The Springfield herald., 1906-09-14

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states attorneys office had been on
his trail for weeks through clue fur
| nished by woman.
Five more Japanese have been ar
rested at st. Georges island, one OF
the Prybiloff group, by the govern
ment agent accused of poaching seals.
Robert Gordon. Chicago boy 16
years old. has confessed to striking
an. S-year-old boy with a brick, stun
ming him and then burylng him alive
under the sidewalk before his fathers
house. The boys body was found
where Gordon said he had buried IL.
The secretary of agriculture has
appointed two experts to make an IN
vestigation of scientific methods OF
grading and inspecting grain with
view to supplanting state inspection
with national inspection
The decision in the prize fight for
the lightweight championship of the
world between Joe Cans and Battling
Nelson at Goldfield, New was given
to Cans on foul in the 42d round.
More than 1000 delegates repre-
senting one-half the states of the
union were present at the opening
session of the irrigation congress at
Boise, Id.
The Illinois authorities have made
a demand on the United States gov
ernment for warship in which to
bring Paul o. Stensland, the fugitive
Chicago banker now under arrest in
Tangier, back to this country.
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poets to lead 100000 rounds of am
munition and battery of rapid-fire
guns at New York to be employed in
suppressing the Cuban rebellion.
| Mormon representatives have pur-
chased another large tract of land in
Mexico and plan to send there $4,000
Mormon families from Utah. Colora-
do and Nevada.
II. L. Quincy, n negro, was recently
arrested at the national capitol for
stealing valuable law books from the
document room of the United States
senate.
Adolph Segal, promoter, w. F.
North, treasurer, and Marshall $.
Collingwood, assistant treasurer of the
defunct Real Estate Trust company of
Philadelphia, have been arrested in
connection with the wrecking of that
institution.
A letter found on the person of a
man arrested at Douglas, Arizona,
recently, shows that a revolutionary
uprising is planned against the Mexi-
can government.
The international conference on
tuberculosis was opened at The Hague
with a good attendance in the pres
ence of Prince Henry of the Neither
lands.
Almost / 900 college presidents. pro-
fessors, instructors and university ofn-
cials have agreed to use the simpli-
fed spelling in their correspondence.
Three men were killed and dozen
injured by the collapse of factory
building in course of construction at
Elyria, Ohio.
In an exhaustive report to the stete
department Ambassador Thompson
declares that the published rumors Of
the incubating of wide spread In
surrection in Mexico are without
foundation. He asks for the suppress
sion of the Mexican revolutionary
junta located in St. Louis.
Terrorists at Potsin, Russian Po-
land recently burned III houses.
Cuban insurgents recently destroyed
with dynamite two bridges on the
Western railway between Pinar del
Rio and San Luis.
Two thousand persons attending the
county fair at Oskaloosa, Kan, re-
Gently witnessed the death of Jere-
miah Turner, balloonist of Kansas
City. Mo-. who fell from a parachute
while eco feet above the earth. He
was dead when picked up.
Secretary Shaw has issued a circular
letter to all national bank depositar-
les reminding them that government
funds on deposit are not to be loaned
in New York for speculative pur-
poses
American minister to Chile, Hicks,
has telegraphed the state department
urging the people of the United States
to lend helping hand for the relief
of the distress caused by the recent
earthquake disaster.
The Santa Fe railway is short L.
500 cars to fill requests made by
shippers in the grain territory.
Eleven st. Louis firemen were In
jured recently by the explosion of gas
oline while fighting a fire.
The Santa Fe passenger depot and
railroad hotel at Needles, Cal, Was
recently destroyed by fire. Two per-
sons were burned to death and sew
eral others injured.
The 14th National Irrigation con-
fress closed it's sessions at Boise.
Idaho, after voting to hold the next
convention at Sacramento, Cal, and
electing Gov. Chamberlain. of Oregon,
as president. Resolutions were adopted
heartily approving the work of the
federal reclamation service.
| Representatives of the various rail-
roads and the Interstate Commerce
commission after conference at Chi
caeo agreed upon uniform system
of car accounting.
The commanders of government
troops in Cuba have been ordered to
cease hostilities pending proposed