The Springfield herald., 1902-07-11
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

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The mounted police will be with
| drawn from Dawson and Il local force
substituted.
The degre of LID. has been con-
| ferred ON General Leonard Wood by
Williams College
The pension list for the fiscal year
ending June both shows decrease OF
S95O,OOO from that of the previous
1 year.
| 1t is reported that all the big coal
mines of Missouri are to be absorbed
| by "A syndicate controlled by j. Pier
pont Morgan.
About 1900 Canadian troops sailed
| from Durham for home June 2Ith. Two
| thousand additional Canadians VIII
start for home July ~.
A contract for the building of n sugar
| mill by the state of Arkansas has been
signed and ratified by the state penl-
tentiary board and the governor.
The permanent census act, operative
July LIST, leaves n census force of 100
clerks. Twenty, who have been en-
gagged on special work, are dropped.
Robinson Crusoe's island, Juan Fer
nandeZ, lying 600 miles west of val
paraiso, is to be given civil govern
ment by Chill on account of its lobster
canning industry.
Pneumatic postal tubes were ordered
put in service again July 1st in New
York, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadel-
phia Their construction is authorized
in six other cities.
1t is said in ST. Petersburg thar the
Russian troops have already been
withdrawn from Moukden, Manchuria.
nd
number 10000 men.
The Missouri Republican State Con-
vention strongly endorsed President
Roosevelt, whom Congressman JOY
designated as the Little Rough Rider
of the White House"
The Minnesota Democratic conven-
ton nominated L. A. Rosing for gov
ernor and passed resolutions approving
the Kansas City platform and eulogiz-
ing William j. Bryan.
For the third time in twenty years
Ex-Governor Robert Pnttison of Phila-
delphia was nominated for governor of
Pennsylvania by the recent Demo
cratic State Convention.
The Canadian government has appro-
priated $4,000 to build barbed wire
fence along the boundary between
Montana and the Dominion, extending
from st. Marys Lake TO the Sweet
Grass Hills.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt has de-
clined the peerage offered him by King
Edward. He says that after thirty
four years spent in the House of Com
mons, he is reluctant to change his
sphere of work.
Three Victoria crosses, ten distin-
ln1a ftx~n
tions to commissioned rank and four
mentions in dispatches have fallen TO
the lot of reform school lads in South
| Africa, says Lord Leigh.
1t is announced that the Ozark and
| Cherokee Central. now building from
| Fayetteville. Ark. through Indian Ter
ritory. has decided to secure coast con
nection by constructing the line to
| Guthrie, thence west to n Denver line.
Adyices from Ads Abeda. capital of
| Abyssinia. announce the safe arrival
there of Fitzhugh Whitehouse of New
| port Rhode Island, and Lord Hindlip,
who started from England, February
1st. on an exploring trip to the upper
Nile.
The International Sunday School
| Convention. which closed its session i'll
| Denver June Both. voted to recommend
Jerusalem as the place for the next
| Worlds Sunday School Convention in
| 1904. The International meets next at
| Toronto in 1905.
j. G.. w. Cowles of Cleveland has
been elected chairman of the board of
| trustees of Oberlin College. The cleo
ton means that Mr.. Cowles will be
| president of Oberln College until
| permanent successor to the late iresi-
| dent Barrows is made.
The net earnings of the United States
| Steel Corporation for the quarter end
| ing June Both amounted 10 S3IG9l ,6Db,
as against S2G,3G2, coo for the same
period last year. This statement
| shows an increase of net earnings for
| the quarter of 11.329,G9G.
| The idea prevails in London that MI
| chacl Henry Herbert will not long oc-
cupy the post of British ambassador
to the United States, but that he Will
| be transferred to Paris when Sir Ed
mund J. Monson, the present British
| ambassador there retires.
Lord Warwick, in proposing yC te
| of sympathy for the king before the
! Warwick town council, said that he
was authoritatively Informed that his
majesty's first words on recovering
consciousness after the operation were:
"Will my people ever forgive meI'
Hundreds of INDECENT Americans
now in Cuba are petitioning the min
| lister for aid. This prompted Minister
| SQuires to call n meeting of the Amerl-
cans in the legation, when liberal sub
| scriptionS were made to send the
! needy Americans to the United States.
on the marriage of Miss Jeanne
Langtry. daughter of Mrs. Langtry.
| III, u.fpnss tn lam Mplralm member