The Springfield herald., 1905-09-22
CONDENSED 1ELEGRAMs

creased its capital stock from $5O,OOO.-
600 to $75.000,O00.
Canton, Ohio, has been chosen to be
the next years meeting place of the
National Letter Carriers Association.
Henry White, the American ambas-
sador at Rome, contributed 500 to the
fund for the relief of the earthquake
sufferers.
M. Kulikovsky, who on July 11th last
! assassinated Mai. Gen. Count Shuva-
lon at Moscow, has been sentenced to
Imprisonment for life.
Charles F. Pfster. charging District
! Attorney McGovern and other officials
with conspiracy, has begun suit at MIL
I waukee for 100000 damages.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has cele-
brated her sixty-seventh birthday. A
reception attended by natives was held
at her home in Honolulu on the 18th
inst.
Timely rains in the Rajputana and
other drought-stricken districts OF In
dia are relieving to some extent the
failure of the crops and a possible fam
inc.
Miss Martha Weeks of Washington.
D. c., aged forty, who was seriously
fSSs
in the Yellowstone park, died OF her In
juries.
1t Is expected that Commander Eva
Booth will make tour of the feud dis
trict of Kentucky in company with the
other salvation army officials next
spring.
The National Postoff1ce Clerks con-
vention. at its meeting at Cedar Rap
t1L tho rorfu uutf IN nf
the proposed mutual benefit associa-
tion.
A thanksgiving service commemora.
tive of Tie conclusion Of peace was eel
ebrated at Peterhof in the presence OF
Emperor Nicholas and the state digni-
taries.
The aggregate assessed value Of all
property in the state Of New York is
$7,73S, ICE, $40, of which $7,051 ,455,025
is real estate and $75S S,893. COS personal
property.
DIR. David E. Salmon, chief Of the Bu-
reau Of Animal Industry Of the Agricul-
tural Department, has rendered his res
ignation and 1t has been accepted to
take effect October list.
The Union Pacific shops at Omaha
will be enlarged at a cost of 100000.
Among the additions will be locomo-
tive construction building costing
about half million.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the national
convention of the postoff1ce clerks split
In two factions when delegates from
| fifty-five branches, including Tacoma,
Washington, withdrew from the hall,
some snatching off their badges and
trampling them under foot as they left.
The Standard Oil Company at Pitts
burg on the 18th inst. advanced the
price of all grades of crude oil. Penn
sylvania oil was raised cents and the
other grades were advanced 2 cents.
The price OF Western oil at 1ndepend-
ence, Kansas, was at the same time
raised in amounts varying from l to
! cents barrel.
| The total receipts for the Britt-Nel-
| son fight at San Francisco were $4s.-
311. That amount was divided as fol-
lows: Nelson, $1S,S41.29; Britt. s12,-
560.S6 management. $16.908.S2. Added
to the winners share is $4,000 he got
for his interest in the moving pictures.
which brings Nelson's profits up to
| $23,S41.29.
| Exhaustive experiments with the use
of oil as fuel on battleships have
proved SO satisfactory that the British
admiralty has ordered the erection
of a great oil storing depot at Ply
mouth, with jetties at which tank
steamers can moor. 1t is understood
that stores of oil will be established
at most of the home ports,
The Esch-Townsend railroad bill Will
be introduced at the next session of
Congress practically in the same form
that 1t passed the House last session.
This was determined on at confer
ence between Congressman Townsend
of Michigan and Congressman Esch OF
Lacrosse, Wisconsin, who fathered
the bill.
Moritz Thomson, president OF the
Centennial Mill Company at Seattle.
estimates that California will use g.
100000 bushels Of Washington wheat
for approximately 15,000,OO0 bushels
this year. He also states that orders
have Aeen received from the United
Kingdom. The present harvest in
Washington is estimated at 35,O00,00O
bushels.
A convention of 1000 butchers from
all parts of Germany met at Berlin and
adopted resolutions declaring that
great and increasing scarcity of live
animals exists in the German empire,
and petitioning the imperial govern
ment to speedily abolish the meat fam
inc by opening the frontiers for the ad-
mission of animals from other coun-
tries.
Following is the summary OF the cot
ton crop of 1905, as reported by the sta
tistical committee of the Southern Cot
ton Growers Association: Production,
9.5SS,133 bales; percentage of condi-
tion as compared with last year, 1873,
as compared with the governments es-
innate Of 721. The yield is regarded
as exceedingly small, as from ten to
ten and one-half million bales was ex-
pected.
Samuel R. Gummere, the American
minister at Tangier, and several Euro.
pean inhabitants. have abandoned
their residences ir the suburbs and re-
moved to the center of the town at
the request of the Moroccan authori-
ties who said they were unable to
guarantee their security owing to the
disturbed condition of the surround
ing districts. Severe fighting contin-