The Springfield herald., 1912-07-05
GEN ERAL.

new pipe organ, one Of the largest
in the world. has been installed in the
Tabernacle at Zion, VI.
Former United States Senator An
thony Higgins of Delaware is dead. He
was seventy-one years old
Frederick w. Lehman, solicitor gen
eral of the United States, has placed
his resignation in the hands OF Presi
dent Taft.
The call for the national convention
of the new Progressive party will be'is-
sued within few days. Roosevelt ia
vors St. Paul.
St. Louis will be candidate for the
trump" convention of the Progress
sive Party" offspring of the Roosevelt
Presidency boom.
Low tide prevented heavy loss OF
life when the steamer Grand Manan,
carrying 600 excursionsts, struck a
dredge in the St. Croix river at Calais,
Maine.
Drury B. Badgely, wealthy farmer
residing at Pleasant Hill, w. Va, was
attacked by a swarm of bees, which
settled in his hair and beard and
stung him to death.
Employees of all the United States
navy yards in the country, to the mum.
Der of 10000 will be laid off July
unless Congress makes provision for
payment of their wages
Because thirteen-year-old Guy Hur-
die of Washington received a parental
rebuke for exchanging watch for
chicken, to which he had taken
fancy, the boy hanged himself from a
tree.
Ann Boston, the negro woman who
stabbed and killed Mrs. R. E. Jordan,
wife of prominent planter. at Pine
hurst, Ga, recently, was taken from
officers at Cordele by a mob and
lynched.
James Darby, well known golfer,
lost his life in going to the rescue OF
a nine-year-old caddy who had got in
to deep water trying to retrieve golf
ball from pond on the links at Glen
Cove, N. Y.
III lIllt Nllu lue dCllOu vi OlutI Slccl
concerns the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany, it has been announced, advanced
the price of structural steel and steel
bars 81 a ton and also increased its
rate on steel billets by 81 ton.
Progressive party headquarters for
Illinois have been opened in the Con-
gress hotel in Chicago. Medill Nc
Cormick announced the opening and
1t was said permanent officers would
be chosen later.
Seven thousand cases have been re-
ported since the outbreak of bubonic
ing serious effect. particularly in
San Juan. 1t is estimated that 5000
persons have left that city.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan, with four companies of troops
for ST. Michael and Fort Davis, in
Alaska, is still imprisoned in the ice
which is drifting toward the Arctic
ocean. In five days the Sheridan has
moved 100 miles westward and may be
carried through Bering straits into tine
Arctic ocean.
William Marshall Bullitt of Louis
vile, KY, will be named by President
Taft to succeed Frederick w. Lehman
of St. Louis as solicitor general of the
United States, according to Cabinet
officer who talked with the President
No official announcement has been
made, but it is thought Mr.. Bullitt has
accepted the place.
The Western Union Telegraph Com.
effective July l. Several months ago.
when the telegraph company an
nounced day and night letters to all
parts of the United States and Canada,
merchants asked if little reduction
could not be made in local states rates
In order to bring the day and night let
ter service in the state down to near
half cent word basis. The compa-
ny has granted this request by reduc-
ing large number OF their 4O-cent
rates to 80 cents.
John c. Hartzell is on trial in Chi
cago for the theft from the Haskell
museum at the University OF Chicago
of golden amulet worn by King
Menes of Egypt, 3,40O years B. C. The
bar of gold is the only one of its kind
in the world and is priceless.
Samuel Gompers and Frank Morr
son, of the American Federation of
Labor. recently sentenced to one year
and nine months in Jail, respectively,
for contempt of court, have filed an
appeal from Justice Wright's decision,
and gave bail. Execution OF their sen.
tence was staid.
The statement of clearing house
banks for the week shows that the
banks hold $29,239,75O reserve in ex.
cess of legal requirements. This is an
increase of s1,45S,S50 in the proper.
tionate cash reserve as compared with
last week.
Railroads throughout the United
States are being addressed in an eff
fort to eXterminate the American
tramp. The Prison Association of New
York. which is directing the work,
wants fedora! board to take charge
of the campaign, the state government
to pay their share of the cost.