The Springfield herald., 1900-03-02

creamery and dairy interests held q
convention at Lincoln, beginning on
the 18th.
The attorney general for Ireland, A.
]. Atkinson, snys the case OF eylcteH
tenants in Dublin is fast diminish
ing evil. The evictions Of the past
year were only 454, the lowest In thirty
years.
Chicago surgeons recently success
fully tried n German experiment IN
nmputating n woman's leg. BY inject
ing cocaine in the vertebral cavity,
which rendered the lower part Of her
body insensible to pain.
Theodore Moss, Marcus Mayer and
Olga Nethersole the actress, have been
arrested ut New York for the produc-
ton of "Sappho," now on ut Wallacks.
The charge is the violation Of the stat
ute against "offenses against public de-
ccncy.
Some of band of Cree Indians
camped near Butte, Montana, went to
the city to get a quantity of alcohol.
By mistake they were given wood alco-
hol. Three of the band two bucks and
a squaw, drank It. They all three died
in great agony.
Last Saturday the Court of Private
Land Claims concluded its session at
Tucson. and is about ready to dissolve,
under the law. 1t is reported that an
act of Congress is to bc passed con-
tinulng the existence of the court to
adjudicatc land claims in Puerto Rico.
The Spanish ministry has decided to
make an appropriation to pay DEBT OF
nincty-six years standing. This Is to
cover the hitherto unpaid salaries OF
the Swiss mercenaries employed In
Spain by the Bourbon dynasty during
the Napolconic wars and disbanded In
Spain in 1904.
The present week will probably wit
ness the completion of negotiations for
the combination of the electrictl vehicle
company that is controlled by the
Whitney Widcncr Elkins syndicate
and the Anglo-American Vehicle Com
pany, of which William w. Gibbs is
president. The capitalization is eI-
pected to be $5O.OOO,OOO.
The farmers in Dickinson county,
Kansas, who have been contributing
to the relief of the famine sufferers IN
India, to-day shipped the third car of
corn to Bombay. Over $500 has been
gathered in cash. Railroads carry the
corn free and steamship lines at half
rates, making 1t cost 20 cents bushel
freight from Abilene to Bombay.
An American syndicate with q capt.
tai of S1O,OOO.OOO will Immediately be
gin the construction Of Il great steel
plant in Monterey, Moxico. Ground
has been purchased. The plant will
make n specially of manufacturing
steel rails. and will be the first indus
try of the kind to be established In
Mexico. 1t will employ about 1900
men.
The New York World publishes poll
Of the State Senate, showing that thir-
ty senators favor repeal OF the Horton
prize fighting law, and twenty oppose
1t. The opposition to the law through
out the state is astonishingly general
and 1t Is growing. Petitions for Its re-
peal, with its thousands Of Sgners,
are still coming in from all parts of
the state.
William II. Beard. the artist, is dead.
He was famous as a painter OF ami
mails He was born mt Painesville.
Ohio, in 1925. He began his profess
sional career about 1916. Ten years
after he studied and painted in Eu-
Thomas Lcclaire, the portrait painter.
He was elected member Of the Acad.
emy In 1862.
An exciting scene took place at the
Crystal Palace, London, last Sunday
afternoon. Two large elephants be-
longing TO the circus ran amuck, killed
their keepers and gorcd another man.
There was terrible panic in the nudi-
In tIa 81
One animal was captured after great
damage to property. The other escaped
through the grounds, but was captured
late this evening in the suburb Of
Breckenham.
From the beginning of the war with
Spain to the present time the total cI-
penditures of the government on ac-
count of that war and on account or
the hostilitics in the Philippines
amount to about $355. 100000, as fol-
| lows: War Department, S255.0OO,WO;
Navy Department SG9,OO.OOO; paid to
Spain for Philippines, $2O,00O,OOO; in
| terest on war loan to date. S9,OOO,WO;
| increased expenses in departmental
| service in Washing. S20OO,OOO.
The contests over the Kentucky state
offices are very much simplified by an
agreement entered into between the at
torneys for the Republicans and the
| Democrats, representing both sides,
and Strengthening out the legal tangle
over the multiclplicity of injunction
suits for the title to the governorship.
| The agreement Is that there will he q
speedy trial by the courts on an organ
iZed case involving all the issues, the
first to be before Judge Emmet Field
| at Louisville.
The crops in Puerto Rico are i'm
| movable on account of the prohibitive
duties on tobacco and sugar. There are
$500. 900 pounds of tobacco ready to
| IL, a.,l tlnrn will ln 4 DAA l0Q Dounds