The Springfield herald., 1911-09-08
GEN ERAL.

Following plan for retrenchment.
railroads OF the country in the last
year have laid off 81, $40 men.
The last of the Forty-niners will say
farewell next month. Because of the
old age of it's members. the organiza-
ton will disband.
Latest reports from the Charleston.
S. c.. hurricane place the number OF
dead at fifteen and the property dam
age at two millions.
Elmhurt, Wis, was almost wiped out
by fire which destroyed a sawmill.
100000 worth of timber. six stores
and fourteen residences.
Capt. H. E. Honeywell made a flight
in Kansas City with four women pas
sengers in balloon. travelling dis
tance of sixteen miles.
Three men were killed and twenty
five received minor injuries in a pool
rom fight at Montana. Ark, coal
camp near Clarksville.
Efforts to sell few hundred bales
of August cotton in the market in
New York sent the price down to
1920. or rs points lower.
Creations modelled after thoughts
suggested by Chicago's aviation meet
will be the basis for designs foi wo-
mems headwear this winter.
A half hour each day for two weeks
in the beer cooler of St. Louis brew
cry has cured Warren ID. Feurst, "a re-
tired financer. of hay fever.
President Taft in his address before
the American Bar Association in Bos-
ton, declared emphatically that there
is room for improvement in procedure
in the federal courts.
For the first time in thirty-five
years the people of Mississippi wit
messed public hanging and it was
one of the biggest days in the history
of Louisville. where the execution
took place.
Following a quarrel over business
transaction, Pleas Southern, a young
farmer living at Stony Fork, KY, near
Middlesboro, fired six shots into the
body of his father. Dave Southern.
killing him instantly
Shortly before John w. Gates died
in Paris he made codicil to his will,
in which he left $1,OOOOOO in cash to
his son, Charles G. Gates, together
with trust fund of s2,000,00O. Mrs.
Gates gets ss7,OOO,OOO.
The money which Col John Jacob
Astor settled upon his fiance, Miss
Madeline Force. in a marriage agree
ment signed at Newport recently, was
So, 900 900 instead of s2,000.000. the
sum at which Newport society had
placed it.
Twenty-four states will be visited by
President Taft on the swing around
the circuit according TO his partly
completed schedule He will start Sep
tember 15 and will pass through these
states: Massachusetts, New York
Pennsylvania, Ohio. Michigan, Illinois,
Indiana, Missouri, Iowa. Kansas, Ne
braska, Colorado. Wyoming, Utah, Ne
vada, California. Oregon. Washington,
Idaho, Montana, South Dakota. Mime
sofa, Wisconsin and Maryland
Behind the arrest of John PTin, an
opener and packer in the government
appraisers stores. in New York, on
the specific charge of stealing $50
worth of merchandise consigned to an
| nporter. is the story of the robbery
of Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan of valu
able ring and series of gigantic
swindles operated by government EN-
ployes and outsiders, which have al
ready cost importers several hundred
thousand dollars.
So far have plans for President
Taft's Western trip advanced that i'm
mediately l.. c. Wheeler. the advance
guard of the Secret Service, will start
out to make preparations for the Pres
ident's reception on the proposed
trip.
There is concern shown in grocery
circles over the high prices now pre-
vailing in the sugar market. There has
been another advance in granulated tG
$G25, representing full cent rlse in
the last few weeks. and the highest
level in many years.
w. l.. Park, vice president Of the
Illinois Central road says that the of
ficials of that road have determined
not to deal with the Federated ShoI
Employees, representatives of whom
now in Chicago from the South.
A deficit of s22.O00.O00 on ordinary
accounts for August already is shown
in the government finances. in com
parison with deficit OF Sl4,G00.0Ot
last year. Customs receipts show a de
crease of si,000,000 as compared with
year ago. The governments tota
expenditures for the same period ar5
more than s2,000,000 greater.