The Springfield herald., 1897-06-18
rELEoRAPHlc eREvlrlEs.

INV on
The gold reserve on the 4th was $143.o78-
100.
TIE King of Siam has reached Rome on his
way westward.
The Lucania took ont $4,000 ounces Of
silver for Europe last week.
Three nremen were killed at San Francis
CO on the 10Th. The money loss was $780,
OOO
The Denver mine at Tuscarora. Nevada,
was recently robbed of 100000 worth Of bull
lion.
Teller Tzschau has confessed the theft OF
$4,000 from the German American Bank
of st. Paul.
The armorcd cruiser Brooklyn has been
sent to southampton to participate In the
Queens jubilee
The case of Theodore Durrant has gone to
the Supreme Court and II stay of execution
has been granted.
The Queen Regent of Spain has declined
to accept the prime minister's resignation
and as result no change in the ndministra'
tlon OF Cuba Is likely.
Lady Henry Somerset has been reelected
president of the British Womnn's Temper
nnce Union for the eighth time.
Preacher Banker John ID. Knox was ac-
quilted of charges Of hypocrisy and fraud
by the Methodist conference at Topeka.
A drunken man in Brooklyn snored so
loudly that he scared three-year-old girl
Into commissions and she died short time
after.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has declared
the law unconstitutional which last winter
adopted the Torrens system of recording
land titles.
Herr Won Tnusch, the former chief of the
German secret political police. who has pcch
mn ri In VpYlIu for nearly two weeks past.
charged with perjury. high treason and for
| gerry. was acquitted.
| A special dispatch from Naples says:
Mount ycsuvius is in eruption. An area OF
| 1000 yards long by 800 Wide Is covered with
lava and 1t is dangerous to approach withih
| 400 yards of the principal crater.
The Allen bill. authorizing 5-cent far
| nfty-year extension OF all street railway
| franchises In Illinois. has finally passed
| both houses of the state Legislature II Is
not expected that Governor Tanner VIII veto
| the hill.
| Nine German Catholic pastors of Cincin-
| natl announce that hereafter sermons In
| English. as well as In German. Will he.
| preached in their churches. This is done In
| furtherance of the spirit of the recent pnphl
| DEGREES looking to the conduct OF Cathonc
worship in the language OF the country
| State Treasurer Collins of Florida has re-
| slSncu j. H. W Hlliiciu. 'N-''''N W -
| Supreme Court. has t~en appointed Col
| Inns has for some time contemplated resign
| Ing. His resignation saves the state S2o,no
| expenses of trial. while the shortage Will
probably be made good by his bondsmen
| Forty ringIcaders of the San Quentin
| strike have been sentenced to solitary con
| hnement on bread and water for one month.
| The allowance Of tobacco and possibly sugar
| and syrup to the others will he cut on for
| to thn tlt 10
The money Will be used to pay for ten extra
| guards.
| spera from Valparaiso. Chill. says:
| with slight modIhca tions. the agent of n
| large Belgian syndicate has again presented
| to the government proposals for the cstah-
| lIshment Mt Santiago of a bank supported hy
| Belgian capital to the amount Of fS.on.oW.
In spite of the opposition of n portion OF
| the Chillan press. II is. now thought prob
able that the proposition will he accepted.
| william waldorf Aston has taken the
house at wcstgate-on-S Sea which was once
| occupied for two or three weeks by the
| Duke and Duchess of Fife. The tenancy Is
| for twelve weeks. and the rental paid Is 100
| guIncas The house is small and nnprctcn-
| tious but Its value has been enhanced by Its
| exalted associations the rental paid by the
| Duke having been moiety of that now OBJ
| tnined.
l
| stated he favored the enactment of law
| making the penalty for extreme cases OF
| criminal assault death He thought that
| punishment commensurate with the degree
| Of crimes was the snrest prevention Of lynch
| Inrs such as that Mt Trbnna. He consuliol
| one of the Judges of the Ohio Supreme Court
| m the matter. and the latter concidcd with
his Views.
Ex- Secretary Carlisle has settled the gos-
| 81, ,bo bIS fut MANS Inv the forum tjDO
| nf n copnrtncrship at law between himself.
| William Edmund Curtis who was his. as
| slstant secretary. and Mr.. Malet-Pr"vost,
who was secretary of the Venezuelan com
mission He may go to New York to live.
| on this point he has not yet decided. He
| will act solely ms counsel and VIII not .ap'
| pc,rr in court ms n plcader
| Abner Mckinley the Presidents brother.
has Just secured control Of an invention
| which he believes is wortl, millions OF dol
| lars and his friepds trust that hs hopes
| may not he il-foundcd. 1t is n process for
nduiteratlng silk with fiber made from
| wood pulp. fabric half silk and half
fiber is difficult to distinguish from the gen
i uinc article. and Is said to he even more
durable for dress goods and Innings than
| pure silk
Mining men are In n ferment over the rob
hcry of $40 900 worth of bullion from Dexter
mine In the Tnsonrora district sixty miles
from Reno. Nevada. The theft occurred sew
rrnl weeks ago but no action was taken In
the matter until recently. when the sheriff
started for Tuscnrora with warrants forrhe
arrest OF the officials Of the mine. suspected
Df the robbery. Meanwhile the supposed
culprits had left camp and are being
watched for all along the line,
There will be no strike of the 23OO0 min
rrs in the Pittsburg district for the present.
This was decided at delegate convention.
and is largely due TO National President
| Rutchford's address advising moderation