The Springfield herald., 1902-07-18
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

Ponce in Porto Rico.
John NJ. Burke has given the city of
New York $4,OOo,OO0 to establish Il
home for convalescents.
Corn for delivery in July has been
bid up to 90 cents in the Chicago mar
ket.
During the first six months of this
year 316.711 immigrants landed at Ell
lis island, port of New York.
Thomas Mast, the cartoonist, has
sailed to take up his duties as United
States consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador.
An immense amount of damage was
done by terrific rain storm that
swept over western New York July
9th.
Eleven cars loaded with hermetically
sealed Jars of butter recently left To
peka, Kansas, for the eastern navy
yards.
Foreigners will not be allowed to ride
over the Siberian railway without spe-
clal authorization from the Russian
government.
Janesville, Wisconsin, was struck by
lightning and destroyed on the night
of July 9Th.
Greeley, died at Manchester, New
Hampshire, on the 7th instant at the
age of eight-six.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Salonica. European Turkey, on the
night of July 4th. Many lives are re-
ported to have been lost.
Twenty-Five candidates from the
Andover Theological Seminary have
It,1i fn ha
sity at Princeton, New Jersey, for crib
bling.
Charles NJ. Schwab will built ST.
100000 residence next to that being
erected for Andrew Carnegie near Riy-
erside drive and Seventy-fourth street.
New York
War Secretary Broderick says that
Irish-Americans who We're made pris-
oners in the Boer war will be released
on the same lines as other prisoners
similarly situated.
N. r. Cady, editor of the Augusta,
Kansas, Journal, was to-day fined $40
for contempt of court for having criti-
cised Judge Aikman for not granting
a change of venue for Jessie Morrison.
G. w. Bradley. nincty-four years old,
a native of Lynchburg, Virginia, is the
oldest living Confederate veteran He
walks with two canes, one of which
was once the property of Daniel Boone.
The cotton crisis in Lancashire. Eng
land. Is growing more acute and the
trade regards Il heavy reduction of the
output being its only salvation. Spec
ulatorS are said to have secured pos
session of the cotton supply.
The Spanish minister of foreign af
fairs, the Duke of Almodovar, has
been authorized to sign treaty of
commerce with the United States,
which will then be sent to Washington
for the approval of the Senate.
Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn"
will be produced on the stage next No
vember, the first performance to be
given at Hartford. Connecticut. The
stage version is being prepared by Lee
Arthur, a young Louisiana lawyer.
Judge Herbert j. Davis of Chicago.
who was recently appointed Il judge of
the Court of First Instance in the
Philippines, has resigned his position
and will remain in the United States.
The resignation is n result of ill health.
Major General Lloyd Wheaton. U. s.
A, has arrived in Chicago from Ma
Mia. He will retire from active ser
vice upon reaching the age limit of
sixty-four years on July 18th, and in
tends to stay in Chicago with his
family.
Chicagos postoflice has done bus-
ness twenty per cent. greater during
the year ending June 1st than during
last year. The salaries of 1.4oO clerks
have been raised 500 each and fifty
new carriers will be added to the pres
ent force.
The British punitive expedition un-
ded Colonel Swan, sent to Somaliland
East Africa, against the Mad Mullah,
reports that the Mullah is indulging in
wholesale killing of his followers in or
der to terrify the rest and put stop
to desertions.
At meeting of the Hudson's Bay
Company Lord Strathcona expressed
the opinion. cables the London CORE
spondent of the Tribune, that in an
other decade Canada would be able to
supply the whole foodstuffs of the
United Kingdom. |
William Clark, the great thread man
ufacturer of Passaic. New Jersey. and
Paisley, Scotland, died in England on
July 9TH at the age of sXty-one. His
name was on so many spoOls of thread
that it became n household word in
all parts Of the world.
The sultan of Bacolod. Mindanao,
has sent an insultingly worded letter
to the commander of the American ex-
pedtion to Lake Lanao, Mindanao in
which he threatens to begin operations
in August. The sultan is at present
strengthening his position.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Walsh of Brooklyn,
whose donations for educational and
charitable purposes have reached