The Springfield herald., 1902-01-03
rELEeRAPAIc eREvlTIEs.


liza has decided to send Il contingent OF
1000 men TO South Africa.
A seat on the New York Stock EN-
change was sold n few days ago for
$4,000. This is the highest price ever
paid.
A deal has been practically closed for
the sale OF the Topeka street railway
system to st. Louis syndicate for
$500,0oO.
Cecil Rhodes has suffered from heat
stroke and has abandoned his trip to
Khartoum. He is now hurryins back
to Cairo.
The American Tobacco combination
has made an incursion into Germany.
and 1t proposes later to carry the war
into Russia.
William Ellery Charming, the noted
poet and essayist. died At Concord.
Massachusetts, December 2Srd, aged
eighty-three years.
Judge David McAdam, of the ST.
preme Court of New York, died IN
New York City December 22nd. of
cancer of the tongue.
Professor w. J. SpillInan Of Pullman
Washington. will succeed Professor #.
Latson Scribner as agrostoloSfst' OF the
Department OF Agriculture.
Papers Incorporating tire American
Lumber Company, capital SS,coO.OOO,
have been filed with the county clerk
of Essex county, New jersey
President Roosevelt has sent to Con-
| gresS a letter strongly commenting the
plan for a national forest reservation
in the southern Apalacbian region.
The Swedish antarctic expedition un-
der DR.. otto Nordenskjdl has arrived
at Buenus AyT,s-s. DIR. Nordenskjol eN-
poets To return To Swedcniin May, 1908.
DR.. Samuel Smiles, Huthor of the
Self-Hclf series. and well known to
American readers, celebrated his
ninetieth birthday December 23rd in
London.
A st Petersburg capitalist mas prom
ised to supply 10000 roubles for the
expense of n north polar exploring
party which plans to leave next year
in the ship ranteleimon.
The National Broom Manufacturers
Association of the United States and
Canada decided December 18th to ad-
vance the price of brooms and are con-
sidering n further advance.
1t Is officially announced at Berlin
| that in consequence of the murder of
a German near Pekinc. August 9th, fif-
| teen members of the band found guilty
! of the crime have been executed.
Emil L. Boas. general agent of the
| Hamburg line. who returned
| fro,.I Europe recently. says his COM
| pany claims no rights in Nicaragua
| through the purchase of the Atlas line.
| General Horace w. Carpenter.
! wealtny retired merchant of the Pacific
| coast. is the donor of the 100000 to
| Columbia university for the endow-
ment of chair of Chinese language
| and literature.
BY the collapse of the city market
| house AZ ZacatecaS Mexico, DECEMBER
! end. fully forty-fve lives were lost
| and over a score OF persons seriously
injured some of them so badly that
they cannot recover
| The safe In the county rreaSurer's
office at Atwood. Kansas. was blown
open on the morning of the 2nd and
| S1.JOO taken Officers were on the
scene in a few moments, but the
crncksmen had escaped.
Physicians of the University of Mich
igan think they have discovered an
an;iseptic for all intestinal diseases.
such as cholera. typhoid fever and
dysentery. 1t has already been sue
cessfully tried on small animalssp
corps. who is now in command of the
marines at the League Island navy
yard. Philadelphia. has been ordered
to Cavite Philippine Islands. to as
sume command of the first brigade of
marines. ..
A feature OF the winter cruise of the
North Atlantic squadron in West
Indian and gulf waters will be drills in
landing and launching boats crews of
sailors and other maneuvers, in which
conditions of actual warfare will be
simulated.
The Treasury Department has issued
circular extending the prohibition
against the Importation of meat cattle
from Australia and New Zealand into
the United States. SO as TO include
Hawaii, it being a territory of the
United States.
The municipal council OF Dublin
voted 10 bestow the freedom of the
city Of Dublin on John Redmond. the
Nationalist leader in the House of
Commons. who returned to Ireland a
few days ago from visit to the
United States.
Great naval activity of every de-
scription prevails at Sebastopol. A
Russian naval officer recently declared
that if Sebastopol had TO play an
active role it would be in a position
to give a better account of itself than
fifty years ago.
Cherokee Indians are reported starv-
ing in the hills near Tallequa. In the
Going Snake district, as a result of
the loss of their crops and the blizzard.
They are members of the Netoowah
tribe. and are said to be the LATEST
people on earth.