The Springfield herald., 1911-09-22
GENERAL.

Congressman j. p. Latta of Nobras-
lta is dead.
Spreading wreck and ruin in its
wake, disastrous windstorm held
Springfield and central Illinois in its
grip three hours.
The wholesale price of refined SUI
gar in Chicago now stands at 7H
cents pound, the highest price in
22 years.
The third aviator to start on the
transcontinental race, c. p. Rogers,
has started from New York to San
Francisco.
AS the result of an explosion of
ether, in Philadelphia, nine persons
were fatally injured and property
damaged 100000.
Nearly $4,000 persons engaged in
the New England textile industry
have resumed work after various Pc
riods of idleness due to pronounced
policy of curtailment.
A 12-year-old child was run over and
instantly killed by Thomas A. Edison 8
automobile at Lauf. Bavaria, short
distance from Nuremburg, a special
despatch to New York from Lauf says.
Four members of the family of
Frank Klein, Rockffeld, Wis. were
killed, one is dying and another was
injured when the Klein automobile
was struck by 500 line train at Ger.
mantown, Wis.
Nominally it is between Germany
n, hnt la inn rni inc
Really it is between Germany and
England. To predict carly hostilties
would be going too far. There is Il
possibility of them-no more.
S. A. Potter, who is said to have
garnered more than sl,5Oo,o0a from
the unwary of two continents during
the last few years. by means of gold
brick swindles and confidence games.
is locked up in Jail in Chicago. A
cash bond of s50.o0o was refused.
Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry
in the Department OF Agriculture. DIR.
Harvey w. Wiley, will not be asked tc
resign by President Taft, despite rec
concentrations to that effect made by
the personnel beard CT the department
and indorsed iv Attorney General
Wickersham.
Not to be- by the British pos.
tai authorities in he carrying of mails
through the air, Postmaster General
Hitchcock gave his consent to the es-
tablishment of an experimental aero
plane mail route between branch Of
the Brooklyn. n. Y, postoffice and
the aerodromc at Nassau boulevard,
Eong Island, during the international
aviation meet. which will be held
there from Sept. % to Oct 1.
All the American naval strength
deemed necessary as precautlon Is
being concentrated as near as pos
sible to the scene of serious disorders
in China. Admiral Murdock has cabled
the Navy Department that he sailed
on his flagship Saratoga. accompanied
hy the cruisers New Orleans and
Helena from Shanghai ior Marking
The admirars report contained moth
ing regarding the situation in China.
As result of an accident during
the closing miles of fifty-mile auto
mobile race at the State Fair track,
- Syracuse. n. Y, nine persons were
killed and fourteen injured. several
fatally. A Knox racing car, driven by
Lee Oldfield, leaped from the track
crashed through the fences surrounding
it and plunged into the throngs that
lined the other side of the speedway.
Six OF the nine people were Killed out
right and three others were so badly
injured they died on the way to the
hospital.
One member of stag" joy riding
party in Memphis, Tenn, was killed
outright and the other five were fatal
ly injured when their automobile
turned turtle in rounding curve on
the motor speedway in Riverside park.
going mile a minute.
From the branch of the Bank of
Montreal in Westminster, B. c..
$31 1000 was stolen. Five buglars en-
tered the bank by the front door,
broke through the thin metal coating
of the vault, blew the safe by charges
of nitroglycerine and got away with
their booty.
Revised returns on the question of
the repeal of the constitutional pro-
hibition law in the state of Maine re-
duced the majority against repeal to
295. The total vote is: For repeal.
GO,o1G; against repeal, 60.511.
The crop report issued by the De
partment of Agriculture does not in
dicate generally much Improvement in
the condition of the crops over that
of a month ago. Some Improvement
was shown in corn September list,
over August list, but it only amounted
to seven-tenths of ! per cent in the
aggregate.