The Springfield herald., 1903-09-04
SHORT TELEGRAMs.


The Americans won the international
cricket match Just finished at Toronto
by score of 277 to 130.
Dan Patch broke the worlds record
for PAGERS August 18th by pacing a
mile in 1859 at Brighton Beach.
In the recent county Democratic con-
vention at Cleveland, Ohio. Mayor Tom
l.. Johnson carried everything his own
way.
The American Mining Congress will
| meet at Deadwood. South Dakota. Sep
tember 7th and remain in session for q
week.
A stock company has been formed in
Chicago to liquidate a bankrupt estate.
The name OF the corporation is "Por-
| ter Brothers in Liquidation"
Prince George of Greece has renewed
the demand to have Crete annexed to
Greece. 1t is thought that annexation
would not be objected to by Turkey.
Maruis C. Krarup and Thomas Fetch
left San Francisco July 10th for an au-
tomobile trip across the continent and
arrived at Manhattan Beach, New York.
August 21st.
The St. Mary Fruit Association of
Jamaica will suspend operations for
twelve months because of the almost
total destruction OF the banana crop by
the late hurricane.
In flying large box kite at Glen
wood, Iowa, Edward Merrill was car
rled nearly fifty feet into the air, but
spectators seized the rope and pulled
him down in safety.
The Mason & Hamlin Company.
manufacturers of organs and pianos,
having their factory at Cambridge.
Massachusetts, have assigned for the
benefit OF their creditors.
Mayor Charles Henry Smith of At
lanta. Georgia. who soon after the war
acquired great fame as Bill Arp" the
southern humorist. died August Gath,
at the age of seventy-seyen.
Pietro Cartoni, prominent Italian.
land owner, has given 100000 to found
sanatorium for consumptive patients
in Rome, in memory of his two sons,
who succumbed to tuberculosis.
A new gem recently discovered in
California has been examined by DR..
Charles Baskerville, the New York
chemist, and named Kunzite. after
George e. Kunz, its discoverer.
The Grand Army of the Republic has
membership of 255 100. the total num-
ber of posts being gill. During the
last year the net loss in membership
was 9,162, of which 1896 was by death.
Miss Ruth Bryan. eldest daughter of
the Democratic leader. William ]. Bry-
an, will take up charitable work in the
Hull House settlement, Chicago. next
fall Miss Bryan is nineteen years of
age.
Secretary Cortelyou has transferred
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Bureau to the Census Bureau His pol
icy is to make the Census Bureau the
one great statistical bureau of the gov
ernment.
The election of Alfredo Baqueriza
Moreno. Ecuadorean minister to the
United States, as vice president of the
Republic of Ecuador. has been annulled
by Congress on the ground that it was
unconstitutional.
Acting Secretary of State Loo
from Minister Beaupre. at Bo-
gotta, conveying information that
efforts are still being made to find a
way to revive the canal treaty.
The postmaster general has signed
the protocol to the postal treaty be-
tween the United States ard Cuba,
made necessary by the amendments by
the Cuban Senate. The treaty becomes
effective without ratification by the
American Senate.
Luis Brigano, an Italian pedestrian
who left Buenos Ayres. Argentina, on
April 20. en- route to San Francisco,
has arrived here, says New York
Herald dispatch of August 21st from
Lima, Peru. He will proceed after
rest OF eight days.
negro named Cody has successfully
jumped from the structure of the new
bridge being erected over the East
river at New York, known as the Will
liamsburg bridge. 1t was drop of
147 feet. Cody jumped from the Brook
lyn bridge one year ago.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
says that Pedro Alvarodo, the famous
mining magnate of Parral, is not dead.
as has been generally reported, but is
in good health. 1t is not known how
the report OF his death, which gained
wide circulation, originated
England and the United States will
refer TO arbitration the question of the
ownership of the group Of islands off
the coast of Borneo. claimed by both.
The islands are not considered valuable
and there is lie danger of friction on
the question of their ownership.
Emperor William has added his tif
ty-fourth residence to the fifty-three he
already owns by buying the estate OF
Damm-M -Muehle, called the Pearl of
Brandenburg," for 100000. It was
owned by a country squire, Won Moll-
ank The present residence will be re-
built and converted into hunting cas-
tie.
The Annie Roberts. a river boat car
rying an excursion of the Ancient Or
der of Hibernians and their guests to
the number of 800. sank at McKees-