The Springfield herald., 1901-08-16
TELEGRAPHic eREvlTIEs.

does not want reciprocity with the Un-
tied States.
The Manistee, Michigan. iron works
have been burned. Loss, 100000. The
plant employed 800 men.
Grand Llama Ach of Thibct and his
suite are visiting Japan, and large
Buddhist celebrations are being held.
Large sales of prunes ut 3 cents per
pound and upwards are reported by
the Cured Fruit Association OF Cali
fornia.
Earthquakes were general through
out southern Italy on July 31st. The
strongest shocks occurred at AXezzano
and Porici.
The British Antarctic exploration
ship Discovery sailed for the Antarc-
tic regions from Cowes, Isle of Wight,
August 9th.
The directors of the Pan-American
Exposition have decided that the mid
way at the exposition shall be closed
tight next Sunday.
Negotiations are in progress for the
Cunard line to build record breaker
to beat the Deutschland and the kai-
ser Wilhelm der Crosse.
1t is believed that the King and
Queen will visit Ireland next April,
and probably open the International
Exhibition which is proposed in Cork.
Emperor William has ordered that
all the German soldiers who were i'll
Pekin during the siege are to be pro
NOTED to the rank of on-commissioned
officers.
An improved winter service is sched-
uled from White Horse to Dawson as
soon as the ice is solid. New and i'm
oil s.r Il al nfl,nS
be used.
Queen Wilhelmina has ordered the
secretary of marine of Holland to send
n detail to the United States to exam
inc and report on the submarine boat
Holland.
Negotiations for the consolidation OF
the leading Photographic dry plate fac-
tories of the United States and Eu-
rope. with n capital of S3O,OO,OOO, is
pending.
The Turkish minister of marine has
decided not to order any more wa
ships or materials from Germany, be-
cause of the attacks made upon the
Sultan in the German newspapers.
One-uuarter part of the digging on
the New York rapid transit tunnel was
completed August 1st The sub-cOn-
their work by the early spring of 1908.
The New York Life Insurance Com
pany is said to have paid 100000
marks on policies taken out by bank
ers who committed suicide as result
of the recent Leipzeiger bank failure
in Germany.
Attendance at the Pan-American ex-
position during the first three months
ending at midnight on July 31st was
2,774.9OS. With the exception of one
week the admissions have shown Il
steady increase.
The dome of St Pauls cathedral,
London, has settled so rs to cause sew
eral large cracks. The architect lays
the blame to sewers and underground
raIlways-particular to the vibra-
tions caused by the latter.
The Council of the University of
Birmingham, England, has appointed
William Jones Ashley, professor OF
economics at Harvard University, TO
the first or organizing chair of the fu-
ture faculty of commerce.
-Four months is the minimum time in
which the new government in Cuba
can be established under the law. The
electoral bill provides guarantees for
all citizens. native-born and naturalized
alike, no discrimination being made.
Ships of the North Atlantic squadron
have esta blshed another worlds record
in the matter of coalinE ships. Fol
lowing are the figures: Kearsarge, 219
tons of coal in one hour; the Alabama,
222 tons, and the Massachusetts 24S
tons.
Adultcratcd milk and cream are to
be confscated in future at the receiving
depots of all railroads in Chicago. The
discovery of formaline at the receiving
depots will result in the seizure of the
cans and the dumping of its contents
into the nearest gutter.
Lord Cromer, British diplomatic
agent in Egypt, dealing with irrigation
projects along the upper Nile, supports
suggestion that a railway should be
built from Ilhartoum to the Red sea,
rather than irrigation wo-ks.
Coastwise steamships running off
New York. including the Ward, Clyde,
Mallory, Old Dominion. Mclaughlin,
and Southern Pacific. have been noti-
fled of the adoption OF an advanced
wage schedule by the Wage Farmers
Beneficial Association.
The latest notable recipient of dec
GRAFTON at tne nanus or Emperor w III
lam is high dignital-; of A1ohamme-
danism. The Order OF the Crown of
the first class has been conferred on
the aga Khan of Bombay, the spiritual
head of the Indian Mohammedan koja
sect.
The eighty-fifth annual report of the
American Bible Society shows that
there is n slight increase in receiSts.
| The total issues of the wear Mt home
and abroad amount to 1,5JI, 12S. OF
these 5SO,513 were distributed in the
United States and 973,G15 in foreign