The Springfield herald., 1906-08-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of tbs
Past Seven Days.
InterestinE Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
Dement, of Our Readers.
Personal.

known newspaper men of Ohio dice
at his home in Dayton, aged 69 years
Judge James f. Tracey, of the Phil
ippine supreme court, is slated to sue
ceed Gen. Smith as vice governor
general when the latter assumes the
governors -generalship in September
Warden Haskell, OF the Kansas
penitentiary, proposes to establish a
night school for the convicts under
his charge.
| Charles j. Osborn. of st. LOUIS,
who recently celebrated his S0th birth
day, holds the distinction of being the
dean of Associated press correspon-
dents. He served the association for
AZ years continuously.
Charles W. Bickle. one of the best
known republican politicians of West
ern Oklahoma, recently jumped from
the window of hospital at Guthrie
while delirious and sustained injuries
that caused his death.
Charles Hudson, for so years chief
clerk of the American embassy in
London, is dead. He had served under
eight ministers and ambassadors and
was an intimate friend of James Rus
sell Lowell
Mayor johnson, of Cleveland. o.,
has been acquitted of the charge of
contempt of court in connection with
the tearing up of the Electric Railway
campanys tracks recently.
Orders have been issued by the war
department transferring Maj. Gen. A.
w. Greedy from San Francisco TO st.
Louis
Rear Admiral Charles ]. Train, COM
mander- in-chief of the United States
Asiatic fleet, died recently in Chefoo,
China, of uraemia. He was 61 years
of age and would have retired from
active service in May of next year.
Cecil Bay, the heaviest man in Kan
sas, died in Leavenworth recently.
He weighed $50 pounds.
EX-Gov. Van SAINT, of Minnesota,
has been appointed chief marshal of
G. A. r. parade at the Minneapolis
encampment.
Gen. Arthur Macarthur. who recent
ly returned from an 1S-months' tour
of the Orient, has resumed command
of the department of the Pacific with
Headquarters at San Francisco.
Gov. Folk, of Missouri. has accepted
an invitation to deliver an address
at the Labor day celebration in Tulsa,
l. T.. on September 3.
L. A. Gage. son of former Secre-
tary of the Treasury Gage committed
suicide recently in a Seattle, WASH
hotel.
miscellaneous.
| Jnp,ac II Cnya naphaw pf the 1nt a
Russell Sage has announced that he
will contest the will of the millionaire
fnancier.
The mayor of Havana, Cuba, and
all the aldermen have resigned in an
ticipation of request for their resig-
nations by President Palma.
The Michigan democrats recently
nominated Charles H. Kimmerle, of
Cassopolis. for governor. William ].
Bryan was indorsed.
| At special meeting of the Pan
American congress at Rio de Janeiro
Secretary Root made a speech defining
the attitude of the United States, and
advising temperate and kindly dis
cussion of all questions that may
come up.
The Idaho republicans recently nom
mated Miss S. E. Chamberlain for
state superintendent of public in
struction.
During a thick fog off Newport, r.
L., a collision occurred between the
battleships Alabama and Illinois.
Neither vessel was seriously damaged.
More than 10000 acres of the
Kiowa- Commanche pasture land will
be required as allotments for Indian
babies born since June 1901.
Fay Templeton, the actress was
married recently near Philadelphia TO
William Patterson of Pittsburg, Pa.
Gen. Markgraffsky, chief of the
Warsaw police has been assassinated
Nearly 200 police officers of that city
have been killed within a year.
At a conference of government Of
ficials at Chicago it was decided that
John d. Rockefeller would not be
asked to testify before the grand
jury as the government wished to
avoid granting immunity to the head
of the Standard Oil company
The crew of the Russian cruiser
Asia. which was sent to Abo, has
| captured the VeSsei, nolSleu lue req
flag and put to sea.
The navy department is nearly
swamped with applications of minis
ters who want TO be chaplains on war
ships.
During the fiscal year ended June &c
the people of the United States smoked
more than 100000, 900 cigars and g.
1888, ,266,213 cigarettes.
The crusier Washington, built at
the yards of the New York Shipbuid-
ing company in Camden, N. j., has
been formally turned over to the gov
ernment.
Military disorders have broken out
at Reval, Russia.
fire a, Plattsburg, Mo, complete
ly destroyed four brick buildings and
four stocks of merchandise. The
loss aggregates $4,000, covered by
insurance.
The failure is announced of the
Men and Women Publishing COM
pany of Cincinnati. o.
The Brodski grain elevators a