The Springfield herald., 1906-07-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
Denent of Our Readers.
Personal.

Pern0naI.
Judge John Guthrie, for 40 years a
prominent citizen of Topeka, Kan, is
dehd as result of sunstroke compH-
Gated with paralysis.
The president has named Theodore
p. Shonts chairman and John F. Ste
vens, Charles f. Magoon, Peter G.
Haines. Mordecai Endicott and Benja-
min NJ. Harwood as members OF new
canal commission.
Enrique Cortez has been named Co.
lombian minister to the United States
TO succeed Diego Mendoza.
Emperor William has again return
ed to Kiel. The report that he went
to Potsdam on account of the condi-
tion of the health of Crown Prince
Frederick William was incorrect
Mrs. Mary Binney Stirling, wife OF
Rev. Paul Stirling of Melrose. Mass
and known during the civil war as the
idol of the union troops at New Orleans
is dead. She was the. daughter OF Gen
Nathaniel p. Banks.
Maurice Marshall Langhorne, OF VIZ
ginia, has been selected as Secretary Of
legation at Christiania, Norway.
Dr. ID. E. Salmon. former chief OF
the bureau of animal industry at wash
ington has accepted position with the
Uruguayan government.
President Roosevelt delivered the
Fourth of July address to his old
friends and neighbors at Oyster Bay
during n rain storm. He reviewed the
work of the year and said that all
that had been or would be done IN
curbing the trusts would be without
fear, favor or malice on his part.
Secretary Root and family have
sailed from New York on a three
months tour of South America dur
ing which they will attend the Pan
American congress at Rio de Janeiro.
Fourth of July was celebrated in
San Francisco this year without ire
works of any description.
William ]. Bryan was the principal
speaker at the Fourth of July cele-
bration of the American colony in
London. His subject was THE White
Mans Burden" So.
William ]. Bryan was an interested
spectator at recent session OF the
British house of commons.
Acknowledgement Wiley of the
Philippines has been appointed to the
judgeship of the New United States
court in China. He is native of st,
Louis.
Thomas Taggart, chairman of the
democratic national committed, has
issued statement in regard to the
alleged gambling at his hotel in French
Lick Springs. Ind, in which he denies
any connection with the recent raids
there. The statement was issued in
reply to the New York Worlds demand
for his resignation from the commit
tee.
Sir Joseph Ward. the new premier
of New Zealand. was the guest nj
luncheon of President Roosevelt ut
Sycamore Hill recently He expressed
himself as being anxious for a reclp-
rocity treaty between the United
States and his country.
Miss Helen Keller, the noted deaf,
dumb and blind girl, has been ap-
pointed a member of the Massachu-
setts commission for the industrial
education of the blind.
Rev. L. p. Mercer, d. d., the orig
inator of the congress of religions at
the Chicago worlds fair, dropped dead
at his home in Cincinnati recently.
Harrison Terrell. who nursed Gen.
Grant during the last years of his
life, died recently rs the result of n
fall while on duty in the war depart
ment at Washington.
Winston Churchhill, the well-known
novelist, is candidate for governor
of New Hampshire on an anti-cor-
poration platform.
Mai. Gen. Nickel, of the German
army, who re-organized the japanese
army in 1885, is dead at Berlin.
Christopher Columbus Langdell.
LII. D.. professor of law at Harvard
university, died suddenly at his home
in Cambridge, Mass. recently.