The Springfield herald., 1901-05-10
TELEeRAPHic sREviTiEs.


consul general ut Pretoria.
Charles Moore. u well.known stock
man and brother of Mrs. Carrie Ma
tion. died ut Lewisburg, Kansas. April
27th.
Twenty or moro persons are report
ed to have been killed by n snowslido
ut Sunrise City, Alaska.
Venezuela has apologized for the ar
rest of United States Consular Agent
Baiz and the Incident is closed.
ID. ID. Thompson. the new editor of
the Northwestern Christian Advocate
at Chicago. is Il layman. He had been
associate editor OF the Advocate for
some time.
Tho War Department IS making ef-
forts to have the rcorganized standing
army fully ofliccrod and equipped and
enlisted to the strength of 10000 by
August LIST.
An American concern has secured
tho contract for mill locomotives re
comfy ordered by the Calcutta port
commissioners. despite active Euro
pcan competition.
1t Ia reported that an immense vol
ume of counterfeit silver dollars has
been circulated among the boomers
on the border OF the Kiowa and Co
mancho country, in Oklahoma.
One of the last acts of the President
before leaving the White House on his
tour was the signing of the commits
sion of Mr.. Pruden, one of his assist
ant secretaries. as n major and pay
master.
The position of general superintend-
ont of normal schools for the Philip
pines. at n salary of $4,000 year. has
been offered to Elmer Burrett Bryan.
professor of philosophy and pedagogy
at Indiana.
Carrie Henderson. 103 years old.
who went to Montana with the first
rush for gold. is dying at Helena. She
worked as a slave with Fred Douglass
In the South before the Civil War and
mt one time had fortune.
The Abbott woman suffrage bill.
granting women the right to vote in
township elections. was killed in the
lower house of the Illinois Lesisla-
ture, the cnacting clause being strick'
en- out by n viva voce vote
stephen A. Wcltmer and Joseph II.
Kelly, former president and secretary
of the weltmcr Institute of Magnetic
Healing at Nevada, Missouri. who
pleaded guilty to using the mails to
defraud, were each fined $1,000.
Chicago manufacturers of clothing.
representing an aggregate capital of
from SIS, 5,0o0.uuu to S20.o00.oo0, met
April 25th and decided TO form an as
sociation which will combine with
similar bodies throughout the United
States.
The Rosebud mine at Aurora, Mis-
souri,. caved in Friday and buried five
men at n depth of ll0 feet. 1t may be
"A month before the men can be
reached They are Grant and VIII.
Shane. Elmer Bisler, John Gillian and
Feester.
The new comet observed at the
Yerkes observatory April 21th is said
by the astronomers to be the bright
est that has appeared for nineteen
years. II was discovered at Queens
town. April 2Srd, and observed at
Cape of Good Hope April 25th.
An oil gusher was struck April Soth
at Sulphur. Louisiana, forty-iive miles
east OF Beaumont, Texas. on the
Southern Pacific railway. The oil is
heavy and black in appearance, and
when il broke loose it went TO the top
of the derrick, sixty feet high,
The United States Court of Appeals
at ST. Louis has decided that the fact
that an employe remains in the EN-
ploy OF company when he well knows
that a risk is assumed by so doing.
does not relieve the employer OF the
responsibility If accidents occur.
The fifth international convention
OF the Epworth League OF the Meth
odist Episcopal Church will be held at
San Francisco July 18th to Hlst.
bishops Warren and Cranston will be
among the speakers and music Will be
provided by trained chorus OF 1000
voices.
Suit has been Instituted against the
Chicaso & Northwestern Railway
Company for ss50.0oO damases by
forty.four claimants alleged 10 have
been injured in the wreck at nepere,
Wisconsin. June sith last year. All
are residents of Oshkosh, Menasha
and Fon du Lac
The figures of the treasury bureau
ot statistics Indicate that the coal eN-
ports Of the fiscal year. which ends
June SOth. will amount 10 about 5000
600 tons, as against less than 1000. 900
tons in 1880. S.9ss. lss tons in 1898 and
s.lSS,S4S tons in 1906. These figures
are exceeded only by England and
Germany
At 8 meeting held in New York
April SOih an agreement was reached
which viii bring the greatest ship
building concerns OF this country
under one management II. 3. Hunt
incton is said to be the president and
/. NJ. Scott. president Of the Union
Iron Works at San Francisco, will be
vice president.
The California supreme COurt has
declared the trsst elarse in the will
ot the late James c. Fair invalid Il
let slS.o0o.oa0o in trust the proceedS
20 50 to his heirs, but the principal 70