The Springfield herald., 1912-11-01
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WESTERN.

shaft of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan
mine at Wardner, Idaho.
John Pera, mill worker, was shot
and killed by policeman in South
Chicago after Pera had stabbed four
men.
The trial of Clarence s. Darrow, the
Chicago lawyer. who defended the Nc
Namara brothers, has been set for No
vember 25 at Los Angeles.
TO save the life of her eight-year-old
SOL, Mrs. ]. A. Cross of Newton, Kan,
is giving skin from her legs that it
may be grated upon the child's body.
Fatally injured in an automobile
accident half an hour after her mar
riage. Mrs Charles F. Brown died at
Vallejo, Cal. Brown. the bridegroom.
is getting well,
Frank Willie Smith. negro. con-
fessed to the police that he killed
Krank Foxall and Philip Lepper,
whites, near the state fair October 2,
at Indianapolis.
c. w. Dawson, farmer of Skid
more. Mo-, was fined $3.50 in the Fed
eral Court by Judge Van Valkenburg
for selling hogs affected by cholera on
the St. Joseph market.
Before 200 patrons of cafe at st.
Louis, a wcll-dressed man suddenly
drew knife from his pocket and
stabbed to death his woman conpan-
ion and then took his own life.
Jack Johnson was made defendant
in a suit for $25,0OO filed in the Supe-
rior Court in Chicago. in which it is
charged that the negro pugilist has
alienated the affections of Mrs. Adah
Banks Davis, colored.
Major General Leonard Wood, chief
of staff of the United States army,
speaking at luncheon in his honor
at Los Angeles, declared that it was
hiE idea to have an army in reserve
that would number about 100000.
The quiet routine of life at Saga
more Hill was picked up again by
Colonel Roosevelt and his family at
Oyster Bay as thought it had not been
interrupted by the attempt to assas-
sinate the former President at Mil
waukee.
With the filing of legal documents
iii the superior court at Los Angeles,
the fight for the possession of j. Ross
Clark III, son of Walter NJ. Clark, a
Titanic victim, and grandson of J..
Ross Clark millionaire railroad man,
was begun.
More than 100 Greeks, formerly
business men in Los Angeles. left for
the East, en- route to take up arms
against the Turks. Their special train
was scheduled to make stops at Salt
Lake City, Denver, Kansas City, Chi
cago and Buffalo, where others will
Join.
Mrs. Winnie Brown, on trial with
her husband, George Wesley Brown,
for the killing of AL Neeves. her faith
er, took the stand at Colfax, Wash, in
her owr defense and repeated the
story of mistreatment by her father
which she had told at the time of her
arrest.
San Quentin state prison, the Cali
fornia board of control announces. will
not require appropriations for support
from the legislature for the next bi-
ennial period. Having jute mill and
furniture factory, it is now .consid-
cred to be self-supporting, exclusive
Of the salary list.
Governor Hawley of Idaho an
nounced that he would appoint a vel
known citizen OF northern Idaho tc
succeed the late Senator w. B. Hey
burn. 1t is said he referred to Judge
vi Wy IT of Vol on
Democrat who presided at the Meyer
Haywood trial.
Maintaining that the Bible is and al
ways has been the worlds standard o.
morals, Mrs Jean B. Wylie of Penn
sylvania urged the need of biblical In
structions in the public schools before
the educational department of the Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
| Union, in annual session at Portland
| Ore.