The Springfield herald., 1902-12-12
SHORT TELEGRAMs.

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tremely hard for China to meet her in.
demnity payments.
1t is believed that there will soon
be merger of all the traction lines in
Greater New York.
An American chamber of commerce
has been organized by American busi-
ness men in Berlin.
Ohio's eighr-hour labor law as ap'
piled to public works has been de-
clared unconstitutional by the supreme
court
Following the lead of the Union Pa.
cific the Southern Pacific has decided
upon plan for pensioning aged en-
ployes.
Official returns in Arizona give the
vote for delegate to Congress as fol-
lows: ]. F. Wilson (Dem). 9,716; Rob
ert L. Morrison (Rep), 9.230.
Walter w. Law not only owns the
carpet factory at Briarcliff. New York,
but he owns the entire village with the
exception of two small parcels of land.
Because he was sick and without
money Adolph Jacobs, siXty-six years
of age. committed suicide by hanging
himself on December 1st at Denver
rooming house.
All the telegraph operators on the
Wisconsin Central Railroad have been
granted an increase in salary amount
ing to IS a month for every employe
in that department.
Deputy Police Commissioner Piper
of New York City has decided to send
some captains and mounted police to
the West Point Military Academy for
special instructions in horsemanship.
olp hot twa fy
years she had been sending begging
letters to prominent government Off
cials, Mrs. Anna Mayors has been SEN
fenced to the New York work house
for six months.
The president has denied thirty-two
applications for pardon. has restored
to citizenship five applicants who have
served out their terms of imprison-
ment, and has acted favorably upon
six other cases.
Ambassador Charlemagne Tower
has arrived at Vienna from Livadia.
where he was received in farewell
audience by the cZar. He says: THE
cZar and czarina are both enjoying the
best possible health
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of busi-
ness November %, 1902, the debt, less
cash in the treasury, amounted to
$95S S,097.2S1, which is a decrease for
the month OF S410,440.
Governor Stone of Pennsylvania has
honored the requisition of the COVER
nor of Missouri for the return to St.
Louis of Charles F. Kelly, formerly
president of the boodling House of
Delegates of st. Louis.
The efforts to restore agriculture in
the Philippines have been blocked by
a dearth of field animals. Ninety per
cent. of the caribous died in the origin
al epidemic of rinderpest and of the
small number left many have died.
Admiral Dewey sailed from Wash
ington December 1st to take active
command of the large fleet engaged in
maneuvers in the Caribbean sea. 1t
is the first time he has been on sea
duty since his exploits in the Philip
pines.
Surgeon General OReilly has re-
ceived a report from Colonel Adair.
chief surgeon in the Philippines, that
there has been an increase of malaria
and dysentery among troops in the
Philippines, and a decided decrease OF
cholera.
The Ontario quarantine department
has ordered that owing to the outbreak
OF foot and mouth disease in the
United States all cattle entering Can.
ada from the western states shall be
cleaned and thoroughly disinfected at
the border
The absorption of the Nickel cor
poration of London by the Information
al Nickel Corporation, an American
concern, has practically been complet-
ed. To-day ninetythree per cent. OF
the shareholders of the British con
cern had accepted the offer made to
them.
The state of Indiana has won the
long fought case against the Nandalia
railroad in the Supreme Court and the
school fund, unless an appeal should
be taken to the United States Supreme
Court, and the State Supreme Court
be reversed, will receive an addition OF
$685., ,424.75.
Mrs. Kate Vance, a colored woman.
died at Newton, Kansas. November
2Sth, at the age of 1913 years. Mrs.
Vance had a daughter ninety years
old. and her husband died at the age
OF 1O5. She remembered with distinct
ness Jefferson's administration and the
war of 1872.
Rules and regulations for pension
system, which will go into effect Janu-
ary l, 1903, have been completed by
officials of the Union Pacific Railroad,
by which its old employees will be re-
tired on pension. 1t is stated that the
system involves the annual distribu-
tion of over 100000.
julius Weis, one of the wealthiest
cotton merchants of New Orleans, was
recently fined S25 for violating the
Wilson separate car law. He sat in
the section reserved for negroes and
declined the conductors request to
get up because there was no empty