The Springfield herald., 1902-01-10
TeLEeRAPHIc eREvITles.

Consul Lane has cabled the State
Department at Washington that the
bubonic plague has broken out Il,
Smyrna.
1t is estimated that the trades unions
of Great Britain now have n member
ship of 2,0OOOOO of whom 122, 600 ara
females.
The Algoma Tube Works has been
incorporated in Ontario, Canada, with
capital of $30,OOO,00O The plant will
be located at Sault Ste. Marie.
Three Finnish newspapers have been
permanently suppressed and seven 9TH
ers have been suspended temporarily
on account of the Russophobism of the
papers.
The London Standard hears that an
| important feature of the coronation
ceremonies will be naval review at
Spithead on an unprecedentedly large
scale, to which foreign warships will
be invited.
Nearly all the local freight agents Of
the railways of the Mississippi River
Rocky Mountain region have received
instructions from headquarters 10 stop
all freight rate cutting, commencing
January 1st.
Mrs. Eliza Pinkham died at Mill
bridge, Maine, December 2Sth. at the
age of nearly 104 years. She was
born January 9TH, 179S. Five children
survive her, one of whom, Paul Pink
ham, is a well known shipbuilder.
Alexander ii. Revell, chairman of the
Illinois auxiliary of the Mckinley Me-
mortal Association. reports that the
monument fund for the state is fast ap-
preaching the So, 1000 mark. The total
N m n to 10
The epidemic of smallpox in Boston
is assuming n serious phase, and the
Board of Health has issued compul-
sorry order that 10000 Bostonians be
vaccinated as rapidly as large force
of physicians can perform the work.
Chief Wilkie of the secret service has
issued circular stating that a counter
felt $50 gold certificate is in circula,
ton. He says 1t is an unlimited photo
graph and would not deceive any one
who is accustomed to handling money.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
Kalispell, Montana, $4,000 for IL
brary provided the city furnishes a
site and $1,000 yearly for mainte-
nance. The city already eXpends that
amount each year for library support.
All news agents on the trains of the
Northern Pacific are to be discontinued
after the LIST Of January. Daily papers
will be kept on the dining cars and
supplied by one OF the walters. This
means that the train peddler is to go.
A New York dispatch of December
2Gth says: A new record price for n
seat on the New York Stock Exchange
was established to-day by sale Mt
$4,000. Last Saturday seat sold for
G inI, fh. npI ,,p tn
that time.
The receipts from stamps, postal
cards and envelopes at the New York
postoffice have more than quadrupled
In less than thirty years. For 1901
they will aggregate about S13,Q0O.0o4 i
In 1878 they aggregated $3,OOO,OOO in
round numbers.
AS the result OF conferences between
a clergyman, Rev. Mr.. Broekhuysen,
and the Boer leaders at Amsterdam, 1t
has been decided TO send C. NJ. Vessels
to the United States in January bear
ing letter from Mr.. Kruger to Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
John Pinover, a young wholesale
liquor dealer of Middletown, New
York, wanted to find out If he could
survive n jump from Brooklyn bridge.
He did; but after being picked up by
a government tug he was unconscious
for three hours.
Homing pigeons are to give way to
wireless telegraphy at the Brooklyn
navy yard. The pigeons are to be sold
and the department will commence at
once Il series of experiments then with
wireless telegraphy as means of COM
munication between warships.
A well-known Scottish artist. John
Dalrymple, died of starvation at Bel
fast, Ireland. Christmas night. His
body was found in miserably squalid
surroundings. Dalrymple exhibited at
the Royal Academy and took three
first prizes for designs at the Paris ex-
hibition.
The Elks of Birmingham, Alabama,
presented to the poor people OF that
city Christmas tree loaded with gifts
and 1000 children took part in the fes-
tivities. Every poor child or woman
who went to the theater, where the
celebration took place. was given sill
YER quarter as present.
William F. Cochran, a director in
several southern railroads, the WestGrn
Union Telegraph Company, and other
corporations, died in New York Decem-
Der 9th. Mr.. Cochran's wealth is esti-
mated at S10,OOO,O00. His gifts to va
rious institutions and church endow-
ments aggregated over S1,OOO,WO.
Augustus l.. Allen, one of the origi-
nal trustees of Nassar College, died at
Poughkeepsie. New York, December
27th. aged ninety-two. In 1850 he was
chairman of the committee appointed
to welcome home the late Professor $.
+. Is. Morse, inventor of the telegraph.
after his return from his protracted
trip to Europe.