The Springfield herald., 1903-10-02
SHORT TELEGRAMS.


Topeka joint keepers are escaping
conviction owing to the laxness o.
court methods.
The probating of Lord Salisbury s
will showed that he left an estate val
ued at 81 ,55l $50.
Telegraphic communication by wire
was established with Nome and St Mi
chaels. Alaska, on September 2lst.
Senator Redheld Proctor of Vermont
has just paid a fine of $3.50 in New
Hampshire Tor shooting raccoon out
OIL season.
It is reported at Sofia, Bulgaria, that
500 Turks were killed with dynamite
while fighting against a body of insur-
| gents in the kresna deiile.
The women of Wallington New
Jersey, have detied the painters and
decorators houses, and have formed
a league to paint their own houses.
Richard Watson Glider, editor of the
Century Magazine, who was solicited to
run for alderman of New York as a
| Citizens Union candidate, has declined.
The slander suit brought against eX-
| Postmaster &c leral John Wanamaker
by former Public Printer Robinson, re-
Gently endc,. in a victory Tor the de-
| lendant.
The New York Wine, Liquor and
Beer Dealers Association has arrayed
itself against Governor Odell's admins
tration on account of the license laws
enacted by the last Legislature.
The schooners Sadie and Lille Gi
Prospect. Maine, and the Mackeral
seiner George l.. Edwards, of Glouces-
/ ter. were wrecked reoently on Pema-
| Quid point during the night and fifteen
F., lives were lost
1t is stated that. John d. Rockefeller
| has decided to erect no less than tif
teen large office buildings and business
blocks in the downtown district of
| Cleveland at a cost aggregating more
than S30,000,O0O.
The United States Court of Appeals
at San Francisco has sustained a SEN
tence for larceny for stealing dog in
Alaska. The decision says: "A dog is
& chattel, and next to man, is the most
important factor in the past and pres
ent history of the country"
At South Haven Connecticut, Sep
tember 22d, Oliver r Sherwood. the
defaulting cashier of the Southport
National Bank, was sentenced to ten
years in prison by Judge Platt in the
United States Court. Sherwood was
convicted of misappropriation OF $780,
600.
There remains less than two miles of
the trestle work to be completed in
crossing the Great Salt Lake on the
Southern Pacific cutoff. and this work
will occupy several months. The sinks,
which at first formed serious obsta
Gle. have at last been practically over
come
A Dresden dispatch says that Herr
Bcbel has re-established his authority
in the Socialist party by carrying his
resolution against the Revisionists by
several hundred votes against eleven
dissenting voices and having elected
an executive committee OF his own
choosing.
The Lackawanna Iron and Steel
Compary's five furnaces at Lebanon,
Pennsylvania: at Cornwall and North
Cornwall. and the coke plant in Leb-
anon, are to at once suspend operations
for an indefinite time No reason is
given for the suspension. Two thou
sand men are affected.
More than 5000 men employed at
the Pencoyd iron works in Phiadel-
phia, will be thrown out of work with
in two weeks. All departments of the
plant with the possible exception of the
bridge building shops, will remain idle
until January /. The immediate
cause is said to be lack Of orders.
Joseph Mariconi employed in a
power plant at Spier Falls, New York,
was recently subjected to an electric
current of 10000 volts by falling against
two wires. and still lives to tell the
story He was knocked unconscious
and badly burned where the current
entered and left. Ordinarily 1000 volts
will cause instant death.
Under instructions from the state de-
partment, Robert =. Skinner the
American consul general at Marseilles,
will penetrate the wilds of Abyssinia,
guarded by detachment OF American
marines from the European squadron.
He goes to negotiate with the king of
Abyssinia a commercial treaty, which
it is hoped will give important advant-
ages to American trade.
At Grand Rapids. Michigan, few
days ago. the body of Prof. Max
Wright. instructor in modern languages
in Leland Stanford University, and the
son of wealthy parents, was buried in
a cheap, unpainted pine box. Professor
Wright believed expensive funerals to
he wrong and directed before death
that the 5000 of his money that ordi-
parily would be spent for funeral be
used for public fountain.
The National irrigation Congress at
Ogden, elected the following officers:
President, w. A. Clark, Montana; first
vice president, l.. w. Shurtliff, Utah;
second vice president, w. c. Johnson,
Denver; third vice president. John
Hall, Texas; secretary, H. b. Maxson,
Reno, Nevada; and twenty executive
committeeman, including Colorado,
Gilbert McClurg; New Mexico, C. A.
Richardson, Wyoming, Fenimore
Chatterton.
Word has been received announcing
the itinerary and personnel of the COM
mission of English educational experts
who are to be brought to the United
States by Alfred Mosely, a millionaire
merchant of London. The commission
will arrive about October 18th, from
Southampton, and their itinerary will
include visits to the public schools,
technical schools, colleges and univer-
stiles all over the country, including
those of Colorado Utah and New Mex