The Springfield herald., 1901-11-29
rgLgeRAPHIc sRevIrIEs.

] Seven troops Of the Fifteenth cav
I airy. now in the Department OF Cali
I f6rnia. viii sail for the PHILIPPINES
| December 10Th
Forty thousand acres Of LAID near
/ Navajo. Greer county. Oklaboma. were
/ sold Monday 10 q colony Of Germans
l Of 1909 families
An earthquake in Canterbury dis
tricr. New Zealsnd- has devastated the
township Of Cheyiot- Many people
/ have been Injured
According to the Petit Bieu Of Brus-
/ seis. the wife and family OF former
I President Steyn have been deported
I from South Africa
Citizens OF oskaICosa. Iowa. by
popular subscription. hare pledged
fund for the erection Of q $4,000 buld-
ing for the Y. NJ G A
Spain is having serious trouble with
students in Madrid and other large cit
les II : announced that the govern
ment viii adopt severe measures
During the late fog in England the
6river Cf London omnibus was found
dead In his box while the vehicle was
still running. He was 4 victim Of cold
fog.
II IS announced at oyster Bay. Long
Island, that President Roosevelt and
family viii occupy their country villa
on Sycamore hill at oyster Bay next
summer.
Fire in the canning building Of tie
Cudahy packing establishment al Kan
sas City on the 18th instant damaged
the building and stock 10 the amount
Of $4,000.
Rumors are published in Japan raat
the governor of North Kians Slang,
province Of Korea. has given orders
that all foreigners living IN the prov
ince are TO be killed
The Indian government" says = d,s-
patch from Simia. has abolished the
sword for the cavalry. both British and
Indian, and Z short rife will be issued
10 all mounted troops"
For 100000 the American Bridge
Company Of Philadelphia has secured
a contract for the construction Of
twenty steel bridges along the line Of
The Uganda railroad IN East Africa.
The negotiations between the govern
ments Of the United States and Den
mark relative 10 the cessi0n TO the
United States Of the Danish West
Indies have been transferred to Wash
ington-
Argument was closed November 18th
IN the Federal Supreme Court in the
case Of the United States Ts. the RiO
Grande Irrigation Company. the Ele-
phsut Butte dam controversy, and the
decision was reserved
The delegation Of the Argentine Re
public 10 the Pan-American congress At
Mexico City entertained their United
States and Mexican colleagues at u
banquet. The full delegation of the
United States was present.
News from Hardin county. Texas,
confirms the report that well OF al
most pure lubricatng oil has bean
brought In that flows 80 barrels of oil
Per day. The new well is about thirty
miles northwest Of Beaumont.
Inspection Of the spectrum Of flash
of lightning as shown in II photograph
leads Professor L. e. Pickering. di-
rector Of the Harvard observatory. TO
believe that hydrogen is a compound
element made up Of at least three
cOmpOnents.
The numerous grievances of Austria
Hungary against Turkey have been
settled by the agreement Of the porte
to pay gOccD francs to the Armenian
and otherwise. the wrongs arising from
eight other matters of dispute.
Huntington interests have come TO
the front with another big incorpora-
ton. The Kern Power company, with
capital OF s5,coo0co fully subscribed.
flied papers Of Incorporation. 1t is pro-
posed 10 obtain power on Kern river,
$50 miles north of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Griswold Morse,
the widow of Professor Samuel f. Il.
Morse. the inventor OF the telegraph,
died In Berlin. Germany. on the 1ith
inst. She was Professor Morse's sec
ond wife and was married to him in
lSIS. She was born in 1922
The japanese minister at Washing
ton says that his country has enjoyed
one Of the most prosperous years N
I its history. The rice and silk crops
have been unusually large and there
4 is a steady influx OF gold as a result
of the trade. Reports of the existence
Of a financial panic are unfounded-
William Stone, chairman of the
| Ornithological Society, at its recent
/ meeting in New York reported that at
the rate Of progress made ii was safe
I to predict that the feather dealers
would soon be driven to the wall, or
at least find their business much re-
I stricted.
/ a Berlin dispatch says that the can
/ Ger Investigations made by Professor
! Roswell Park of the University of Buff
| falo have given results in every way
I Identical with those secured by Profess
l sor Maximilian Schueller of the Berlin
| University. although the investigations
We're made Independently Of each
/ other
1t is said that Booker T. Washington,
when he visited Windsor castle during
! n trin IN Enrnne- lEns arItarIninel At