The Springfield herald., 1912-05-24
GEN ERAI.

The condition of Wilbur Wright,
who is i'll at his home in Dayton, Ohio,
with typhoid fever, is dangerous.
The Michigan Central Railroad Com
pany was indicted for false billing of
shipments by federal grand Jury at
indianapolis.
The government has begun taking
testimony in its suit in New York for
dissolution OF the American Sugar Re-
filming Company.
The Standard Oil Company paid a
fine of $4,000 to the clerk of the
United States Supreme Court as re-
suit of being prosecuted as trust.
AS result of a battle which took
place on the streets of Jel.ico, Ky, in
which twenty-five men were involved,
two people are dead and several are
injured.
Floyd Allen must pay the death pen
atty for his part in the Carroll county,
Virginia, court house murder. After
being out all night the jury came in
with verdict imposing the maximum
punishment.
The Presbyterian church in the
United States was pledged by its gen
eral assembly at Louisville, KY, to in
creased evangelistic effort next year;
s3,250.000 will be expended by the sew.
eral boards.
With $50 delegates, the Socialist Ma.
tional convention was organized in In
n 10
ulate its platform and will nominate
candidates for President and vice pres
ident of the United States.
Clarence V. T. Richeson's last hope
for the murder of Avis Linnell, of Hy-
annis, Mass, expired when Gov. Foss
announced he would not refer Richie.
sons petition for Communication of sen.
tence to the executive council.
Bishops Henry w. Warren of Den
yer; David Fl. Moore of Cincinnati and
Thomas B. Nealy OF New Orleans,
with the close of the present general
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Minneapolis, will retire
from active work in the church.
States Attorney Diedman filed suits
against the International Harvester
Company in four counties comprising
the Eighteenth judicial district OF
Kentucky, alleging that the company
operated in these counties in violation
of the Kentucky antitrust law. Five
thousand dollars and costs are asked
in each case
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has directed the railroads to put
into effect on June l the reduced
freight rates on wool prescribed by
the decision of the commission made
April -. The new rates will super
sede the present rate to Boston of
$2.13 hundred pounds from the blan
ket territory covered by the Union Pa
cific lines, which is held unreasonable,
and from Denver, Cheyenne and Trim
idad the rate to Boston will be s1.32
per 100.
The Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives, by unanimous vote,
adopted the Bristow amendment to the
federal constitution providing for the
direct election of United States sen
ators. This was the first state legis-
lative body to indorse the amendment.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
returned four indictments against Ar
mour & Company charging violation
of the meat inspection laws in inter
state shipments of meats without in
spection by government agents. The
indictments were returned before
United States District Judge Lands.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars
will be saved annually to shippers of
western Colorado and eastern Utah as
result of a decision of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, denying
the Denver & Rio Grande and Colo
RADIO Midland railroads permission to
charge higher rates to that territory
than are in effect to more distant
points, particularly to Salt Lake City
and Utah common points.
The steel mills at Gary. Ind, were
temporarily stopped recently by thou.
sands of tiny fish that clogged the
intake pipes for the mills.