The Springfield herald., 1906-10-12
A suit has been brought before the

| me, former president Oh an Arkansa
City. Kan. bank, is dead or Is ma
MAC conflnei in an asylum Ill New
York. The suit involves the pay
ment CT $1,000 life insurance.
The army will shortly adopt new
bullet. which has long, straight
.aperins point in place oe the rounded
point of the bullet now in use.
President Roosevelt and family have
returned to the White house aftei
having spent the summer at theii
home at Oyster Bay.
Practically all the gold offered In
the London market Monday totalline
about si,5OO.OOO, was secured for the
United States.
Announcement has been made al
the White house that unless extra
ordinary conditions arise no session
of congress will be called to deal with
the Cuban question.
Clifton H. Wilder. editor of the
Chronicle at Lajara. Col, was as
saulted recently by his son-ir-law
Jayson Cochran, postmaster of the
town, and fatally injured.
| A great sensation has been caused
at Essen. Prussia, by the discovery
of the dead body of Madelaine Lake,
daughter of an English army officer
in the city park. The police have
been unable to throw any light on
the mystery
| Before crowd of 10000 people at
Springfield. H., Dan Patch recently
paced a mile in i:59A.
A Chinese emierant steamer re-
Gently foundered while on the way TO
Hongkong and the captain and 60 pas
sengers were lost.
The coroner's jury at Danviile, ILL.,,
has decided that Brakeman Hughes
threw the switch which caused the
recent Wabash wreck in which 1 per-
sons were killed and 40 injured. He
was not held criminally liable.
The disarmament of Cuban insur-
gents is progressing as rapidly as
could reasonably be expected says Gov.
Taft. No opposition is manifested
anywhere.
An equestrian statue of St. Louis
was recently unveiled in Forrest park
in the Missouri metropolis. David r.
Francis made the presentation speech.
District Judge John l. Mullins, of
Denver. has decided that newspaper
cannot be enjoined from publishing
libelous matter. The only recourse he
says is suit for damages.
Former Gov Magoon, of the Pana-
ma canal zone, declares that the ia
maica negro is the best laborer yet
utilized on the canal work.
The British steamer Marion has
been secured as a transport and will
take $50 United States troops to
Cuba
The people of San Bernardino, Cal,
have petitioned President Roosevelt
to save the big forests of that county
from timber cutters. alleging that the
destruction of the timber has already
affected the rainfall and consequently
the water supply of the region.
Albert J. Adams, of New York. who
has made Il large fortune as head of
a policy gambling combine. has COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself.
Gov. Taft has ordered Cuba put in
first class sanitary condition without
regard to expense in order to guard
against IN epidemic of yellow fever
of which threre are three cases now
in Havana
New Orleans and vicinity was re-
Gently visited by three distinct tor
nadoes which caused the loss of six
lives and fatal injuries to nine others.
The property damage is estimated at
100000.
James B. Dodson, an attorney of
Springfield. Mo, was recently fined
s40O in the federal court there for
making Il false affidavit in entering
government land.
By the collapse OF q bridge at Ocon-
to. Wis, on which We're 50 high school
pupils, one student was killed and IA
were injured.
Twenty-nine bodies have been re-
covered from the Pocahontas mine
disaster in West Virginia and con-
servative estimate places the totai
number of dead at 20.
Correspondence between the consul
general in Cuba and the state depart
ment. recently made public. shows
that as early as September President
Palma had asked this government
for aid in putting down the insurrec-
tion.
The international congress of cham
bers of commerce in session at Milan,
Italy, has adopted resolution favor
ing universal penny postage.
John r. Moran. district attorney of
Boston, who was already the nominee
of the prohibitionists and the lnde-
pendence league. has been nominated
by the democrats for governor of
Massachusetts.
Six men were killed and several
injured recently as the result of an
explosion of gas in the subway under
construction at Sixth and Market
streets. Philadelphia. The damage to
property in the vicinity will amount
to several hundred thousand dollars.
A modus vivendi has been reached
between Great Britain and the United
States relative to the Newfoundland
fisheries
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