The Springfield herald., 1912-05-31
GEN ERAL.

Corporate earnings of the United
States decreased $175,5O0,OOO in 1911.
Seed corn is selling at $3.50 to $3.50
per bushel in Wisconsin and is scarce
at that.
Top steers In the Chicago stock
yards market are selling up to $9.40
a hundredweight.
The business section of Lebanon,
KY, was practically wiped out by fire.
The loss is $25O,OO0.
With the Mississippi river and trib-
utaries steadily falling danger from
the flood is believed to be past.
Mrs Marie Josephine Banks OF Chi
cago has announced her intention OF
walking to Denver for the benefit of
her health.
Alarming rumors are In circulation
in Havana regarding the intention of
the negroes to rise in arms against the
government.
OF the 96S delegates to the National
Republican convention selected to
date, President Taft has 452 and
Roosevelt 367.
The third trial of Dr. B. Clark
Hyde. for the murder OF Col Thos. H.
Swope. in Kansas City, has been post
poned until October.
Warren S. Stone of Cleveland. grand
chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers since 1903 has been re-
elected for six years.
The late Isador Straus, who lost his
life in the Titanic disaster, left $1,000
in his will for the National Jewish Hos
pital for Consumptives at Denver.
Henry Spruck Won Armenthal. mem
ber of the German nobility, and large
land owner in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, shot and killed himself in his
room in Chicago
The General Assembly of the Pres
| byterian church, in Louisville. KY, in
dorsed congressional legislation to pro-
hibit interstate shipments of liquor
into prohibition states or districts.
Clarence V. T. Richeson was cleo
trocuted at 1917 Eastern time Tues
day morning in Boston. The current
was turned on at 12:10:02 and the
prisoner was declared dead at 12:17.
Officers of the Illinois Life Insur-
ance Company have announced they
would pay Immediately policy of S2,-
900 on the life of Clarence Virgil
Thompson Richeson, electrocuted in
Boston recently.
America has another aeroplane pilot
in Mrs. Julia Clark of Denver the
| first woman to take a complete course
at the Curtis aviation camp, San
Diego, Cal. Mrs Clark qualified Mon
day, May 10.
Nearly $1.OOO,00O, was contributed
to the cause OF education by the gen.
eral education board, founded by John
d. Rockefeller. at its meeting in New
York OF this 100000 was appropriat-
ed for distribution among five col
leges.
Mrs. D. P. Coulter of Little Rock,
Ark, victim of an attempted assault,
lives because her nine-months-old
baby lying on her breast caught in it's
own little body the bullets fired at
her by her baffled assailant. The baby
died instantly.
policeman was called to restore
order at meeting of the county cen
trail committee OF the Womens party
of Illinois at hotel in Chicago when
regular" and "insurgent" members
clashed over alleged Arbitrary" tao
| tics of the chairman.
| The American record for duration of
| flight of an aviator alone was broken
by Paul Peck of Washington at Mas
sau boulevard on Long Island. For
four hours, twenty-three minutes and
fifteen seconds. Peck scared in great
circles at height of 1000 feet.
| BY vote of 557, thirty-eight more
than necessary, the general confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
church In Minneapolis elected w. p.
Thirkield, president of Howard uni
versity, a negro institution at Wash
| ington, D. c., the eighth and last OF
| bishops or general superintendents.