The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1902-09-19
SHORT TEL EeRAMs.

our Samoan possessions.
1t is now said that the fatal accident
to the Fairs in France was due to de-
fective steering wheel instead of col
lapsed tire.
Lord Curzon at Sima recently said
| that he had no intention of resiSning
until the full term of his vice royalty
had expired.
Don Carlos. the Spanish pretender,
has sent Il letter to the Carlist deputy,
vigorously deprecating any attempt at
rising in the interests of Carlists.
1t is proposed to make the dinner to
| be given to President Roosevelt at the
Mercantile club in st. Louis next Octo-
Der the finest ever served in that city.
A remarkable scene has been wit
messed at Hoiborn viaduct station, in
London, when $50 Roman Catholic pill
grims left by special train for Lourdes.
| During his visit at Chattanooga, Sep
TENDER eth, President Roosevelt went
over the battlefields of Chickamauga,
Mission Ridge and Lookout Mountain.
A runaway engine at Oakland, Cali
fornia, on the 9th instant, was side
tracked and made a thirty foot leap in
| to the sea in the presence of thousands
of people.
Dispatches from Bueno Ayres an
| nounce the destruction of the town Of
Bolivar. Argentine Republic, by tor
nado. Fourteen We're killed and fifty
We're injured.
| The foreign minister NJ. Delcasse,
| cabled to the French embassy at Wash
| ington. directing that official to eX-
| press his congratulations on President
Roosevclt'S escape from death.
,,Sn Of 4,
springs that recently broke out pear
Mapinmi, Mexico, is said to have &C.
casioned the death of thirty persons
and the serious illness of over 400
more.
At Shelbyville. Kentucky, Fisher
Million, a negro, tried in the County
Court was found guilty of vagrancy
and sentenced to be sold into servitude
for a period of twelve months, the
highest penalty.
Information has been received at the
British admiralty of a sharp fight in
the Persian gulf between n boats crew
of the British gunboat Lapwing and a
slave schooner. A bluejacket was killed
and several were wounded.
On account of the impossibility of Sc
curing berths for Manila at an earlier
date, Mgr. Guidi, the apostolic delegate
to the Philippines. will sail from Mar
settles, October LIST, and is due to ar
rive at Manila on November 14th.
During the recent maneuvers near
Tivoll, Italy. a military balloon burst
and sixteen soldiers were badly injured
in consequence. Two of the men were
fatally hurt. The explosion of the bal
loon is attributed to intense heat.
The White Star line has ordered an
Il.
Wolff of Belfast, which Is to be twenty
feet longer and few feet wider than
the same company's steamer Cedric,
now the largest liner in the world.
General Cronje has stated that dur
ing the war he had lost, from wounds
and disease. twenty relatives. He ex-
pressed himself as prepared, however.
not only to forgive. but as far as God
had given him the power, to forget.
A new claimant has arisen for the
honor of being selected as the British
terminal port prop<2ed for the new
Canadian service. Active steps are
being taken to lay the claims of Holly
Head before the proper authorities.
A dispatch from Calcutta says that
an earthquake shock has been felt
throughout the province of Assam and
the Chittagong, division of Bengal. The
inhabitants We're panic-stricken. Terri |
BILE commissions of nature are prophc-
sled.
The Boer generals have issued a
statement declaring there is no truth
in the reports of differences between
themselves and Mr.. Kruger, DR.. Leyds,
and the Boer delegates in Europe, add
ing that their relations with them con-
tinue to be most harmonious.
Dispatches from Rome say the Ital-
ian minister of posts and telegraphs,
Signor Galimberti, is negotiating for
the use of wireless telegraphy, when
this system, becomes practicable, be-
tween Italy, England and the United
States.
While President Roosevelt was at
Ellsworth, Maine, A. l.. New of the Pa
cific Wireless Telegraph Company at
Catalina Island, California, sent him Il
message of congratulation which pass
ed through the air without wire to the
mainland.
AS a first step toward the construc-
tion of New York Chicago boulevard,
William B. Dickinson, treasurer of the
New Automobile club, recently started
on an automobile trip to Chicago. He
will report to the association after
close inspection of the roads.
at the close of the naval maneuyers
at Pola, Austria, Emperor Francis .Io-
seph appointed Archduke Francis Fer
dinand the heir presumptive, to be an
admiral. This nomination is believed
to indicate the emperor's intention to
strengthen the Austrian navy.
Excavations now in progress on the
college campus at Princetown, New
Jersey, have disclosed the old pump !
which, in the early COS, was the instrl-
mont with which tho cnnbnJnnroc 5t,nly-