The Springfield herald., 1912-02-02
GEN ERAL.

Rear Admiral Lewis o. Heilner, re-
tired, died in New York at the age
of sixty years.
A painting by Corot sold in New
York the other day for $4,000 to a
western collector.
Women all over the United States
are planning to boycott butter in an
effort to bring the price back to nor
NAL.
Charles Schultz, his wife and their
foster son were found dead late at
their home in Milwaukee from ahphyx-
iation
Cyrus E. Woods of Greensburg, Pa,
as minister to Portugal to succeed Ed
win V. Morgan.
DR.. Harry Elgin Webster. who con-
fessed to the murder of his wife, Bes-
sic Kent Webster at Oregon. ILL.,, was
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Albert W. Wolter, the youth who
murdered and burned Ruth Wheeler
in New York nearly two years ago,
was executed at Sing Sing prison.
An investigation will be made OF
the charges that the price of butter
is being manipulated by combina-
ton in New York and other large
cities.
Shoemakers in Washington who ca
ter to the fashionable set are busy
making the latest creation in foot
wear. This is silk slippers with cut
glass heels.
That $4,000 consigned by a Pitts
burg bank to bank at Butler, Pa,
through the Wells Fargo Express Com
pany. mysteriously disappeared recent
ly has become known.
Her pilot lying dead on the bridge.
the victim of a sudden attack of heart
failure, and with no guiding hand at
the wheel. the giant Hamburg-Ameri-
can liner Cleveland, carrying hundreds
of round-the-world tourists. left her
course in the harbor at Honolulu and,
after veering about for several min
utes, rammed the United States ar
mored cruiser Colorado, lying at an
Choir. The Colorado was damaged
but no lives were lost.
! The federal grand jury which has
been investigating the dynamite con-
spiracy in Indianapolis begun what is
expected to be the last week of its
work Reports about the district at
torney's office are that at least thir-
ty indictments have been drawn up
District Attorney Miller said the in
dictments, If any are returned, will be
secret, the names of those indicted
being withheld until arrests are
| made.
| One of the most notable achieve
ments of American foreign commerce
in recent years, according to state
ment by the bureua of statistics of
the Department of Commerce and La
Dor, was in the automobile business in
1911. More than $2O.0O0,O00 worth Of
automobiles were exported from the
United States. During the year, TWEEN
ty times as much as decade ago. AT
the same time the importations have
decreased from year to year
Fort Logan, Colorado. and Fort
D. A. Russell. Wyoming. are I'M
der prescription by the War De-
partment, and are doomed to abandon
ment If the plans announced by Secre-
tary Stimson are carried out. The Sec
rotary acting upon an exhaustive re-
port by the general staff, has decided
upon the concentration of the United
States army in eight posts, instead OF
| the forty-nine now in operation. by
| this means, he believes that the effi-
| cheney of the army will be multiplied,
while at the same time the govern
ment will make a saving of s5,50O,OO0
a year.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher
has opened war on the Borah bill,
| which gives homesteaders patents
| after three years and giving them
| other important privileges.
Thirteen persons are believed to
have been drowned in the Mississippi
river two miles south of Cairo, ILL.,,
when a rowboat in which they were
being brought to that city from Birds
Point became lost in an ice jam. The
passengers were part of 1875 who left
| q Cotton Belt train at Birds Point,
| Mo.
A vote on the proposal to re-rate
members of the Modern Woodmen of
America, increasing the insurance as
sessments of all members is expected.
Previous to this opponents of the pro-
posal will attack it before the conven-
ton in Chicago.
James Whitcomb Riley was awarded
| the gold medal for distinction in poet
ry at the annual meeting of the Amer
| lean Academy of Arts and Letters and
the National Institute of Arts and Let
tiers in Philadelphia. A telegram no.
tifying him of the honor was sent to
The poet who is ill.,