The Springfield herald., 1900-01-26
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

The government of Sauto Domingo
| has paid the BOsmare Caccavelli claim
amounting to 10000 francs C$56,OOO)
to the French representatives. This
will probably end the trouble.
The government OF the Congo Free
State, which has Its headquarters In
Brussels, has decided to adopt wireless
telegraphy for the transmission or ON
llnl dispatches in the upper s9ngo re-
gion.
The Transatlantic steamship lines
have increased their passenger rates
between New York and Europe, owing
to the heavy travel that Is expected to
the Paris exposition. The increase
ranges from ten per cent. upwards.
The government OF Greece has arous-
ed the ire of the Sultan by refusal to
extraditc u number of young Turkish
refugees whom the Constantinople au-
thorities desire to bring to trial for al
legged conspiracy against the present
regime.
Mayor Carter IL. Harrison has for
mally refused the offer of the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor. AS II
result of Mayor Harrison's action
friends Of former Vice President Ste
venson are urging him to accept the
nomination.
The foreign ministers In Pekin are in
Il state of CONSERVATION over II second
edict just promulgated by the empress
dowager, multiplying that which follow
ed the recent protest OF MI Edwin II.
Conger, United States minister, against
the insufficient protection accorded for
cigners in China.
The statement of the treasurer OF
Harvard University. which will soon
be issued shows that gifts which were
made to the university from August !,
1898, to July 81. 1899, aggregated ST.
544,S29 OF this amount 81 1884 was
to form new funds or increase old ones
and S161 3GS was available for immedi-
ate use.
Trading in puts" and calls on the
Chicago board of trade was finally ana
absolutely prohibited by the directors
of the board Wednesday, and the rule
to that effect passed by the directors
was read from the gallery by Secretary
Stone. At meeting of the directors
so-callcd privilege trading was defined
us dishonorable conduct.
1t is announced that $4,000 has been
pledged by one person, whose name Is
withheld, to the fund which Is being
raised to carry on the work Of Dwight
l.. Moody Other large sums are ex-
pected by the committee to whom has
been committed the continuation OF the
educational Institutions founded by the
EVANGELIST.
During the last year 25,3O2.9O1 BUSH
els of grain and 2,19S,513 gallons Of
molasses were used in the manufacture
OF liquor In this country, which pro
ducad 1O7, ,61S, 12O gallons OF spirits anu
1867 ,Sos gallons of rum, making to-
toI of 1O0,27592S, which is about one
gallon and half to every man, woman
and child in the country.
Nearly 500 delegates to the national
convention of the United Mine Workers
of America are in session ut Indinnap-
oils. The convention represents 1OoOoo
workmen In twenty-seven states. All
Of the delegations come instructed to
demand an advance in the scale, but
there is some difference as to how
much will be in demand.
james Welch. plaintiff in Il damage
suit against the Northern Pacific rail-
way Company. attempted to assassi-
nate Judge William Lochren of the
United States Circuit Court in the
judges chambers at st. Paul. Court
Messenger James Conway prevented
the shooting, and had Il severe cncoun-
ter with Welch, who was afterwards
arrested.
William A. English, a son of the for
mer Democratic vice presidential can
didnte from Indiana. and II captain of
volunteers in the war with Spain, has
returned to the treasury a check for
ST. sent him for services with the
statement that he would not accept pay
for service to his country In the time
of danger. 1t Is the only case Of the
kind in the Spanish war.
The apparently real meaning of the
new $13,OOO.OOO Pennsylvania railroad
stock issue does not rest In the plan to
abolish grade crossings and the cree
ton of a new station in Pittsburg, at Il
cost OF 81, 1,5OO,OOO together with better
ments elsewhere over the great system,
but in meeting payment for extended
purchases of stock Of the Chesapeake
X Ohio, said to amount to 1OO,OOO
shares.
The Criminal Court at Metz has SEN
fenced Heinrich Bouchy, an agent do
ing business there, to three months
Imprisonment and fine of 1880
marks (S1O,115) for bringing into AL
sace-Lorraine since October, 1895,
American pork on forged certificates
The pork was brought into the reichs-
lnnd by way of Boulcgne, the certiti-
Gates representing 1t to be OF French
origin.
Governor Stephens and Attorney
General Grow of Missouri have gone to
Washington. where the attorney gen.
eral will file in the United States Su-
preme Court an application for an In
junction to restrain the trustees Of the
Chicago sanitary district from turning
the water from the drainage canal into
the Mississippi river. on the ground
that the ict will endnnger the health of