The Springfield herald., 1901-06-14
rELEeRAPHIc sRgVITIEs.

to daughter June 1st.
England is arranging to send draft
of Boer prisoners to Barbados.
The Forty-fifth infantry was mus
tered out at San Francisco on the 4th
| instant.
Turkey has made the first payment
on the cruiser ordered from the
Cramps.
The United Presbyterian General
| Assembly adjourned to meet in Pitts
burg in 1902.
The Forty-sixth infantry, United
| States volunteers, has been mustered
out OF service.
| The Treasury Department will send
three immigrant inspectors to Porto
Rico for permanent duty.
The proposed consolidation of lead
ing Grand Rapids furniture factories
has practically fallen through.
A combine of eastern and western
shovel makers is being formed which
will be capitalized at $10,OOo,O0o.
The American Shirt aud Collar Com
pany, capital $2OOOo,O 900, has absorbed
eight OF the largest plants in the coun-
try.
The Michigan Legislature, after hav-
ing been in continuous session since
January LIST, voted to adjourn June
9Th
The Dowager Duchess of New Cas-
tie, mother of the present duke ana
Lord Francis Hope, is about to become
n nun.
The Indian population of Canada
was 99,O10 in 1900. according to the
report of the Department Of Indian
Affairs.
The butchers of New York have an
nounced an increase in the price of
meats, varying from one-half to three
cents per pound.
p. II. Ashmead of Lehigh, Pennsyl-
vania, who recently returned from
Ecuador, advises young Americans TO
go to that country.
The London Mail says King Ed
ward has declined to reduce his eccle-
siastical establishment from thirty-six
paid chaplains to twelve.
Arbuckle Brothers have advanced
all grades or refined sugar ten points.
This is still five points under the prices
of the American Refining Company.
The Grant Memorial Commission has
issued n pamphlet inviting the compe-
tition of architects for models. The
statue or memorial will cost S24O,OOO.
The American Telegraph and Teie-
phone Company, at meeting OF stock
holders voted to increase its capital
stock from $1OO,OOOOO0 TO S15O,00O,OOO.
Julia Ward Howe celebrated her
eighty-second birthday Mt Boston.
May 9th, and by request sang for her
friends her famous Battle Hymn OF
the Republic"
There were 574 lady patentees out
90 p1n tla prit tcl,
patent offices during the past year, and
the inventions of these women proved
most successful.
Charles Sutherland TO set aside the
purchase of Skibo castle by Andrew
Carnegie. hTe castle was bought by
Mr.. Carnegie. two years ago.
Germany. in the opinion of the Vos-
sischc Zcitung, will need to import 3d.
OOOOOO bushels more wheat and 25,-
| 100000 bushels more rye this year
than last, owing TO ruined harvests.
| Ballington Booth and BoothTucker
deny that there is any prospect OF
General Booth and his son reaching an
agreement and merging the Salvation
Army into the Volunteers of America.
Ira Remsen, PHI. D., Ill. D.. profess
sor of chemistry in Johns Hopkins
University since 1876, has been elect
ed president of the University, sue
ceeding DIR. Daniel G. Gilman, re-
| signed.
| 1t is said that the british govern
/ ment has decided 10 Introduce new
American labor saving machinery,
| such as pneumatic drilling and rivet-
| ing machines, etc, at the Portsmouth
dock yards.
\ LET
| defeated Frank Caldwell of Hartford,
Connecticut. in race at Philadelphia
| on May 30th. The Frenchman rode
! twenty miles in little less than thir-
| ty.seven minutes.
No proposal has been made to the
State Department by the British gov
ernment for the reassembling of the
| Joint High Commission to settle ques-
tions in dispute between the United
States and Canada.
The business committee of the M
tional Suffrage Association will hold 4
| conference at Buffalo, September 9th
and 10th, at which the leading feature
| will be symposium on some import
ant aspect of suffrage.
Texas, which enlisted only 1,965 SOL
| diers in the Union army during the
| war, is now, more than thirty-fiye
| years aIlef IT'S cloSe, inc place VI IeS-
| idence of 500 pensioners and the pen
| sion payments there are nearly $1,000
| 600.
It is reported that the revolution in
Santa Domingo has been completely
crushed at its inception, and a num-
Der of the prominent rebels shot or
imprisoned. Among the latter is n son
of the late President HereauX, who is
| said to have been the leader of the
| movement.
The Westminster Gazette of London,