The Springfield herald., 1912-05-17
GEN ERAL.

Condition of winter wheat, 1911. Es-
timated production, 370,7l4,O00 bush
els. Condition of rye, S7.5.
Union men of Kansas City have
been asked not to drink the beer OF
breweries now involved in a strike.
The recall. initiative and referendum
Mimi. charter by an overwhelming
vote.
Wheat prices in Chicago have
bounced up to new high records for,
the crop. July prices range from s1.13
to s1.14.
Large sections of fifteen Louisiana
parishes west of the Mississippi rive-
are under water, and others are en-
dangered.
Speaker Champ Clark and Theodore
Roosevelt carried the Maryland pri-
maries on the face of incomplete re-
turns received from all counties of the
state.
The United States government has
presidential election in Panama to the
extent of seeing that it is fairly con.
Quoted.
Five hundred idle miners, attended
by a sprinkling of women, stopped a
Reading railroad main train near Alas
ka shaft, Mount Carmel, Pa, and pre-
vented carpenters, firemen and other
company hands from going to work at
the mines.
As a reward for his honesty in re.
turning stock certificates valued at
1000 which he found in Exchange
place, New York, James Dowl, a mes
senger boy of fifteen, who is employed
by a Wall street news agency, was
given 25 cents.
Strike ballots have been sent to the
members of the Federation of Feder-
ations to determine whether the shop
men employer on forty-seven railroads
west and south of Chicago shall strike
in sympathy with the men now out on
the Hartman lines.
The heaviest rain in months fell at
New Orleans, accompanied by hail
and high wind One-half inch of wa
ter fell within five minutes, while the
wind reached velocity of thirty miles
an hour Every street in the bust
less section of the city was flooded.
The cornea of a rabbits eye has
| been grated upon the eye of man
| in New York and the operation was
successful. The patient, says the
Journal of the American Medical AS
sociation, was entirely unable to see
when he entered the hospital.
Peace among the nations and the
dawn of the day when Red Cross work
will be limited to the work it does in
times of peace, were the keynotes of
all the utterances of the opening of
the Ninth international Red Cross con-
ference, which has begun ten-day
session in Washington. Twenty-Five
nations were represented.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher has
ordered land offices in the dry farming
regions of the West where crops were
a failure last year to refuse to accept
contests on settlers claims until GER
tain pending relief legislation offered
by Representative Taylor and others
is disposed of. A great many holdings
in eastern Colorado would be in jeop--
ardy except for this order, as settlers
have been unable in many instances
to comply with the homestead require
ments owing to the drouth.
Two hundred and forty-two persons
were killed and 4,706 were injured in
train accidents in the United States
during the quarter ended Dec. 81, 1911.
Ten passengers and six trainmen
were killed and forty other passengers
and members of the train crew in
jured in the wreck of the Confederate
Veterans special train near Hatties-
burg, Mississippi. Three passengers
besides the reported dead are missing.
The engine, baggage car and daS
coach and three tourist sleapers left
the track and rolled down an embank-
ment.
Tho New York Women's League for
Animals has purchased a downtown
site for hospital for horses and Other
animals. The building will be the
largest animal hospital in the world.
The grand jury at Fort Smith, Ark,
which has been investigating the
lynching of Sanford Lewis, negro.
the night of March 23d, has returned
indictments against twenty-three per
sons and scored city authorities for
alleged inefficiency in failing to dis
perse the mob which broke into the
jan, dragged Lewis forth and hanged
him on 4 main street