The Springfield herald., 1903-01-16
SHORT TELEGRAMS.

Hard coal has reached $12 ton in
Indianapolis.
Australia will have to import large
amount of wheat to meet deficiencies
in the present crop.
The celebration OF New Years Day
at Pasadena. California, consisted Of q
tournament of roses.
A big hunt in Juab county, Utah, just
before New Years, resulted in the kill
ing of 5000 jackrabbits.
Germanys exports to the United
States increased about $5,000,000 in
1902 while her imports fell off.
The port of New York collected near
ly $1S,000.000 more import duties In
1902 than during the previous year.
President Loubet has sent $4,000 for
the relief of the sufferers from the
earthquake at Andijan, Russian Turk
istan.
Estimates of the sugar crop in Santi-
ago de Cuba for 1903 are 453,00O bags,
an incvrease of 72.2l5 bags over that
for the year now closing.
Letters of administration of the es-
tate of the late Bret Harte have been
granted in London. The total value or
the estate is placed at 1,SOO.
What threatened to be disastrous
strike in the Guggenheim smelter az
Monterey. Mexico. has been ended by
the personal efforts of Governor Reyes.
Marconi is preparing to install
wireless transcontinental telegraph
system across Canada, the central sta
ton of which will be Winnipeg, Mani
toba.
New Orleans is now without a supply
of fuel oil and all the furnaces recently
converted to the use of oil burners are
being changed back SO that coal may
be used.
The mileage of new railroads built
in the United States in 1902 was 6,O26,
being the largest for any year since
1888. There was 5.36S miles of road
built in 1901.
The corner stone of the army war
college at Washington barracks will be
laid Washington's birthday. The prin-
cipal address will be made by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
In commemoration of the coronation.
durbar orders have been issued to re-
lease certain classes of military Offend
ers and 16.13S prisoners who are in
civil jails in India.
On March 10th stockholders Of the
Pennsylvania railway will be asked to
increase the capital stock to 100000
600 and increase the bonded indebted
ness to like amount.
The government has purchased four
more buffalo from private herd In
Idaho for stocking the Yellowstone Ma
tional park. The herd in the park now
numbers about forty-fve.
Increased tariff duties on both grain
and manufactured articles are import
ant features of the new Austrian aus
gleich. which. 1t is learned, is of a
highly protectionist character.
France and Guatemala have agreed
to submit to the international arbitra-
tion court at The Hague the French
claims against Guatemala. They are
similar to those against VeDezuela.
Cole Younger has applied to the Min
nesota State Board of Pardons for a
full pardon. He wishes to return to
his old home in Missouri and his pres
ent parole will not permit him to leave
Minnesota.
Frederick |. Allen, commissioner of
patents, names aerial navigation as the
greatest problem for the consideration
of inventors during the year 1903. He
believes that the problem will eyentu-
ally be solved, and by an American.
William j. Lewis, Seventh Day Ad-
ventist, who recently received an ap-
pointment in the Postofice Depart
ment. says that he will not work on
to change its rules to conform to his
scruples.
Direct communication between Well
fleet, Massachusetts, and Poldhu in
Cornwall, England, was established
December 31st by the Marconi system.
Wellneet is GOO miles further from
Poldhu than the Table Head station at
Cape Breton. Nova Scotia.
Fire losses in the United States and
Canada for the ar 1902 amounted to
S149, ,260, $50. This is gratifyingly less
than the figures for 1901 of $164 .347, ,450
and 1900 of S163. .S62 $50. During 1902
there were 2,4O0 fires of a greater de-
structiveness each than $1,000.
1t is officially announced that King
Edward has appointed Sir Francis Lev
eson BERTHE, X. G. B., now assistant
under secretary for foreign affairs. to
succeed Lord Currie of Hawley as Brit
ish ambassador at Rome. Lord Currie
resigned his post December 18th.
Prof Robert Koch has delivered a
lecture upon typhus in which he
claims that this disease can be combat
ted successfully through isolation, as
cholera is combatted, for the reason
that typhus is only contracted by
contact with a person already infected.
An agreement has been reached by
the representatives of the Toledo &
Western. the Garrett, Auburn & North
crn Indiana and the Chicago Air Line
companies for a through electric line
between Toledo and Chicago, passing
through South Bend and Fayette, In
diana