The Springfield herald., 1905-05-19
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defense of their interests.
First Lieuts. Juan A. Boyle and
Charles l.. Woodhouse, Fourth infan-
try, were drowned while sailing on La
guam lake at Manila.
A Chicago dispatch says that the Nc
Cormick family has added $1.O00,000
to the endowment of the Mccormick
Theological Seminary.
The Illinois Legislature has passed
bill giving the city of Chicago the
right to fix maximum rates for gas
and electric lighting.
After an investigation, the federal
grand jury at Honolulu has reported
that no polygamy Is practiced by the
Mormon colony in Hawaii.
ExPresident Grover Cleveland has
made liberal contribution toward the
endowment fund of the Hastings Col
lege, at Hastings, Nebraska. The sum
is not stated.
The Sultan of Turkey has conferred
on j. Pierpont Morgan the grand cor
don of the Osmanli order and pre-
sented him with a vase from the impe-
rial porcelain factory.
Frank H. Brandegee Of New Lon
don. member OF Congress from the
Third Connecticut district. has been
chosen United States senator to sue
ceed the late o. II. Platt.
Senator Clark of Wyoming. the pros
pective chairman of the Senate COM
mittee on the judiciary. has been ad-
mitted to practice in the Supreme
Court Of the United States.
The San Francisco Board OF Educa-
tion has taken determined stand
against the admission of Chinese and
Japanese pupils to schools where white
children are being educated.
John Baird, father of Mrs. William
]. Bryan, died at the Bryan home near
Lincoln, Nebraska, May Cd. He was
eighty-two years old and had been fail
ing steadily for several years.
A severe thunder and windstorm
that swept over St. Louis on the 5th
inst. resulted in the death of two per-
sons and the injury of eight others,
with heavy damage to property.
All records were broken on the 7th
inst in the number OF immigrants
passed quarantine. Within twelve
hours 1909 foreigners, arriving in
steerage, were permitted to enter New
York.
The State Department learns that
negotiations with Germany for the
preparation of reciprocity treaty will
not be undertaken before next fall,
when they will be conducted in Wash
ington.
Major Ralph Dunning. who entered
the engineering department of the
United States army when Andrew
Jackson was President, died at New
York May 9TH at the age of ninety
four years.
The Emperor of Japan has notified
Mr.. Griscom, the American minister.
OF his intention to donate 10000 yen
(about $4,000 to the Japanese army
branch of the Young Mems Christian
Association.
The Weyerhauser Lumber syndicate
has let the contract at Spokane for
the building of its Washington. Idaho
& Montana railway for a distance of
forty-five miles. into Idaho from Pa
louise, Washington, to open its vast
timber holdings. The railway alone
will cost s1,000,O00.
Rear Admiral Yates Stirling was
placed on the retired list Of the navy
May 9th. having reached the age OF
sixty-two. His retirement promotes
Capt. w. H. Brownson to the grade of
rear admiral. Commander w. H.
Turner to that of captain and Lieuten-
ant Commander Cove to that OF COM
mander
The forty-fourth annual convention
of the National Educational Associa-
tion will be held at Asbury Park and
Ocean Grove, New Jersey, July Sd to
7th. President Roosevelt has promised
to be present and deliver formal ad-
dress. Railroad rates will be half fare
plus 50 membership fee, with stopover
privileges.
A force of Hereros on April eth
fell upon a German column under the
command of Captain Winterfeldt in
the mountains east OF Gananis, Ger
man Southwest Africa, and in lively
fight that followed sixteen Germans
were killed or wounded. The natives
were beaten off with the loss of fif-
teen men killed.
After litigation in various courts eX-
tending over period of twenty years.
the sons of the late Henry Burden of
Troy, New York, inventor of horse
shoe machine and other devices, from
which he amassed fortune. are re-
ported to have settled their differences
by compromise. The plant at Troy
alone is valued at $10.O00,000.
A certificate of incorporation Of the
Carnegie Foundation, a membership
corporation, TO manage the fund of
$4,000, 600 given by Andrew Carnegie
for pensions for teachers in universe
ties, colleges and technical schools in
the United States, Canada and New
foundland. has been filed with the
county clerk in New York City.
The first test vote on the Northwest
autonomy bill has been taken in the
Canadian House of Commons. 1t re-
suited in victory for the government.
The question of separate schools for
the Catholics of the territory is para
mount. The Laurier government,
which favors separate schools, was sus-
tanned on the vote by majority of 81.
Building continues active all over
the country. In April permits were
taken out in the large cities for the
construction of $3.50 buildings. involv-
ing $40. .993, ,SSS. against S,577 buildings
involving an aggregate cost of S32,-
443,06s for the corresponding month a
year ago, an increase of 5S3 buildings
and $3.50, $50, or twenty-seven per
cent.