The Springfield herald., 1905-12-15
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs

across the British Channel.
The payment of the last of the Gu
ban revolutionary soldiers claims be-
gan throughout the island ON the 4th
inst.
The Chilean government proposes to
rent a portion of the state railways.
The idea has met with the approval
of public opinion.
Newton C. Dougherty, convicted Pc
oria financier, has been given the task
of sorting broom corn in the prison
broom factory at Joliet.
Mrs. Anna Merrill, widow of the late
Bishop Stephen NJ. Merrill, who died
in New Jersey, November 18th, died in
Chicago November 30th from paralysis
of the heart.
The Indiana Supreme Court has de-
cided that telegraph companies cannot
be compelled to furnish market quota
tions to brokerage firms which do So
called bucket shop business.
Robbers broke into the State Bank
of Chapman, Nebraska, on the night
of November 26th, blew the safe open
with nitro -glycerine and escaped with
an amount of money estimated at ST.
500.
Chicago is now connected with Mil
wauiee by electric roads. The link
that joins the two cities was opened
for traffic December I'd at Kenosha,
Wisconsin, with appropriate ceremo-
MES.
+. A. Molitor, chief engineer of the
Midland Valley Railroad Company, for
. merly chief engineer of the Choctaw.
Oklahoma & Gulf has been appointed
supervisor of the Philippines railroad
system.
The village of Rocca Soraggio, near
Lucia, IN Italy, has been entirely de-
stroyed by landslide, with the excep-
tion of a church. Fortunately there
were no victims. tie inhabitants hav-
ing left.
Former Judge Gilbert F. Little OF
Seattle, the pioneer American attorney
in the canal zone died December list,
at Ancon, in Panama. Judge Little at
one time presided over the Hilo circuit
In Hawaii.
Gustav Charles Reichnolm, at one
time considered the strongest chess
player in the country, and for over
forty years chess editor of Philadel-
phia newspapers, died suddenly No
vember 30th.
Cigarettes have been positively for
bidden the prisoners in Cook county
Jail, at Chicago, by order of the grand
Jury on the recommendation of Jailer
Whitman. Pipes and cigars will be
allowed, but the cigarette Is absolutely
barred.
The criminal court OF Paris acquit-
ted Valino, Harvey, Charles Malato
and Caussanel, who were accused OF
completely in the plot to assassinate
King Alfonso and President Loubet.
during the visit of the former in Paris
In May last.
The royal observatory at Florence,
Italy. recorded three violent shocks OF
earthquake December 4th. The rec
ords were made at a. M, 10: AZ a. m.
and 1:24 p. m. The shocks were felt
at Sicily and Calabria. There was no
serious damage.
1t is reported that the territorial
board of immigration of Hawaii wishes
to send Territorial Secretary Atkinson
to Europe to secure labor, and will
charter steamers for purposes of trans
portation. The laborers probably will
be brought from the Azores.
Edward V. Morgan, relieved from
his post as American minister at Seoul.
Korea, by reason of the establishment
of Japanese protectorate there, has
been appointed minister to Havana to
succeed Herbert G. Squiers, whose res
lgnation has been received and ac-
cepted.
William McWillians of Indepen-
dence, Iowa, has confessed to the muir
der of his wife and five children, whose
mutilated bodies were found at their
home short time since. He says that
he had quarreled with his wife and
thought the children better off dead
than alive.
Queen Alexandra was 61 years old
December LIST and her birthday was
celebrated with the usual heartiness
throughout the kingdom, including ar
tillery salutes, the ringing of church
bells and the display of flags, etc. Con-
eratulations from all parts poured in
at Sandringham.
The cotton crop report issued by the
Department of Agriculture estimates
the crop at 1O,167,s1S bales OF 500
pounds gross weight, not including
linters. The area picked and to be
picked is estimated at &c, 1873 acres,
q reduction of SS2,399 acres, or 33 per
cent. reduction from the acreage estI-
mated as planted.
December 18th a conference of game
wardens of Idaho, Montana and Wyo-
ming Will be held at Butte. They will
discuss plans for the creation Of a vast
game preserve in the Bitter Root
mountains, embracing some 100000
acres to be taken charge of by the
United States government in connec-
tion with the forest reserves.
The grand jury of Knox county,
Ohio, failed to return any indictments
against any of the members of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, or any
members of the Kenyon College in con
nection with the death of Steward
Pierson at Gambler while being ini-
tiated. He was tied to the railroad
track and left till train ran over him.
Commander Behler, commanding the
naval station at Key West, has re.
ported to the Navy Department that
the wireless telegraph station at Key
West has received an eight-word mes
sage by wireless from the station at
Colon The distance is about 1000
nautical miles, and the island of Cuba
lies directly across the lines between
the two points.
The weather bureaus monthly crop