The Springfield herald., 1906-12-14
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Intere.tinR Items Gathered from, All
parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the
Benent of Our Readers.
IsersO'anl.

treasurer.
Mrs. Frank II. Greer. wife of the
editor of the Guthrie Capital, died re-
Gently of heart failure She was SO
years of age.
Harry st. John, newspaper man.
from Mississippi. died recently of apo
plexy in the Carnegie library at OK.
lahoma City. Ok.
w. II. Moore, of Missouri. was
chosen president of the National
Good Roads association at the Mus
kogee meeting.
DIR. Lapponi, physician to the pope,
is dead in Rome of pneumonia.
Congregational.
The nomination of w. Morgan Shns-
ter, of Washington. as member OF the
Philippine commission and secretary
of public instruction in the islands,
has been sent to the senate by the
president.
Senator Flint, of California, has in
trodrced bill in the senate providing
for an exhibition in Los Angeles in
1916 to celebrate the completion Of
the Panama canal.
Without debate the senate adopted
n resolution calling for all the papers
In connection with the exclusion OF
japanese from the public schools OF
San Francisco.
President Roosevelt's annual mes
sage to congress was recently read
In both houses. 1t took the clerks
two hours and a half to complete the
reading.
Terry McGovern. the prize fighter,
has been placed in hospital at
Brooklyn, N. Y, for observation re-
garding his sanity.
One of the first bills introduced in
the house was measure by Repre-
sentative Shepard, of Texas, provid-
ing for an income tax.
Representative Robert G. Cousins.
of Illinois, has been promoted to the
craftsmanship of the house committee
ON foreign affairs made vacant by
the death of Representative Hit.
Representative Slayden, of Texas.
has introduced bill providing for
the elimination of negroes from the
army by July 1 next.
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana. has
introduced bill in the senate to pro-
hibit carriers of interstate commerce
from transporting products OF fac
tories or mines which employ chii-
dren under IA years of age.
Presid mt Roosevelt's discussion of
~ ii t,,
his message was received with great
dissatisfaction by the California dele
cation In congress.
Senator Beveridge has introduced
bill to amend the meat inspection law
which requires the packers to pay
the cost of inspection. Another
amendment requires that the date of
inspection and packing or canning
shall be placed on each package.
Sentor Kittredge has introduced a
resolution directing an investigation
OF the lumber trade by the department
of commerce and labor
A bill has been introduced in the
house to increase the salaries of all
civil service employees of the govern
ment ten per cent.
The National Rivers and Harbors
convention in session at Washington
ing congress to appropriate not less
than s50000,0O0 for improvements of
water ways at this session.
The house has passed a bill Great
ing game preserve of nearly 100000
acres in the state of Washington.
The house has passed bill allow
ing states to prohibit the shipping of
convict made goods from other states
into their borders. The bill was in
troduced by Representative Hunt OF
Missouri.
MikccIInneons.
A Roosevelt Third Term National
league has been formed at Chicago
Clubs are to be organized in every
city and county of the country.
The Nor,h German Lloyd steamer
Main was badly damaged in COLI
sion in New York harbor with the
schooner Neville, recently.
The dreaded San Jose scale has
been discovered in several fruit or
chards in Massachusetts.
The last session of the Fifty-ninth
congress has begun. The usual large
crowds were present on the opening
day. But little business was trans
acted.
Five American soldiers were killed
and nine wounded in rush by Pu'a'
james on the island of Leyta recently.
The Pulajanes lost 80 killed.
The report that new treaty with
Japan was under discussion is author
itatively denied at Washington.
a heavy earthquake shock was fei.
in parts of southern California re-
Gently. No material damage was
.tone.
The date of opening bids 70: the
construction of the Panama canal
has been changed from December IL
to January L..
A lone bandit recently attempted to
.'old up q Santa Fe train at Holiday,
r>an. Charles Ward. of Purcell, |. T,
was wounded in scuffle with the