The Springfield herald., 1912-02-23
GENERAL.

The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld
the constitutionality Of the Greene
nine-hour work-day law for women.
Three million persons in central
China, are on the verge OF starvation.
according to a statement just issued.
Sheriff Nancy A Williams of La
clede county is the first and only wom-
an sheriff in Missouri. She recently
took several prisoners to the peniten-
Tiary.
BY driving nails into the spine of
his wife, Stanley Vekamas, a Pole, of
Wilkesbarre, Pa, sought to bring
about her death and hide the cause so
that he could marry another. He was
arrested and his wife taken to a hos
pital lowering between life and death.
Sermons on the prevention Of con.
sumption will be preached in thou
sands of churches on April 2Sth, which
the National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis, &C
cording to an announcement made re-
certify, has set aside as tuberculosis
Day.
The anthracite mine workers spe.
cial committee in Pennsylvania will
present to the operators demands for
a new working contract. On the oper-
ators' answer hinges the question
whether there will be a strike of $780,
600 mine workers in the hard coal re-
gions.
Charles w. Morse, the banker, who
reached New York recently from the
federal prison in Atlanta, Ca, follow
ing Communication of his fifteenyear
sentence, has departed for Europe on
board the steamship Kaiser Auguste
Victoria, accompanied only by his
wife.
More men were hanged in Chicago
February 10th than suffered death for
throwing the Haymarket bomb in the
anarchist riots of 1856. Two murders
caused five men to walk to the gal
lows and drop to their death through
The trap, while four were hanged for
the Haymarket bomb throwing.
Five men contemplate crossing the
Atlantic ocean in the air above that sea
during the coming summer. Two of
these will, if they make the attempts,
fly in aeroplanes. two in immense dir
igible balloons, and one will be con
tent with the spherical balloon. OF
the five, each is a man skilled in his
own style of flying.
Lieut. Col George w. Goethals, in
charge of the work on the Panama
canal, has a plan of his own to test
the canal before it is formally opened.
he said at the War Department, cor
when l think things are ready to send
ship through, I'm going to pick out
some old scow that has done good
service there and have test of my
own. Starting at the Atlantic, I'm
going to head for the Pacific via the
canal If I get through III wire the
President that the first ship has sue
cessfuily made the passage. If 1 don't
get through I'll say nothing about it."
GooGs manufactured in Germany,
France. Switzerland and other coun-
tries are labeled Made in Great
Britain" and shipped from England to
Canada in order to enjoy the prefer
entail duty of 1919 per cent accorded
all articles of British manufacture.
The lady of fashion will shun
plumage on her hat this year, but will
be allowed to display a radiance of
feathers on her shoes, according to
advices from Paris. The very latest
note of elegance in footwear is de
cIared to be shoes covered with birds
plumage.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars in cur
rency was stolen from a taxlcab in the
heart of the financial district of New
York by three highwaymen who
sprang into the vehicle and overpow.
cred w. f. Smith and Frank WardeH.
messengers of the East River National
bank. Both messengers were serious
ly injured, and the robbers escaped
with the money-$15,OO and IS bills
and $4,000 in 500 bills. The currency
was being transported from the Prod
uce Exchange bank in the lower part
of the city.