The Springfield herald., 1903-07-24
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

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days London was broken by severe
thunder and hail storms July 18th.
People in the suburbs of London on
the lower Thames have been terribly
tormented by a plague of mosquitoes.
Six boys have died of lcckjaw at
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, since July
4th. All were victims of the toy
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| Hartford, Connecticut, will enter
| tain the next national gathering OF the
Young Peoples Union of the Univer-
salist Church.
All arrangements have been COM
pleted for holding the general CONFER
ence of the Methodist Church at Los
Angeles in May. 1904.
Thirty lives have been lost in a
food which destroyed fifty houses at
Graeffenberg. village of Austria in
the valley of Friewada.
Robert Shaw Oliver of Albany will
succeed William Carey Sanger as as
sistant secretary of war the latter re-
tiring soon on account of the i'll health
of his wife.
The Great Western Railway Com
pony claims to have made worlds
record for its train to-day. The train
ran from London to Plymouth. dis
tance of 246 miles. in 23SA minutes.
The magnificent new La Sale street
station of the Lake Shore. Rock Island
and the Nickel Plate roads at Chicago.
Just completed at cost of about So
900 900, was opened for business July
11th.
Miss Lavina Wheeler died at Oak
land, California, July 18th, at the age
OF 102. She was in full possession of
her faculties almost up to the moment
of her death. She was born in New
York in 1901.
Justice Sir John Douglas Armour of
the Supreme Court of Canada and
member of the Alaskan boundary COM
mission, who had been i'll for some
time and recently suffered n relapse,
died at the London residence Of his
son July 1lth.
A Vienna dispatch says that as re-
suit of urgent representations from
Austria and Hungary Prince Ferdinand
has given the strongest assurances
that Bulgaria will make no further
military preparations against Turkey.
Commissioner Jones of the Indian
Office has formulated an entirely new
set of regulations governing the aliena-
tion and leasing by Indians OF lands
allotted to them by Congress. The
change in the rules is designed to pro-
tect the Indians against fraud.
Mrs. Mary ]. Piercy. said to have
been one of the smallest women in the
world. died July l4th at Bayonne. New
Jersey. She was thirty-one inches
tall, weighed fifty pounds and was
forty years of age. The recent hot
weather caused her fatal illness.
At Belfast. Ireland, July 18th the
customary procession of the Orange
men was attacked by Nationalists and
n serious riot ensued. Many windows
We're broken and number of police
men and civilians were injured. About
100000 men participated in the cele-
bration.
Secretary Hay has invited the Gear
of Russia to name and appoint from
the members of the permanent court
of The Hague three arbitrators to con-
stitute the tribunal which is to de-
termine and settle the questions sub
mitted to it under the Venezuelan
claims treaty.
Figures on Irish immigration for the
fiscal year ended June 30 have been
compiled by the Ellie Island officials
Mt New York and show that about o.
900 more persons arrived from the
Emerald Isle during l9O2-O3 than dur
Ing 19O1-O2. The total for the former
period was 24.35G
1t is reported that beginning at an
early date the army transports plying
between San Francisco and Manila
VIII follow the route of the new trans
Ps-.iic cable, passing within signal
distance. and possibly stopping at Mid
way island and Guam. where are re-
peating stations of the cable.
FitT William Guerin. who died at
San Francisco July 18th. was a vet
eran of the Civil War and one of the
best-known photographers in this
county. Guerin won fifteen gold and
four silver medals in nineteen exhi-
bitions, and in 1900 he was the presi-
dent of the National Photographers
Association.
In the case of Walter Graham, New
York City, fve-year-old boy suffer
ing from lockjaw due to the explosion
of blank cartridge which lacerated
his hand, Dr. George c. Weiss. in the
presence of twelve physicians, cut
open the boys skull and inserted anti
toxin The jaws relaxed in an hour
and the child appeared on the way to .
recovery.
Rufus Young. considered by the po-
lice the most accomplished horsethief
in New England. who was captured
near Arlington. after a battle with a
sheriff's posse, in which Young was
shot, died the next day. July l4th. at
Rutland, Vermont. Young was about
sixty-five years old. More than two
thirds of his life had been spent in
prison for horse stealing.