The Springfield herald., 1902-01-24
SHORT TELEGRAMs.

so much attention is unable TO meet
his obligations.
The anti-pass agreement has been
irretrieyably broken, all lines announc-
ing that for 1902 exchange passes
would be given.
A contract for the sewering and paw
ing of Havana for $40, O,Gi9,OO0 has been
signed by Jersey City men and by Act
ing Mayor Latorre.
Secretary Root has sent to Congress
estimates of 1907, 600 for the defense
of the island of Guam and $4,000
for the defense of Hawaii.
A revolution in Paraguay is immi-
nent; caused by the question of presi-
dental succession. There has been
some fighting and more is predicted.
The Indiana Supreme Court has de-
cided that n man travelling on n pass
bearing the exemption clause cannot
recover damages for injuries received.
AZ Enid, Oklahoma Territory. Sun
day, the Peoples bank was robbed of
5000. The burglars blew the safe
open with dynamite. There is no clew.
William f. Miller of Brooklyn, the
head of the Franklin 500 per cent. syn
dicate. has been refused n new trial.
Millers sentence was ten years impris-
onment.
A combination of gas, gasoline and
oil stove factories is the latest The
American Stove Company, with 4 cap
ital of S5,OOO,OOO, is the name the cor
poration bears.
Prince Henry on the imperial yacht
Hohenzollern will sail for New York
January 18th. The band of the second
naval division will come to the United
States on board the Emperor's yacht
The Union Lead and Oil Company Of
New York is about ready to enter
gressively into the lead business. 1t
will be a competitor of the National
Lead Company as well as the indie
pendent lead concerns.
While the Pope was granting an aud
ience to American pilgrims last Mon
day. he was taken with fainting tit
just as he was about to address them.
The pontiff was conveyed to his apart
ments, where he soon recovered,
Scriptural quotations rejecting on n
persons character and sent by postal
card through the mails are violation
of the postal laws, according TO n YER
Diet returned by jury in the United
States District Court in Chicago.
Commissioner Bernard Moses, head
of the Department of Pubic lnstruc-
ton for the islands. has delivered an
address to the teachers of Manila, in
which he particularly urged the con-
tinued instruction of Filipino children
in English.
The feature of the Tri-State Grain
and Cattle Growers convention at
Fargo, North Dakota, were the ad-
dress of James j. Hill and the adop-
ton of resolutions commencing Presi-
dent Hill for his work on behalf Of
the Northwest
The London News learns that, owing
to grave doctrinal differences. General
Booths son-in-law and daughter, Mr.
and Mrs. Booth Clibborn, and Percy
Olibborn have resigned from the Saliva
ton Army and Joined the church of
John Alexander Dowie.
There is great rejoicing in the Off
cial circles of Nicaragua over the news
by cable that the Nicaragua canal bill
has passed the House of Representa-
tives The national band at Managua
were fired from the battery.
In Germany the consumption of beer
IN 1901 averaged tifty-seven gallons
per head through the empire, the aver
age rising In Bavaria to 212 gallons
per head. The average consumption in
1882, according to the official records,
was thirty-eight gallons per head, an
increase in two decades Of nearly fifty
per cent.
A dispatch from Hartshorn, Indian
Territory, says fire broke out in the
new slope No. Z. at Dow, one of the
principal tributaries of the Choctaw
coal system on the 18th. AT 8 o'clock
four bodies had been brought to the
surface Probably ten more men are
in the mine Relief has been sent from
this place.
f. Ceilley of St Louis, general or
ganizer for the American Federation OF
Labor, has been compelled to cease
his efforts to organize negro laborers
of Meridian, Mississippi into local
unions. The mayor and twenty-one
prominent business men signed n pa
per warning him to desist or be driven
out of town.
Jyulph Ogilvy of Greeley is now enti-
tied to write his name Captain Lyulph
Ogilvy, D. S. o. Captain Oglvy, who
was once second in line for the Scot
tsh earldom of Aairlie, and who is still
generally known as Lord" Ogilvy,
has been presented by Harold Pearce,
representative in Colorado of His Maj
esty Edward VII, with the distinguish
ed service medal, for gallant conduct
in fighting the Beers
The British war office is confronted
with a most serious condition of af-
fairs. Its calls for volunteers to re-
lieYe the regimenfS at the front have