The Springfield herald., 1912-11-15
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. o DIN @ .. ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERiNGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

Following a quarrel over the own
trship Of litter OF pups, William
Zirnheld, twenty-slx.. shot and killed
Fred Bauer, twenty-three, at Louis
vile, Ky.
Tony Janus started on an aero
plane flight from Omaha to New Or
leans. carrying a message of greeting
to the New Orleans mayor from May
or Dahlman of Omaha.
Edwin Goodwin. a 17-year-old boy,
admitted he was responsible for the
death OF Captain Harry c. Young.
whose body was found near small
stream at Surry, Maine.
Rutherford B. Cook, assistant Sec
retary OF the Chicago Nationals. shot
and killed one Of two men in an auto
who attempted to rob him on Wash
ington boulevard in Chicago.
In the partition Of a large part OF
the estate of the late Colonel Thomas
II. Swope at Kansas City, Mrs. Fran
ces H. Hyde, wife of DR.. B. Clark
Hyde. received property valued at
$11S.00O.
Mrs. G. Purdue, 35, wife Of rail-
road conductor, and her six-months-
old daughter. were burned to death
in a shed in the rear of the Perdue
home at Ossowatomie, Kan. A five
year-old son, who was burned, died.
"There is $s52 in cash and notes"
,,i,l vowaIl IN mon and women
depositors who besieged the Kirby
Savings Bank at Chicago. The bank
went into the hands of receivers after
its president had been adjudged in
sane.
A warrant charging murder in the
first degree was issued at Sedalia,
Mo-, for Mrs. Pansy Lesh. who con-
fessd at Los Angeles to having poi
soned Mrs. F. NJ. Quaintance of Green
ridge, Mo-, and Mrs. Eliza A. Cole OF
Sedalia.
Mrs. Louise Lindloff. spiritualist
crystal gazer. was found guilty OF
murder at Chicago and her punish
ment was fixed at twenty-five years
in the penitentiary. She was charged
with poisoning her 15-yearold son,
Arthur.
Martin Coggin, 522 Sibley street, a
night watchman. and Harry Thurston,
621 South Halsted street. cook, shot
and probably fatally wounded each
other in Chicago, following quarrel
over the arrest of girl supposed to
be Christine Miller, 16 years old.
Frederick Vining Fisher. preacher.
lecturer, author and traveller, has been
appointed head of the lecture bureau
of the Panama-Pacific Exposition and
he is planning to send corps OF able
speakers throughout this country and
Europe to tell of the 1915 worlds fair
at San Francisco.
A representative of a glove factory
at Gloversville, N. Y, has found
practical use for prairie dogs. The
hides from half dozen were shipped
to the factory, where they were made
up. The result was a glove soft and
pliable as kid. waterproof and never
cracking or roughing up.
According to statements made at
Fort Worth by attorneys in her en-
ploy, Mrs. Frank w. Elkins, widow of
the exiled son of the late senator
from West Virginia, and half brother
of Miss Katherine Elkins, contem-
plates suit to recover her husbands
share in the great estate of the SEN
ator, who died multi-millionaire.
Just thirty minutes after pretty IA
year-old Mrs. Annie Scroggins was
granted divorce from her husband.
William Scroggins. she entered the
county clerks office at Fort Worth,
Texas, with C. E, Lacey, obtained
license, and married him one hour
later. The girl is also suing for pos
session OF her six-months-old baby.