The Springfield herald., 1899-01-06
TELEGRAPHlc sREvIrIES.

10 demand satisfaction for an affront
BY collision of engines near Lex
ington, Ky, nine men We're badly in
jured.
The gunboats Buffalo and Helena
have reached the Suez canal on their
way to Manila.
There was n serious riot In n suburb
OF Havana the other day that was
with difficulty suppressed.
Importations of manufactures from
Great Britain into the United States
seem likely to show an unusually
small total In the year 1898.
Russia has successfully negotiated n
loan of S1oO,O0O,0oO with the Roths-
childs. 1t is proposed to use one-half
of this sum to rearm and reorganize
the artillery branch of the service.
It is asserted that the French police
have seized several bundles of letters
whose contents prove that military
plot is in thorough working order.
Burglars tackled the county Jail at
New Brunswick, New Jersey. last
Tuesday night, and relieved sleeping
sheriff. George Litterst, of SIOO i'll
cash.
Colonel William Jennings Bryan will
|
Day banquet of the Ducliworth Club.
The date of the banquet has been
changed to Friday. January 9th to
meet his convenience.
Advices from Bolivia say that the
condition of affairs there is serious.
Young men belonging to the best So
ciety are joining either side. the banks
| have lost nearly all their clerks and
| civil war is inevitable.
A special from Dawson City, dated
November 10Th. says: Reports from all
creeks in the vicinity of Dawson City
indicate that the winters product of
| gold will exceed that of last year by
more than 100 per cent.
The American National Bank of
Lima. Ohio. was robbed last Sunday
night of S1S,1G2. The money was TAX
| en- from the big vault. The robbery
was perpetrated in n skillful manner,
no damage being done to the vault.
The American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association has presented TO the
Anglo-American joint high commission
ers Il carefully prepared argument in
favor of free paper and free fsllp. They
urge it because of the existence of the
paper trust.
Bishop William Z. McLaren of the
diocese of Chicago will accept the mis-
| sion to Porto Rico to investigate the
field there for promotion of the Epis-
copal church interests. as delegated to
him by the Episcopal conference in
Washington.
Ambassador Hitchcock. at ST.
| Petersburg, cabled the secretary of
state that he has been officially noti-
| fled that n contract for 10000 tons of
rails for the Eastern Chinese railroad
has been awarded to the Pennsylvania
Il Maryland company.
News has been received from Vienna
| that the committee appointed TO decide
the disposition of the prizes for the
most brilliant games payed in the re-
cent international tournament at vi
emma, has awarded the first prize to
Pillsbury for his game against Hal
prin.
The movement recently set on foot
| among Methodists to celebrate the in
coming of the twentieth century by
raising n thank Offering fund to the
amount of S2O,O0O.0 900 is meeting with
| favor. OF the proposed sum S10.0O0-
| 600 will be devoted to educational pur-
| poses.
General Guy V. Henry. the military
| governor of Porto Rico. reduces the
budget for next year from 4.O0O,0OO
pesos. as under the Spanish regime, to
| ]. 100000 pesos. He asks for authority
to apply the custom house revenue to
the Improvement of roads and the
cleaning of cities.
Miss Mercedes Garcia. daughter of
| the late Calixto Garcia, the Cuban
leader. died at Thomasville, Georsia,
on the 9th. of consumption. The body
will he embalmed and taken to Cuba
on the warship which the United States
has designated to convey the remains
of General Garcia back to his native
land.
Sir Thomas I.ipton. challenger for
the America cup. has offered to come
to the relief of the distressed English
colony of Barbados. He is prepared
to invest S5,OO0.O0O in the sugar in
dustry of that island and has named
to the English government FEW
easily filed conditions.
An Italian paper asserts that n Ger
man syndicate has promised Don Car
los n loan of 3O,O0O.O00 francs in three
| installmentS-the first when he has
10000 men under arms: the second
when he has captured Bilbon. capital
of the province of Biscay. and the
| third two months after operations are
| commenced.
General Merritt in an Interview Mt
Chicago. said of the Philippines: "The
best we can do is to give them good
military government. give them what
civilians are necessary to administer the
civilian functions of government, and
when they are ready to form gov
ernment of their own, give them our
blessing and let them GO"
President Peck of the Lafayette Me-
mortal commission. acknowledging re-
ceipt of contributions from Ohio for
the Lafayette monument fund writes
to State School Commissioner Bone
brake that the total con n'rbutionS from
Ohio up TO date amount TO S-.2S3.94,
the largest amount contributed by any
single state except Illinois.
Reports of southern railways show
that the development of new industries
throughout that section of the country
is rapidly increasing. More than 300
new factories have been located along
the lines of the Illinois Central since
January l and the industrial depart
ment of the Southern railway reports
nj