The Springfield herald., 1904-03-11
SHORT TELEGRAMs.

Seattle to Kansas City.
King Edward has approved the ap-
pointment of Lord Plunket as governor
and comh1ander-iu-chief OF New Zea-
land.
Edward Franklin Abel. president OF
the A. S. Abel company. publishers OF
the Baltimore Sun. died February 2Sth
al the age OF sixty-four years.
King Edward has approved the ap-
pointment of the Duke of Connaught to
be inspector general of the army un-
der the new reform schedule.
The lower house of the Mississippi
Legislature voted down almost unani-
mously a resolution to invite w. j.
Bryan to address the Legislature.
. Prince Henry, the youngest son OF
Prince Henry OF Prussia, died at kiel~
February 26th. He was four years OF
,sge. and had been Ill for some time.
A party of American women trained
nurses has been organized at Washing
ton for the purpose OF Offering their
services to the Japanese government.
John Alexander Dowie's meeting at
the Exposition building in Melbourne
was broken up by.a mob. Dowie was
refused rooms at fashionable hotel.
The Red Cross Society at St. Peters
burg has ordered its Siberian agents to
prepare 100000 additional pounds of
grain and large quantities of meat and
lsterilized milk.
The French minister of war. General
Andre. has issued n circular authoriz-
ing the army to make contributions for
the benefit of the wounded in the Rus
so-Japanese war.
An exhibition Is being arranged at
st. Petersburg of all the Russian art
objects which it was intended to ex-
hibit at st. Louis. The proceeds Will
be devoted to the Red Cross Society.
The arbitration treaty between Great
Britain and Spain, which it was an
nounced on February Goth the two
countries were on the verge OF conclud-
ing, has been signed by both nations.
The new treaty between France and
Spain has been signed. The terms are
identical with the recent arbitration
treaties concluded between France and
Great Britain and Italy and Great Brit
ain.
The Caucasian Sheik-Ul-Islam has
called on the Russian Mohammedans to
defend their fatherland. He reminded
them how they fought their co-relig-
ionists, the Turks, twenty-five years
ago.
The secretary for foreign affairs Of
Ecuador and the Peruvian minister at
Quito have signed protocol submit
ting the Ecuador-PeN boundary ques-
tion to the arbitration of the King of
Spain.
Champion Featherweight Young
Corbett" had no difficulty in defeating
Dave Sullivan at Pavilion. California.
February goth, in the eleventh round
of what was scheduled for twenty
round contest.
The commissary general OF the army
is in receipt OF reports from subsist-
erce of officers who had to do with
the recent experiments with hash. The
reports wore nearly all In approval ol
hash as an army food.
The Supreme Court Of Ohio has de-
clared unconstitutional the law which
provides a penalty of 500 fine and six
months Imprisonment for any one who
discharges a workman because he is
member of labor union.
Recent developments are said to
show that the value of Senator Hanna's
estate was about $7000000. In the
probate proceedings an estimate OF So
GOO 900 was made. but the real value or
1t is more than twice that sum.
The British army estimates for the
coming year, made by Secretary OF
War Forster, are $144.5OO. 900. against
$l72 500, 900 last year. The principal re-
duction is in this years estimates for
South Africa, which total $3.O7O.OOO.
The Appellate Court of Illinois has
reaffirmed that picketing by strikers
is illegal. The decision upheld an in
junction against striking iron moulders
issued by Judge Holdom. on petition OF
the Illinois Malleable Iron Company!
England is hurrying supplies. guns
and ships to Victoria and plans to
make the capital of British Columbia
q western Gibraltar. These preparations
for defense have been long in prog
ress. but 1t is only since the war in the
Orient began, with the possibility that
England may become involved. that
the work has been rushed with energy.
The Cuban congressional elections.
last month, the first ever conducted en-
tirely under Cuban auspices. were quiet
and well conducted, despite predictions
of disturbances. Throughout the is
land not a single instance of disorder
was reported. The conduct OF those In
charge of the polling places was excel
lent. The ballots were printed on the
American plan.
The eighteen new battleships and ar
mored cruisers now being constructed
for the American navy will be equipped
with submerged torpedo tubes. The
board on construction recently de-
cided to omit tubes from all battle
ships There was such protest, how
ever, from many officers in the navy
that, at the instance of the secretary,
the board reconsidered its decision.
Lord Miner, British high commits
sioner in South Africa, in delivering
the presidential address before the in
tercolonial council for the Transvaal
md Orange River colony, revealed the
grave financial condition of the colony.
lie said a deficit amounting to $4,000
200 was due to the shrinkage in rail-
way receipts and the general paralysis
of industry, while almost all of the
81 so 900 900 loan had already been ex-.
hended on railroads. tho repatriation
IF the Beers and the development of
the country.
President w. r. Harper of the Uni
yersity of Chicago was operated on
March 1st for appendicitis. The pa
tient withstood the shock successfully.
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