The Springfield herald., 1902-09-26
SHORT TElEGRAMS.

Ways.
Nine vessels of the French cod fleet
fioundered in the North sea during the
recent gales and fifty fishermen were
drowned.
The long-distance cowboy pony race
between Deadwood and Omaha was
abandoned on the request of President
Roosevelt.
Queen Wilhelmina opened the staats
general In person September 10th, APP
pearing to have completely recovered
from her illness.
1t is estimated that as many as fifty
lives were lost in the recent great fires
in Clarke ana Cowlitz counties in the
state of Washington.
The Frisco road has purchased the
Ozark Il Cherokee Central railroad now
building from Fayetteville, Arkansas,
to Shawnee, Oklahoma.
The new route surveyed for the
Central Pacific through the Sierra Ne
vada mountains will require u tunnel
nearly seven miles long.
George Lindhurst of Brooklyn, New
York, was bitten on the thumb by
fly and died of blood poisoning after
an illness of two weeks.
London journals advise people to
keep away from Johannesburg, where
employment is scarce, rents enormous
and beer a dollar Il bottle.
Naval Constructor Hobson will be
placed on duty ut the Pensacola navy
yard, the command to which Rear Ad-
miral Wise was recently assigned.
A statement of British finances
shows that the gross liabilities March
31st were So 2S2, ,2lG,930, an increase of
$313,597 $40, due to the South African
war.
The Republican territorial convention
at Honolulu has nominated Prince Jo-
nah Kalauiauaole, popularly known as
prince Cupid" for delegate to Con-
gress.
Passengers on the Bertha, recently
arrived ut Seattle from Alaska, saw
volcanoes in three mountains-Re-
doubt, Hanna and Augustine, in act
i've eruption.
A lone hiShwayman in Topeka, Kan
sas, recently held up and robbed nine
separate persons of money and jewelry
in one night, after which he escaped
with his booty.
The United States Senate commits
sion, appointed to investigate and re-
port upon Hawaiian affairs generally,
has organized at Honolulu and begun
uolulnS ually SeSSlouS.
Late Manila dispatches report cholera
light in Manila and bad in the prov
inces. The totals to date reported from
the islands are $3.50 cases and Al ,SO4
deaths. These are unofficial estimates.
The vatican has definitely decided to
send the Most Rev Diomede Falconio
to Washington as papal delegate in the
United States. Mgr. Falconio is now
an apostolic delegate for the Dominion
Of Canada.
Secretary of State Hay has accepted
the invitation to be present at the dedi-
cation of Camp Roosevelt, which is to
be feature of the coming G. A. X.
encampment in Washington, and to de-
| liver the Grafton.
The business men of Manila are or
ganizing for the purpose of agitating
for limited Chinese immigration to the
Philippines. They have planned to
send u memorial and possibly u dele
CATION to Washington.
At his reception to the people of Mas
sau county at Oyster Bay, President
Roosevelt told Il woman, who asked
him if he was getting tired, that it
took more than trolley car to knock
him out or a crowd to tire him.
At Kansas City September 10th sew
enteen head of native steers, averaging
1.26G pounds, sold at SS.75, being the
highest price ever paid on that market.
On the same day over 10000 cattle
were received at the stock yards.
Captain Windsor was retired on the
10th inst. with rank of rear admiral.
His retirement will result in the pro-
motion of Lieutenant Commander Resi-
maid Il. Nicholson, navigator on the
Drnppn l1lripU ha SnnuiSll- mprirun
war
A nephew of General De Wet, the
Boer commander, arrived in Berlin re-
Gently to be treated by Professor Berg
man for gunshot wound. 1t was er-
roneously printed here that General De
Wet himself had a bullet removed from
his body.
Eta Hannie Maddox of Baltimore
has appeared before the Clerk of the
Court of Appeals in Annapolis, Mary
land, qualified and taken the oath of
admission to the bar She is the first
woman to be admitted under the new
Maryland law.
Destructive storms ragged in many
parts of Germany September 18th. In
SaNony the temperature sank to zero
and hurricane-like wind unroofed a
number of houses and injured many
people. The damage is estimated at
millions of marks.
The San Francisco savings banks
have the largest per capita of deposits
of any banks in the United States.
They report an aggregate of 2O2,3S1 de-
positors with S13S.123,433 standing in
their names, which amounts to per
capita deposit of S632.
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