The Springfield herald., 1901-04-26
TELEGRAPHIc sREvirIEs.

the Indiana state house grounds few
| days ago.
| King Oscar of Sweden has accepted
| the post of arbitrator on the Samoan
| claims of the United States, Great
Britain and Germany.
| The Turkish government has raised
4 loan of 81 100000 from the Ottoman
Bank, to settle the claims of the
Cramps and the Krupps.
ID. Ii. Lewis. late cashier of the now
insolvent Farmers National Bank OF
NergcDnes, Vermont. is accused of
having embezzled $4,000.
Eastern capitalists are forming
combine which will control all the
dredging work on the great lakes. 1t
will have n capital of S1O,0oo,0oO.
In addition to the gift of $1OOO,OO0
TO Armour Institute, Chicago, recently
announced, Mrs L. ID. Armour purposes
soon to erect and equip Il new build
ing.
The engagement of Miss Martha
Hichborn, daughter of Rear Admiral
uichborn, to James G.. Blaine, Jr., Is
announced. The wedding will take
place June 4th.
Secretary Hay will endeavor 10 as
certain the sentiments of the leading
members of the Senate before trying
to negotiate another ship canal treaty
with Great Britain.
A site of las acres is said to have
been acquired in Ireland for the erec-
tion of Il royal residence, the plans for
the building have been approved and
work Will commence shortly.
Miss Ellen Anne Griffin. who died in
New York few days ago, left $10,00G
ii,
tan dog Dandy Jim She also re-
membered several nephews and nieces.
1t is reported that Emperor William
has sent his chief cook TO the United
States to learn how to make buckwheat
cakes, and incidentally to look into The
American style of cooking generally.
1t is reported that the Rolled Steel
Car Company OF Pittsburg contem-
plates establishing Il large plant. to
employ 5000 men. for the purpose of
building steel ears ut Youngstown,
Ohio.
The Cramps will launch the new
battleship Maine Memorial Day. Sur
vivors of the Maine and widows and
orphans of sailors killed in Havana
harbor will probably be invited to at
tend.
The first cable of the new East River
bridge in New York city was raised
April 11th by powerful engine and
drawn taut 100 feet above the water.
The actual raising of the cable took
just seven minutes.
Gifts of money for educational, re-
ligious and benevolent purposes in the
United States for 1900 amounted to
SIT 100000. These are the figures OF
Mr.. Rossiter Johnson, editor of Apple
toms Annual Cyclopedia.
The British war office has decided to
strengthen the fortitications of ia
maica. Quick-iiring guns of the latest
patterns are being sent ont, in addition
TO the heavy guns recently placed in
the forts about Fort Royal.
The Glasgow, Scotland. municipal
committee has recommended the
awarding of n big contract to an Amer
lean steel company for the supplying
of $3.50 tons of rails and fish plates
for the municipal street railway of
Glasgow.
After much search .hree bars of gold
stolen from the specie room of the
North German Lloyd steamship. Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse. We're found be-
hind n cornice of the corridor of the
second-class saloon. The thief has not
yet been discovered.
A report from the consul general at
Vienna. Austria, to the State Depart
ment gives the preliminary results of
the census Mken last December in
Austria Hungary. The present popu-
lation of the Austro-Hungarian mon
archy is about IG,S0o,0OO.
On the Manchuria railroad the rails
have been laid Oh the TiailarZizikar
division and the remaining two-thirds
of the whole line between Tchita and
Nladivostocll is nearly completed. The
whole line, it is believed. will be opened
for passenger traffic next month.
\ floral parade that will surpass
anything of the kind ever attempted
in the West, is one of the features
contemplated for the entertainment OF
President Mckinley when he visits
Chicago in June, This novel welcome
will take the place of q military dis
play.
On Captain Schley's return from the
South Atlantic it is not expected that
he will be assigned to any further
duty, as he will retire next October,
and there would hardly be time for his
taking up Il work of any magnitude
in the few months remaining, of his
acting service.
Captain John MCGOWAN has been
retired with the rank of rear admiral.
He broke down in health while COM
mandng the monitor Monadnock on
the Asiatc station several months
ago. and has since had Il short term
of service in command of the naval
station Mt Key West
The Postottice Department at Wash
| ington has changed some of the names
in the state of Washington-"Spo
in place of Spokane; Lake Kootena'
for Lake Kootenay; Pend oreille'
for Pend d'Oreille; "Clcalum" for
Cle-Elum: "Sanpoil' for Sans Poll,
| and "OlSiuaman" for Okauogan.