The Springfield herald., 1897-09-17
TELEGRAPHic sREvITIES.

mayor OF new 1ork
Testimony in the Luetgert murder
case at Chicago, is very damaging to
the defendant.
The interest in pearl gathering in
Arkansas is increasing. Many fine
pearls are being found.
Twenty sailors have deserted the
United States steamship Concord at
Juneau to go to the mines.
A special commission will meet short
ly to consider the Introduction of COM
pulsory education in Russia.
Thanksgiving services for the com
pletion of the Franco Russian alliance
were held all through France last Sun
day. ..
Fred Eckland, n young ranchmaIi
was badly injured by being throwr
from wagon near Horse Creek, Wyo
ming. W. --I ..... .t.- -e-
Eight Armenians charged with com
plicity in the bomb throwing in Con
stantlnople, have been sentenced to
death.
Iowa Democrats have sued to cnjoin
the secretary of state from putting tho
ticket Of the boiling Populists on the
official ballot.
SlA ptISOhs were kllltu
badly injured by an explosion of natu-
raj gas in suburb of Indianapolis II
few days ago.
The newspapers of Madrid say tina!
Premier Ascarraga has failed in his
efforts to reunite the warning sections
of the Conservative party.
President Andrews intimates that he.
may remain with Brown University
nj rnlya oh IF I'm R,ie
Walkers educational scheme.
The Spanish cabinet has decided to
summon the next clnss of 10000 re
serves, 27,OOO of whom will be sent 10
Cuba, and 1900 to the Philippine is
lands. -
Judge Ellsworth of Oakland, Cali
fornia, has ruled that bicycle is per
sonal property and exempt from exc
cution II used by the owner in his
daily business.
Since Tuesday of the present week
about 800 Turks have been arrested
at Constantinople, for supposed con-
nection Wit the committee of the
Young Turk party.
A steamship line from the gulf to
the principal points of Central Amer
lea and the West Indies is to be put
burg & Gulf railroad.
The steamer Del Norte has arrived
at San Francisco from Dutch Harbor.
and the Pribylof islands, Alaska, with
10000 seal skins for the North Ameri-
can Commercial company.
The affairs of the Massachusetts, Ben
eft Life Association will be wound up.
The temporary receivers have been
made permanent. The assets of the
association, 1t is said, are about $780,,
900.
General Fitzhugh Lee has left Ha-
vana for the United States. 1t is
thought that he will not return to Cuba
as he has for sometime wished to be
relieved OF the position of consul gen
eral.
For the first time In the history of
our navy, carrier pigeon message was
received at the Norfolk navy yard, con
veyIng an official --'lort of the location
and movements he North Atlantic
squadron. H... .-..I.
| The London Times has published a
dispatch from Simla saying that the
Ameer of Afghanistan desires to pre-
vent his subjects from participating in
disturbances, but that they are secret
| ly aroused by the Mullahs.
Secretary Bliss has requested Secre-
| tary Alger to furnish four troops of
| cavalry at Zuni, ew Mexico, on the
| 18th, for the pre- .ec;ion of territorial
| authorities In arresting and prosecut-
ing several Zuni Indians accused of
torturing an aged Zuni woman.
The settlement of the coal strike on
the basis of the proposition now under
Il tow, DI, ,1,,,u ,,
no effect with the New York and Cleve-
land Coal Gas Company. De Armitt
says the men must return to work un-
der the contract before the strike.
W. Russell Ward. the Englishman
| who created n sensation a short time
ago by eloping with the wife of Mil.
lionaire John Bradbury Of Los Angeles,
California, committed suicide on the
third by throwing himself from Chi
cago & Northwestern train, in Iowa.
The Prohibition city convention of
New York has nominated William T.
Wardwell for mayor of Greater New
York, Alfred II. Walker for comptrol-
ler and Thomas Crawford for presi-
dent of the council. Mr.. Wardwell is
the treasurer of the Standard Oil Com
pany.
! "A AhIEC hy WHICH, III Johcs " IsduslI-
Inns mill at Pittsburg burst Saturday
morning. tearing the entire side of the
mill and doing damage exceeding S1j,-
600. A large piece of the wheel, weigh
ing 300 pounds or more, smashed an
electric crane square away. No one
was injured.
The Constantinople correspondent of
the London Standard says that the Sui
tan and the Gear have made mutual ar
rangenments whereby the Sultan
agrees never to use his influence
against Russia and Central Asia, and
the Gar pledges himself to uphold
Turkish rights in Europe. -
score or more of representative
freight men of Minneapolis and ST.
Paul have been summoned to appear
before the federal grand jury in Sep
tember to testify as to the charges of
illegal rate cutting, said 10 have been
mostly on flour rates. There is much
CONSERVATION in railway .eircles.