The Springfield herald., 1901-11-08
1ELEoRAPHIc sREvI1IEs.

The ScottishsRite Masons unveiled a
monument to the late grand master.
General Albert Pike. at Washington,
October 23rd.
A. B. Cummins. Republican candi-
date for governor of Iowa is bedfast
at his home in Des MOlnes and COM
PEELED to cancel speaking dates indeh-
nIiely.
Joseph Shater. twice tried and twice
convicted of murder In the first degree
and twice sentenced TO BE- hanged has
been granted a new trial by the Su-
preme Court Of Montana
Captain W. W. Diehlenbers OF the
Kosnos liner Rameses says that san
Diego and San Francisco are to be
made ports Of call for the Hamburg
American line. OF steamers
The German press Is discussing in
lively fashion the following utterance
attributed to Emperor William;
no commercial treaties are NEGOTIATED,
I shall smash everything to pieces
The King Alfred, the largest cruiser
in the world was successfully
launched at -Furness October
18th. The King Alfred cost SlsO5s. f3I-
She will have q speed OF twenry-three
knots.
q
unconstitutional the law passed by the
tuenty-eighth General Assembly pro-
hIbltinc the sale Of liquor shipped into
Iowa from other states In original
packages
An Austrian paper reports serious
inundation at Broussa. near the sea OF
Marmora The water rose with terri
bic suddeuness In the night time
eighty persons being drowned and &c
houses destroyed
The annual repor; of General James
\. Dumonr. supervising inspector gen.
eraI of steam vessels. shows that the
total loss of life on steam vessels last
year was $40, an increase Of 10 over
the previous year
King Edward has purchased Benia-
min Constants portrait OF the late
Queen Victoria. which was 50 promi-
nent at the last royal academy e1hioi-
ton. 1t viii be hung in the royal DIN
ing room at Windsor castle
The total number Of cases Of typhus
officially reported in Belgium Is 1-25s-
Thus far there have been twenty-seven
deaths. while only I32 have complete
" recovered. The epidemic has spread
TO Bachem and Ludeuscheid-
p. d. Scott, national worlds fair
commissioner at ST Louis. has re-
ceived a telegram from Miss Helen
Gould In which she accepts the ap-
pointment Of lady manager Of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Ernest Seton-Thompson, the writer
on wild animal life. will in future be
known as Ernest Thompson-Seton- A
petition recently filed for change OF
- nd sr
the District Court in New YORK
According to Il dispatch TO the Novoe
Vremya from yladiyOs1ock the Russian
General Grodokoff. accompanied by
the Russian assistant minister OF
finance, NJ. Romenoh. will soon open
the observation-disclosures railway
Lee Chop. perhaps the wealthiest
man in New York's "China town. is
gong back to China TO live out his old
age in luxury which can be purchased
with the fortune Of $4,000 he has
amassed In merchandise in America
Heavy SHOWS have been falling in
various parts of northern Arizona Ten
inches has fallen at Williams and in
the extreme north IL is even deeper
1t is OF immense value in providing
water on dry sheep and cattle ranges
The Supreme Court of Montana has
decided that IL IS not lawful to give
union firms the advantage over non
union firms in the matter Of bids for
supplying furniture fGr the new state
capitol. All citizens must be treated
alike.
Henry wiseman. in Jackson. Nichl-
gan, prison, has.confessed that he muir
dered Mrs. Ellen Huss in the woods
near Royal. Oklahoma, where her body
was found several weeks ago. The
murder was committed ir October
\ 1860.
The Independent Home Rulers, po-
litical party largely composed of ma
tiyes and half whites, have indorsed
Robert W. Wilcox for governor of Ha-
wall, and sent resolutions to that ef-
feet to President Roosevelt Wilcox Is
Hawaiian delegate TO Congress.
Henry Clay Hall. for thirty consec-
utiye years consul in Cuba and min
lister to Central America, died at his
home in Millbury October 18th, aged
eighty-one years. He was known as
the father of the Nicaraguan canal,
and drafted the first treaty for the
building of it.
The divorce proceedings by which
| Frederick NJ Gebhard and Louise Geb-
hard are legally separated. were con-
cluded at Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
| by the order of the court that Mr.. Geb-
hard pay his former wife S1SJ,0OO and
make over TO her his New York resi-
| dence.
| Largest in the World.
Walter Baker & Co, Ltd, Dorches-
ter, Mass, are the largest manufactur-
ers of cocoa and chocolate in the
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