The Springfield herald., 1900-07-27
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The smallpox is spreading in Alaska
There are 933,249 Scandinavians in
the United States.
Japan has appropriated $50, 100000 to
carry on the war with China.
Every department of the Philippine
islands has asked for more soldiers.
Iowa gives promise of finishing the
century with the banner corn crop Of
its history.
The President has returned to Wash
ington on account of the critical situa-
tion in China.
The business section of Prescott,
Arizona, has been wiped olt by fire.
Loss, about 100000.
Christian Endeavor Sunday in Lon
don brought crowds to 200 churches
where delegates to the international
convention preached or were part of
the audience.
J. NJ. Green of Trenton, New Jersey,
has been chosen president of the Ma
tional Educational Association. The
next place of meeting was left to the
executive committee.
While 2,5OO persons were waiting at
the Pennsylvania station ut Johnstown,
PENNSYLVANIA, to go with an excursion,
fast train ran into the crowd, injur-
ing five persons, one of whom will die
A terrific explosion wrecked Depew's
store at Naylor, Georgia, Wednesday
night, Fragments of a mans boAM
were found in the ruins, and it is ~
lieyed Il safe blower was killed while
at work.
Lord CurZon of l(eddleston, viccroy
of India, has cabled to the secretary
of state for India, Lord George Hami-
ton that an excellent rain has fallen in
the northwestern provinces and IN
parts of central India, and that useful
showers have occurred in Rajpootana
and Deccan.
The State Board of Horticulture for
California reports the acreage of apri-
cot orchards Mt about 32,5OO acres,
and it is roughly estimated that some
Sl,SOO,O0O is invested in apricot or
clards. the drying houses and all the
appurtenances to growing the fruit and
getting it ready for market
Last week was n hard one for the
old men of the Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache tribes of Indians. They had to
give up all of their wives but one
Some of the medicine chiefs had as
many as ten women whom they called
wives. All but the favorite one are
now living away from the old bucks
tepee.
The foreigners at Tien Tsin are cred
tied with having died at their posts
Nth tragic heroism. They We're now
ed down by the infuriated Boxers I'M
til their strength was withered and
their ammunition gone. and they only
gave up the fight after shooting their
own women and children. to save them
from outrage and torture at the hands
of the Chinese.
Anoka. Mimi. July 1.-THE invcsti-
CATION into the recent mysterious
shooting of William Wise and his wife
ut Anoka, Minnesota, has been solved
by the confession of Eliza Wise, ~
younger of the Wise girls, that the de-
PENDANTS. James Hardy ana Elmer MIL
Ter, committed the murder and prac-
tically admitted that the plot to shoot
her parents was formed with the
knowledge of herself and her sister.
The mother had S1,50O in the bank
which was to go to her daughters in
case of her death. and the girls had
said they would divide with their suit
ors when Mrs. Wise was dead. The
father had forbidden the boys to call
on his daughters, and so he was in
cluded in the plot. Eliza testified that
she saw the boys and their guns out
side the house before the shooting. The
girls story made profound sensation,
as the defendants had established n
tentative alibi and it was the general
belief that they We're innocent.
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