The Springfield herald., 1905-09-15
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

United States Steel Company has de-
cided to maintain the price of steel
rails to its customers for 1906 at SIS
ton.
Great interest is being taken at Phil
adelphia over the correction of the reg
istration list. 1t is stated that 10000
bogus names will be stricken off the
rolls.
Frank C. Graves, formerly financial
writer on New York newspaper, has
just paid $4,000 for a.seat on the
New York stock exchange. This is
the highest price ever paid.
The population OF Massachusetts Is
2.99S.95S, an increase of 49S.77J over
1885, when the last official census was
taken. Boston's population is 9S,59s,
an increase of 3GG5S in ten years.
King Oscar has conferred the honor
of knighthooh Of the Royal Order of
Nasa upon B. Lowenstein of Memphis,
Tennessee. Mr.. Lowenstein has beer
a constant visitor to Sweden for twelve
years.
The coinage executed at the mints
of the United States during August
was: Gold. $9,020.O00; silver, $780,
600; Panama half balboas. 100000
pieces; Philippine pesos. 100000
pieces.
The War Department has approved
the plans for the building OF new ar
tillery post at the Prcsidic near San
Francisco, and $750,000 vii! De eX
pended for this purpose within the
next year.
The porte has replied to the note OF
the six embassies, declining to accept
the scheme proposed by them for the
financial control of Macedonia. The
powers will insist On the acceptance oil
the scheme.
On the recommendation cr Grand
Duke Vladimir, the emperor has par
doned Prokope. who was sentenced to
death for the assassination of Colonel
kremarenko chief of police OF Eiborg,
on July 22d last.
Total Industrial dividends payable in
September will rise above $l0.+50 900,
according to statistics gathered by the
Journal of Commerce. This is an IN
crease of more than S3,500,000 over
September year ago.
More Americans have visited the
Yellowstone National Park this sum
mer than ever before. 1t Is estimated
that 10000 persons have been in the
park since the season opened. The
record last year was $4,000.
The German postal authorities. who
have always been very progressive.
and who for some time have been ex-
perimenting with automobiles, have de.
cided to put these modern vehicles in
use on all rural delivery routes.
Secretary Bonaparte has issued an
order for a court martial to try Com
mander Lucien Young and Ensign
Charles T. Wade. on charges growing
out OF the fatal explosion on the gun
boat Bennington at San Diego in July.
The Hartman lines have given an
order In Chicago for seventy-five chair
cars, to cost about s75o.OoO. They will
be used on the system west of Ogden
the Southern Pacific, Oregon Short
Line, Shasta route and Pacific coast
lines.
President Paul Morton reports that
the Equitable society's business has
fallen less than ten per cent. in the
United States and Canada during the
seven months ending August /, 1905,
as compared with the corresponding
period Of last year.
Edward ]. Lewis, the defaulting rea!
estate broker of Wheaton, Illinois, who
widows and ether poor persons to the
extent OF 100000, was taken to the
Joliet penitentiary to serve long SEN
tence. Lewis secretly went before
Judge Bishop of Wheaton and pleaded
guilty.
More than SeA00 acres of land or
upon as homesteads up to September
I'd by persons who drew lucky num-
bers in the recent drawing at Provo.
So far the names Of sos persons enti-
tied to make filings have been called
at the land office, and of these 3S1
have responded and filed on home
steads
The Carnegie Steel Company. which
is a sub-company of the United States
Steel corporation, hns ordered In every
blast furnace capable Of being ope-
rated. The demand for pig Iron Is so
great that the steel corporation wants
to get into operation its total capacity |
It is not improbable that the Carnegie |
company will run 10G blast furnaces |
for a time.
The amalg.mation of the lumber In
terests, intended principally to operate |
in the redwood districts on the Pacific |
coast, was effected at Detroit August |
31st and the Pacific Lumber Company !
was organized, with capitalization Of
$40 100000. Articles of incorporation
will be fled under the laws of Maine.
The new company is an outgrowth OF ,
the Pacific company of New Jersey.
The new 1G,OO0ton battleship Yer
mont. built for the United States gov.
ernment by the Fore River Shipbuild-
ing Company at Quincy. Massachr
setts. was successfully launched Au-
gust 31st The Vermont is one of the
largest and most powerful of the
ships of war that has been constructed !
Tor the navy. She has a length Of 45o
feet and extreme breadth of 76 1912
'eet.
The directors of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society have decided to
abolish the $25,0Oo pension now en-
oyed by Mrs. Harry b. Hyde, widow of
The founder of the society; also to
,bolish the prospective pension OF $1S,-
100 to Mrs. James w. Alexander, wife
,f the former president. who recently
which she would have re
,eived in case she survived her hus
)and.
AS a result of the investigation OF