The Springfield herald., 1905-07-28
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS


at Toxic. was oversubscribed four
times. 1t was the first foreign loan
ever hoated in Japan.
The Roosevelt, in which Capt. Rob-
ert E. Peary hopes to reach the North
Pole. started on her long voyage from
New York City July 18th.
A Toxic dispatch says 1t is expected
that the Russian warships Pallada.
Pobieda and Poltava. sunk at Port Ar
thur, will soon be refoated.
Hereafter the Japanese army OF all
services will be clothed in khaki. The
oficers will be distinguished from the
men only by their shoulder straps.
]. Scott Leary of the olympic Club.
San Francisco, broke the worlds swim
ming record for 100 yards at the Lewis
and Clark Fair July 18th, making the
distance in one minute fat.
The Municipal Council of Paris has
decided to accept from John H. Harjes.
the American banker, the gift Of
statue of Benjamin Franklin, to be
erected at the end of Rue de Franklin.
The will of Moses A. Dropsie, late
president of Grantz College, gives the
bulk of his estate to the establishment
OF Jewish college in Philadelphia.
81 100000.
A special United States grand jury
will be summoned In September to meet
In Milwaukee and will devote itself
to an inquiry into the affairs of the
General Paper Company. the so-called
paper trust.
At Weston. Massachusetts,. by the
discharge of a shotgun which he had
I~o I1l f1 thn nf
cats. Thomas T. Hagar. cousin OF
Major. Gen. Leonard Wood. was in.
stantly killed last night.
John T. Foster, one of the famous In
ventors in the United States, under
were manufactured in New York City,
died at Arlington. New Jersey. July
18th, at the age of eighty-five years.
The chief of staff has approved the
recommendations of Quartermaster
General Humphrey for the improve
ment of quarters at the various army
posts througout the country. For this
purpose Congress appropriated $4,GS8.-
$50.
The roof of the chapel OF the
Women's hospital at Fermo, Italy. fell
on the 18th inst. during the celebra-
tion OF mass, killing sixteen women
and fifty children and injuring sixteen
women and large number of chill.
dren.
Prof. Heber Curtis and Joel Steb.
bins of Lick observatory sailed for
Labrador from st. Johns, Newfound.
land, July 18th, on the mail steamer
to arrange for observing the total
solar eclipse, visible there August
30th.
The Venezuelan government has
paid to the British and German lega-
tions 2,797. .959 bolivars, being the first
six months installment due under the
contract recently signed for the con.
version of the foreign debt OF Vene-
zuela.
Lieutenant General Chaffee and the
party of army officers who are to at.
tend the French army maneuvers. will
sail from New York August 18th on
the steamer Kroonland and go to Ant
werp, whence they will proceed to
Paris.
The battleship Vermont will be
launched at the shipyard Of the Fore
River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy,
Massachusetts, August 31st. The gov
ernor of Vermont has designated his
daughter, Miss Jennie Bell, to act as
sponsor.
President Palma has vetoed the
action of the Cuban Congress. which
continued in effect the budget for the
fiscal year ending June 30th last. His
reason for SO doing is that the old
budget did not include any provision
for the sanitation of cities.
At the annual meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the Freedmen's Aid
and Southern Educational Society of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, one
OF the most important steps was to
authorize the expenditure Of 100000
for a college building at Austin, Texas.
Harold Powell of the United States
Department Of Agriculture says he
has conclusively demonstrated that
ripe fruit, well refrigerated before
shipment, will arrive sound under Or
dinary railroad refrigeration, even
after being from ten to fifteen days
en- route.
The governments of Great Britain
and Spain have accepted the invita-
tion of the sultan of Morocco to at
tend the international conference on
Moroccan reforms, on condition that
the contents of the program to be dis
cussed by the conference be communi-
Gated to them beforehand.
Laura Hyde Woodwork Stedman.
wife of Edmund Clarence Stedman.
the banker-poet. died July 18th from
heart disease at the villa of the family
in Bronxville, New York. Mr.. and
Mrs. Stedman had been married for
more than fifty years. They have two
sons, Frederick Stuart and Arthur
Stedman.
The committee named by Mayor
Mcclellan of New York to consider
plans for submission to the next
mayor for the centenary celebration
in 1907 of the first use of steam in
water navigation. has decided to send
an invitation to Vice Admiral Togo OF
the Japanese navy to attend on his
flagship.
A novel scheme has been adopted by
the city shade tree commission OF
Newark, New York, to rid the shady
places there of caterpillars. cocoons
and other insects. Ten cents a quart
will be paid as bounty on the insects.
Permission has been given to bug hunt
ers to climb the trees under the COM
missions charge.