The Springfield herald., 1903-10-09
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

Governor Van SAINT of Minnesota ha.
announced that he will not be candi
date for United States senator to sue
ceed Senator Clapp.
Barney Oldfield, in his automobile al
Glenwood track. Cleveland. Ohio, Sep
tember Goth. travelled five miles IL
4:49 2-5. The worlds record was 4:54
Emile Berliner. well-known for his
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. transmitter, the
gramophone and other inventions, an
nounces that he has devised an aero
plane
The Treasury Department on Sep
tember 2Sth purchased 100000 ounces
OF silver at 59A cents per ounce. The
purchase was made for the Philippine
coinage.
G. c. Cary of Wichita was burned tc
death and five others were injured In
fire that destroyed the private sani-
tarium of DR.. B. b. Ralph at Kansas
City, September 29th.
Tho Holland ministry for foreign af-
fairs has appointed a commission tc
take preparatory steps for the construc-
tion of the permanent arbitration court
building at The Hague.
The British Board of Agriculture has
issued an order withdrawing the pro-
hibition on the landing Of animals 9TH
er than swine brought to Great Britain
fIom the New England states.
Curtis Jett, convicted at Cynthiana
l{entucwy. on the third trial, OF the
murder of James Cockrill at Jackson
Kentucky, July 21st, 1902. has been
sentenced to be hanged December 18th,
John Hays Hammond. the famous
mining expert, who is professor Of
mining engineering at Yale, will pre-
sent to that institution metsllurgical
laboratory to cost between $35 900 and
$4,000.
A correspondent of the London
Times, writing from Beirut. says moth
ing but the presence OF the American
squadron prevented the recent riot there
from becoming a general massacre OF
Christians.
Twelve hundred schools in Porto
Rico were opened September 2Sth and
10000 pupils were received. Three
times that number of children were en-
rolled and the struggle for preference
was great.
An Increase in wages OF 5000 EN-
ploycs OF the twenty car and locomo-
tive repair shops Of the Chicago d
Northwestern railway has been grant
ed at an annual expense OF $3OO,O00 to
the company.
The Danish immigration Society OF
St. Paul, Minnesota. has bought $4,000
acres of land ten miles from Sidney.
Nebraska, and will place 200 families
OF Danish Immigrants on 1t to engage
in the dairy business.
While officiating in a post season
game between the American Associa-
ton and Western League teams at
Kansas City, September 9th, Umpire
Kelley of the Western League had his
shoulder blade broken by foul ball.
w. A. Smith, one of the most promi>
nent men of Butte, Montana, was al
most instantly killed September 26th
which he was riding. The other mem
bers of the party escaped serious in
jury.
Both the plague and cholera are rag
ing at Pei Tang. seaport fifty miles
east of Tien Tsin. China, where 1000
deaths have occurred during the past
two months. The towns OF Nueher.
Taku and Tien Tsin are not yet af-
lected.
Shamrock l., the old Americas cup
challenger. just sold by Sir Thomas
Upton. after being remodeled by the
American purchaser, will be turned in
to schooner to carry scrap metal be-
tween New York and South American
ports.
Rev McLughley, a missionary. who
left Bear river, Lake Winnipeg. with
five Indian children in sailboat en-
route to the Bradon Indian Industrial
School several days ago. is missing and
it is believed the party has been
drowned.
At the Empire City track. New York.
September 25th. the champion gelding.
Major Delmar. tied the worlds trot-
ting record OF Lou Dillon by trotting
a mile in two minutes. Only week
before Major Delhar changed owners
for $4,000.
At meeting of the aldermen in the
Guild hall September 29th. Alderman
Sir John Thomson Richie, brother OF
the late chancellor of the exchequer,
was elected lord mayor Of London for
the ensuing year, in succession to Sir
Marcus Samuel.
A southern Rall%ay last mali Train
jumped from seventy-foot trestle,
near Danville. Virginia. September
9th. OF the crew OF sixteen men, in
Guiding mail clerk, nine were killed
and seven injured, all Of them danger
ously, if not fatally.
Another speed trial of electric trac-
ton was made September 23rd on the
Zossen military road in Germany.
when 1881 miles were covered in one
hour On the previous trial, Septem-
Der 10th, an electric car attained a
speed of LOG As miles.
Charles Becker, considered the clev-
crest forger in America, is once more
at liberty. Becker left San Quentin,
California, September 2Sth, after serv-
ing seven years for raising $12 draft
to $4,000 on the Crocker-Woolwor
Bank of San Francisco.
At Plainville, Connecticut, few days
ago, Owen Conlon, eighty-six years old
and helpless, was saved from burn
ing building by his wife. aged seventy
nine. who let him down from sec
ond-story window by means of rope.