The Springfield herald., 1912-07-26
GEN ERAC.

been advanced 10c hundred pounds
in the New York market.
Robert Harris, drug craZed negro.
went on a rampage in Tampa, Fla.
and killed four negroes before he was
slain.
Farmers from the surrounding coun-
try brought reports of frost into Chi
caGo, declaring early vegetables had
suffered.
Shoes of all grades are to be raised
in price. and according to Chicago
dealers the automobile is to blame for
the increase.
Reports from all parts of the coun.
try indicate that the apple crop for
1912 is likely to be one of the larg-
est ever harvested.
Two white men and four negroes
were killed in aa explosion in the
mines of the Gayton Coal Company
near Richmond, Va. recently.
The use of copper salts in the
"greening" of foods. principally canned
peas and beans, will be prohibited
after January l, next, by pure food
decision signed by Secretary Wilson.
Clifford Pinchot has added about 5000
to his taxes in the District OF Colum.
bia by calling attention to the fact
that his Washington home is under
assessed by S43.793, or forty-nine per
cent.
The cost of the discovery of Amer
lea was $1,000. according to ledgers
just found at Palos, Spain, containing
facts concerning the outlay made by
ton to the new world.
The new battleship Wyoming. whicn
left Philadelphia on her trial trip, is
stuck on sandbar at Three-Quarters
point, about mile and half below
Wilmington, Del. Government tugs
went to her assistance.
Philadelphia's new city public bath
house at Tacony is completed and
ready 10 be turned over to the authori-
ties, but it cannot be used for year
because in the construction of the
building somebody forgot to make pro-
vision for a water supply.
The Democratic campaign fund con-
tained about 81 100000 when Alton B
Parker ran for President in 1904, ac.
cording to W. F. Shehan of New York,
who testified before the Senate conf
mittee in Washington. investigating
campaign funds.
The woolen firm of Goodman Broth
ers, New York, found a shortage OF
$4,000 in their books thirteen years
ago and swore out warrant against
their bookkeeper, James Fisher, who
had the power to sign checks and had
much to do with the firms finances.
They have never caught the man for
he left his house by the back door
without coat or collar as detective
called at the front entrance and from
then the police got no trail of him
until few days ago, when the two
Goodman brothers. riding in Broad
way street car. saw man whom they
decided was their missing bookkeeper.
They had him arrested. The prisoner
said he was Thomas Fisher. liquor
dealer. He admitted that he had
worked for Goodman brothers, but
said that he was brother OF the man
for whom the police we're looking. A
detective, however, positively identi-
fled him from a photograph as the
missing bookkeeper.
Four persons were drowned at Al
ton, Illinois, by a cloudburst. The
storm destroyed two miles of streets.
wrecked six buildings and the gas
plant of the Alton Gas & Electri,
Company. Damage is $25O,0OO.
A prisoner in chains for twenty
years, with his parents his jailers, ia
said to be the strange experience OF
an insane man who was received as 3
patient at the Dixmont asylum In
Pittsburg from Indiana, Pa. The au.
thorities of the asylum admi. that he
was shipped to them in a rough pine
box from his home in Indiana county.
Woman's heroism and sel.-sacrifce
during the Civil War probably will be
immortalized by the erection in Wash
ington of home for the American
Red Cross. The House public build
ings and grounds committee reported
favorably resolution, already passed
by the Senate. granting 100000 to.
ward the cost Of such n building. The
structure will be monumental in char
acter and devoted solely to the offices
ard work of the Red Cross.
Jewelry valued at nearly s25, 900 was
stolen from sample carrier on a
crowded street in Chicago recently.