The Springfield herald., 1897-09-03
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gan at Chicago on the 23ru.
The price of the sugar trust stock
has gone up from 1O3 to 100 within 3
year.
Quakers from Illinois are inspecting
New Mexican lands with view of col
onizatlon
Government timber inspectors are
vigorously prosecuting timber thieves
in Idaho.
Canadian lumbermen propose to re-
taliate on the United States on account
of the Dingley bill.
1t is reported that Russia will soon
forbid the expectation of wheat owing
to the smqll crop there.
President Mckinley attended re-
union of the Army of the Potomac at
Troy, New York, on the Goth.
The loss to the government on silver
bought under the Bland-Allison and
acts now aggregate $221.5SS, ,17S.OI
The California law prohibiting di-
vorcees from marrying for year, has
made Yuma, Arizona, Grena Green
for amorous California couples.
The International congress called to
discuss measures for the protection of
workmen opened at Zurich on the
23rd. There were 800 delegates pres
ent, and all countries were repre-
sented.
The mill of the Treadwell company in
Alaska is to be doubled in size, giving
1t 300 stamps, reducing ore at n cost of
81 per ton and producing $4,000 per
month. There is 100000 tons of ore
in sight in the mine.
The Elgin Watch Company has ad-
vanced the price of watch movements
ten per cent. The advance is on all the
better grades of movements. Cheap
movements have been advanced also
from fifty TO seventy five cents on each.
The London Chronicle announces the
settlement of the lOng-pendihg strike
in the famous slate quarries of Lord
Penrhyn In Wales. The men have
won n complete victory, Lord Penrhyn
conceding them the full right to com.
bine.
George 7. Eldrdge Of the geograph-
ical survey has returned from trip to
the Utah gilsonite deposits, where he
has been establishing the reservation
line, and has settled beyond doubt
that all the valuable gilsonite beds are
on the reservation.
Good rains have fallen everywhere
throughout India except in the districts
of Bombay and Deccan, and the crops
promise to be exceptionally large. The
number of the relief list are steadily di.
minishing and evidences of famine are
rapidly disappearing.
Princess Kaiulani. who has Just at
tained her majority, will return to Ha-
wall In October, after an absence of
ten years in England and on the con-
tinent She has hopes of being made
queen Of the present island republic IL
annexation falls.
The Havana police have discovered
printing outfit which has been used
to print the proclamations issued by
the insurgent leaders. The proprie-
tors of the establishment, Peralta
Bros, have been arrested and are con-
fined incommunicado
The government OF Peru has ordered
Its postage stamps made in the United
States. The first order for 1000, 600
five-cent stamps has been given to the
American Bank Note Company and an
other for 100000 stamps of other de-
nominations will follow
Several men who have illegally cut
timber in Idaho have been bound over
to answer at the next term of the Fed.
eral Court in Blackfoot. and the gov
ernment has also Instituted civil pro.
ceeding against them to recover the
value of the timber taken.
The first official trip of the com
pressed air motor invented by Robert
Hardy has been made on the Sixth
avenue division of the Manhattan ele-
waited railroad. The train made the
run from Rector to Fifty-eighth street,
over five miles. in eighteen minutes.
has been advised by the attorney gen.
eral to double the amount of the re.
ward offered by the Department of
Justice for the capture of stage rob-
bers in the National Park. Five hun.
dred dollars will now be paid for the
arrest and conviction of the hold-ups.
Active work on the tunnel of the
Great Northern railroad in the Gas.
cade mountains has been commenced
The tunnel will be two and one-half
miles long, sixteen feet wide and TWEEN.
ty-three feet high 1t will cost $1,000
600 and require two years In building.
1t will reduce the ascent by 900 feet.
IL Is the intention OF the santa He
company to equip all locomotives in
the passenger service with electric
headlights. Some time ago similar
light was placed on 427, running be.
tween Topeka and st. Joseph, and SO
satisfactory has been the test that all
night engines will be equipped in q
like manner as speedily as possible.
The Argonnut, n submarine craft,
was launched at Baltimore on the 10th.
Miss Myriam Lake, daughter of the in.
ventor, Simon Lake, of Baltimore,
christened the strange craft. This YES
sci is one of the most unique ever con.
structed. 1t is intended for commer-
cial work, including the exploration OF
the bottom of rivers, lakes, bays and
even seas, for wrecking work.
Range ponies are selling in Arizona
at 81 head. This is the price paid
by Hicks & Brigham, cattlemen of
Tempe, Arizona, and Denver, for 300
head now being gathered on the range
north of Phoenix. The ponies are not
to be made into beef, after the mode
in Oregon, but are to be put on pasture
in the Salt River valley and fattened
and broken to the saddle as n specula-
tion. This is the second bunch of
range animals to be brought into the
valley.
The stockmen of Cassi county, Ida
hO, are organizing TO sion the whola-