The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
miscellaneous.

The Pulajane insurrection in the
island of Samar, PHILIPPINE islands, is
about stamped out. according to Col.
Williams, commanding that depart
ment.
The election day proclamation for
Oklahoma and Indian territory max
delegates to the constitutional conven-
ton and November 20 the date for
holding the convention, has been
issued.
j. f. Wade, treasurer of Cloud coun-
ty, Kansas, went to the Minneapolis
G.. A. r. reunion and failed to return.
Instead he sent a letter to the county
commissioners acknowledging a short
age of $1,000.
The commercial club of Lincoln,
Neb., has entered a complaint with
the interstate commerce commission
to the effect that present freight
schedules discriminate in favor of
Omaha.
The police of France have arrested
an Italian anarchist on suspicion OF
his being in plot TO assassinate Pres
Three men are dead, two in a seri-
Gus condition and nine others were
rendered unconscious by gas en-
pNsion in the Jones & Laughlin blast
furnace at Pittsburg, Pa. recently.
The Illinois republican state conven-
tion at Springfield enthusiastically in
dorsed Speaker Joseph G. Cannon as
their candidate for president of the
United States in 1908.
An attempt was made at Arkansas
City, Kan. recently to assassinate II.
s. Hines and Solomon l.. Long, two
lawyers who have been prominent in
prosecuting violations of the prohibi-
ton law.
AS the result of an attack by ne
gro near Atlanta, Ga, recently, Miss
Ethel Lawrence, of London, England,
is in a dying condition.
The prolonged deadlock in the
Thirty-seventh Iowa senatorial dis
trict republican convention has hecn
broken by the nomination of c. F.
Peterson In all 3,G99 ballots were
taken.
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The dry dock Dewey was utilized at
Olongapo, Manila Bay, for the first
time when the transport Meade was
docked there recently.
The insurance commissioners of the
various states, in session at st. Paul,
have agreed to recommend a law for
passage by the legislatures requiring
an annual apportionment and account
ing of the surplus by the life insur-
ance companies.
The Chilean senate has appropriated
100000 for the relief of the dis
tressed inhabitants of Valparaiso and
vicinity.
A dozen freight cars on the Rock
Island We're recently burned following
collision with fast passenger train.
No fatalities resulted.
The brokerage firm of NJ. J. Sage
& Co. of New York, has failed with
liabilities of 100000 and assets of $1l6,-
900.
The insurrection in Cuba is becom-
ing more serious daily. The rebels
have captured San Luis, city of TO-
600 population in Pinar del Rio pro-
vince, after hard fight in which sew
eral men We're killed or wounded on
both sides.
The government printing office has
been acquitted of the charge of undue
delay in sending final proofs OF bills
TO congress.
The socialists of Cincinnati have
sent an invitation to William j. Bry an
to debate. the question of socialism Ill
that city on September ..
The republicans of the Sixth Ne
braska district have renominated NJ.
p. Kinkaid for congress. The conven-
tion was in session Just "a minutes.
Oklahoma City, Ok, has had ten
incendiary fires in ten days recently.
Two suspects have been arrested
Late reports from Valparaiso give
the number of dead as more than g.
600, and the property damage from
$4,000, 900 to $50000,000.
A movement is on foot in Nalpar-
also to organize company to facili-
tate the raising of the money neces-
sary to reconstruct the city.