The Springfield herald., 1912-03-29
GEN ERAl.

The New Jersey State Senate de-
feated resolution providing for the
right Of suffrage for women.
The Spiritualists in New York city
are to build a 100000 temple in the
heart of the fashionable Park West
section
A new crusade against the long hat
pin is being launched in New York
this time by the city's department OF
health.
Gen. John w. Noble, who was secre-
tary of the interior in President Har-
rison's Cabinet, died in st. Louis re-
Gently.
A gas well struck near Silver Creek,
is flowing 100000 feet day. 1t is
the biggest gusher ever struck in New
York gas fields.
River men are apprehensive of
floods along the Mississippi river be-
cause of the rapid breaking up of ice
and melting of snow
Demands of the 100000 miners in
the bituminous coal fields of western
PENNSYLVANIA. Ohio, Indiana and Illi-
nois, for ten per cent. wage increase
in pay mad shorter working hours were
voted down by the operators.
Following ]. P. Morgans long So
journ in Egypt this winter, reports
have reached New York to the effect
that he is negotiating for the purchase
and removal to America of the famous
ruins of the temple of Philae.
Negotiations between the 100000
miners in the bituminous coal fields
of western Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Illinois and the operators for an ad-
]ustment OF wage differences have
been postponed Two compromise Of
fers by the operators we're voted down
by the miners.
Sidna Edwards, tall. rugged noun
taineer of twenty-five, sits calmly in
the darkness of the little brick Jail
in Hillsville, Va, the first catch of the
posses that have been securing the
mountains for those of the Allen gang
who got away after the court house
assassination of March IA.
In gas explosion caused, 1t is be-
lieved, by mine settings, nine persons
We're killed and two injured in Dun
more. near Scranton, Pa. Two families,
comprising two women and seven
children were either blown to pieces
in the explosion or burned in the fire
that followed and destroyed three
houses.
The Delaware, Lackawanna G. West
ern railroad was found guilty in Unit
ed States District Court in Buffalo of
violating the commodities clause of
the Hepburn act and was fined $4,000.
The company was indicted on 20
counts and faced maximum penalty
of 100000, the charge being that it
shipped free from Buffalo to Scranton.
Pa, quantity OF hay to be used in
feeding mules in the mines.
Wage increases aggregating more
than $10,000,OO0 will go into the pock-
cts of New England textile workers
during the next twelve months, ac-
cording to authoritative estimates of
the result of the present upward trend
of wages in cotton and woolen mills.
On the basis of an annual payroll of
$79 ,OOO, 900 in the woolen mills, the in
crease there will amount to s5,600,OOO,
while cotton mill operatives will re-
ceive an advance of $5.000,000.
Read Admiral George w. Melville,
U. S. Navy, retired, died at his home
in Philadelphia of paralysis. He was
national commander of the Loyal Le-
gion at the time of his death. Rear
Admiral Melville, who was placed on
the retired list January 10, 1908, was
seventy-two years old. For sixteen
years he was chief of the bureau of
steam engineering in the Navy De-
partment, and was member of both
the Jeanette and the Greeley relief
expeditions to the Arctic Circle
A tornado struck New Douglas,
Madison county, Illinois, unroofed sew
mill and broke scores of windows.
Smithboro and Greenville and other
small towns were damaged. In Green
vile 125 houses were wrecked.
President Taft may take hand in
the coal situation to avert strike
in the anthracite fields. The President
is said to be preparing to follow the
precedent established by his predeces-
sor and bring pressure to bear on the
anthracite coal operators to make con-
cessions in the interests of peace.
According to recent report of the
geological survey mines in America
have produced SO far over 15,25O,00O,-
900 pounds of copper. OF this magni-
tudnous quantity 5,315,000, 900 pounds.
or 34.75 per cent, came from the Butte.
Mont, district. 4,756,OO0,000 from Lake
Superior. Mich. and 1,2s5.O0O.OOO from
pJehoa Ariz Especia1Iy {ptoroctip, 10