The Springfield herald., 1912-05-03
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
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pie In Fresno, Calf.
Three persons are dead at Ponca
City. Okla, as the result of one OF
four tornadoes near the Kansas-Okla
homa line.
Forty-seven passengers, all but one
citizens of the United States, who ar
rived In Galveston from Vera Cruz
Mexico. on the steamer Texas. tell OF
alleged torture : and assassination OF
Americans in Mexico.
A cyclone which swept the country
near Broken Bow, Neb., picked up a
little country school house, in which
were twelve children and the teacher
carried it a mile and set it on the
ground without injuring child.
Estimates of flood losses in eleven
parishes of northeast Louisiana set the
damage at $l5,0O0.OOO. Fertile acres
are inundated and will be unfit fcr
crop planting this year. Suffering
among the thousands of homeless is
great.
Unless an immediate settlement OF
the strike of the Union Pacific shop
men is effected, a strike of the 800,
900 shop employees of the Denver &
Rio Grande. Burlington, Colorado &
Southern and other lines is threat
ened.
Western horsemen and racing fol
lowers are interested in the fifty-five-
day running meeting which has
opened at Alan Idaho, under the aus
pices of the Coeur d'Alene Fair and
Racing Association. Over $125,000 is
offered in stakes and purses.
Because the Western Union Telc-
graph Company refused to pay its tax
assessment in the state of Idaho, the
attorney general. o. NJ. Van Duyan,
has authorized the seizure of the com
pany's property. The telegraph com
pany claims that the rate of taxes WAS
too high.
Twenty-nine persons were injured,
one of them, James Davis. perhaps
fatally. when a cyclonic wind struck a
Union Pacific passenger train one mile
west of North Loup, Neb. The entire
train, the engine excepted, was blown
from the track and all the care were
overturned.
Henry NJ. Dearing. aged 72. and son.
Palmer NJ. Dcaring, 40. were brought
to the federal prison at Leavenworth.
Kan, to begin sentences of five years
each for embeZzlement. Henry NJ.
Dearing was cashier of the Albion
National bank of Albion, Mich, ald
his son an employe.
Because the foot of his horse exactly
matched a plaster of paris cast OF the
footprint of the horse driven to the
spot near Nowata, Okla, where Mrs.
Irene Cohen was murdered recently,
H. o. Jeffries. editor of the Nowata
Advertiser, has been arrested charged
with killing the woman.
Word that the fugitive leaders of the
Allen gang from Carroll county. Vir-
ginia, were headed for southern Cal
ifornia, if not already there, has Gle
ated much activity in the sheriffs' Of
fices of the Los Angeles section OF
the state. Los Angeles police beliGye
they have arrived.
Declaring that unless the trouble of
the railway carmen, Who have been on
a strike on a western railroad for sew
eral months was mediated, strike of
more than 100000 shopmen and ma
chinists employed on all western rail-
roads would be called, the officers of
the Federation of Federations sent a
telegram to President Taft advising
him of their intentions. The message
was signed by the presidents of twelve
unions.
A movement has been started in the
Baptist churches of Denver to esta b.
lish free tuberculosis sanatorums in
various parts of the United States
with headquarters in Denver. Funds
for establishing the institutions are to
be raised by the unique plan of assess
ing the 100000 Baptists of the Unit
ed States 10 cents each annually. Ar
ticles of incorporation have been flied
in the office of the secretary of state
of Colorado for the American Baptist
tuberculosis Association. A campaign
for funds will be launched Immediate
ly. 1t is planned to have a research
station connected with each institution
for the study of the causes and pre-
vention of the disease.
Three trainmen were instantly killed
when the boiler of a locomotive on
the Western Pacific railroad blew up
near Elko, New.