, W. Va. Over $50 men were
in the mine at the time OF the explo-
sion, but all escaped except eighteen
of the twenty-five who were in the ex-
plosion zone.
Aninvoluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed against the Nevada-Utah
Mines and Smelters Company, which
has capital of s15,000.00O and Its
principal officers in New York, by the
Merchants bank of Salt Lake City,
which has a claim for $125,000.
A masked white man robbed the
mail car of an express train between
Registers and Columbia. S. c.. took the
registered letters, stopped the train
and jumped off. The value Of the reg
istered mail stolen is not known, but
tho Iatterc are said to contain several