The Springfield herald., 1900-01-05
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strlRe III france.
Hastings, Minnesota, suffered from
big fire on the 25th. Loss 100000.
Recruits for the Boer army are being
recruited NJ Cincinnati and other cities
Thirty men were killed by an ex-
plosion Of gas in Il cofliery ut Brown
vile, Pennsylvania.
The Salvation Army served dinner to
2I,OOo poor people mt Madison Square
Garden, New York, on Christmas.
By wreck on the Northern Pacific,
SIX miles east of Bearmouth, Mon
lana, four men We're killed and several
injured, more or less seriously.
The postotiice department has never
handled so many Christmas packages
;is this year. The returns of registered
packages will show Il total nearly dou-
bic that of any previous season.
The New York Heralds correspond
cnt at Colon reports that official advices
have been received from Venezuela
that the government troops In that re-
public completely defeated the rebel
forces under General Hernandez on
December 11th.
A horrible wholesale murder has just
been committed in Osiek, near Kalisch,
Poland. Nine members of the family
of Il wealthy landed proprietor, named
Kowalski. We're killed after frightful
erything valuable. There is no clue to
the murdercrs.
The steamer Dunottar Castle, having
OH board Lord Roberts of Kandahar,
commander-in-chief of the British
forces in South Africa, and General
Sir Kitchener, who came from Egypt
to join Lord Roberts as his chief Of
staff, has sailed from Gibralter.
A dispatch from Pretoria under date
of December 18th says: General Jou-
bert has recovered and returned to the
front to-day. There were special ser
vices yesterday in the different laagers
| as thanksgiving for the victories OF
ColensO, Stormberg and Moddcr river.
Lady Randolph Churchill has re-
celved a cable dispatch from her son,
Winston Churchill, who was captured
| by the Beers in Natal and taken to
| Pretoria, and whose escape from there
was announced December list, saying
he had auived safely at Delagoa bay.
Charles III. Cole, formerly president
Of the Globe National Bank of Boston,
Is under arrest at Los Angeles. Mr..
Cole is charged in complaint, by the
Boston authorities, with misspprOpriat-
ing and embezZling S900,OO0 on four
counts. The bank has suspended busi-
ness.
The directors of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company have offered a re-
ward of $4,000 for information lead
ing to the discovery and conviction of
any persons who may have circulated
recently false statements or rumors
| with intent to affect the market price
OF the stocks or securities of the cor
porntion.
President Henry Morton of the Stew
ems Institute has announced that An
drew Carnegie had agreed to give $780,
600 toward the payment for the con-
struction of a new engineering labor
atory, as an adjunct to the institute in
Hoboken, New Jersey. The new build
ing will be begun Immediately.
| Archbishop kain of ST. Louis has
received Il communication from Mgr.
Martinelli. the apostolic delegate at
Washington, saying that the recent
decree issued from Rome, regarding
indulgences and other favors from the
Pope, does not in any way abridge the
faculties heretofore held by bishops
and archbishops of issuing dispensa-
tions for mixed marriages.
w. w. Simpson and A. w. Lager
quist of the Christian and Missionary
Alliance of New York arrived on the
Idzuni Maru from Thibet. After three
years work not Il single convert to
Christianity has been obtained. The
Buddhist priests, owing to China's In
ternal troubles are in absolute con
troll and will make physical war on the
introduction of Christianity.
Congressman Boutelle Is suffering
from Brights disease in its last stages
and the violent attacks, bordering on
delirium, which he has experienced in
the last few days have been caused by
uraemic poisoning, which results in
convulsions resembling symptoms Of
insanity. While the utmost secrecy has
been maintained ever since Congress
man Boutelle's return TO his home con-
cerning his real condition, 1t has be-
come known, through various sources,
that his case is far more critical than
has been admitted by the doctors and
members of the family.
| George w. Van Sicen. the treasurer
of the American Transvaal fund, says
| that he is receiving $50 Il day in small
amounts. from all over the country.
He has received 5000 for the widows
and orphans of the Beers.
| 10. @. Hodges X Co., bankers and
brokers of Boston, have suspended bus.
mess. The firm is one of the largest
| in the city Its dealings have been
principally in municipal bonds. The
suspension of this well-known house,
it is estimated, will carry the total lia-
bilites of concerns at Boston which
have failed within the past two weeks
close to S1T 100000.
\ The supreme Court of Montana has
announced its decision in the Well