The Springfield herald., 1904-06-03
CONDENSED TELEGRAhS

.. Portland. Ore. August 22nd.
Sunday is strictly observed at the
Worlds Fair ground In st. Louis. Re-
ligious services are held for the Indi-
ans there.
After a brief agitation. the New
York City Mothers Club has amended
its constitution In order to admit men
as associate members.
On June sth the Order of Railroad
Telegraphers will celebrate its eigh-
teenth anniversary. having been organ
lied at Cedar Rapids. Iowa. in 1886.
Fire in the Cudahy packing house at
Los Angeles May 25th caused a loss
of 100000. 1t is Understood that the
plant will be Immediately restored.
The narcotic boom OF an Austrian
surgeon can be fred from any gun. and
is claimed to give of powerful narcotic
gas enough % render 1000 men uncon-
scious for several hours.
German editors are in the habit of
summing up political and commercial
conditions on Whitsunday of each
year. This year nearly all of them pre-
sent very gloomy view OF the situa-
ton.
| A Manila dispatch says that flfty-
three Filipino men. women and chill
dren. employees of the military govern
ment at Maltabang. were massacred
by Moros at midnight on the 18th
i inst.
| A Monnet Missouri. man has writ
J ten 14,0S3 words on n postal card and
is now one OF the principal personages
of the town. There is talk Of entering
him at the st. Louis Fair il classif-
cation can be found for him.
| III ,f 7 Ep.
gineers, through its insurance depart
ment, is paying 100000 monthly to
beneficiaries and disabled members.
! During the existence of the department
1t has disbursed S12,500,000 in benefits.
With promises of eighty per cent.
annually on the investment, friends
and relatives of Gen. Leonard A. Wood.
| u. S. A. and former governor general
! OF Cuba, are selling to Wall street stock
in the Cuban Sea Island Cotton Com
pany.
About II 900 men will be laid off
by the Pennsylvania railroad, the ac-
ton being to get down to the 1902
basis. Continued shrinkage in bust
ness and no expectation of early i'm
provement are the reasons given for
the reduction.
The body of man has been taken
from the Calumet river, near Chicago,
supposed to be that of w. G. Pratt,
secretary of the Elgin National Watch
| Company, who disappeared November
2S 1903. 1t is thought MIR. Pratt COM
mitted suicide.
The general conference of the At
rican Methodist Church at Chicago as
signed Bishop Grant to the Fourth dis
trict, including the Kansas, Colorado,
California and Puget Sound confer
ences. Bishop Evans Tyras was as
signed to the Tenth district, including
Indian Territory and Oklahoma con-
ferences.
| Seven persons were killed. five fatal
| ly injured and twelve badly hurt by
an explosion in the drying room of the
Lake Shore Novelty Company's plant
at Findlay, Ohio, May 22nd. The en-
/ tire plant, which covered nearly ten
acres and was used for the manufac-
ture of railroad torpedoes and Fourth
of July explosives, was destroyed.
Chao Chu, son of WI Ting Fang,
former Chinese minister to the United
States and now vice president of the
foreign board at Pekin, has been grad
| uated at the head of his class in the
Atlantic City high school. There were
thirty-one pupils in the class. The
young Oriental will begin the study
of medicine in Philadelphia next fall.
| Major Sylvester, superintendent of
the Washington police force, has had
destroyed all the films of the moving
pictures taken a short time ago by the
atrical parties on the east front of the
capitol building. when President
Roosevelt was impersonated in the act
Of helping a fictitious negro into his
carriage. The police say this closes the
| incident
Late advices from Bogota, forward
ed by the New York Herald's corre-
spondent at Colon. are that the Co
lombian government has notified AL
ban G. Snyder, United States charge
d'affaires, to cable his government not
to send Minister Russell or any other
diplomat to represent it at Bogota un-
til further notice. Mr. Russell is now
in Panama.
! At St. Louis, May 21st. Arthur F.
Mcintyre, president Of the defunct Mer-
chants Brokerage and Commission
Company, one of the "get-rich-quick"
concerns. brought into prominence by
the downfall of e. j. Arnold and John
J. Ryan. was found guilty of using the
mails to defraud in the Federal Court,
and was sentenced to the penitentiary
for eighteen months.
The engineers of the trans-conti-
mental railroad project, now engaged
in surveying a route in the Gould in
terests, it is said, under the corporate
name of the Western Pacific Railway
Company. have decided to abandon the
idea of securing an exit from Califor-
MIA by way of Beckwith pass, but will
take a route through the Sierras, by
way of Fredonia pass, in Lassen
county.
The improvement noticeable in Sen
ator Quay since his return from to
Beaver Pennsylvania. continues. His
physician says his condition is more
favorable than it has been for weeks.
A dispatch from Tansiers, Morocco,
to the New York Times says letters
have been received from Ion Perdi-
caris, the wealthy American, who was
kidnapped a few days ago by bandits.
The writer says he is being well cared
for and is in good health.
4 large pilgrimage of Polish Catho-
lies recently presented to the Pope a
written memorial setting forth the
many hardships suffered by the inhab-
itants pf pplop6 cincp itg Ia