The Springfield herald., 1903-08-28
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

"A convention Will De uei2 III wow
York City September 7th, to organize
an independent motor league.
In the bicycle races at Paris August
10th NJ. Dangla rode fifty and four
tenths miles in an hour, making q new
record.
The Albany County and Intermoun-
tain Fair Association will hold its first
annual meeting at Laramie. Wyoming.
on September 22nd. 23rd and gath.
1t is said that the claim against Sal
vador by the Salvador Commercial
Company, amounting to 1923. .l7S. has
been compromised. The figures are not
given out.
Greenville and Morristown. Tennes-
see, were deluged by cloudburst on
the night OF August 18th. AT Green
Vile Robert Parks and his seven-year-
old son was drowned.
Judge Rogers, in the United States
Circuit Court at st. Louis. has decided
that an employers blacklist is not un-
lawful. the right to dismiss employees
being an absolute one.
1t is announced that British Cabi-
net council has been convened for the
unusually early date of October 9TH.
presumably to decide the attitude OF
the government regarding the fiscal
policy.
A dispatch from Chamonix. France.
says that seven tourists were killed re-
Gently while attempting to climb the
Aiguilles Greiz peak, behind Mount
Blanco. on the Courmayeur side OF the
mountain.
While preparing for early devotional
services at the Winona Bible confer
ence in Indiana, the Rev. L. l. Davies.
pastor the Presbyterian Church OF Te-
cumseh Nebraska, dropped dead OF
heart failure.
A terrible accident occurred on Lake
Tykojarvi, in Finland. August 18th.
The upper deck of vessel conveying
people from church collapsed and forty
persons were drowned Or killed and
many others were injured.
Minister Conger at Pekin has Sc
cured written promise from Prince
Ching to sign treaty with the United
States, including guarantee that
Mukden and Tatung Tao shall be open
ports from and after October Sth.
Veterans of the Army OF the Philip
pines celebrated Occupation Day with
parade at Manila August 14th. In
which 800 men took part clad in the
old regulation service clothing OF blue
shirts and khaki. A banquet was al
terwards served.
An American miner named Madden
is under arrest at OaNaca. Mexico,
charged with the murder of Dr. II. ID.
King, owner of several mines in the
state of OaXaca. DR.. King was an
American and has been in Mexico
about five years.
The General Electric Company is
manufacturing special cars for speed
test on the Aurora, Elgin and Chicago
electric railroad. and it is expected that
speed of 100 miles an hour will be
made. The test has been under con-
sideration for a year.
A Hong Kong dispatch says that the
rioting which recently occurred at Fat
Han, six miles from Canton, has
spread to towns along the railroad.
The American engineers at work on
the road have fired at the rioters. Sew
eral casualties are reported.
Con Coughlin, pugilist who is said
to have big reputation in Ireland, has
issued a challenge to James j. Jeffries.
He says he is ready to prove his claim
to recognition by whipping all the 9TH
er leading heavy weights with only
weeks intermission between bouts.
The Mexican government will DE Of
ficially represented at the eleventh ma
tional irrigation congress at Ogden by
Lieut.. Don Ignatio. military attache
of the Mexican legation in Washing
ton. Senor Aspiroz. Mexican minister
at Washington. is unable to attend.
A new code of regulations prepared
by Commissioner of immigration Sar-
gent makes provision for Bertillon
record of all Chinese laborers arriving
and departing at ports of entry, copies
of such registry to be transmitted to
the commissioner general of immigra-
tion.,
]. w. Glenister, New York athlete.
successfully swan the Niagara rapids
on the morning of August 18th. He was
rescued in an unconscious condition af-
ter being in the water for twenty min
utes. The feat was accomplished for
the benefit of a moving picture con-
cern.
A later dispatch says that the seven
tourists who were reported to have
been killed while climbing the Aiguilles
Crosses of Mont Blanc had, it appears
miraculous escape. They were seen to
fall into a couloir and it was taken as
a certainty that they were dead but
next day an exploring party discovered
the tourists, who were only Slightly in
jured by their fall.
At Oshkosh, Wis. August 18th,
Thomas X. Morgan. president of the
Morgan company, sash. door and blind
manufacturers, and an alderman was
shot and killed by Fred Hampel, an
cmploye. The murderer, after his ar
rest, committed suicide in the Jail by
hanging himself with his suspenders.
The shooting was without provocation
and Hampel seemed to be frenzied by
liquor.