The Springfield herald., 1912-04-05
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Cracksmen robbed the safe of sa'
some costly jewelry.
The breaking up of the ice in the
Platte Loup and Elkhorn rivers in Ne
braska is causing serious floods.
Dates for the American Mining Con
gress to be held in Spokane this year
have been fixed for Nov. 25-30.
Reuben Harris, 81 years old, mar
shall of Quitman, Mo-, is dying as a
result of the excitement attendant on
his first arrest
The Butte, Mont, miners union Of
the Western Federation of Miners
voted tc take referendum vote upon
the question of striking.
One life sacrificed for each million
tons of coal produced, was the human
toll exacted by the coal mining indus
try Of Colorado of 1911.
The ten millionaire packers charged
with criminal responsibility for pack
ing combine were found not guilty in
Federal Court in Chicago.
Two men were killed and a score in.
jured when cupola filled with mol.
ten metal exploded in the pot foundry
of the Mccormick Harvester Com
pany in Chicago.
Three of the train crew were killed
when the westbound limited freight
on the Great Northern plunged into a
rock slide six miles west of Sand
Point, Idaho.
Columbine university of New York
will send large squad of students to
the wheat fields of Kansas, Nebraska,
Montana and the Dakotas this summer
to work as farm hands and laborers.
A cave-in in stope at the Utah
Apex mine at Bingham, Utah, buried
Harry Thomas and Thomas Bosanko,
miners. They were dead when taken
out.
The proposition to bond the city of
San Francisco for $S,S00,00O for the
purchase of land and the erection of
municipal buildings in the proposed
civic center carried by an overwhelm-
ing majority.
Railroad employees of Colorado do
not want reduction of railroad rates
which will result in similar reduc>
ton OF their salaries, according to the
sense of the meeting of the Railway
Employees and Investors Association
at Denver.
The town of Gregory, Mo-. twelve
miles south of Keokuk, Ia, is reported
to have been inundated by the Missis-
sippi river which rose out of its banks
between Alexandria and Gregory.
Houses are floating down the river
and people are fleeing from the town.
The Postoffice Department an
nounces that January 81. 1912. there
were seventy-seven postal savings de-
positories in operation in Colorado,
with deposits amounting to over $685.
900. This amount was deposited by
about 1900 depositors, or an average
of s1Os per depositor.
The war department is considering
the advisability of removing to some
western reservation the remnant of
the Apache band captured at the time
of the surrender OF Geronimo. The
males from the original band, six in
number, are still held at Fort Sill.
Okla, as prisoners of war.
That nearly fifty of the Industrial
Workers of the World arrested in San
Francisco have admitted they were
trying to overthrow the United States
government is .one of the statements
ntained in a report which the Calf
fornia authorities will send to the i'm,
migration bureau at Washington.
AT Rock Island, ILL.,, three persons
wer killed and nine injured when the
police fired into mob that attacked
the police station as a result of the
riotous conditions that have prevailed
for the last few days. The sheriff
telegraphed to Governor Deneen for
militia to quell the disturbance and
help the police in maintaining order.