The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-02-09
GEN ERAl.

GENERAL.
The price of eggs have reached the
highest price ever known in Chicago.
40 cents per dozen wholesale.
Fire destroyed three factory build
ings in the heart of Philadelphia. caus-
ing loss of more than $1.O00000.
Troops at several army posts are in
readiness to go on moments notice to
Mexican border by order of Gen.
Wood.
Charles Powell. negro. who at
tackled and robbed young white
woman at Macon, Ca, was taken from
officers and lynched.
The proposed municipal dance halls
in Cincinnati will also be matrimonial
bureaus If conducted on the lines set
forth by Mayor Hunt.
A syndicate that will guarantee the
destruction of property by fire at the
rate of $3.50 fire, is said to exist in
New York City.
Clarence w. Kuhn, member of the
former banking firm of S. Kuhn &
Bros. of Cincinnati, and cousin of
the head of the banking firm of Kuhn,
Loeb & Co.. of New York, is dead.
State Senator Thomas F. Grady of
New York, widely known in Democrat
ic councils in state and nation and
familiarly called 1.-THE silver-tongued
orator of Tammany hail." is dead.
Double suicide ended the sensation
al romance of the former wife of Wal
ter l.. Suydam of New York and Fred
erick Noble. the young plumber for the
love of whom Mrs. Suydam ran away
from her millionaire husband and
married.
A mysterious quadruple murder, In
which two men and two women were
killed, was revealed by the discovery
of the bodies of the victims in a tene-
ment house in the heart of the city
of Lawrence Mass. There is no con-
nection between the murder and the
mill : re.
A mob of 500 men stormed the Jail
at Coz dele, Ca, where Albert Hamil-
ton, the negro assailant of white girl,
was confined, took him forth and
hanged him to tree. Troops ordered
here failed to arrive in time to save
the ncgros life. The girl identified
the negro.
CONSERVATION increased in labor
circles as a result of the reputed action
of the district attorney at Indianapo-
lis in preparing indictments against
Chicago labor leaders for alleged mar
ticipation in or knowledge of the Nc
Namara bomb outrages.
The great ice bridge that mas
choked the river channel between the
cataract and the upper steel arch
bride, below the Niagara falls for the
last three weeks, broke from its shor-
ing and went down the river, taking
with it to their death man and wom-
an said to be Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge
Stanton of Toronto, Canada, and Bur-
rell Heacock, seventeen, of Cleveland,
Ohio.
Ben Salter, an aged negro of Pen
sacola, Fla, entered suits for $4,000
damages in the Federal Court at Mont
gomery, Ala, against seven white
farmers of Crenshaw county, Alabama.
Salter alleges that the farmers were
members of mob which in December,
1910, drove him and his family from
their farm in Crenshaw county
burned his house, destroyed and car
ried off property to the value of 49,
500 and forced him to leave the
implicated in the shooting of two
white men.
The long-protracted task of raising
the sunken battleship Maine was
crowned with success, when the after
section, which was not injured by the
explosion, and comprises approx
mately half the total length of the
vessel, was set afloat.
Edwin Hawley, chairman of the
board of the Minneapolis e st. Louis
railroad, and one of the leading rail-
road magnates in this country, died
at his home in New York after an i'll
ness of several weeks. Heart failure
was the immediate cause.
When the figures are complete 1t is
expected that the fire losses of the
country for the month of January will
exceed $30,000,000. For the first three
weeks of the year they averaged more
than s1,00O,000 day.
A reduction of approximately thirty
per cent. in the express rates of the
country. it developed. is the desire OF
the shippers pressing the inquiry in
to the express business before the In
terstate Commerce Commission in
Washington. Testimony of witnesses
indicated that this was the motive be-
hind the inquiry