The Springfield herald., 1905-06-16
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Idaho as the Saw Tooth forest reserve.
The st. Petersburg Engineers AS
sociation has voted pensions to the
wlfe and mother of Ivan kaleiefr, the
assassin of Grand Duke Sergius.
The British ship Afghanistan, from
Hamburg for San Diego, had collision
with the British man-of-war Caesar, the
former sinking with twenty-three OF
her crew.
| A Kansas banker, who declines to
| permit his name to be disclosed, mas
given $25,000 to Emporia College, a
Presbyterian institution at Emporia,
Kansas.
A cotton crop bulletin issued by the
Department of Agriculture shows that
the acreage of the entire belt has de-
creased ia per cent. The average
condition is given as 77.2.
A Toxic dispatch says that the kus
sian cruiser Admiral Nahkimotf, Mo
nomach and Dmitri Donskoi having
sunk in comparatively shallow water,
1t is possible to raise them.
Hoke Smith, secretary of the interior
rnder President Cleveland and at one
time editor of the Atlanta Constitu-
ton, has announced himself as can
didate for governor of Georgia.
The Transmississippi Commercial
| Congress will meet at Portland, Ore
gon, August 10th, and the National
Irrigation Congress will convene at the
same place August 2lst.
Governor Bell of Vermont has
granted second reprieve to Mrs
Mary M. Rogers, who is under SEN
tence of death for the murder of her
husband. 1t extends to June 23d.
The cruiser Colorado, which had
been in Boston harbor for several days,
and has Just sailed for Povincetown for
her final acceptance trial, has lost 200
men by desertion. ULpopularity of Of
ficers is the cause.
Brig. Gen. George R. Davis has been
reappointed judge advocate general OF
tie army for n term of four years from
May 23d last. General Davis was first
appointed to that office by President
Mckinley in May, 1901.
The President has established for.
est reserve in southern Colorado to be
known as the San Juan reserve and
to contain about 100000 acres. The
Payette reserve of about the same size
has been established in Idaho.
The Mexican Light and Power Com
pany, a Canadian concern, has pur-
chasel all the light and power plants
in the City of Mexico. The total ex-
penditures of the company when work
is completed will be $40,o0o,o0o.
The Pennsylvania railroad will
shortly establish the fastest long
distance train in the world. 1t will be
q new limited between New York and
Chicago, and will make the run in
each direction in eighteen hours.
L
cry Sears, Boston's largest taxpayer,
which disposes of an estate OF about
s25. 900 900, has disappeared. Mr..
Sears attorney turned the document
over to him, 1t is said, several months
ago.
The National Club OF Budapest,
Hungary, has decided to erect here a
statue in honor of Washington, as evil
dence of its appreciation of the action
of the citizens of Cleveland. Ohio. in
erecting a statue in honor of Kossuth
in that city.
Secretary Taft has denied the appli-
cation of the state of Missouri to take
possession Of the Merchants bridge
across the Mississippi river at St.
Louis on the ground that there has
been no violation of conditions Of the
charter.
| The Kansas Board of Railr Dad Com
missioners issued an order to-day re-
quiring the Union Pacific railroad to
| reduce its rates on grain fl ON Chap
man to Kansas City. The order de-
clares that the Union Pacific has been
| guilty of discrimination in grain rates.
The commissioner of the General
Land Office has issued instructions to
registers and receivers of land offices
throughout the country directing that
| in the future that no one person shall
be permitted to acquire more than 32O
acres of non-mineral public land under
existing laws.
Negotiations are being completed
COR the erection of S5O0O,OO0 hotel
in Herald Square, New York City, be-
tween Thirty-second and Thirty-third
streets and Broadway. Sixteen stories
high. it will have a capacity OF 600
rooms and in general appointments
will rival the most elaborate hotels in
the city.
A great storm which has swept over
Pinetown, the center of the tea and
sugar plantations Of Natal, South AZ
rica. caused the reservoir to over
flow, resulting in the drowning OF
many Hindoo laborers. The entire
loss of life estimated at 500 Hindoo
laborers and so Europeans.
New incororations in the eastern
states in May, together with increases
in capital, show the largest totals
since 1908. Those involving $1,00o,00O
or more aggregate s249,250,000. This
is the heaviest monthly total since
May, 1908, when 1t stood at $307,GG6,-
600. The April figures were $1S0.l11,-
900.
The Reclamation Bureau recently
gave out the statement that the
formal contract with Samuel r. H.
Robinson for the construction of the
irst part of the work on the Belle
Fourche irrigation project had been
executed. 1t provides that by July list
sufficient force and plant shall be
on the ground to complete the work
by March !, 1906.
The will of William Zeigler, the pa
tron of Arctic explorations, has been
filed in New York City. The estate is
estimated to be worth $3O.000,000 and
after provision is made of $4,000 an
nuity to Mrs. Zeigler, together with the
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