The Springfield herald., 1912-12-06
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Burrell Oates. a negro, convicted OF
numbering Sol Aronoff of Dallas, was
hanged at Waxahatchie. Tex.
Fire destroyed the provision house
OF Armour & Co., at the Union Stock
yards in Chicago. causing a loss esti
mated at 100000
Charged with robbing a grave, Rev
G. w. Adkins. Baptist minister OF
Brazil, Okla, was found guilty by a
| jury in the District Court at Poteau,
Okla.
| Ed Williams, an Indian six feet sew
en- inches tall. was hanged at San
| Quentin. CAL. after the prison band
had given a three-hour concert in the
death chamber for his benefit.
The recall of all elective officers.
save the judiciary, the initiative and
referendum and other constitutional
change submitted at the recent cleo
ton in Idaho apparently have carried
by large majority.
The lowest death rate in the world
from tuberculosis is claimed for Utan
by the State Board Of Health. The
thousand of population against an aV-
erage of 1G1 for the United States.
Mrs. Leonore Niccoli, eighteen, and
bride of three months, is dead, and
her husbanod. Silvio Niccoli, is in
hospital with a bullet in his brain,
as the result of an unexplained shoot
ing in their home in San Francisco.
When Edgar A. Rossiter, former
county surveyor, and his wife, Mrs. Ce-
celia Antsdell Rossiter of Chicago,
separated. he kept their only child,
Robert, Jr., three years old, and his
wife took the dog-a fine $500 collie
and the parrot.
F. S. j. McAllister, attorney, and
Harry A. Start, practicing physician,
were indicted by the grand jury at
Portland, Ore. in connection with the
crusade waged by the officers of the
Juvenile Court against persons ac-
cused of depraved habits.
A recall movement was launched al
Los Angeles against Mayor Alexander,
as direct outcome of the municipal
affair that began several weeks ago
With the arrest of City Prosecutor Guy
Edie, on the charge of having commit
ted an offense against young woman.
Former United States Senator John
P. Jones, miner, financier and from
1872 to 1902 senator from Nevada,
Cied at his Los Angeles residence
from a complication of diseases. SEN
ator Jones was In his eighty-fourth
year. A widow, son and three
daughters survive him.
After outlining its position regard
tustry, the American Mining Congress
at Spokane, adjourned. Among the
measures that received the indorse
ment of the congress were working
mans compensation act and thor
ough revision of the mining laws.
United States Senator Albert d.
Cummins will introduce a bill in Con-
kress providing for the sending of at
least forty battleships through the
Panama canal, according to letter
from Senator Cummins received at
the headquarters of the Panama Pa
cific exposition at San Francisco.
On the ground that their present
bonds, aggregating $105,000, were in
Identified and therefore invalid, four
teen of the forty-five defendants in
the dynamite conspiracy" trial were
instructed by the court at Indianap-
oils that within a reasonable time
they must procure new bonds or re-
main in jail during the intervals be-
tween sessions OF the trial.