The Springfield herald., 1904-10-07
CONDENSED TELEGRAhS

nual convention at Portland. Oregon.
in July, 1905.
The main building of the University
Of Minnesota was totally destroyed by
fire September Gath, entailing loss OF
$125,00O, fully insured.
At the meeting of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge. l. o. o. F., at San Fran
cisco. the Washington. d. c.. canton
won the first prize of $1,000 in the conf
petitive drill.
1t is stated that 100000 bushels of
wheat have been purchased in Oregon
and Washington, principally in the lat
ter state, by Eastern buyers for ship
ment to the East by rail.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men at their ninth biennial convention
in Buffalo reelected all their grand
officers, from John j. Hannahan, grand
master, down through the entire list.
Porto Rico's 1907 public schools
opened September 26th with 10000
pupils enrolled. In the first school
year during American occupation there
were 500 schools, with $4,000 pupils.
Admissions to the Worlds Fair at
st. Louis continue to average more
than one hundred thousand day, and
the total admissions since the Fair
opened are considerably above twelve
millions.
While at San Francisco a few days
ago c. NJ. Schwab is reported to have
said that the Union Iron Works in that
city would be enlarged and made the
finest in the United States. If not in
the world.
The board of lady managers OF the
I Etynneitinn
abolished the office of secretary be-
cause of friction between the incumbent
and persons connected with the board
of lady managers house.
Timber men who have visited Colum-
bia county, Oregon, report that recent
forest fires in that section have de-
stroyed timber to the value Of $1,000
900. Most of the timber destroyed was
owned by eastern capitalists.
DR.. Juan N. Navarro, Mexican con-
sui general at New York, died in that
city September 25th at the age of
eighty-one years. During the French
invasion of Mexico he was surgeon
general of the Mexican army.
At business meeting of the Asso-
ciated Fraternities of America, in the
Temple of Fraternity on the Worlds
Fair grounds at st. Louis. resolution
for the erect IN of sanitarium in
southwest New Mexico for consump-
tives. to be known as the National Fra
ternal sanitarium, was adopted unan-
imously.
The jury at Gallatin, Tennessee, In
the case of the state against Standard
Oil Agent Holt of Nashville and Agent
O'Donnell Rutherford of Gallatin for
alleged violation of the antitrust law,
brought in a verdict acquitting Ruther-
ford and assessing a fine of $4,000
against the Standard Oil Company and
fine of $4,000 against Holt
In an address in Binghampton. N. Y.
Rev. DIR. Silas Swallow. prohibition
candidate for President, said that
nothing has ever done as much good
for the prohibition cause as Bishop
Potter's "desecration of consecra.
tion," as it has called attention to the
righteousness of the liquor traffic as
nothing else has ever done.
During the summer Just closed moro
than 100000 pounds Of bones Of pre-.
historic reptiles and animals were
gathered on the Laramie plains in
Wyoming, and were shipped to various
rarest specimens, including some en-
tirely new, have been added to the col.
lection of the University of Wyoming.
The steamer Arctic, commanded by
Captain Bernier, with the Canadian eX-
pedition under Major Noodle, sailed
from Sydney, Nova Scotia, September
22nd, for Hudson bay and the North.
The party will remain three years.
10 y,,ol- M nt-
tempt to reach the North Pole in the
Arctic, after completing the present
trip.
The British expedition to Thibet left
Lhassa September 23d, marching in
the direction of the Chumbi valley. In
bidding farewell to Brigadier General
Macdonald, commander of the British
military forces, the venerable regent
invoked the blessing of heaven on his
head for sparing the monasteries from
violation, and presented him with q
golden image of Buddha.
The steamer Celtic, which arrived at
New York September Gath, from Liver
pool and Queenstown. brought the larg-
est number of passengers ever brought
to that port on single steamer. 80
saloon, 329 second cabin and 2,3SS
third-claSS passengers, total OIL Z,33i,
which, together with her crew of 3S1,
made a grand total OF 3,31S persons on
board Of the big liner.
Secretary Taft, under authority Of
the act of Congress of April 27th, last,
has served notices on the city of Chi.
cago and the street railway companies
owning or controlling the tunnels
under the Chicago river to alter all the
tunnels so that there shall be depth
of water of at least twenty-five feet
over them. April 10. 1906 is fixed as
the date when the lowering shall be
completed.
AS remedy for desertion in the
army, Brig. Gen. Frederick ID. Grant,
commander of the Department of. the
Lakes, in his annual report recon-
mends the abolition of the practice of
sending deserters to post prisons, where
the work is little more than light ex-
ercise. AS substitute for post pris-
ons General Grant suggests sentencing
deserters to military prisons with lon5
terms at hard labor.