The Springfield herald., 1912-06-21
GEN ERAL.

AS result of rioting among strik-
ers at Perth Amboy, N. j., three peo,
pie are dead
John Arbuckle, the coffee king, left
37.00O.000, according to an official
statement, to his sister. Christina Ar
buckle.
The strike situation in New Jersey
is more serious than it has been since
several thousand factory employees
quit work.
Lillian Russell. actress and singer,
was married at Pittsburg, Pa. to Alex
ander p Moore. editor of the Pitts.
burg Leader.
The r. G. Dun weekly review OF
trade says: Business continues to en-
pand conservatively with signs of
more than average activity"
Water from the great Hymelia Gre
vase, the worst in the Mississippi
flood district. again is menacing lives
of inhabitants of the Des Allemands
section of Louisiana.
A guide belonging to Captain Car
diga's guerilla corps brought into San
tiago, Cuba, recently. several ears cut
from negroes heads. He was arrest
ed and is to be tried by court martial.
About fifty refugees from Cuba who
closed up their business places and
private houses to come to the United
States until the insurrection in the
island is quelled. have arrived in New
York
Three men met horrible deaths high
in the air at Elizabeth. n. j., on
high tension wire OF the public SER
vice corporation, and for more than an
hour their smoking bodies remained
moved by firemen.
Cattle are selling at the highest
price ever recorded in the history OF
the stock yards in Chicago. Predic-
ticns among cattle buyers are that If
the present high prices continue the
consumer will pay considerably more
for his meats Beef sold at $S per
cwt. an increase of $3.50 over the
price of the same grade of cattle, first
class, year ago.
The eight-year struggle of Frederick
A. Hyde and j. II. Schneider to es-
cape Imprisonment for conspiracy to
defraud the government out of lands
in California and Oregon, ended in
failure when the Supreme Court found
10 error in their convection in the Dis
trlct of Columbia. Hyde had been
fined 100000 and sentenced to prison
for two years; Schneider had been
fined and sentenced to prison for one
year and two months.
Thousands of citizens In west Texas
are reviving the question of dividing
the state and making it two, or even
three, states West Texans point out
that conditions there are so different
from some other parts of Texas that
division is reasonable. Climate is diff
| ferent, products are different, Indus
| ries are different, needs are different,
they assert, and advocates of the prof
ect point out that Texas is of such i'm
mense size that the division would not
hurt the state.
For the purpose of destroying the
substantial monopoly of the so-called
aluminium trust, an agreed decree was
entered in the United States District
Court at Pittsburg, Pa. against the
Aluminium Company of America. The
| federal government in its antitrust
suit filed a few weeks ago, charged
| the corporation with monopolizing the
industry. The decree entered abro-
gates alleged unlawful contracts and
| restrains the company from negotiat-
| ing similar pacts or pursueing unfair
methods towards competitors.
Lieut.. Leighton w. Hazelhurst. Sew
enteenth infantry, U. S. A, of Macon,
Ca, and A. L. Welch of Washington
D. c., were killed at College Park, Md,
when new army aeroplane of the
Wright type in which they were flying
| fell to the ground.
In a fierce battle between a COM
bined force of Turkish soldiers and
Arab forces and the Italian troops at
Lebda, near Tripoli City, the Turkish
forces were defeated and retreated,
leaving 421 dead soldiers on the battle
field The Italians lost thirty-one mon
killed and fifty-one wounded.
| Undaunted by defeats in the past,
the suffragists will again go before the
national Republican convention in Chi
cago to request the insertion of an
equal suffrage plank in the party plat
form.
According to conservative esti-
mate about s1,400,O00.000 has been
spent in road improvement in the
United States during the last twenty
years. The state and local expendi-
lures for 1911 aggregate $140,000.0O0.
OF this sum about $2O.OO0.O0O was de-
voted to building better highways in
! the state of New York.