The Springfield herald., 1906-05-25
MIscelIoneOus.

MIscelIoneOus.
Vice Admiral kuZmich commander
of the port at St Petersburg has been
assassinated by workman because he
had refused to permit the workmen 20
make May day demonstration.
Four magazines OF the Union Metallic
Cartridge company at bridgeport,
Conn, containing $4,000 .,sunds OF
powder each exploded causfAg great
alarm among the residents who
thought an earthquake had occurred.
Pennsylvania fire insurance COM
panies. nine in all, have submitted
statements of their condition and
showing an aggregate loss In San
Francisco of 37.460,250. :.
police captain of Warsaw Russia
has been killed by the explosion OF
bomb thrown by a young. man. Sol
diers Immediately shot the assassin
The post onjcs department has been
notified that nafjgation on the Yukon
June G.
C. S. Crummcr, of Republic county
has been elected chairman of the Kan
sas republican committee. Clyde
Miller. of Osage county, was elected
Peter BecRerset Enid. has been
chosen commander of the Oklahoma
q. A. r. The next encampment will
be held at Enid.
Forest fires are sweeping northern
Wisconsin and Michigan. Two hun
NIL hnr haa
over and several lumber towns de
stroyed
Recent statistics show that tn,
Standard Oil company has paid to
its stockholders $34l.O43.000 in dfvt-
dends since January l. 1898. This 10
nearly 3h times its authorized capital
ization of $l0O,00O,000.
The Mutual Insurance company has
brought suit against former members
of its committee of expenditures to re-
cover such sums of money as may
have been lost through negligence of
the defendants
The total deposits in the banks OF
Kansas show that there is $3.50 in
cash on hand for every man, woman
and child in the state.
Mayor w. w. Rose, of Kansas City,
Kan, has been cited to appear before
the state supreme court on June to
answer to the charge of contempt.
The assembly grounds of Mount
Eagle, Tenn. were recently damaged
by fire to the extent of s25,000.
A permanent organization of the
civil service commissions of the coun-
NJ mo- r..
Ing held at Washington. Charles s.
Fowler, of the New York city COM
mission was elected president.
Mrs. A. F. Pearson, of Altoona. Kan,
died recently on a railroad train while
on h-r way to Lincoln, Ncb., from an
overdose of headache powders.
Restaurants throughout San Fran
cisco are now serving Is cent meals.
Sen. Greely reports that the stories
Of shooting of a large number of peo-
pie during the San Francisco FIRE by
the army are untrue.
The Standard Oil company has
issued an official statement denying
the charges in the recent special mes
sage to congress and in the Garfield
report. The statement declares the
prosperity of the trust is not due TO
reprehensible methods.
The Order of Eagles OF Kansas in
state convention at L,avenWorth,
elected W. d. Hunt. of Emporia as
president The next convention will
be held at lola.
The Standard Oil company has ad-
vanced the price of all aigh grade
gasoline one cent gallon.
The Illinois legislature Las passed
the Shurteff primary law and ad-
Iourned.
Gov. Higgins. of New York, has
granted an additional respite of 30
days to Albert Patrick under sentence
of death for the murder of William NJ.
Rice.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa, says
| that the steel trust has booked orders
| for 100000 tons of steel rails for
delivery in 1907.
The American executive assembly of
the Isle of Pines has sent a delegate
to Washington to work to defeat the
Isle of Pines treaty.
The Boone Cereal mills, at Boone,
Ia, were recently totally destroyed by
fire entailing a loss of $4,000.
Five men were torn to pieces and 12
others badly burned by the accidental
explosion of dynamite in coal mine
at Shenandoah, Pa, recently.
Four men are dead as "a result of
riots at Crawford, Neb., between white
men and negro soldiers from Fort
| Robinson.
The body recently found in a de-
serted villa in Finland has been posi-
lively identified as that of Father Gap
on. the Russian priest.