The Springfield herald., 1897-02-05
rELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

| The mercury fell to hfty degrees below
zero In Manitoba on the 25th.
| Madame Modjeskn has reappeared on the
stage after two years Of quiet life.
| Mrs. Hungerford, who wrote many novels
| under the pen-name of .'The Duchess" died
| on the 25th.
committee of the Missouri Legislature
is Investigating the police department OF
| Kansas City.
| Sir Isaac Pltman, the Inventor of the sys-
| TEN of stcnoGraphy which bears his name,
died the 22nd.
The body of the late Minister Willis was
| buried from his home in Louisville, Ken
tucky, on the 27th.
Senator Warren of Wyoming has rscov-
cred sufficiently to be able to attend to his
| duties at Washington.
1he woman suffrage bill was defeated IN
| the House of the Oklahoma Legislature on
the 25th by n decisive vote
Queen Liliuokalanl was in Washington or
the 18th and called on President Cleveland,
| who gave her a cordial reception
The Burlington road suffered loss OF
100000 by the burning Of part OF its
| shops at Plattsmouth Nebraska.
] A Chinese boy arrested at New York for
/ deportation Will be escorted to San Francis
co at cost of nearly a thousand dollars.
Baltimore ministers want John Il. Red
| mond arrested for lecturlng in that city on
Sunday, contrary to the city ordinances.
A dispatch from Madrid says there has
been a severe storm In the Gulf Of Cadiz and
twenty-four fishing boats have been lost
| near San Lucar.
| 1t !. possible that the Christian Endeavor
convention may be held In Philadelphia, In
stead of San Francisco, because Of unsatis-
| factory railroad rates.
| r D., oP +ho utvhbipdera
In San Francisco was murdered Saturday
night. The Chinese consul Is said to be
next on the assassin's list.
| United States Senator James Y. George
Of Mississippi is dangerously Ill Mt Washing
| ton from heart failure and 1t Is feared that
he is dying. He is 10 years old.
No important change In the contests for
election of senator's in Idaho and Utah was
reported the 25th. 1t seems doubtful II
Dubois Thatcher can be elected.
| At Perry. Oklahoma. sod school house
collapsed and twenty-five scholars were en-
tombed. Several will die. and Miss Jennie
Jones, the teacher, is In critical condition.
| The Christian Home orphanage at Coun-
Gil Bluffs, Iowa. burned. One hundred boys
| were in the building and suffered greatly
from the cold. The fremen frosted toes and
| fingers.
All the cash In the state treasury of
|
| last Monday when 1t was being escorted by
4 company OF militia from the capital to Its
various repositories.
An appreciable curtailment of production
of cotton cloth and other goods made by Fall
| River mills Is almost certainty, ms most OF
| the owners have agreed to shut down two
| days a week until May 1st.
| The bill to provide for holding terms of
| the United States court for the Eastern dis
fri OF M NJ low Of ant
| was passed the presidents veto by a
| vote of IA to 6s In the House.
A dispatch from Madrid says that the Sc
| we're weather has resulted In great distress.
especially in the province of Seville. Bread
riots have occurred at Luislana, yiso del
Alcora, Arahal and other towns.
Mayor Swift has Issued call to the char
| liable citizens of Chicago to come to the aid
| of the suffering poor The number of des.
| tltute in the city is greater than at any
time the winter following the Worlds Fair.
An order has been received from Washing
ton removing United States Internal Rev
| enue Collector Joseph Bowling of Cincin-
natl for violation of the civil service law.
| He was charged with having levied political
| assessments
Captain Henry King, chief editorial writer
| of the st. Louis Globe Democrat, has been
| appointed to succeed the late Joseph b. Nc
| Cullagh as editor of the paper. He has prac-
| tically been in charge of the paper for the
| last two years.
The Greenlee Bros. x Co.'S wood working
machinery plant and the Northwestern Stove
Repair companys factory, Greenlee Bros.
owners, at 225 to 235 West Twelfth street.
Chicago, We're entirely destroyed by fire
Saturday night. Loss, 100000
While Frederick Graeber and Miss Gothic
an engaged couple, were driving on the
| public road half mile east of Shamokln.
Pennsylvania. the earth caved In and they
were preclpltated into an abandoned mine.
| The woman was killed and the man badly
! injured.
| special from Pottsdam, New York says:
| The Pottsdam National bank, with capital
stock OF $4,000, was closed by a national
bank examiner to-day. The failure of the
Pearceneld Falls Pulp 4 Paper company
| about week ago is said to have caused
| the bank failure.
| Mayor Swift of Chicago has signed the
| theater hat ordinance. The measure will 20
| into effect ten days after Its publication.
| The measure provides for fine to be In
| posed on any woman who refuses to remove
| her hat In a theater after any complaint has
| been made regarding 1t.
4 Mayor James NJ. Jones of Kansas City
| sprung n decided sensation at the Lexow
| investigation Monday morning when he dra-
! matcaly arose In the witness stand, and
| holding two slips of paper in his hand, said:
| 81 hold in my hand policy tickets bought
! within an hour in Kansas City" And he
| proved 1t by the man who bought them.
The twenty-nlnth national convention of
| the National American Suffrage association
met at Des Moines the 26th. Among
those In attendance were Susan b. Anthony
of New York, president of the association;
| Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery. the correspond
Ing secretary, and Rev. Anna NJ. Shaw, vice
president at large, both of Philadelphia.
7. S. Talinferro, of Green River, wyo-
ming, has returned from trip to Chicago
In the interests of the soda industry He
says that by next June $4,000 steam evap-
grafton soda plant will undoubtedly be In
active Green River operation, Chicago cap.
ltal being mainly Interested and the ma
| chinery being of the latest Improved va
riety.
EN- Governor Altgeld, in speech in Chi
cago Saturday night, said over 94 900 fraud
ulent votes were counted In Ohio In the re-
cent election and that Mr.. Bryan actually
carried the state by over 10000. In Illinois
Mckinley actually had only very small ma
Iority, while he was credited with 100 O0J
majority, and he did not legally carry In
DIANA Kentucky California, and prob