The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-02-22
TsLEGRAPHIC sREvlTIES,

lUF!l, MS nlOlHeE-ln-laW.
The anti-compulsory vaccination bill
passed by the Utah Legislature was
vetoed by Governor Wells.
The Missouri Legislature will strike
out provisions of medical bills obnox-
ious to Christian scientists.
Ex-King Milan of Servia is dead.
He was compelled to abdicnte in 1889,
and was regarded as Il drunken proni-
gate.
If bill introduced in the Illinois
Legislature passes, criminals sentenced
to death will be executed by means of
electricity.
George Carter, n negro, charged with
assIulting white woman. was hanged
by a mob at Paris, kentucky, on the
18th instant.
The great Nile dam nj Assuan has
been completed. Sir John Arid cabled
a few days ago: you can now walk
across the Nile"
Hon. Charles A. Boutelle. representa-
tive of the Fourth Maine district, has
resigned his seat in Congress, to take
effect February 2Sth.
The Intensely cold weather prevailing
i'll China is causing widespread suffer
ing. There have been over 100 deaths
Ill canton from lne culu.
Holland dispatches say that President
Kruger is suffering from heart trouble
and general debility and it is feared
that he cannot live long.
The Austrian census shows the pres
ent population of Vienna to be 1,G35,-
CAT, or an increase of 293,71O over the
census taken ten years ago.
The authorities of Stockholm in Swe-
den, rs n precauton against the
plague, offer a bounty of 10 ore about
21a cents for each rat killed.
The approval of New York city off,
Gals has been given to Battery park as
Il site for a naval arch to commemorate
the deeds of valor by the United States
sailors.
Baroness Van Ketteler, widow of the
murdered German minister TO China,
has started for Germany. Since last
fall she has been at her fathers home
in Detroit, Michigan.
The weather bureau at Washington
is perfecting Il new system of wireless
telegraphy, different from that of Mar
conf. and has already used it success
fully more than sixty miles.
At recent auction in Londan col
lection Of autograph letters and docu-
Will. written by himself in 1905, We're
sold at auction for 800 suinens.
Former Lieutenant Governor Bates
of Vermont has been offered the posi-
ton of judge in the Philippine islands
md he will accept the appointment.
The salary will be $500 per year.
Major Il. II. Conger. United States
minister to China, has cabled to an
Iowa friend that he Will accept the
Republican nomination for governor
of Iowa, but will not make tiSh. Tor
1t.
Destructive bush fires throughout
Victoria, Australia, have done great
damage to property and stock. The
heat is excessive and there have been
violent dust storms in and around Mel
bourne.
The American forces in the Phillip
pines have captuHed since September
18th, eighteen cannon, 1.SoO rifles, thou
sands of bolos and 10000 cartridges.
Besides this 700 rifles have been sur
rendered.
The Legislature of Virginia has ac-
copied from Tennessee the cession of
one-half of Main street in Bristol us
the boundary line between the two
states. The matter has been in litiGa-
ton many years.
The Dowlais and Cyfartha (South
Wales steel works are appealing for n
reduction of their tax assessment, on
the ground that the American campetl-
ton is causing an extraordinary de-
preston in the trade.
Speculation is rife in Londan rs 10
the date of King Edwards coronation,
some maintaining that it will occur as
early as September. But probably the
year of court mourning will be strictly
observed. the coronation not occurring
until February, or later in 1902.
A San Diego dispatch says ex-Mayor
William H. Carlson of that city has re-
signed the position of government com.
missioner of railroads in Cuba and will
return home with sufficient backing TO
build railroad from San Diego to
Yuma, Arizona.
Rev. Thomas w. Vanscoy, president
of the Wesleyan University of Helena,
Montana, died on the 11th instant. He
was fifty-three years old, native of
Indiana and had served in the One
Hundred and Fifty-fourth Indiana vol
unteers during the Civil War.
A Springfield, Illinois, dispatch OF the
9th instant says: General James Nj.
Ruggles, one of the founders of the Re-
publican party, died today Mt Hipping
sanitarium. Havana. aged ,eighty-one.
He drafted the first platform on which
the Republican party was organized.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
the Oceanic company's steamer Iea-
landia will take on her next trip TO
Honolulu 900 Porto Ricans for the
sugar plantations of Hawaii. The EN-
barkation of these contract laborers
will be made from Port Los Angeles.
The quartermaster general is in
formed that forty-eight of the 1OI
bodies of soldiers and marines brought