The Springfield herald., 1912-09-27
GEN ERAL.


GENERAL.
The milling plant Of the Berger
Crittenden company was burned at
Milwaukee. The loss is $250,O00.
Triplets born to COW in New Or
leans have been named for the presi-
Dental candidates. All are alive and
healthy.
The fiftieth anniversary Of the bat
tie of Antietam was celebrated on the
battlefield near Hagerstown, Md. by
hundreds OF survivors.
American women today have bigger
legs and feet than their mothers and
grandmothers had. according to deal
ers in stockings and corsets.
The taking of testimony of the gov
ernment's suit for the dissolution of
the International Harvester Company
has been postponed until October 2.
Rather than live in a house painted
blue. Mrs. Sadie Mcdonald, aged thir-
ty.nine of Dayton, Ohio, committed
suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
Charles X. Atwood of Newington. the
Oldest graduate Of Yale and member
of the class of 1913. Is dead at Hart
ford, Conn, aged ninety-two years.
Former United States Senator Her
naldo de Soto Money of Mississippi
died at his home near Biloxi OF urae-
mic poisoning. He was seventy-four.
An engagement of $750,O00 in gold
for import from Europe was made by
Goldman, Sachs G Co. This is the
first gold imported from Europe In
more than two years.
William Newsome. negro. walked
down First avenue in New York dis
tributing IS bills "to make people
think well of his race" He distribu-
ted $500 and Is now in an asylum.
H. D. Money, former United States
senator from Mississippi and member
of the national monetary commission,
fell from the porch Of his home at
Fairhaven. Miss. and fractured his
right hip.
With the Indictment of John Beal
Snecd for the murder of the man with
whom she eloped and loved. 1t is re-
ported that Mrs. Lena Sneed Is seek
ing a divorce from her husband at
Amarillo, Tex.
Wanting what she termed a roman
tic wedding, Mrs. E. Brinkerhoff San
ford, widow Of. San Francisco, told
in New York how she was married at
midnight in a rainstorm to Addison
Clark Angus of Briarcliff.
The first serious violence in connec.
ton with the street car strike at Su-
perior, Wis, broke out when 5000
strike sympathizers smashed six cars.
After wrecking the six cars the mob
captured the crews and guards.
Twenty-six children were born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Tucker of Ell
wood, Ind, according to a complaint
for divorce filed by Mrs. Mary Anna
Tucker against Samuel Tucker, in
Superior Court at Anderson.
The street railway company OF Phil
adelphia is experimenting with women
conductors on its new pay-as-you-enter
cars. On the new cars the conductor
is merely a cashier. She sits behind
desk, receives the fare. makes
change and records the receipts.
Burglary of the mansion of ]. P.
Morgan, Jr, while Mr.. Morgan and his
forty servants slept. has been con-
fessed. the police say. by John Ber-
nauer, whom they arrested in New
York. In his possession were found
seven watches. medals, diamond pins
and other articles of jewelry stolen
from the home.
President Taft made public at Bev-
erly, Mass, letter to Secretary of
the Treasury MacVeagh, taking open
issue with Congress on the question
of the federal budget, and directing
all officers of the government to make
their estimates of revenue and expen-
, ditures for the fiscal year in conform
ity with the budget plan.
Thirteen million bushels of grain,
received in thirteen business days in
Minneapolis. was the crop movement
which shattered all records, after rail-
. ways had reported in 1913 cars of
grain.
The wife and three children, now
in prison for the killing of deputy
, sheriff during raid on the home of
defender of Cameron dam, were freed
1t Eau Claire, Wis, from the charge
of assault with attempt to kill John
Rogich in July. 1906.
Part of the S272,OO0 loot robbers got
from the Bank of Montreal at New
Westminster, b. c., and which was
hidden in Chicago, has been recovered
by Chicago police. 1t was intimated
hat the amount would run into the
thousands of Canadian bills of large
denomination.