The Springfield herald., 1903-03-13
SHORT TELEGRAMS.


The dates for the Anglo American
university cable chess match have been
announced as March eth and 2Sth.
R. j. Calling inventor of the cele-
brated Gatling rapid-tire gun, died in
New York Feb. 26th, at the age OF
eighty-four.
The president has accepted the resig-
nation of Second Lieut.. Algernon e.
Sartoris, Tenth infantry, to take effect
April l, next.
At the state convention of the Y. M.
c. A of Nebraska, held at Beatrice,
one million dollars was subscribed to
assist in the work.
The authorities at Shanghai have
seized hundreds of rifles and large
stores of ammunition in Chinese ware
houses near the city.
A telegram from Vienna announces
that the Industrial association of low
er Austria has decided to visit st.
Louis next September.
Mrs. Ellen Holt Bowen, mother of
Minister Bowen who is in charge of
the Venezuelan negotiations, died at
Brooklyn, N. Y. February 2Sth.
The heaviest snowfall for twenty
years was reported from the upper
portion of the Texas Panhandle March
1st Trains were greatly delayed.
Germany's pig iron production for
January was 7S2.4Si tons. beating that
of December by 2S.iS9 tons, though
December broke all previous records.
Floods in the Allegheny and Monon-
gahela rivers at Pittsburg. March LIST.
flooded more than fifty mills and 3S,500
men temporarily cut of employment.
Tho JTpi,p Dorifr will builb n limo To
Yellowstone Park, branching off from
the main line at st. Anthony, Idaho.
the distance being about seventy miles.
The Italian imports for 1902 totaled
1854 ,SiS,1 112, an increase of $11 $50, 1894
over 1901. The exports We're 1924. .4S1,-
sos, an increase of SIT ,590,061 over 1901.
The rumor which was current last
fall that King Leopold will visit the
United States. is revived. 1t is said
the king will come to America for the
Easter holidays.
DR.. Edward Francis of Washington
is in Mexico as the representative of
the United States government to study
the plague at MaZatlan. and means of
preventing the spread of the disease
northward
The United States Supreme Court
has handed down decision in favor of
Admiral Dewey and his men in the
matter of their claims for prize money
on account of the vessels sunk at
Manila and afterward reclaimed.
The inhabitants of the Arran islands.
off the coast of Ireland. have endured
n siege Of :7emi-starvation owing to
the prolonged storms which prevented
their being reached by the usual tri-
weekly steamer after February 21st.
An epidemic of diphtheria has brok-
en- out in the village of Morristown, N.
Y. on the st. Lawrence, and all busi-
ness is temporarily suspended and the
schools are closed. Twenty deaths
have occurred. and new cases are re-
ported daily.
The attorney general has recon-
mended an appropriation of S9iG. .963 to
satisfy the decree of the United States
Supreme Court in the prize moneys of
Admiral Dewey and others on account
of the sinking of Spanish vessels in
the battle of Manila bay.
Horatio c. Pollock. chairman of the
executive committee of the League o.;
Roosevelt Clubs. whose headquarters
are in Chicago. has been appointed to
an important position in the insular
government at Manila. and will leave
for the Philippines in about month
The latest thing in strikes is the ac-
tion of the expert trained nurses of the
New York eye and ear infirmary, who
left in a body because a new superin-
tendent was appointed. under whom
they We're unwilling to serve. Fifty
seven patients were left without care.
Five hundred imperial troops were
caught Feb. 10 in an ambush in the
Yang Yuing pass by the rebels of the
province of Kwang 81, south China.
All the soldiers were killed and the re-
bells captured large supplies of arms.
which the troops were taking to the
besieged garrison of Chi Yuen.
The London Times correspondent at
Shanghai telcgraphs that the Chinese
special mission to the national indus
trial exhibition at Asaka. Japan. head
cd by Prince Tsai Chen. has been
ordered to inquire into and report
upon questions of establishment of a
gold standard in China, on the Jap
anese model.
A dispatch from Colima, Mex, says
there has been no panic there caused
by the eruption of the volcano. which
in reality was light. No ashes fell in
the city and the principal damage
done was the burning of some brush
by the lava. So far as Colima is con-
cerned the reports have been unduly
exaggerated.
The city of London court has decided
that English newspaper proprietors, in
the eye of the law. are manufacturers
and as such do not infringe on the
Lords day observance act by publish
ing Sunday papers. inasmuch as the
act only refers to contracts entered
into by "tradesman, artificer, work
man or laborer."