The Springfield herald., 1912-07-12
GENERAL.

The Independent Telephone Compa-
ny's plant (automatic) at Omaha. was
sold at receivers sale for $995,000.
Seven dead and many prostrations
was the summary in Chicago at the
! close of the hottest day this year.
July 3.
AS a result of wreck near Corning.
n. Y. July 4, on the Lackawanna rail
road. forty-one people are dead and ff-
ty are injured.
Clerks and assistant managers of no.
tells from thirty-three states gathered
in Chicago to attend the annual con-
yention of the Greeters of America.
of the National Hunt and Steeple-
chase Association and a member of
many sporting clubs. died in New
York recently.
Leaders in New York estimated that
1000 sailors ard 1000 firemen and oil
ers are on strike in that port, and that
1000 men We're out at Boston, Phi!a-
delphia. Galveston and Norfolk.
Harriet Quimby, the woman aviator,
who was flying with a passenger, w.
A. p. Willard, in the aviation meet at
Atlantic, Mass, fell from a height of
1000 feet into Dorchester bay. Both
were killed.
Gen. r. F. Hoke, Confederate Off
GER. said to have been the personal
choice of General Lee to succeed him
in case he was killed in battle. died
at his home in Lincolnton, North
Carolina, recently.
Thomas Moore of Jacksonville, Fla.
one of the most widely know balloon
lists in the country, while making a
triple parachute drop over Hillside
Pleasure park at Belleville, n. j., was
Instantly killed by fall of 500 feet.
Colonel Castulo Herrera, of the ren-
el garrison in Juarez, Mex, has an
nounced that message from Chihua-
hua gave details of the blowing up of
{. federal troop train by the rebels, and
the killing OF all the troopers on board
twenty coaches.
Twenty-four persons were injured in
the celebration of a sane Fourth of
July in New York City July 4. Last
year there were 100 and in 1910 there
were 201. The number of persons hurt
this year by stray bullets was three.
Last year twenty and the year before
thirty-five.
Twenty-seven persons were killed
and thirty injured, number fatally,
as result of wreck on the Ligonier
Valley railroad at Wilpen, Pa. An
overloaded passenger coach pushed
| by an engine was struck by double
header freight train of coal cars,
crushing the coach like paper and
spreading death and injury to all but
one aboard the train.
The national convention of the
Roosevelt third party will be held in
Chicago, beginning August l. Almost
simultaneously with the announce
ment of the nomination of Woodrow
Wilson of New Jersey by the Demo
cratic national convention, Senator
Joseph Dixon, acting on behalf OF
Roosevelt, announced that the call
was being made.
1t is estimated that the total eX-
pense of holding the Democratic ma
tional convention at Baltimore was 81
941. 400, divided as follows: $4,000
raised by Baltimore and spent on con
vention hall. corps of assistants, etc; /;
S326,400 estimated amount spent by
delegates and alternates: $4,300,000
estimated amount spent by visitors to
Baltimore Total. s4.941.400.
Rev. DR.. w. d. Farland, prominent
educator OF Pittsburg. Pa, who was
found guilty of causing the death OF
his secretary. Elsie Dodds Coe, by an
operation. was sentenced to serve one
year in Jail and fined six and one
fourth cents with costs
Fifty persons were killed and 275
seriously injured in June by vehicles
in the streets of New York city. Au-
tomobiles killed twenty-six and injured
1853, street cars killed nineteen and In
iured ninety-nine, and wagons caused
the death of fourteen and the injury oil
Itwenty-three.