The Springfield herald., 1904-08-12
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

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The drought has destroyed the
maize tcorn) crop in Roumania and
the government has prohibited the eI.
portation OF maize.
According to the schedules OF the
estate Of the late William c. Whitney
which were filed in New York City. the
estate is estimated at $21.334, ,101.
j. A. Sloan Of the United States
Bureau OF Animal Industry. says the
drouth in southern Arizona has caused
loss of fifty per cent. to the cattle
men.
Several distinct shocks of earth
quake were felt at 2:30 a. m. July Both.
at Woodland, California. They were
heavy enough to waken people, but no
damage was done.
Robert E. Pattison, twice Demo-
cratic governor of Pennsylvania. died
at his home in suburb Of Philadelphia
on the 1st inst, of Pneumonia at the
age Of ffty-three years.
Judge and Mrs. Alton B. Parker
have accepted the invitation of Ma
tional Committeeman Norman E. Mack
to be his guests New York day, Octo-
ber 4, at the Worlds Fair.
Capt. Henry Ware Lyon has been
selected .to> succeed Rear Admiral
Terry in command of the naval station
at Honolulu. in anticipation of the lat
ter's retirement next December.
The comparative statement of the
government receipts and expenditures
for the month of July. 1904, shows a
deficit of $17,40772s, as against a
deficit of $7.776,613 for July last year.
Louis London of the "Bostonians," {"
denies the press dispatches sent out
from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to the
effect that the company is in financial
straits and Will not be organized for
the coming season. .s
Isaac W. Barnum, inventor of the
hemming attachment for sewing ma
chimes and who is said to have pos.
sessed fortune of 100000 a few
years ago. died in poverty at Brooklyn,
New York, last month.
William Pickens. negro, who
graduated with high honors at Yale
month ago, has Just been advised of
his election to membership in the Phi
Beta Kappa Society. He is the only me-
gro belonging to the society.
Chief Wilkie, of the United States
ssecret service, announces the discov-
cry Of a new counterfeit $40 note. 1t
is on the National Bank OF Commerce
Of New York, series of 1882, Bruce
register, Wyman, treasurer. 1t is a
poorly executed photograph.
A New York dispatch says that
July 31st was the biggest day In
Coney Islands history. according to
expert counters. 1t is estimated that
fully 100000 persons went to the re-
1,r, trns Nd ontd
The crowd was well handled.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick has been
obliged to alter the plans for her
American trip in consequence OF ner-
vous prostration. from which she suf.
fered since her release. 1t is not likely
that Mrs. Maybrick will be able to
start before the end Of August. If then.
In reply to an invitation by COM
mittee of the G. A. r. to attend the
national encampment at Boston August
1920. President Roosevelt said that he
would probably have to decline, as he
had declined all similar Invitations to
participate in public functions during
the present year.
A Mexican woman got the guards
drunk at the jail in Aqua Prieta, a
border town in the state of Sonora, op-
three Mexicans who were under arrest,
charged with being implicated in mur-
dering and robbihg American prospec-
tors in Sonora recently.
The general land office recently an
nounced that the registration at
DEVILS Lake and Grand Forks, North
Dakota. for the Devils Lake Indian
reservation lands, which are to be
opened to settlement, would begin at 9
a. m. August 8. The registration will
close at p. NJ, August 20.
Mrs. Nelson A. Miles, wife of Gen
eral Miles. died at West Point New
York. on the night of August 1st, of
heart disease at the age of siKty-two
years. Mrs. Miles was the daughter
of Judge Charles Sherman, and
niece of the late Senator John Sher-
man of Ohio and General William T.
Sherman.
A forest fire on the ella forest re.
serve In Arizona, which ragged two
months, defying the efforts of forest
rangers and devastating an area fifteen
square miles, which was covered by
fine timber, has been put out by heavy
rains. For time smoke from the
fire enveloped Silver City, New Mex
leo, fifty miles away.
All the officers and employees Of the
Knickerbocker Steamboat Company, as
well as the United States inspectors.
indicted by the federal grand jury in
New York City in connection with the
Slocum disaster of June Is last, have
been admitted to bail in the United
States Circuit Court. 1t is believed
the trials cannot begin until late in
the fall.
To punish adequately unscrupulous
dealers who have sold adulterated milk
and caused the death OF number of
babies in the western part of Pennsyl-
vania, it is declared by an officer CI
the dairy and food commission that
future prosecutions will not end with
fines, but will extend to indictment
and trial by jury on the charge of in
voluntary manslaughter.
A call was issued from Chicago July
3Oth for the election of delegates to a
national political labor party conven-
ton to be held In Chicago August 20.
Representative Of the unions affiliated
with the Chicago Federation of Labor
! are behind the movement. 1t is the in