The Springfield herald., 1905-11-10
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

self, chief prosecutor of the Holy
Synod, Of Russia. has resigned.
The dome of the great cathedral at
Monterey, Mexico, fell October 27th.
crushing the church, which was erect
ed in 1892.
1t Is reported that disease which
has attacked pine forests In various
parts OF Mexico is likely to cause
heavy losses.
The Mexican Central railroad has
5000 men at work on the extension of
it's line to Colima from Tuxpan, in the
state OF Jalisco.
The Spanish armored cruiser Car
dinal Cisneros foundered off Villanova
October 2Sth, after striking rock. All
on board were saved.
The Russian government Is slowly
removing the mines placed by the Jap
anese around Vladivostok. which now
render access to that port dangerous.
Secretary Hitchcock ordered the dis
missal from service of four clerks in
the Pension Bureau, accused of loan
Ing money at usurious rates of in
terest
The convention of the supreme
lodge and the encampment OF the Uni
form Rank. Knights of Pythias, will!
be held at New Orleans the third Tues
day in October next.
The Japanese Foreign Office, Octo.
suggestion that the powers withdraw
their troops from Peking, excepting
the legation guards.
An immense subterranean channel,
which promises to surpass in size and
hn fny DNr ha
been discovered near Glasgow juno
ton, Barry county, Kentucky.
The Isthmian Canal Commission has
issued an official statement of the re-
ceipts and expenditures under the ap-
preparation of $1O,0OO,0Oo for canal
construction from June 2S, 1902, to
June 80. 1905. 1t shows a balance at
that date of $60S3,415, making total
expenditure of $4,O09,573.
Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl.
vania committed to life Imprisonment
the death sentence Of Mrs. Catherine
Danz. the Philadelphia woman who is
alleged to have poisoned ner husband
with powders procured from George P.
HoSSey, a "voodoo" doctor. HoSsey Is
under sentence of death for similar
offense.
Lead, Central and Terraville, South
Dakota, has just received check for
$500 from Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. Mrs.
Hearst remembers every year these
churches and the amount of her an
nual contributions to them is over
$4,000. She has done this for num-
Der of years.
One of New York City's most con-
sDicuous ventures in municipal own
ership was inaugurated few days
since, when the new ferry line be-
tween the Battery and Staten Island
was put into operation. 1t Is owned
and operated by the city and its five
splendid ferry boats are the largest in
New York harbor.
The Southern Cotton Association haa
issued statement compiled from the
reports of 1900 correspondents
throughout the cotton belt, estimating
the present crop at 9,444,314 bales
The statement estimates that 61.3 per
cent of the crop had been picked and
that 54.7 per cent ginned October 21st.
The Santa Fe Railway company haa
asked the court in Muskog0e to ap
point an appraising board to condemn
right of way from Tulsa, Indian Ter
ritory, to Shawnee, Oklahoma, 12O
miles This will connect the branch
between Independence, Kansas, and
Tulsa and the Oklahoma lines in
Shawnee.
An official denial has been made at
Berlin of the report originated in Lon
don that Germany proposed to Russia
to partition Austria. The Associated
Press is informed authoritatively also
that Germany has made no proposals
to Russia for an alliance in any form
nor has an Interchange of views there
on taken place.
An overland march of more than
! 900 miles has been planned for the
Twenty-second battery of light -artil
lery, now at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake,
and the Nineteenth light .-ttery, now
at Fort Riley, Kansas, which have
been ordered to exchange stations.
The distance will be made in about
seventy days.
Having occasion to secure twenty
five additional officers for the Philip.
pines constabulary, the places paying
$1,1OO to begin with, Captain Mc1n-
tyre, acting chief of the insular bu.
reau, invited one hundred state mill
tary institutes and agricultural col
leges to name candidates for the
places from among their graduates
Less than twenty applications were
received.
The Mexican government has ex-
tended the time of the construction OF |
the Mexican Central's branch from
Colima TO Manzanillo, on the Pacific |
Coast, to October, 1909. There is al |
ready narrow gauge road between !
these two points, which belonged for |
merly to the Mexican National Con
5truction Company, but which was re-
Gently acquired by the Mexican Cen
trail This road will be made standard
gauge.
The annual report of Gen. George
B. Davis, judge advocate general OF
he army. shows that of the commits
stoned officers tried during the last
year by general court-martial, thirty
six We're convicted and thirteen ac-
luitted. Three cadets and 4,393 en-
listed men were convicted, while $50
men were acquitted. Tho total num-
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