The Springfield herald., 1898-08-05
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Twenty salmon fishers were drown.
cd In n recent storm of the mouth OF
the Fraser river.
General Wheeler informs his Ala
bama constituency that he is candi-
date for denomination.
In quarrel at Price, Utah, Sntur-
day night, Jack Watson was shot by
County Attorney Warf.
Admiral Dewey has been given the
degree of doctor of laws by the Uni
vcreity of Pennsylvania.
The Illinois Board of Arbitration has
decided the coal miners strike, but the
operators reject the decision.
General Shaftcr has issued an ad-
dress to his army extolling their braV-
cry in the Santiago campaign.
The Earl of Mimic has been appoint-
ed governor general of Canada In sue
cession to the Earl of Aberdeen.
James Eggleston of the Adams EN-
press Company has been elected pres
ident of the Pacific Express Company.
Spain, through the French ambassa-
dor, asked President Mckinley on the
26th. If he would consider peace pro-
posals.
c. w. Spalding. convicted of wreck
ing the Globe Savings Bank nj Chich-
go. has married his former stcnosraph-
er, Miss Erwin.
| Levi n. Letter of Chicago has bor-
rowed S2.OOOOO0 on his real estate in
order to pay the debts of his son, the
wheat speculator,
| Six of the crew of the lost steam
ship La Bourgogne We're held by
French court for trial at Hnvrc on
charges of brutality.
The jury failed to agree and was
discharged In the case of Senator
Kennedy of wrecking Il national bank
at Dover, Delaware.
City Surveyor Reid of Skaguay. who
killed "Soapy'' Smith recently, re-
ceived n wound in the hand and may
die of blood poisoning.
The steamer Charles Nelson arrived
at Seattle from st. Michael, Alaska.
Monday with 1T3 passengers and
about S1,50O,0OO in gold
Lewis Warner. formerly president of
Northampton. Massachusetts savings
bank. who stole SG0O.0OO, has been ar
rested at Louisville, Kentucky.
Inc COIL HllUeTS SlTlhe 1T uHd.
Illinois, continues to be attended by
scenes of violence, strikers beating
men who have taken their places.
Five men attempted to rob n Santa
Fe train near Fort Worth Thursday
night. They We're chased off by Off
GERS after having killed the engineer.
The first shipment of new war
bonds, amounting to S52O,OOO, was
made to subscribers Monday. About
300, 600 persons made successful bids.
Spain has stated, through General
Toral that she wants the Spanish
prisoners landed mt Nigo Corunna, on
the Atlantic. and at Santander, in the
Bay of Biscay-
The Chicago Civic Federation has is
sued call for national conference at
Saratoga, New York, August 10Th and
Goth, to consider the proper future for
eign policy of this country.
General Miles began TO land his
troops on Porto Rican soil at Guanlca,
on the 25th. There WAS slight resist
ance and forty Spaniards We're killed.
None OF on: men were hurt.
One of the largest transfers of gold
ever made in New York city took
place on July 23rd, in which nine mill
ion dollars were transferred from the
clearing house to the sub-treasury.
The transport steamer Rio Janeiro,
bearing two battalions of South Da-
kota volunteers, recruits for the Utah
Light artillery and II detachment of
the signal corps, sailed for Manila on
the 23rd.
Raiders dynamitcd two toll gates on
I<
warned that death would be their por-
tion If they made further efforts to col
lect toll. Guards will be appointed for
both gates.
A dispatch to the London Chronicle
from Shanghai says that Lii Houi, the
king of Corea, desires to abdicate and
to take refuge at the British consulate
Mt Seoul. The British consul, however,
declines to receive him.
The Independent Republicans organ
ization of the Thirty-fourth Assembly
district, New York city, has unani-
mously adopted resolutions favoring
the nomination of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt for governor of the state of
New York.
The town of Pugwash, 1,2OO inhab-
itants, shipping port of considera-
Die importance III Nova Scotia, was
wiped out by fire on the 25th, 200
| dwellings, five churches, twenty
stores, three hotels and several mills
being destroyed.
The British steamer Regulus, of
about 1,5OO tons. was captured by the
| United States auxiliary gunboat Hawk
nineteen miles from Sagua In Grande,
province of Santa Clara She had
landed a cargo at Sagua Ia Grande and
| was coming out when taken.
| To the question What is to be done
| with General Shafter's Fifth CORPS,
| now at Santiago" the heads of the ad-
minlstration can find but one answer
| That is to keep it in Cuba until every
vestige of yellow fever is stamped out
of it. 1t can be stated positively and
upon the highest possible authority
that there is no intention of bringing
the troops back TO this country at the
| present time.
New York has another DIR. Park
hurst in the person of Father Piscope
of the Roman Catholic Church of the
Precious Blood. on Sunday last he
announced to his congregation that he
| had determined to make n crusade