The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-01-05
GEN ERAl.

GENERAL.
Thirty-eight days from Tsingtau.
China, the British bark Calcutta has
arrived. establishing new record for
the journey.
Twelve hundred letters of Christ
mas greeting and sympathy came to
James Whitcomb Riley. the Hoosier
poet. who has been i'll several months.
The St Louis Livery and Undertake
| ing Association has announced an in
| crease of 81 on every carriage and 81
| on, every hearse used in funerals in
that city.
Miss Clara Barton, founder and first
| president of the American Red Cross
Society. was showered with greetings
| and good wishes on the ninetieth an
niversary of her birth.
When Charles Richards of Belvi-
dere, ILL.,, was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment for the murder of his wife,
he implored the court to make the
| sentence death instead. He pleaded
guilty.
Many earthquakes and one or two
| days in which she encountered I'M
usually heavy seas featured the voy-
age of the Pacific mail liner. Penn
sylvania. which arrived In port from
Panama.
January production in the iron and
steel industry promises to be between
eighty and eighty-five per cent. of the
total capacity. against seventy-five
per cent. during the last three months.
Is the consensus Of the weekly steel
market reviews.
King Davis. negro. aged %. who
shot ard killed Frederick A. Schwab
twhite), at Fairfield. Anne Arundel
county. Maryland. was taken from the
lookup at Brooklyn, a suburb of Bal
timore, and shot to death by a small
party Of unknown men.
That frost has reached at least TWEEN.
ty per cent Of the orange crop in the
interior of southern California is in
iicated by reports received. Whether
this fruit will be ruined depends, the
growers say, on the weather condi-
lions for the next few days.
Arthur F. Griffith of Milford, Ind.
lightning calculator who has bewil-
dered vaudeville attendants through
out the country for number OF years
by his mathematical wizardy, was
found dead of apoplexy in his bed at
Springfield. Mass, hospital.
Andrew Mcconnell, magazine writer
and lecturer, was arrested at report
er's desk in morning newspaper Of
flee in New York while, it is alleged,
he was writing confession of shoot
ing and wounding his divorced wife,
Mrs. Marion d. Mcconnell, at Ocean
Grove, N. j.
In report filed with the clerk Of
the Federal Court, the Northwestern
Lumbermen's Association answered
The complaint of the government
charging that the association was gull
ty of acts in restraint of interstate
trade in lumber products. The an
At the age of go Henry Coke, New
Mexico pioneer, died at Las Vegas, N.
Coke leaves fortune estimated at
S750,O00. For forty-seven years he re-
sided in Sapello, where he conducted
general store and was postmaster
for thirty-seven years.
More time is to be saved for the
stenographer; more space is to be
placed at the disposal of the letter
writer and thoughts are to be ex-
pressed direct, without waste, in a
new alphabet adapted to meet the mod
ern demands of scientific management,
according to Professor Fred Newton
Scott of the University of Michigan,
who presented a simplified phonetic
alphabet in an address before the Mod
ern Language Association at the Uni
gersity of Chicago.
New York.-In an editorial in the
Outlook Theodore Roosevelt says:
To ratify the general arbitration
treaties, unamended, would put the
American people in an attitude of Pc
culiarly contemplate, unctuous and
Odious hypocrisy. 1t was not credi-
table to the speakers at the recent
peace meeting, which ended in riot,
that they did not venture to declare
themselves on the one practical issue
-abrogation of the Russian treaty
interpreted.