The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-12-20
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN coUNTRiES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
oolNes AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Fisher of the University of Chicago
that smoking soldiers are no good for
war.
Daniel II. Rickart was shot and
killed at Los Angeles by Martin, his
13-year-old son, while administering
whipping to an older son.
Mrs. Clara Schumann, twenty-ninc
years old, jumped to her death from
the fifteenth story of the New Bank
Benjamin Franklin Mckinley. uncle
of the late President, William Nc
Kinley, is dead at his home in San
Francisco. so years old. He died Of
pneumonia. after brief illness.
bill prohibiting the intermarriage
of whites and blacks will be intro
duced in the Illinois Legislature when
1t meets in January. by State Sena-
tor Edward j. Glackin of Chicago.
Rudolph H. Miller. fifty-six years
old. for twenty-three years in the rail-
way mail service, and formerly a
preacher. pleaded guilty in court at
Lincoln. Neb, to stealing letters from
the mails.
Susan Lincoln Mills, founder of
Mills college. the first college for
women on the Pacific coast, died at
her home on the college campus at
she celebrated her eighty-seventh
birthday.
Four murderers-Noble Faulder,
F. Garrison, Michael Morgan and H. e.
Roberts-were hanged in the state
pdnitentiary at Salem. Ore, within an
hour. The men were hanged in pairs,
Garrison and Faulder being the first
to be summoned to the death cham
Der.
A romance of the circus sideshow
reached its climax in st. Louis when
Jack w. c. Barnett of Roxboro, N.
c.. 81 years old. 3S inches high and
weighing "a pounds, got license to
10 years old. about feet inches
in height. and weighing 100 pounds.
Mrs. D. Peckham of Villisca, Ia,
died in Bozeman. Mont, the ninth VIC
tim of the tragedy which shocked the
people of Villisca last June when j.
B. Moore, his wife and four children
and two visitors were butchered in
their beds by an assassin to whose
identity no clew has ever been found.
According to advices received from
Washington. Mrs. j. D. Whitmore. for
many years a resident of Colorado, has
been recommended TO the President
for the appointment on the commits
sion on industrial relations, author
lied by the last session Of Congress.
Her name was suggested by Senator
Guggenheim.
Miss Kate Barnard, commissioner
OF charities and corrections in Okla
homa, hopes soon to have collected a
fund sufficient for the establishment
of what is to /, known as the Bar
nard Farm Movement, whereby ex-
convicts, upon their discharge from
prison, may find employment and n
home at least year.
Captain Peter Eales, sixty-eight,
first chief of police of Cripple Creek.
Colo, was arrested at Salt Lake by
city detectives upon request of Chief
OF Police ID. A. White of San Francis
co. California authorities accuse him
of embezzlement in connection with
the promotion of a patent medicine
scheme. Eales was once policeman
in Denver.
Jail on charges of perjury for Fred
erick w. Zeiss, Chicago, a union iron
worker; the testimony of Thomas Tag
CART, Democratic national committee
man, about an explosion, and speeches
and reports in which the ironworkers'
International union was accused of ap-
proving of the defiance of law in its
strike, were developments at the dyna.
mite conspiracy trial in Indianapolis.