The Springfield herald., 1905-10-06
CONDENSED 1ELEeRAMs
yellow fever at New orleans is sub

Butte aBe now estimated at $6o0,oVo'
with insurance of $535.000.
The Russian battleship Retvizan.
which was sunk at Port Arthur mas
been refloated by Japanese engineers.
The California Supreme Court has
decided that the anti-trading stamp
law passed in 1904 is unconstitutional.
The board of review has fixed the
total cash value OF real estate and per-
sonal property In Cook county, which
contains Chicago. at $2.014,O79,425.
1t is stated that while the visit OF
King Alfonso of Spain to Berlin mas
been fixed for November 9th the date
will be changed should cholera spread
in Germany.
In his annual report Brig. Gen. Will
lam S. McCaskey. commanding the De'
partment of Colorado, recommends the
re.establishment Of the canteen lea
ture of the exchange.
A Copenhagen dispatch says that
Mylius Erickson is preparing Danlsh
ship end sledge party for an expedition
to the hitherto unexplcred regions OF
the northwest coast OF Greenland.
The work of the civilian physicians
in examining recruits OF the army mas
proved SO unsatisfactory that their SER
vices Will be entirely dispensed with In
that capacity after September 30th.
Reports from the famine districts In
Spain show that the worimen threaten
to burn and sack II they are not FUR
nished with food. Appeals have been
sent to the government to distribute
rations.
The sixth game OF the chess match
of eight games at Nuremburg was be-
gun by Tarrasch and after seventy
moves was declared draw. The
score: Tarrasch, 2; Marshall, o;
drawn, 4.
The students of the St. Petersburg
University have decided by large ma
iority to resume their studies be
cause an open university will be more
dangerous to imperialism than a uni
versity on strike"
The Mexican branch OF the y. NJ. G.
A. has oeen inaugurated at the CITY OF
Mexico with Vice President Corral as
honorary president Of the association.
There Is also branch for English
speaking young men.
United States Senator j. r. Burton $
trial has again been postponed. Wit
nesses tor the government have been
notified that the case will be called
October 24th. The first subpoenas Is
sued in the re-trial were for October
3D.
Within a year from now the Rock
Island system will have the entire
length of its main line to Colorado
Lot.
ballasted. That means that it will
have to relay probably about $50 miles
of steel.
The census bureau has issued bull
letin on ceAtral light and power sta
tions for the year ending June 80.
1902, showing there were in the United
States $500 such stations, with cost
of construction and equipment of $oO,-
740,352.
The control of the National Car
Wheel Company at PittsburS has
passed into the hands of James d..
Rhodes of Pittsburg and William Bon
nell of Cleveland. This company owns
four plants, and is capitalized at nearly
100000.
Fifty Filipino students arrived in
ago, preparatory to registering in va
rious western colleges and universi-
ties. The students were in charge of
W. A. Sutherland, an at;ache of the
Department of the Interior.
On Beatty's ridge. In Switzerland
county, Indiana, on September goth,
George Ford, who is believed to be
insane, cremated his wife and three
children by setting fire to the house In
which they were asleep. All four per-
ished in the flames.
The. London Daily Telegraph's To-
kio correspondent says the British far
Eastern squadron will assemble in To-
kio bay carly in October after the rati-
fication of the Russo-Japanese peace
treaty, and that the Japanese fleet will
also assemble at the same place.
Much damage was done to the bust
ness section of Spokane, Washington,
September 26th by fire which de-
stroyed 100000 worth Of property.
the heaviest losers being the Booth
McClinctock company, wholesale gro
ceries, two-story building and contents,
800 900; the Cudahy Packing Com
pany, stock, 100000.
The next great ship that is to come
from the Mecklenburg yards, where the
North German Lloyd keels are laid.
will be named after Washington in
stead of some German prince. as has
been the invariable rule of the COM
pauy heretofore. The Washington is
10 be 17,000-ton ship, one of the larg-
est afioat. and will be completed in the
fall of 1907. 1t is declared that some
of the interior plans will startle the
shipbuilding world.
Commanding officers of the Catholic
| Knights of America and of the Knights
of St. John are perfecting arrange
| ments for the amalgamation of all the
Catholic military orders in the coun
try under the general name of the
Catholic Military Federation of Amer
lea. The federation represents mem
bership of 10000 men, 10000 of whom
were members of the Knights of ST
John, and the remainder members OF
the Catholic knights of America. II
will hold it's national encampment at
Buffalo next June.
Col. Francis William Rhodes. retired
brother of the late Cecil Rhodes and
managing director of the African
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