The Springfield herald., 1912-04-12
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
WESTERN.


bies are all alive and vigorous
The first through Eastern mail to
reach San Francisco in several days
arrived on a special train of nine cars.
The explosion OF a gasoline tank in
their sod house near Mead. Kan,
brought instant death to Mr.. and Mrs.
j. r. Miller.
John Brisben Walker of Denver has
been appointed director of exploitation
of the Panama-Pacific exposition, to
be held in San Francisco.
To make smooth the path of the bor-
rowers. the legal authorities of Salt
Lake county, Utah, are making war
on loan sharks.
Hearings on the House free sugar
bill have begun before the Senate COM
mittee on finance. They are expected
to continue fortnight.
Colorado Springs is to entertain the
annual convention of the supreme
council of the Knights of Columbus, an
international organization, Aug. 6. Z
and 8.
Perfecting its plans for Intervention
in Mexico, the war department at
Washington is receiving hourly details
as to the militia strength and condi-
ton from adjutant generals of militia
from the states.
To enable the poor to aid themselves
in securing food supply, the Spokane
City Council has made arrangements
for the free plowing of back yards and
vacant lots for those who wish to raise
vegetables and grain.
Two men were killed and three
others were injured, one fatally, at the
Missouri Pacific railroad shops at
Huntington, Kan, when discharged
negro employ6, engaged in revolver
battle with shop employees.
Mrs. Emma Rumbull entered a plea
of guilty to a charge of manslaughter
in connection with the death of her
stepdaughter, Helen Rumbull at Oro-
vile, Cal, and was sentenced to two
years in San Quentin penitentiary.
The police aided by volunteers, have
begun in earnest the expulsion of the
Industrial Workers of the World from
San Diego, Cal. and declare that the
work will continue until all have been
sent away. Nearly hundred have
been driven from the city recently.
The Democratic wool bill passed the
House, 1S9 to 50. with twenty Pro-
gressive Republicans voting for it.
Supporters of the bill declared it
would not cut the governments rev.
enue, but would save more than $780,
900 900 a year to consumers.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion and the express companies of the
country have practically reached an
agreement as to reforms to be insti-
tuted in the express business, which
will be of far-reaching Importance and
will, it is predicted, revolutionize the
express business.
Calbraith p Rodgers, the first man
to cross the American continent in an
aeroplane, was killed at Long Beach,
Cal, almost instantly when his Wright
biplane, in which he had been soaring
over the ocean, fell into the surf from
a height of 200 feet and buried him
in the wreck. His neck was broken
and his body badly mashed by the
engine of his machine. He lived but
few minutes.
The seventeen irrigation states show
an increase in population during the
last decade of forty-two per cent. The
increase in population in the remain
ing thirty-one states was seventeen
per cent. The value upon farm lands
of the United States by their owners
has increased III while in eleven of
the western irrigation states it has in.
creased 203 per cent during the past
decade.