The Springfield herald., 1903-04-10
SHORT TELEGRAMs.


| The London Globe says a Harvard
Yale-O Oxford Cambridge field meeting
| has been arranged for this summer.
! 1t is officially announced that the
| King, accompanied by Queen Alexan-
dra. will make visit to Scotland in
May.
1t is stated that ]. Pierpont Morgan
is planning to build splendid art mu-
scum and present it to the American
Nation.
The annual report of the Cunard
Steamship Company shows profit OF
| S1.116.SG5. A dividend of per cent. Is
| declared.
Governor Pardee of California has
| approved bill appropriating $130,000
for California exhibit at the st. Louis
| Exposition.
Cablegrams from European brokers
announce that five per cent. has been
| added to the price of all grades OF un-
cut diamonds.
Money contributions have been re-
! ceived by the Socialist party managers
| in Berlin from the Cigarmakers' Tn
| ion in New York.
Final arrangements are being made
| at Glasgow to amalgamate thirteen
capital of $4,000, ,000
James N. Tyner. assistant attorney
general for the Postoffice Department
has resigned to take effect on the ap-
pointment of his successor: -
By reason of the strike ordered by
the Textile Labor council, seven of the
largest cotton mills in Lowell Mass,
were shut down March both.
N X, Fairbanks. millionaire manu-
| facturer. the foundation of whose large
| business was made in the soap Dusi-
ness, died in Chicago March 27th.
| Sealing steamers recently arrived at
| ST. Johns, New Foundland. report large
catches. This years catch in the east
| ern ice fields is likely to reach 800, 900.
The National Educational Associa-
| tion meets at Boston July 9th to 10th
and the railroads have granted a
round trip rate of one fare plus 81
membership fee.
William H. Mexican, who for near
| ly thirty years was editor-in-chief Of
the Public Ledger, died at his home
here in Philadelphia March 29th, at
the age of eighty-three.
Noah Raby celebrated his 131st
| birthday April LIST in the poorhouse of
hluuleSeS county, ANcN Joiscy' III
which he has lived for fifty years, 60
| ing there at the age of eighty.
The National Council of Women at
New Orleans elected Mrs. Mary Wood
| Swift of San Francisco. president for
the ensuing year and adjourned to meet
at Indianapolis in February, 1904.
A successful test of wireless teleg-
raphy between Fort Wadsworth and
| ms
March 2Sth. Messages were ex-
changed rapidly and without breaks.
The new armored cruiser West Vir-
ginia will be launched at Newport
| News April 18th. Miss katherine v.
| White, daughter of Governor Albert B.
| White of West Virginia will name the
| vessel.
| President Lowry of the 500 railroad
recently announced that his company
would build a 2O0-mile extension this
summer north from Glenwood. Mime
| sofa into the White Earth reservation
| country.
VIII Dorsey, colored. was hanged at
| Birmingham, Alabama. March 9th.
| for highway robbery This is the first
| instance in the states history where
the death penalty has been imposed
for this crime.
Senior ojeda. the Spanish minister.
/ has accepted the invitation of the st.
Louis Fair Commission to deliver a
| formal address at the dedication of the
exposition. The French ambassador
already had accepted similar invita-
| ton.
A parliamentary group has been
| formed in the French Chamber of Dep
uties, whose aim is the advancement of
| the cause of international arbitration.
| More thar 100 deputies. irrespective of
party, have given their adhesion to the
| group.
| 1t is said that there is every possbil-
| ity that Admiral Sir Henry Keppel,
known as the father of the British
| navy. and who is now at Singapore.
| will be married before he returns to
England Admiral Keppel is in his
ninety-third year.
The Car has received Sir Thomas
| w. Cridler. the representative OF the
| St. Louis exposition. at the imperial
residence at Tsarskoye Selo and ex
pressed his personal interest and sym
pathy with the objects of the st. Louis
| exposition.
A telegram from Helsingfors, Fin
| land, announces that forty-three
clergymen have simultaneously been
| deprived of their living because they
| refused to cooperate with the authori-
| ties in carrying out the new military
| service law.
DR.. John P. Wood of Coffeyville.
Kansas, one of the oldest physicians
in the United States. died at Thomas.
Oklahoma Territory, aged 101 years.
Dr. Woods had been engaged in active
practice for seventy-fve years. He was
| a pioneer of Kansas
| The official Gazette at Tifiis an
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