The Springfield herald., 1905-07-07
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS

q contract for season of 100 concerts
In the United States, beginning De-
cember LIST next.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has issued a permanent injunction re-
straining the merging OF the cities Of
Pittsburg and Allegheny City.
Announcement is made of gift Of
100000 by the University of Chicago
toward the $1,000,0OO endowment fund
of the American Academy. of Fine Arts
at Rome.
The correspondent OF the Associ-
ted Press at Pekin is informed on good
authority that China desires to be rep
resented in the Russo-Japanese peace
conference.
A step toward union has just been
taken by Lutherans. The committee
of the general synod favors union
with the general council and the
United South.
Emperor Nicholas has definitely ap-
pointed Grand Duke Nicholas Nicho-
laevitch, second cousin OF his majesty,
to be president of the grand council Of
national defense.
It Is reported at Rome that the 1tal
ian government has decidedto promote
a European congress for the settlement
of pending international questions, In
Guiding those concerning Morocco.
The dominion government has asked
the imperial government to permit
Canada to become party to the trade
treaty of 1894 between Britain and ia.
pan. Japan is willing to agree to 1t.
A Port Arthur dispatch received at
Rome from an Italian engineer who is
engaged in raising the Russian ships
sunk in the harbor there, says that
three ironclads have been refloated.
The will of the late William ].
Parmelee of Chicago, provides that the
entire estate, 100000, shall be held
In trust and the net income devoted to
purchase fuel for poor and needy fam
lilies.
The secretary of war has approved
the recommendation of Governor Me-
goun Of the canal zone that 100000 OF
the funds of the government of the
canal zone, derived from local revenue.
be devoted to establishing forty-two
public schools.
The biennial election law passed by
the last Nebraska Legislature and de-
signed to do away with the off-year
elections, has been declared unconsti-
tutional by the Supreme Court of Ne
fall as heretofore.
The first international congress for
the study Of radiology and ironization
will be held at Liege from the 18th to
the 14th of September noat, under the
patronage of the Belgian government,
and this government is invited to be
represented at the congress.
An official denial is published at
! of
of the capture of Warmbad, German
Southwest Africa, by the Hottentots.
who were said to have evacuated the
place and to have taken with them
all the ammunition and supplies.
The twelfth annual outing of the
Mazamas, a mountain climbing club
Of Portland, Oregon. will occur at
Mount Rainier during July of this
year. and the club will be accompa-
MED by an unusual number Of promi-
nent scientists and college professors.
DR.. c. c. Rice, assistant professor of
modern languages at Leland Stanford
University, but whose home is in Lin
coin, Nebraska. is under police deten-
ton in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, suf-
fering from violent insanity, and will
be brought back to Lincoln. His attack
Is attributed to overstudy.
A dispatch to the London Daily
Telegraph from Peking by way
of Toxic says it is officially announced
that within twelve years constitutional
government will be established in
China, and that the intervening Pc
riod will be employed in bringing
about the reforms necessary for SO
great change.
A Melbourne dispatch says that the
commonwealth government has de-
cided to invite Secretary of War Taft
and the members of his family and
Miss Roosevelt to extend their tour
from the Philippines to Australia
Assurance Is given that the secretary
and his party will be cordially well
coined by all classes.
At the inter-university swimming
meet in London. June Goth, in the
presence of a distinguished company,
including the Duke and Duchess of
Connaught, the Australian amateur
champion, B. B. Kiernan, eighteen
years old, lowered the worlds record.
covering 600 yards easily in seven
minutes and twenty-four and four
fifths seconds.
A cooperative experiment of mag
nitude hitherto untried is to be at
| tempted in this state. The enterprise
is known as the "Co-Operative Chris
tian Federation" with a capital OF
$50, 100000. The objects of the fedora
ton are to buy and sell lands. build
railroads. operate factories. mills and
daires in Oregon, to be owned and
operated on the cooperative plar-
Engineer James ]. Camp Of the re-
clamation department of the United
States Geological Survey has recon-
mended to the Reclamation Bureau
that the irrigation project for south
west Oklahoma, in which water was
to have been supplied from the north
fork of the Red river, be abandoned
and another project in the Navajo
mountains of Okla iona be taken up.
| The ship Arion arrived at San Fran
cisco June 26th from Baltimore with
the captain and ten members of the
crew of the German ship Agnes, and
bringing news that the Agnes foun-
dered in snowstorm off Cape Horn.
The boats crew picked up by the
Arion was but one of three which
a ho tho Apnac hpfnra she sank