The Springfield herald., 1902-06-27
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

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to South Africa.
President Palma Indignantly denies
that General Gomez was bribed not to
run for the presidency of Cuba.
1t is announced at Madrid that the
Spanish government has decided to ap-
point u minister to the Cuban Repub-
lie.
The government printers at Manila
have petitioned that their salaries shall
be paid in gold instead of Mexican sill
yer.
The official count of the vote in the
Oregon election shows that Chamber
lain, Democrat for governor has ma
jority of 256.
Naval Constructor Hobson has been
given three months leave of absence
on account of eye trouble and is likely
to be retired.
Unprecedented cold weather for June
| is reported from Germany and Aus
tria and cold rains are damaging crops
in many localities.
Alexander City, Ala, place of 1900
inhabitants, was entirely destroyed by
fire on the 18th inst, the loss being es-
timated at $750,OOO.
The Cuban Senate has approved the
! bill fixing President Palma's salary
at $4,000 n year, and that of Senor
EsteveZ, the vice president, at $4,000.
The degree of doctor of Jurisprudence
will be conferred upon Grover Cleve-
land by the Augustnian College Of st.
Thomas at Villa Nova, Pennsylvania.
There is no truth in the statement
published in the United States that an
anarchist plot to assassnate Emperor
| Francis Joseph was discovered in VI
enna.
Two sharp earthquake shocks were
held at Newport, Ore, on tile night of
| the 14th inst. one at 8 p. M, and an
other at l a. m., but no damage is re-
ported.
| By recent agreement all disputes
| that may arise between the team own
ers and employees Of Chicago and the
| teamsters will be submitted to arbi-
tration.
| The Prince of Wales held unique
| coronation review on the Horse Guards
parade recently of 1900 boys gathered
from all parts of the Kingdom. belong
ing to the boys brigade connected with
the various churches.
A recent dispatch from Cape Town.
South Africa, says: Unprecedented
snowstorms have swept over the mid
lands Trains are blockaded by six
foot drift at Maauwpoort. The telc-
graph wires are down.
Mary Custis Lee. daughter of the
late General Robert Il. Lee, was re-
Gently arrested and mulcted in the sum
of So for riding in the car set apart
for negroes on the train between Wash
ington and Alexandria.
The Manila Chamber of Commerce
has presented to General Chaffee a set
of resolutions expressing the regard
with which General Chaffee and the
army in the Philippines are held by the
business men of Manila.
1t is said that John Wanamaker,
of Philadelphia, is trying to buy the
Palmer House property in Chicago with
view to erecting Il twcnty-story build
ing and establishing the largest depart
ment store in the world.
Farms of Nevada on June 1, 1900. ac-
cording to census bulletin on agricul-
ture in that state. numbered lisa, and
were valued at S15.615,71O. The gross
farm income in 1899 was So, 1S5, 1G7 and
the gross income on investment 1S per
cent.
The tax reformers of Pennsylvania
have organized a tax reform league
and have started propaganda work to
secure an amendment to the state con-
stitution along the lines of the Austria
lasian tax amendment soon to be voted
on in Colorado.
New York to Chicago in nineteen
hours ard fifty-seven minutes-thAt is
the record time made by the new fast
trains put into service by the Lake
Shore and Pennsylvania railroads June
18th. The twenty-hour schedules over
both We're more than equaled.
The Democratic convention in Illi-
nos adopted a platform that hedges on
the silver question. The resolutions
deplore the death of William McKin-
ley. our "much-loved, mOurned Presi-
dent" and of John p. Altgeld. who
died fighting for human freedom
Prince Henry of Prussia has made
glad the hearts of Mr.. and Mrs. Chris
topher Blum of New York by consent
ing to act as godfather by proxy of
their twins, who We're born the day
Emperor Williams yacht was
launched and named William and
Henry.
According to census bureau report
Just issued on the agriculture of the In.
dian Territory. 4J.50J farms We're
enumerated there on June l, 1900, and
We're valued at $4G.S63.44O. The gross
farm income in 1899 was S23.237 .992,
and the gross income on investment %
per cent.
In the course of Il recent lecture be-
fore tho Royal Institution of Great
Britain, William Marconi announced
that he had invented Il highly sensitive
magnetic detecter of electric waves, by
which it was possible to read about
thirty words per minute in wireless
telegraphy