The Springfield herald., 1903-08-21
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

Bar Harbor, Maine, August 9.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the city
of Dublin the sum of $140,0O0 toward
the erection OF a free public library.
1t is announced that John A. Book
walter. OF Springfield, ohio. will be a
candidate for United States senator to
succeed Senator Hanna.
Fifty ladrones, who were implicated
In the recent raids near Surigao. in the
province of Mindanao, have been SEN
fenced to long terms of Imprisonment.
At Kamloops. British Columbia, on
the 10th inst, while playing with re-
volver. Willie Edmonds, aged six. was
shot and killed by Charles Newman.
aged seven.
The Treasury Department on the 18th
inst purchased 10000 ounces of silver
for Philippine coinage at an average
price of 55A cents. delivery to be made
in San Francisco.
The volcano of Kilauea, on the ISL
and Of Hawaii, the movement OF which
was suspended few days ago by
lava slide into the crater, has resumed
Its usual state of activity.
The strike riots at Cracow. Austrian
Poland, have resulted. according to
STdCOW newspaper, III olAty uCatAo
since August through conflicts be-
tween the strikers and the troops.
General Miles has accepted the Of
flee of president of the Thomas Jeffer-
son Memorial Association. and the as
sociation announces that his election
is for the remainder of its existence.
The Cooperative Union laundry.
which was established by union laun-
dry workers during the big strike in
Chicago's warehouses last June, has
been declared a failure and has closed.
Eaton Stone. an old circus perform
er, who is said to have been the first
man to turn a somersault on gallop-
Ing horse. died at Nutley. New Jersey.
on the 10th inst. at the age Of eighty
six.
The Italian minister of marine has
directed that a squadron be kept in
readiness to sail for the East should
the complications in Macedonia make
it necessary to protect Italian sub
jects.
Brigadier General A. u Woodson.
U. S. A., retired. died at Paola. Kan
sas, August T.. aged sixty-two years.
He was in the military service forty
one years. He will be buried in the
ginia.
1t is rumored at Constantinople that
the Turkish troops in Macedonia have
become SO demoraliZed by their failure
to receive pay that hundreds of them
are deserting and selling their rifles to
insurgents, in order TO obtain pro-
visions.
The Kief, Russia, correspondent OF
the London Times says leading Rus
sian employer estimates that the strike
in Russia affected half million men
and that the strength of the movement
is increasing and the authorities are
nonplussed.
At Chicago on the 5th inst. John AL
exander powie, general overseer OF the
Christian Catholic church, was made
q citizen of the United States upon re-
nouncing in the Superior Court his al
legiance to the sovereign of Great
Britain and Ireland.
An American firm has contracted to
furnish the Russian flour mills. at Pc
kin, with 100000 worth of machinery.
The output of the mills will be in
creased within year to 1.5OO barrels
per day. superseding the supply OF
-four from America.
A violent earthquake shook Lisbon.
Portugal. at 10 O'Clock on the night OF
August g. The shock lasted but two
seconds and no fatalities are reported.
but it serves to recall the great earth
quake and succeeding fire in 1915,
when over 10000 lives were lost.
The President has rendered to Charles
p. McClelland of Westchester county,
New York. membership on the Board
of General Appraisers. Mr.. McClel-
land is a Democrat and member of
the New York State Senate from the
Twenty-second district.
A dispatch from Pekin says 700 per-
sons were drowned in the disastrous
floods which occurred at Che Foo,
China, July 27. The bridges within
the city and many houses with their
occupants were swept away in the tor
rent. Two thousand OF the inhabitants
arc left destitute.
Three workmen We're killed and
twenty four wounded at Kieff, Russia.
August 6. when the Cossacks fired on
the strikers who were attempting to
interfere with railroad traffic. The
rioters numbered 1000. A magistrate.
an officer and several soldiers were
injured by stones.
A Cape Town dispatch says that
Princess Radziwill who was sentenced
to two years Imprisonment by the
Supreme Court, April 80, 1902, for
forgery in connection with notes pur-
porting to have been indorsed by Cecil
Rhodes, has been liberated from prison
and has started for England.
At Carthage. Missouri. August s, a
wind storm before daylight destroyed
thousands of dollars worth of fruits
and shade trees and caused more or less
damage to small buildings and mining
property in the town and at Jasper,