The Springfield herald., 1900-02-02
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18th.
A college for Films has been dedi-
Gated at Haughton, Michigan. 1t will
accommodate $50 students.
John Tuskin, the well-known English
author died in London on the Goth OF
influenza. He was eighty-one years
old.
Andrew Carnegie has just given $5O,-
600 each to York, Pennsylvania, and
East Orange, New Jersey, for public
libraries.
There is danger of n strike on the
Wabash road. The trainmen ask for
an increase and the officials Ignore
their appeal.
A special grand jury has returned
an elght-count Indictment against
Ellis Glenn. the woman who masQue-
raded as n man, for forgery.
The government has issued instruc-
tions to the Mexican authorities of nll
the ports of Mexico not to permit the
entrance of any vessel from Brazilian
and Asiatic ports owing to the danger
Of the bubonic plague.
The Supreme Court of Iowa has
handed down an opinion sustaining the
constitutionality of the collateral in
heritance law, passed three years ago.
1t imposes n tax of five per cent. on all
inheritances which go to collateral
heirs
According to dispatches from the
scene of the horror in MalowZcnsk, Sa-
mara government, where the dome of
the village church collapsed during the
celebration of mass, thirty lives were
lost in the disaster and sixty persons
ware injured.
The worst part of the influenza cpl.
demic in London appears to be passed.
The number of deaths fell last week,
according to official records. 90 2OS, as
against 316 for the week before. Not
tingham still maintains its death rate
of thirty-two per thousand.
A conference of Irish members of
Parliament from all sections will be
held at Westminster on january Both
to arrange for n reunion of the Irish
parliamentary forces. John Redmond
and his friends will attend this Irish
party meeting for the first time since
the Parnell split.
Hundreds of small cotton mills are
being erected all over Georgia. and
every city, town and village is now try
Ing to raise money for such purpose.
An enormous amount of capital from
New England and other parts of the
North Is being invested in the same
kind of enterprise.
Frcacis T.. Clark. presid.h. .he
Worlds Christian Endcavor Society,
has sailed from San Francisco for the
Orient oh the steamer China, and will
visit Japan, China, Siberia and all the
countries of Europe, eventually arriv-
Ing In London to preside over the En-
deavorers convention to lie held there
next July.
As test of the first automatic ore
unloader came up to all expectations,
orders have just been placed for two
more of these giant machines to be
built for the Carnegie docks at Con-
neaut, near Cleveland. This action is
said to assure their adoption all along
the lakes, thus displacing thousands OF
shovelers.
The damage wrought by fire at the
winter quarters of the Barnum 4
Bailey circus at bridgeport, Connecti-
cut, was fully Sl25,O0O. The fire is
believed to have originated from
lamp in the car shed. 1t is now
thought that the departure of the
Buffalo Bill show on its spring tour
will be delayed by reason of lack Of
cars.
The United States Court of Appeals
has affirmed the decision of Judge
Lacombc. dismissing the habcas corpus
proceedings in the case of Oberlin NJ.
Garter, convicted by court-martial Of
frauds in connection with the govern
ment improvements. Carter Is
prisoner on Governors island. He has
been sentenced to six years ut Fort
Leavcnworth, Kansas.
The lawyers of Sioux City. Iowa,
have decided upon n public law library
for the use of the apostles of Black
stone in that vicinity. 1t is to be Il
stock concern, all shareholders to be
lawyers, and they are to pay in cash
or law books $50 per share. In addi-
ton they will pay dues each month.
the surplus thus obtained to be used in
procuring new volumes and keeping up
the library.
The released Spanish prisoners who
have arrived in Barcelona from the
Philippines say that the ultimate vic
tory OF the Americans in Luzon is as
sured. The Filipinos, they declare,
are at the end of their resources, the
fighting men are insutiicently nour-
ished and the natives are hopclcssly di-
vided by factional differences. The
repatriated prisoners. who number
about 1000, are woefully anaemic.
Twenty thousand coal miners of Bo-
hemia have gone on strike, and the
difficulty seems to be only at its be-
ginning. The demand of the work
men is for higher wages and an eight
hour day. The mine owners refuse
legal arbitration and the strike Is likely
to extend. The effects of the strike
are felt already throughout Bohemia.
The scarcity of coal amounts almost
to famine and many factories are idle
for want of fuel.
General Lorenzo Torres engaged the .
Yaquis at Macoyata last week, killing