The Springfield herald., 1912-06-28
GEN ERAL.

The number of visitors to Chicago
for the Republican convention is esti-
mated to be well over 100000.
Fifteen Cuban soldiers, if is report
ed. were killed in a recent battle with
the army of the rebels, near Santiago,
Cuba.
Announcement has been made that
Theodore p Shonts had resigned as
president of the Chicago G Alton rail-
road.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars has been placed in bets in New
York on the result of the Republican
convention.
Kentucky is one of the Southern
states which has recently adopted a
modern law for the registration of vi
tai statistics.
DR.. Edward Carleton, for twenty-five
years professor Of surgery at the
Medical College for Women and at the
New York Medical college, is dead at
his home.
Maine voters have been given an OPP
portunity for the first time to express
their preference for United States SEN
tator and for governor and state and
county offices.
By a roll call vote of 2OS to 149 the
state constitutional convention re
jected a proposed amendment to the
constitution granting votes for women
in New Hampshire
The buildings of the Ponupo Man
ganese Company, an American con-
cern, situated near Lamaga. Cuba.
seven miles from Santiago, were
burned by Cuban insurgents.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, wife OF Harry
X. Thaw, took the stand at White
Plains, n. Y, to testify against her
husband in his action to secure his re-
lease from the criminal insane asylum.
Boston will possess the first federal
skyscraper, according to bill passed
by Congress authorizing the construc-
tion of customs house. The building,
of white marble and white terra Gotta,
will be eighteen stories high and will
cost $1,S00,000.
Meat prices will never be cheap
again in this country. That is certain"
',This surprising statement was made
by Joseph G. Curtis of the commission
house of j. G. Curtis & Son, New York.
Mr.. Curtis was well aware that women
meat boycotters have been rioting and
housewives leagues taking other meth
ods to force the retail dealers to bring
down the price Of meat.
Twenty-sey en- persons are known to
have been killed and many injured by
storm that passed over central ives,
Missouri, demolishing buildings, tear
ing down wires leaving the smaller
towns and country homes completely
wrecked. Reports indicate that the
storm, after doing many thousands OF
dollars worth of damage in Kansas
City, passed to the southeast, wreck
ing all buildings in its path.
The third attempt of Harry X.
Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, to
obtain his freedom, opened at White
Plains, n Y, with the testimony of
DR.. William A. White, an alienist in
charge of the United States govern
ment hospital at Washington.
Jack Johnson, champion heavy
weight pugilist, and, his wife, Eta
Johnson, have been indicted by the
federal grand jury in Chicago for al
legged smuggling. Johnson, while
abroad, bought diamond necklace
for his wife and brought it home with
out paying duty.
Five deaths which have occurred re-
Gently in the vicinity of San Juan, p.
r., have been diagnosed by the insu-
lar board of health as cases of bubonic
plague. Seven suspects have been
confined and placed under observation.
The first President of the first Lep-
er Republic in the world is an Ameri-
can citizen named Michael Whalen,
the only American leper on the island
of Culion, in the Philippines, who was
elected chief executive of the republic
which the Philippine government has
organized to manage the affairs OF the
leper colony