The Springfield herald., 1902-11-21
SHORT TELEGEAMS.

his tour of inspection.
President Roosevelt has gone on a
bear hunt in Mississippi.
Illinois congressman are booming
Mr. Cannon for speaker of the House.
Owners of steamers on the Great
Lakes are said to have organized a
trust
Officials of the Navy Department say
that there is an insufficient number OF
| naval officers.
Lady Henry Somerset. who is visit
ing this country. called upon Preside-.t
Roosevelt the other day.
The railroad connecting Havana and
Santiago, Cuba, has been completed
by United States capital.
The directors of the Calumet & Hec-
la Mining Company have just declared
a dividend of So per share.
/ Cholera is reported to have practi-
cally disappeared- from Egypt and to
be decreasing in Palestine.
United States Senator. o. II. sPlatt of
Connecticut has declared against pro
positions for tariff revision.
The German government proposes
to establish a cruiser squadron on the
western coast of the Americas.
Five captains OF police of Cleveland.
Ohio, have been forced to resign for
not closing saloons election day.
Governor Dole of Hawaii has just
| dismissed the third territorial officer
charged with embezzlement of funds.
Forty-one persons are reported lost
by the wrecking of the steamer Elinga-
mite near Sydney. New South Wales.
Mount Quemado, near the coast of
southern Mexico. is in eruption, accom-
| panied by severe earthquake upheav-
Ills.
Owing to pronounced opposition,
| French will not be made the official
| language of the international arbitra-
| ton court.
The whole of Bolivia has been de-
| clared in a state of siege because of
| reverses in Acre and threatened inva-
| sion by Peru.
The Supreme Court of New Jersey
| has sustained the ordinance of Hobo
ken prohibiting saloon keepers from
having barmaids.
| President Roosevelt's book. THE
! Strenuous Life" has just been pub
/ lished in French and is attracting much
attention at Paris
The Bishop of London has refused to
visit any church whose clergymen SOL
emnize the marriage of people who
have been divorced.
Three masked bandits held up three
men in the offices of the Cabra Min
ing Company at Cananea, Arizona, and
4 got away with $1,000.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit
| ed Mine Workers, has refused to be a
/ candidate for president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
The British newspapers still con-
tinue to regard the visit of the kaiser
! of Germany as intended to secure
deals with Great Britain.
No trace has yet been found of
| Superintendent Egan of the Great
| Northern railroad. lost last week in
the mountains of Montana.
Hoonah Indians in Alaska are re-
ported to have tortured to death one
of their tribe who was supposed to
have been possessed of a devil.
The Lehigh Coal and Navigation
! Company employees in Pennsylvania
threaten to strike unless all of the 21S
officials OF the local unions be rein
stated.
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Company is planning to establish a
complete system for sending messages
between the Atlantic and Pacific across
| Canada.
A special dispatch received from Cal
! cutta says that the Indian government
| has refused the Standard Oil Company
| permission to prospect in the oil fields
of Burma.
American citizens Of the Isle of
| Pines, now belonging to Cuba. COM
! plain that they have no government
| whatever, and want our government to
help them.
| Rear Admiral Bradford recommends
| government control of all wireless
| telegraph stations along the coasts.
! The United States system has not yet
! been selected.
The British secretary for India re-
| ports increasing prosperity in spite of
the famines ravages. The govern
ment will grant $780, .00G for drouth
and famine relief.
]. B. Charleson of the Canadian Pub
| lie Works Department, who built the
Yukon telegraph line. says the gold
output in the Yukon this year will ag-
gresate $l2,0OO,OOO.
Certain wealthy men of New York
| city are considering the plan of erect
! ing a large Temple of Labor. centrally
located and abundantly equipped for
meeting rooms of labor organizations.
Gen. A. r. Chaffee, Vice Gov. Wright
of the Philippines. and their party,
| reached San Francisco on the 10th.
| Gen Chaffee reports rapid progress in
civilizing the Filipinos and says that
| the chief troubles of the Americans are
| from the ancient legends and supersti
tions of the islanders, which are very
hard to overcome.
The Chamber of Mines at Johannes