The Springfield herald., 1901-06-21
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General Macarthur cables that all
the volunteers have left the Philip
pines en- route for the United states.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has
decided that all street railway IRAN
chises in the state are taxable as Ieai
estate.
Judge Waterman OF the Illinois Cir
cult Court has decided that the black
listing of girls by stock yards hrms
was legal.
The Railway Porters Association
will soon esetablis a private hospitai
at Chicago for colored men in the rail-
way service.
The Kansas crop report shows the
condition of wheat in the state TO pe
SIS. as compared with an average OF
g9.S for May.
More than twenty hotels, including
several of the largest size, are going
up in New York city at an estimated
cost Of 10000.
On the 5th Inst. Governor Heber III.
Wells, of Utah. was married TO Miss
Emily Katz, formerly society editor
Of the Salt Lake Herald.
Milan. In Italy, will soon have
.Rowton house in which 600 persons
can get clean beds IN well-ventilated
rooms for cents night
Edwin V. Morgan of the United
States Korean legation declares the
American gold mines are the most pros
porous enterprises in Korea
The San Francisco labor council VIII
ask aid from all labor organizations
to help sustain the striking iron work
ers. About $4,000 is needed
The selection of Count Won Walder-
sees successor as commander OF the
international forces in China Will be
left to the commanders now there.
President Harper OF the University
of Chicago, announces that the Uni
versity has begun to establish anil
ated preparatory schools in different
parts of Europe.
"A general boycott OF American
goods will be started in Switzerland,
says the correspondent of the Lonoon
Daily Mail. '.if the threatened watcn
trust is to be formed
The Texas quarantine which has
been maintained for several months
against San Francisco on account OF
the bubonic plague, has been raised
by Governor Sayres.
Manila's popula ton is found to be
244, 49,, which gives it place next be-
low that Of Newark, New Jersey, or
seventeenth from the top in the list OF
cities Of the United States.
At Pekin recently lightning struck
a building inside the gate of the Amer
lean end Of the Forbidden City, caus-
ing a FIRE. Three buildings containing
yaluab BILE documents were burned
ha
International convention OF the Chris
tian Endeavor organization, to be held
in Cincinnati July 9th to 10th, Will
be a choir Of 1900 trained voices.
British sportsmen were greatly sur
prised when William C. Whitneys
brown colt yolodyovski won the
Derby on the 5th inst. The victory
carried with 1t purse of &2o,UO.
San Francisco's largest suburb, Oak
land, obtains its electric force from a
stream 40 miles away. Experience
proves that long distance transmission
of electric power is a success In every
way.
Chemical analysis having shown that
Father E. S. Phillips of Hazelton,
Pennsylvania, did not die Of poison,
DR.. Stanley, who was suspected OF
numbering the priest, has been re-
leased.
El6er, Demster & Co. of London,
offer TO pay the travelling expenses
of the official delegates of any British
trades unions willing 10 go to the
United States TO study American trade
methods.
Joseph Brucker of the Chicago
Stats Zeitung has gone to Berlin to
establish weekly trade journal which
will be devoted exclusively to the pro-
motion Of American-German CONNER
cial relations.
Captain Howard Blackburn left
Gloucester, Massachusetts on the 9th
inst. in his twenty -hvefoot sloop the
Great Republic to sail to Lisbon,
Spain, which port he hopes to make in
forty-tiye days.
In the fiscal year 1860 and in the
nine months Of the fiscal year 1901 the
exports from New Orleans were $1G,-
234, ,G6g, making that city rank second
in the list of Americas export cities
instead of Boston.
Articles Of incorporation for the Peo-
pies Church of America have been
granted at Springfield, Illinois, this ac-
ton being taken to extend the scope
of the Peoples church OF Chicago into
national organization.
The incoming Junior and senior
classes of the Wesleyan University,
at Salina, Kansas, still declare they
will leave the Institution il DIR. Frank
d. Tubbs, recently dismissed for al
| legged heresy Is not reinstated.
A special meeting Of the London Dis.
trict railway has sanctioned Charles L.
| Yerkes' plan for the Introduction of
electricity as the motive power Of the
road. J. S. Forbes, the president, said