The Springfield herald., 1901-06-07
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1t Is estimated that the new Rus
sian loan will be subscribed for at
lenst seven times.
Arab Pashn, the famous Egyptian
rebel, who was baDished to Ceylon in
1882, has been pardoned.
New York is the only state in the
Union that has II greater population
than the city of London.
French aGriculturists intend to fight
frost and grasshoppers, as well as hail
storms, with cannon and smoke.
Smallpox on the transport Indiana,
Mt Taku, will delay the departure of
the Ninth infantry for Manila.
The Iowa Prohibitionists have nomi-
mated A. n. Coates for governor ana
A. Wray for lieutenant governor.
Bresci the assassin of King Hum
bert, committed suicide few days
since ill his cell IN the San Stcfano
prison.
The graduating class of the Chicago
high school this year numbers over
loo. less than thirty per cent. of
whom are boys.
The new census returns gives the
popuatio of Australasia at 4,5o0,GJl.
This is an increase of 740,I5G since the
last enullpTltlOn.
The Michigan House by unanimous
vote passed Il bill taxing the Pullman
Palace Car Company three per cent.
OH gross earnings.
The annual produce of currants in
Greece is about 100000 tons, but last
year. owing TO the downy mildcw, 1t
fell to 1000 tons.
The Aragon Bessemer ore mine at
Norway, Michigan, has been pur-
chased by the United States Steel cor
poration for s2,5DOGOO.
In response TO the protest of the for
cign embassies the Turkish order pro-
hibiting the entry of typewriters into
Turkey has been rescinded.
Promoters of the Charleston Exposi-
ton say they have ample resources
and that The display will be ready for
the opening in December.
Paul du Chaillu, the famous eNplor-
er, hunter and writer, is planning a
three-ycnrs' tour of Russia to gather
material for new work on that coun-
try.
Major General Henry G. Corbin, ad.
jutant general of the army, will sail
for the Philippines June 25th, to make
general inspection of military con-
ditions.
The volcano of kcloet, Java, is In
eruption, the lava consuming many
native villages, erdangering the city
of Blita and running large coffee plan
tations.
Movements are said to be on foot
to organize coal trusts in Ohio, In
diana and Illinois and the prospects
are that a gigantic combination Of all
three will he formed
In the Irish championship games at
Dublin last month T. O'C0nnor Of
Waterford covered twenty-four feet
nine inches in the long jump, beating
all previous records.
A bill has been passed by the leg
islative bodies of Norway providing
for universal communal suffrage for
men and giving the suffrage to women
paying n certain amount Of taxes.
The southern synod of the Presby-
terian church in kentucky Will COIN
municate with the northern synod to
formulate a plan to endow Sayre col
lege with 81 100000. This Is Il college
for women.
Peter Postell of Hopkinsville, Ken
lucky, probably the richest colored
man in the South, died recently, leav-
ing IL fortune estimated at $5OO,OOo,
which he had accumulated in the gro
Gerry business.
Pasteboard armor is .As latest form
of defense. Experiments Mt Copen-
hagen show that millboard three inch
es thick was impenetrnble to carbine
bullets which pierced tive-inch wooded
planks.
Rev. Henry Warman, Methodist
clergyman at Glendine, Montana, has
sued the members of n lodge of the
knights of the Maccabees for $4,000
damages because they initiated him too
roughly.
The Edison Storage Battery Com
pany has been Incorporated at Tren-
ton, New Jersey, with S1,OOO,OOO cap
ital to manufacture storage batteries
under the new patent of Thomas A.
Edison.
AT their next meeting the directors
of the Pullman Sleeping Car Company
will be asked to pass upon plans for
pensioning the 12,UOO or $4,000 en-
ployes of the company when retired
from service.
Excited citizens of Jefferson and st.
Charles parishes, opposite New Or
leans, have burned all the buildings
chat the State Leper Board had erect
ed i'll JCnefSon parish, Ill lulHlilleHl VI
the boards plans to establish there Il
,aZoretto.
DIR. Bryan of the University Of In
diana has accepted the presidency OF
the Central Normal and Trade school
of Manila, and expects to take thither
with him twenty teachers, mostly
graduates of the University of 1ndi-
nna.
Northinus Vessels prptorius the
first president of the Dutch African
Republic, the lille of which was
changed in 1858 to the South African
Rn1nlhlic died MnY Nth Mt pnIclef-