The Springfield herald., 1903-11-06
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

United States District Judge NJ. M.
| Estee died at Honolulu October 9th.
The Santa Fe has made its California
| limited train daily instead of tri-
| weekly as heretofore.
The President has appointed Horace
| w. Bailey United States marshal foy
| Vermont, to succeed Fred Field, diar
missed.
The widow of the Rev. Charles Spur
| geon, the noted preacher. who died
January 81, 1892, died at London Oc-
tober 22nd.
! Mrs. L. Q. c. Lamar wife OF the for
mer justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, died at Macon. Georgia,
/ October 9th.
King Edward has approved the ap-
pointment OF Sir Henry Mortimer Du-
rand as British ambassador to the
United States.
Now we are up against 1t. A New
York pie trust has put up the price
OF pies and there is no telling when
they will enter the western field.
Orin Hickok, for many years one of
the best known trainers and drivers OF
famous horses. has been sent to the
Ohio State Hospital for the Insane.
The firm of Horace l.. Shattuc q
Sons, hardware, bicycle and automo-
bile dealers of Lowell, Boston and
Providence. has assigned, with liabili-
ties of $500.0O0.
William j. Bryan has postponed hia
| departure for Europe until after de-
cision has been rendered In the Bennett
will case, in which he is interested.
This may delay him for week or two.
1t is reported from Quito that q
dense column of fire is visible from
| there, emerging from the crater OF the
Cotopaxi volcano. The neighborin6
villages have not sustained any dam
age.
The outbreak of cholera at Bethle-
hem, in the Holy Land. which was ret
ported October 17th, has been stamped
out and the Gordon of troops which had
| been drawn around the city has been
removed.
Keokuk, aged eighty-five, the Oldest
| Indian In the Sac and Fox tribes. died
at Guthrie. Oklahoma, October 9th.
Keokuk was an unusually intelligent
Indian and the son of the great Sac
and Fox chief after whom Keokuk.
Iowa, was named.
l
eating a project for irrigating 2,0OO.000
acres in central Washington. forming q
gigantic looop through the big Bend
country" Over three-fourth OF the
vast territory will get Its water supply
from the Spokane river.
A French military commission has
inspected Santos-Dumont's No. 10 dir
igible balloon. This and other balloons
are to be placed at the disposal of
France in case of war. The commits
sioners expressed satisfaction with the
results of their inspection.
Mrs. William Tate, a colored woman.
| twenty-three years old. OF GAINESVILLE.
Ohio. recently gave birth to four girl
babies, all of normal size and weigh
ing slightly more than six and one-half
pounds each The woman is the mother
Of three other children, born singly.
Two Bulgarian missionaries are COM
ing from Vienna to New York for the
purpose of making tour Of the United
States to raise funds for destitute
Mncedonians. They are graduates OF
American colleges. Furnajieff, having
studied at Princeton and Popon at
Hamilton, New York.
| A permanent anti-tuberculosis COM
mission, comprising hygienists, physi-
clans, members of ministries and vari-
| GUS chambers. has been organized in
Paris under the presidency of Leon
Bourgeois. president of the Chamber
of Deputies. Its scope Is prevention
rather than remedial.
The Illinois Steel Company has laid
off 1000 laborers in its mills in South
Chicago. No notice OF the contem-
plated action was given. the men being
merely told that there would be no
more work for them for the present.
The men were employed in the slab
and plate mills and the open hearth
mill.
The Italian minister to Abyssinia.
Major Cicco di Cola, has been m
structed to assist United States Consul
Skinner of Marseilles. France, in car
rying out the latter's mission to King
Menellk, one of the objects OF which Is
to invite the king to visit the st. Louis
Exposition and to provide for an Abys-
sinian exhibit.
Mrs. Angeline Jewett. a convert to
the doctrines of John Alexander Dowie,
has sold her farm at Clifford. New
Hampshire for 81 500 and of the pro-
ceeds has sent $l,400 to Dowie. Mrs.
JeWetL says SLe DelleNeS III DoWlc duOk
declares that God showed me that 1t
was best to dispose of the farm and
send him the money"
The new Omaha extension of the Chi
cago Great Western road for regular
passenger service between St. Paul and
Omaha is now ready for service. Two
trains will be run each way daily be,
tween the Twin Cities and Omaha, to
connect with trains for Colorado points.
The time between ST. Paul and Dem
yer will be twenty-four and one-half
hours.
The War Department has issued a
statement showing the customs reve-
nues in the Philippines for the six
months of 1903 to be $i,449.424 For
the same period in 1902 the receipts
were $4.338467 The statement says
that each successive year of American
ocucpation has brought forth core
spondiag wealthy growth of these rev.
enues-
Emperor William sank to his knees
in bog during his recent deer stalk