The Springfield herald., 1911-02-10
GEN ERAL.

Archbishop Ryan is in critical con-
dition at his home in Philadelphia.
The University of Michigan has
graduated 26.979 men and women
since it was founded.
The Maryland College for Women
at Lutherville, Md. was practically
destroyed by fire, entailing loss of
100000.
prairie fire which has done over
100000 damage to oil ard farm prop
erty. has swept across Washington
county. Oklahoma.
Richard l.. Ashhurst, postmaster Of
Philadelphia has been missing for
some time and 1t is feared he has
either suicided or been murdered.
Physicians who have been expert
menting with lockjaw and cures for
the disease have discovered in a sim
rle injection of epson salts into the
spinal column what is believed to be a
prompt and speedy cure for tetanus.
Everybody Works but Father" will
be sadly out of tune in Chicago when
the new court of domestic relations
opens for business. The new tribunal
is designed to deal especially with
men who sit at home all day, while
their wives take in washing to sup
port the family.
According to a statement made by
c. NJ. Drake. president of the Phila-
delphia Produce Exchange, specula-
tors in second grade butter in New
York and Chicago have been unable to
find market for all OF their cold stor-
age holdings and will be compelled to
ship 100000 pounds of the product
20 Europe to save themselves from alb
eolute loss.
Latest government reports confirm
the previous advices that 800 persons
were killed by the earthquakes anG
eruption of Mount Taal, in the Philip
pines. No American are among the
number 1t is impossible to estimate
how many natives on the west shore
were EIr;ed in the ashes. but it Is
known that twen.y-one were suffocat-
cd and five fatally burned.
J. A. d. McCurdy, a Canadian by
birth, but now affiliated with Ameri-
the-water flights, covering nearly 100
miles, from Key West to within ten
miles of Havana, when from slight
accident he was compelled to drop into
the sea. There he remained, his b-
plane floated by pontoons until the life
boat OF the torpedo boat destroyer Ter
ry picked him up.
Within less than ten months after
the initiation by President Taft of ne
eotiations with the Canadian govern
ment, there was laid simultaneously
before the American Congress at
Washington and the Canadian Parlia-
ment at Ottawa, a reciprocity arrange
ment which, if approved. will do
much, in the opinion of the negotia-
tors, to enlarge trade between the
United States and Canada.
A cargo of dynamite in transit
from freight car to the hold of a
lighter moored at Pier No. Z, Com
unpaw, N. j., exploded $50 yards
south of the Jersey City terminal Of
the Central ra lroad of New Jersey,
and in the widespread ruin that fol-
lowed seven are known to have been
killed, seven more are missing, hun
areds We're wounGed and varying re-
ports leave from fifteen to twenty
mere unaccounted for.
Disclosures of a sensational nature
were made of the fact that in raid
on an opium den in New York recently
fy customs inspectors, mass OF
documentary evidence was found
which probably will result IN the solu
ton OF the Elsie Sigel and other muir
Ger mysteries and which establishes
teyond question the existence of cor
rupt relations between syndicate Of
Chinese criminals and police officials
III this and other cities.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward,
author and lecturer, died in Newton,
Mass, after a short illness at the age
of G7.
The executive committee of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
lines have voted to complete double
tracking of the lines from the Missouri
river to San Francisco. They also
voted to douhle-track the Oregon Short
Line from the junction with the Union
Pacific main line at Granger, Wyo., to
Huntington, Ore. also the line along
the Columbia river in Oregon to Port
land.
One of the most sweeping quaran-
tines in the history of Philadelphia,
was put in force following discovery
of SMALLPOX.
After struggling for more than TWEEN.
ty-four hours with the testimony, the
Jury in the case of Mrs. Laura Farms
worth Schnek, charged with poison
ing her husband. John o. Schenk, at
Wheeling, w. Va, announced that 1t
could not reach verdict. Judge Jor-
dan discharged the jurors and Mrs.
Schnek isagain in jail to await another
trial.