The Springfield herald., 1903-04-17
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

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York April 3rd, being the lowest price
on record in this country.
Mrs. Horace Porter, wife of the am
bassador to France. died in Paris April
9th of congestive chill.
A cablegram from Sweden acknowl-
edges the receipt of $940 sent from
Denver for the famine relief fund.
b. +. Brown OF Redlands. California,
was arrested on the 9TH inst. on the
charge of having made threats against
the President.
Tho Yosemite Club of San Francisco
has arranged for fight between James
j. Jcffrics and James j. Corbett some
time next August.
| Since the strike in Holland all the
trains OF the Netherlands railroad ear
ry detachments of militia and are thus
enabled to maintain restricted SER
| vice.
immigration agents at Chicago de-
clare that the present year will see all
| records for immigration and settlement
| in the Northwest broken by large
majority.
| The Ellis island immigration bureau
reports that during March 65,376 aliens
entered the port of New York, an in
| crease of 7-lO over the same months
| of last year
The United Railways Company OF
Baltimore has increased the wages OF
| its $500 conductors and motormcn.
| The advance will average from ten to
| twenty per cert.
A dispatch was received at the Navy
| Department April 7th from Key West
| announcing the death of Rear Admiral
| George e. Beknap, U. S. N. retired
| Death occurred from apoplexy.
BY vote of 1O3 to 4S. the Canadian
| House declared its opinion that in or
| der to save the youth of the country
the manufacture. sale and importation
of cigarettes should be prohibited.
The ser,i-official announcement is
made in the Paris Tempes that King
Edward will arrive in Paris May End,
where he will be received by President
| I.oubet. He will remain two or three
days.
Caught in a wheel making 100 revo-
| iutions a minute, Michael Devanney,
an oiler employed in the Brooklyn iron
works, was whirled around the circle
for perhaps two minutes, but not seri-
| ously hurt
1t is expected that more than 200
| Ghingle factories in Washington, en-
ploying $500 hands. will be temporarily
closed. owing to concerted action OF the
| owners, in order TO reduce production
and stiffen prices.
AS a result Of long crusade the
Board of Commissioners of the District
of Columbia has adopted a resolution
| forbidding expectorating on the side
| walks. making violation thereon SUD-
| ject to fine of 81.
| of Let ho
severe hailstorm ever experienced in
La Crosse. Wisconsin, caused great
damage to all greenhouses and con-
aervatories in the city. The hailstones,
which were an in diameter, came down
thckly for fifteen minutes.
In the Fair estate suit, now on trial
in New York, Lucien Mass of Paris tes-
titled that he witnessed the accident
and that when he reached the scene
Mr.. Fair was absolutely lifeless, but
Mru. Fair was breathing. He noticed
a nervous contraction of her face and
| hands.
Sheriff Morrison of Kiowa county
| Thompson of Caddo, Porter of Garfield
and Bottom of Washita surrounded
ranch near Cordele. Oklahoma terrific
ry. and captured six of the remaining
outlaws of the Bert Casey gang. sup
posed to have robbed the Ledger bank
| of $4,000.
| The American indoor, and the West
ern outdoor records for the mile run
| were broken at an athletic meet at
| Ann Arbor, March 2Sth, by Nelson A.
kellogg. literary student in the Uni
| versity of Michigan, from Battle Creek.
| He covered the mile in minutes, 30
2-5 seconds.
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man Emperor's suite and in Danish
court circles that the German crown
prince. Frederick William, is TO be be-
trothed to Duchess Cecile, sister of the
Grand Duke of MocklenbergSchwe
| whose sister. Alexandrine, is the wife
! of Prince Christian. the grandson of
the King of Denmark.
| According to an agency dispatch
from Constantinople. advices had been
received there from Monastir that the
Macedonian revolutionary committee
will proclaim a general insurrection in
the European provinces of Turkey
about April Goth. when there will be
more than 100000 men armed with ri
! fles and dynamite bombs in the field.
The United States has received
specific promise from Russia that the
open door in Manchuria shall be main
tained. The provision IN the new
treaty now under negotiation with
China declaring Mukden and its port
Takushan, at the mouth of the Ya-tu
river, open to foreign trade, affords the
opportunity for testing these promises.
A Vienna dispatch says that the re-
port that Professor Lorenz had re-
ceived an invitation from j. Ogden Ar
mour to go to Chicago and visit his
child, Lolita, who has not completely
recovered from the operation per-
formed upon her by Professor Lorenz
last October. is confirmed. Professor