The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1901-03-08
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EX-Unlteu states senator Stephen
NJ. White of California, died at Los
Angeles, February 21st.
The legislature of Utah passed an
anti-compulsory vaccination bill over
| the veto of the governor.
Susan b. Anthony was presented
with two $500 United States bonds on
her eighty-tirst birthday.
| The Pail Mall Gazette says that
Americans have quit contributing to
the Irish Parliamentary funds.
Andrew Carnegie will donate $780,
900 to Knox College, ut Galesburg, ILL
nois, for new library building.
The city of New York owes the sum
of $3O0,O00.OOO, winch Is within $16,-
100000 of the limit allowed by law.
Calamity Jane, n noted border char
acter, has been compelled to take ref
uge in the poor house OF Gallatin coun-
ty, Montana.
Brigadier General Theodore Schwan
has been placed on the retired list on
his own application under the forty
yenrs service clause.
A fire in Detroit, Michigan, February
Goth, caused 100000 damage to Grin
nell Bros music house and $4,000
loss to Tuomey Bros, dry goods.
Irwin II. Spiggs. mayor of Eureka,
Utah, recently resigned that office to
accept position as dealer of faro
bank. Money makes the mayor go.
A law taxing inheritances for the
benefit of the State University of
Missouri has been held constitutional
by the Supreme Court of that state.
In the District Court at Clinton,
Iowa Thomas Burke was awarded
81 600 damages for injuries received
when Initiated by the Modern Wood
men.
The bill before the Montana Legisla-
ture to appropriate $4,000 for an eN-
hibit Mt the st. Louis Exposition has
been indefinitely postponed by the
House.
The first mail from Nome arrived In
Seattle February 21st. 1t consisted of
six pouches, containing about 1000 let
tiers. The latest left Nome on Novem-
Der 23rd.
Designer Watson, who is building the
Shamrock IL. at Glasgow, will con-
struct the deck of aluminium to save
weight, covering it with thin sheet
ing of wood.
A bill has been introduced in the
Utah Legislature authorizing the state
to issue bonds to the amount of So
100000 to erect n state smelter and a
state beet sugar factory.
Rear Admiral Philip Hichborn retired
by age limit March 4th. He began SER
vice in the navy as shipwrights ap-
prentice and achieved the highest posi-
tion in the construction corps.
Harvard has a total enrolment of
4,2SS for the present academic year.
The University of Michigan is the sec
ond largest university in the United
States, having u total registration of
3,7O0.
The Kansas law imposing a tax of
five per cent. on legacies to persons not
of lineal descent from the testator, for
the benefit of the school fund, has been
sustained by the Supreme Court OF that
state.
Signor Nagiuri. millionaire, COM
mtted suicide at Leghorn, Italy, hav-
ing previously destroyed Turkish Sc
curities of the value of 100000 lire
in order that no one might enjoy his
fortune.
There is n big strike on among the
woodcutters in Arizona. The cutters,
who are mostly Mexicans and half
breeds, demand twenty-five per cent.
advance in wages and wood famine
is imminent.
The largest order for window glass
on record, being for one million boxes.
has been given the American associa-
ton and the independent association
by the dealers association. So says II
Cincinnati dispatch.
According to report from the Nati-
can, 1t has been decided for reasons of
economy, to unite the diplomatic rep
>; OF I,n hply N N
United States and in Canada in one
and the same person.
The London Telegraph, commenting
upon what it calls the gravity of the
menace to English trade by the form
alton of the United States steel corpor-
alton, says it understands Mr. Carnegie
was bought out for about OO,OOOOOO.
Having invented n tireboX for loco
motives, which is proving great sue
cess, Cornelius Vanderbilt is now at
work on new form of boiler, II null
ti-tubular, which promises, he says, to
work Il revolution in boiler-making
and construction.
Harvard College observatory discov-
cred n new star February 22nd, said
to be the brightest one discovered in
three centuries. 1t is in constellation
of Perseus and is of the first magni-
tude. In only three days it emerged
from total invisibility.
The American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association. which met few
days ago in New York, appointed a
committee to consider the project of
establishing an immense paper factory
publishers to take stock according to
the amount of paper they consume.
J. ID. Rumberge, teacher who re-
Gently returned to San Francisco from
Guam, reports that preparations are
being made there for 1900 Filipino
prisoners. The natives of Guam have
deep hatred for the Filipinos, and do