The Springfield herald., 1904-11-11
CONDENSED IELEGRAnS


cath, as Thanksgiving Day.
A telegram IRON John II. Fesler.
consul at Annoy, China, states that the
consulate has been burned, with most
of the records.
Baron Sternberg, the German am
bassador. expects to sail about NO
his home in SaXony.
The supreme council for the United
States, Scottish Rite Masonry, has
elected NJ. w. Bayliss, Washington, ID.
c.. sovereign grand commander.
The attendance at the Worlds Fair
in St. Louis for the week ending Octo-
ber 29th was 749, 1868, and the total at
tendance up to that date 15,933,925.
| Colonel A. NJ. Flagg, who until a
few weeks ago was editor of the Du-
luth News-Tribune. committed suicide
at Duluth November list by drowning
Secretary Hays note to the powers
inviting them to convene ia conference
at The Hague has been cordially re-
ceived by the diplomatic corps at
| Washington.
The secretary of the Merchants Ex-
change at San Francisco estimates the
present population of California at l.
the census CT 1900.
The British naval force now at Glib
raltar is composed of fourteen battle
ships. thirteen first-class armored and
other cruisers and strong hotilla of
torpedo boat destroyers.
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Company en- the 31st ult. reduced the
balance due upon the United States
uf,t lry, INF 1noD of "A n L.
S51 by depositing s5O0,0O0.
/ In cock-crowing contest at Paris,
for which hundreds of ROSTERS had
been trained in all parts of France, a
little bantam won the prize by growing
thirty-two times in half an hour.
The arHy general staff has decided
to dispatch American army surgeons
as attaches to the Japanese and Rus
sian armies operating in the Far East.
providing the consent of the authori-
ties can be secured.
! The trotting record of Maud S..
mile in 2:0SA. was beaten with the
same kind of vehicle, a high-Theel
sulky, by the trotting champion, Major
Delmar, at Memphis, October 26th, the
time being 2:07 fiat.
The romans of former President
died in July last, were removed from
the cemetery at The Hague October
31st and taken to Rotterdam for con-
veyance to South Africa.
Many cotton mills in the Eastern
states that have been shut down on
account of dull trade are resuming
. operations. At Rugusta. Maine, 1900
| operatives went to work at a ten per
| cent reduction in wages,
According to the September report
of the Santa Fe, the road is in pros
porous condition. The gross earn
ings were S6156.340. an increase OF
$2S5039. The net earnings were
$2,59S,152, an increase of $109,039.
The ns-Mississippi Congress at
st. Louis recommended the appoint
ment of special committee by Con-
gress to Investigate the arbitration
laws Of New Zealand and other coun-
tries which may have such laws.
| Great discomfort is reported in Co.
lombia. Apparently President Reyes
with his political enemies in the ma
jority in both houses of Congress, can
| not control the situation. Paper cur
rency is being issued in unlimited
| amount.
| The Supreme Court mas decided.
after six years of litigation, that the
| famous Lopez ranch of Tamaulipas
rightfully belongs not to Lopez, but to
j. o. Brictson. The value of the prop
erty is $3,500,000. Brictson bought the
ranch in 1898.
M. Santos-Dumont says he hopes in
few weeks to be ready TO take an
eight-day cruise in the arr. The new
airship he has had constructed is larger
than he has hitherto used. 1t has sleep
ing accommodations for two persons.
four motors and boiling apparatus.
According to financial statement
| issued November 1st by the World's s
Fair Company, covering period from
| the opening, April 80, to October l,
there was a balance in the treasury
at the latter date OF ss41.254. The
total receipts were s22.673.721 and the
total disbursements $21,sS2,46S.
France and the United States ex-
meet to begin the negotiation of an ar
bitration treaty at Washington soon
alter the elections. The treaty will be
known as the Hay-Jusserand arbitra-
ticn treaty. and, according to the pres
| ent program, will follow closely the
| lines of the British French arbitration
| treaty.
| AuNlCeS nave ItdCueu tlS ihopiei pu-
reau at Washington that by legislation
contained in one of the appropriation
| bills recently passed at Manila, the
strength of the Philippine constabu-
| larry mas been reduced at one stroke
| by 200 men. The reduction will take
effect at the beginning of the next fis-
cal year. leaving the strength of the
force at 5000 men.
The United States Supreme Court
! has ordered a re-argument in the case
of the Creede & Cripple Creek Min
ing and Milling Company, against the
\ Uinta Tunnel, Mining and Transporta-
ton Company, involving the Little
Mary and Ocean Wave lode claims. in
the Cripple Creek district. The case is
set for argument January Sd.
In sermon at Hartford. Connecti-
cut. few days ago. Bishop McCabe of
the Methodist church said: 81 do not
want wars and do not like them, but
there is just one war l would like to
! live to see. l would like to see the
united States and the British govern
ment form an alliance and make Tur-
key stop her Armenian murders"
The monthly comparative statement
| of the poyernmpnt receiDts and exDen-