The Springfield herald., 1900-07-13
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The office of the Detroit Journal was
gutted by fire last week.
Three tons of Klondike gold were re-
celved in Seattle Sunday.
The governments surplus for the
fiscal year just ended was SSl ,229,IT.
The Rev. C. NJ. Sheldon is drawing
great crowds to his meetings in Lon
don.
Crowds greeted Governor Roosevelt
at Kansas and Missouri towns and he
spoke briefly.
Rear Admiral Philip. who command
ed the Texas at the battle of Santiago,
died Saturday.
Two passengers We're killed and thir-
ty-three wounded in railroad wreck
in Montana Tuesday.
Officials of the Chicago sub-treasury
say the call for silver is the heaviest
ever known for June.
Pennsylvania's crew won the inter-
collegiate boat race ut Poughkeepsie.
Wisconsin was second.
Western roads decide to stop pay
ment of commissions to tourist agen-
cies on January l, 1901.
The Amalgamated Copper companies
of Butte refuse to concede the eight
hour day to their employees.
- Diplomatic representatives of foreign
nations were ordered to leave Pekin
June 10th. but refused to go.
The Danish West Indies have asked
that steps be taken toward their an
neyation to the United States.
Lord Roberts troops are being at
tackled on every hand by Beers and in
three days the British losses have been
more than 100.
Germany has been aroused by the
murder of Baron Won Ketteler and
large land and naval forces will be
hurried to China.
One hundred and sixty are known to
be dead from the North German Lloyd
fire at Hoboken. ninety-five are miss
ing and 200 additional unaccounted for.
The steamer Dirigo has arrived from
Skagway. She brings ten boxes of gold
dust valued at nearly SSOO,OOO. The
Dirigo carried seventy-two passengers,
mostly from Dawson.
General Aquino, prominent leader of
Philippine insurgent forces, surrender
ed Internationally to First Lieutenant
John O'Connell. with Macabebe scouts
on June 26th, with siXty-four rifles and
ammunition.
The commanders of the allies in Tien
Tsin inform the correspondents that it
would be suicide to attempt to reach
Pekin with the troops now available,
in the face of the colossal force of i'm
perial troops and Boxers occupying the
country between Tien-Tsin and Pekin.
The Nome beach for three miles
above and below the town is alive with
miners digging for gold, while tons
upon tons of miners supplies. machin-
cry and general merchandise lies
strewn about unprotected from sun or
rain. A large number of guards are
employed protecting the merchandise.
The concensus of opinion among mill
tary and naval authorities is that IL
will require at least $4,000 men to res
cue the Europeans in Pekin. The allies
have to hold Taku In strength and the
occupation of strategic points on the
railroad to Tien Tsin will be most diff
ficult. Tien Tsin itself will be most
strongly held.
The Roosevelt Rough Riders Re
union Association organized for the en-
suing year as follows: President, Cap
tain McClintock, B troop. Arizona
Captain Fritz Muller. ID troop, New
Mexico, first vice president; Lieutenant
John Greenaway, G troop. Arkansas
second vice president. and secretary
and treasurer, Charles Hunter, ID troop
Enid, Oklahoma.
According to an official of the Wells.
Fargo company, five men connected
with the Cochise train robbery includ
ing Stiles, whose capture took place OF
Sunday, have been run down and are IN
jail at various places. He refuses tC
say where they are. but he said that
detectives are in possession Of clues
which will lead to sensational arrests
of persons not under suspicion.
United States Commissioner General
Peck gave n grand dinner last Friday
with covers for 100 in the United. States
pavilion at Paris in honor of the Amer
lean jurors on the committee OF
awards. This is the first time n big
banquet has been attempted in the
American building in the Street of the
Nations. The jurors have about com
pleted their labors and this is the fare
well function, as most of them are or
the point of returning home.
Three Chinese servants of foreigners
have, it is rumored from good source
escaped from Pekin. They report that
all the foreigners. 1000 in number, in.
Guiding 400 soldiers. 100 members OF
the Chinese customs staff and num-
Der of women and children. held out
till their ammunition was exhausted in
the British legation. The legation was
finally burned and all the foreigners
killed. they assert. 1t is reported thai
Kwan Hsu and the dowager empress
have been poisoned.
The correspondent of the Denver
News. writing of Governor Thomas
speech at Kansas City, says: "Govenol
Thomas speech will read better than il
sounded. The designers of the conven
ton hall foolishly placed the rostrum
almost exactly in the center of tn,
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