The Springfield herald., 1912-06-07
GEN ERAL.

G. f. Staples, farmer OF Angola, N.
Y, shot his wife, mother-in-law, Mrs.
Brown, and then himself.
Mrs. William Moore of Burlington
| township. near Marshall, Mich, is the
mother of twenty-six children.
The price of gasoline is on the up
ward trend. 1t is now 16 cents a gal
Ion with prospects of another advance
of one cent.
Senator George s. Nixon of Nevada
is in n critical condition at a Wash
ngton hospital and his death is con.
| sidered matter of hours.
A movement has been started in
New York to place in the Hall of
Fame the bust of Molly Pitcher. only
woman sergeant in the U. S. army
Municipal Judge Hugh r. Stewart
of Chicago has been appointed to take
charge of a special court for violators
of the automobile speed ordinance.
Volcanic ash is falling thickly over
Cordova. Alaska, showing that the
heavy cannonading heard in the noun
tains recently was the noise of vol
cano in eruption.
Thomas E, Watson of Augusta, Ca.
former Populist leader and presiden-
tial candidate. was bound over under
$500 bond for sending obscene matter
through the mails.
William j. Burns, whose investiga-
tions led to the arrest of the McNa.
mara brothers, who confessed to dyna-
miting outrages throughout the United
States, is in Denver to establish
Middle West headquarters for his bu-
reau.
John l.. Sullivan, the former cham
pion heavyweight prizefighter, who
some time ago decided to lead the
simple life and settle down on his
farm at Abingdon, Mass, is i'll, and
friends declare that his condition is
critical.
Several strikers and police officers
were injured in a riot at Middleton,
Conn, at the South Farms mills of the
Rus ell Manufacturing Company,
about 400 of whose employees are on
strike for an advance in wages and re-
adjustment of working conditions.
Mrs. Sidney G. Bernheimer, the wife
of wealthy New York clothing man
ufacturer, was assaulted and robbed of
$4,000 worth Of jewelry. The weapons
used were potato masher and an ice
pick. Mrs. Bernheimer's new cook. a
brawny young Swedish woman, who
for ten days had proved a model SER
want, was said to be the chief robber.
Judges of the Chicago Municipal
Court must forego basball and other
summer amusements and pay more at
| tention to business. Chief Justice Har-
ry Olson, in confidential" letter
told the judges that he was aware of
their hockey playing" and that it
must cease. The jurists were told that
they must hold court daily until 4:30
o'clock in the afternoon with the ex-
ception of Saturday.
President Taft signed the three-year
homestead bill. permitting entrymen
on public lands to prove their claims
in three instead of five years, allow
ing five months absence from a claim
each year and reducing the acreage to
be cultivated on large claims from so
to 40 acres. The pen used was given
to Representative Taylor of Colorado.
The bill is designed so to liberalize
the homestead laws as to check the
immigration of American farmers to
Canada. Senator Borah was one of its
supporters.
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 e5ro-
gates alleged unlawful contracts and
restrains the company from negotiat-
ing similar pacts or pursueing unfair
methods towards competitors.
At the beginning of business June l
the condition of the United States
treasury was: Working balance in
treasury offices, $61.114,529. In banks
and Philippine treasury, $35,lS1.2 .295.
Total balance in general fund, S12G,-
242,2O3.
One of the largest cargoes of ami
mails ever brought to this country is
aboard the steamship Etonian, now an
chored in Gravesend bay. There are
forty-nine Arabian horses, eighty BON
bay monkeys and 1000 singing birds,
chiefly canaries. The ship Gomez
! from Antwerp.