The Springfield herald., 1912-03-22
GEN ERAL.

United States District Judge Car
penter refused to take from the jury
the case of the ten Chicago meat
packers.
Seventeen hundred of the thirty-four
hundred mine workers who quit work
in the Panther Creek valley at Potts
vile, Pa, have returned to work.
Ten per cent. of the taxes collected
in Alaska from liquor will be applied
for the relief of persons there inca
pacitated by old age.
The American Sugar Refining Com.
pany recently adopted resolution pro
viding for the pensioning OF all EN-
ployes who are more than 65.
The houn' dawg song, which Mis-
souri, minstrels have nominated sor
chief Democratic honors as a cam
raign hymn, was not born in the Or
ark mountains, as the followers of
Champ Clark have asserted. AccoI d.
ing to musicians it is an old German
cradle song written prior to 1899.
The Supreme Court of the United
States declined to block the secretary
of the interior in his refusal to accept
applications for land under the timber
end stone laws when the applicants
do not swear they have seen the land.
1t was claimed that the laws merely
required an affidavit showing that the
applicant, "to his best knowledge and
belief" believed the lands came under
the timber and stone acts.
Under the new apportionment Of
representatives in Congress, and with
the admission of New Mexico and Ari-
Zona the electoral college will be re-
constructed and new basis estab-
lished for representation at the ma
many electoral votes as it has senators
and representatives. In 1909 there
were 4S3 members of the electoral col
ege. Next year there will be 532. So
267 votes will be necessary to elect
The end of the chase of the Hills
Vile, Va, raiders brought the death
list of the courthouse tragedy and its
sequel up TO five. Sidna and Floyd
Allen, two of the chiefs of the band
which rode down on the Carroll coun-
ty court house and assassinated the
Judge, the prosecutor and the sheriff,
are in captivity-both wounded severe
ly. Sidna Aliens wife is dead, shot
in a pitched battle with posse in the
mountains while helping to defend
her outlaw husband. The fifth death
was that of Nancy Ayres, nineteen
year-old girl, accidentally shot during
the fusillade in the court house.
Samuel Winterton of Keyport, n. j.,
holds the worlds record for perfect
attendance at Sunday school. Next
month he will complete fifty consecu-
tive years of perfect attendance. Prep
arations are being made for the
event.
Belief of leaders in the textile work
ers' strike at Lawrence. Mass, that
the end is near with a considera BILE
victory for the strikers by the grant
ing of general increases in wages,
caused no let-up in preparations for
continuing the struggle.
Not Guilty" was the plea of forty
six men arraigned in the Federal
Court at Indianapolis, Ind, on indlct-
ments charging completely in the al
legged conspiracy unlawfully to trans
port dynamite from state to state.
Judge A. b. Anderson overruled all
demurrers of the defense but granted
thirty days for the filing of exceptions
to the ruling.
Women will be excluded from the
new Pulitzer school of journalism in
New York. That has been definitely
decided upon by the administrator
and advisory boards.