The Springfield herald., 1901-11-22
rELEeRAPHlc sREvITIEs.

I adopted General Bartolome Masso as
its candidate for the presidency OF
Z Cuba.
1t has been decided TO hold carniVai
in Sydney, Nova Scotia. next summer
TO include aquatic sports, rowing anu
yacht racing.
ST. John Dix. who wrecked four
banks in the state of Washington last
year. has been arrested in London and
Will be extradited.
King Edward has decided to have
the celebrated koh-l-Noor diamond
mounted in the crown of Queen Alex
andra for the coronation
Laying the keel blocks for the con-
struction of new fighting cruiser Tor
the Turkish government has been be-
gun at Cramps shipyard.
President Roosevelt, who has been
looking for new team, is opposed TO
docking the tails of horses and Will not
consider any offers of banstalled am
mails.
All the German naval officers are re-
ceiving instructions in wireless teieS-
.raphy, and all ships of the German
navy viii be equipped with wireless
apparatus.
Six thousand dollars has been given
Charles o. Baird of Philadelphia. the
income of which is to be used toward
prizes for oratory in the senior class at
Princeton.
A Constantinople dispatch says that
severe earthquake occurred on the
9Th instant at Erzeroum- Many houses
were destroyed and the inhabitants
sought safety in the open.
The Commercial Pacific Gable Com
pany. recently Incorporated to operate
a cable line between this country and
the Philippines. has increased its cap
ital from $4,000 to s3,orO,vc-
Mother Bickerdyke of army fame
died at Bunker Hill. Kansas, Noveln-
ber sth, At the age Of eighty-four years
Her work among the Union soldiers
during the war is well known.
a dispatch to the Herald from Paris
says: The municipal council of 81.
Cloud has decided TO give the name OF
Santos-Dumont TO a street leading 10
the balloon park in st. Cloud.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to pro-
vide a $4,000 building for the Wood
library of Canandaigua. New York. on
condition that the municipality shall
guarantee 5000 annually for its sup
port.
4 deal is about to be consummated
by which all the leading fruit canning
establishments of California outside OF
the California Fruit Gamers Associa-
ton will pass into the hands Of an
eastern syndicate.
The entire system of the Market
Street Railway Company at san Fran
cisco has practically been sold to a
Baltimore syndicate. which has for
several months been negotiating for Its
purchase. for S26.0Do0OO.
Resolutions strongly protesting
against the ratification of the reciproc-
ity treaties which will come before
Congress at its approaching session,
have been adopted by the Southern
California Fruit Exchange.
There is now a bill pending in the
French chamber Of deputies providing
for graduated tax upon unmarried
persons. increasing rapidly in amount
upon both women and men between
twenty-one and forty years of age.
Berlin advices state that ground was
broken for the new American church
on the 9th inst. a large crowd of
Americans Were present. The United
States ambassador. Andrew d. White,
will lay the corner stone Thanksgiving
Day.
Paul Revere. vice president and gen
oral of the Sons OF the American Rev
olutiou. died on the 10th instant at
I Morristown. New Jersey, aged 40 years.
/ He was a son of General Joseph War
rem Revere. who fought in the Semi
[ mole and Civil wars, and Il great grand
son of Paul Revere of Revolutionary
, Zane.
Andrew Carnegie has given twenty
three employees OF the Edgar Thomson
steel works at the Braddock plant of
the Carnegie company enough five per
| cent bonds of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany to make the interest just equal
| their salaries. The total amount of
bonds distributed is said to be about
! 81, 100000.
At n reception of British pilgrims re-
Gently, the Pope forbade the reading
of their address publicly. because it eX-
pressed a hope for the restoration of
] the temporal power of the pontif, ana
his holiness did not desire Il renewal of
the trouble caused by the Duke of Nor
folk on the occasion of the previous pill
| grimage.
The National Prison Association at
its recent meeting in Kansas City
passed resolutions urging upon Con-
cress the adoption OF a general parole
law and an indetermihate sentence
law for the benefit of federal prison.
ers. The next meeting of the assOcia-
ton will be held at Philadelphia in Oc-
tober, 1902.
Charles Miller and Mrs. y. c. Collins,
alias Grace Arnold, alias Grace ALI
son. formerly OF Cleveland. ST. Louis
and San Francisco, convicted OF hay
ing used the mails to defrJud in con-
ducting n matrimonial bureau, have
been sentenced 10 a year and Il day in
prison by the United States Court at