The Springfield herald., 1903-08-14
SHORT TElEGRAMS.

18th to 18th. ,
The trans Mississippi Commercial
Congress meets at Seattle, Washington
August 18th to 2lst. |!
Rich naphtha wells. extending over
a distance of 200 versts, have been
discovered In the Kuban territory OF
Cis-Caucasia.
Viceroy Curzon has telegraphed
lengthy protest to the home govern
ment against saddling India with the
cost of the South African garrison.
The repairing and painting of $500
Iron monuments marking the interna-
tional boundary between the United
States and Mexico has just been COM
fleted.
Mrs. Lydia Hancock died last month
at her home in Palmer, Massachusetts,
at the age of 100 years and one month";
Until recently she had been able to
read without glasses.
Startling increase in suicides in
Washington this year has prompted
DIR. ]. Ramsey Neyitt, district coroner.
to recommend more stringent laws to
govern the sale OF carbolic acid.
For their heroic work in rescuing
the Spanish steamship Ereza in a
storm Off Bermuda in February, 1902.
khe members of the crew of the Ameri-
.>an steamship Yeoman will receive
100000.
More than 200 miles of electric rail-
way, worth millions of dollars, eX-
lending throughout Queens and Mas
pau counties, Long Island, has passed
into control of trust company in New
| York City.
Basil De Guichard established new
worlds record for pace followers by
riding forty-eight miles three laps and
Two hundred and ninety yards In one
f.our in the Golden Wheel race at Bos-
ton, July 31st.
Samuel NJ. Shaw, eighty years Of age.
and for tifty-two years editor of the
Treemans Journal at Cooperstown. N.
work. The paper has been published
weekly for ninety-five years.
A heavy rain fell over Kansas
August 1st. with the exception OF few
counties in the southwestern corner of
the state. There is no longer any
doubt as to the excellence Of the corn
crop. The yield will be large.
A decree has been issued in the
United States Circuit Court at Tren-
ton, N. j., providing for the discharge
OF receivers of the American Cycle
Manufacturing Company, and permit
ting the company to resume business.
Six thousand more aliens entered the
United States through the port of New
York last month than during the samo
month last year. The total for July
this year was $4,000, compared with
Sc 900 for July, 1902. and $4,000 in the
same month in 1901.
The Canadian government expedition
organized to explore Hudson bay in
| the solar Neptune, consists of forty
persons, fifteen of whom are scientists.
A party of twenty-five of the ships
company will remain one year, II not
longer, in the region explored.
Russian advices received at Vienna
state that Prince Urusoff, who on July
27th was reported as having been
| wounded in the Razan district by peas
| ants, has become insane. The dispatch
says he was in the habit of testing his
| skill as marksman on the bodies OF
his peasants.
The fourth annual convention Of the
| International Federation of CONNER
| cial Travellers at Mackinac Island,
Michigan, elected the following Off
GERS: President, Louis Labeaume. st.
| Louis; vice president, Charles c. Dan
lei, columbus, oHlO, ScSIcldlyp Al lllui
, l.. Sheetz, Omaha.
| The commissioner of the general land
office has ordered withdrawn from land
entry $500 900 acres of land in Oregon
for the creation of the Warner noun
tain forest reserve. The larger part
of the land withdrawn is in the Lake
view land district and the remainder
In the Dallas district
II. of n C n n m
his own mint. and it will be in full
operation at his capital, Adds Ababa,
by the first of the coming year, ac-
cording to the report of Consul Mas
terson at Alden to the department of
commerce and labor Hitherto, King
Menelik las had limited silver coin
age. the minting being done in France.
The Weddell house at Cleveland, one
of the Oldest and most historic hotels
in Ohio, has been ordered closed at
once by John d. Rockefeller, who re-
Gently came into possession of the
property through the foreclosure of
half million dollar mortgage. 1t is said
Mr. Rockefeller will erect magnifi-
cent twelve-story Office building on the
site.
Prufane and abusive language was
directed toward President Roosevelt
and his family Sunday, August End,
as they were driving up to Christ
church to attend the morning service.
The defendant was a resident of Oys-
ter Bay, Mccain by name. He was
hustled away from the church uncere-
moniously by the secret service ope-
ratives.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg to
the Cologne Gazette says the Russian
authorities are reported to have noti-
fed the government at Pekin that Rus
sia will prohibit all foreigners from
staying in Manchuria at present, but