The Springfield herald., 1906-06-29
Miscellaneous.

| Miscellaneous.
In order to make a better campaign
against tuberculosis the Kansas state
board of health has ordered a conf
pletc census of the cases in the state
Of which it is belived there are about
| 5000.
An Associated press correspondent
in describing events during the riot
| ing at Bialystoli Russia. said children
were snatched from their mothers
arms and taken by the legs and
Drained on the pavement before the
| eyes of their parents.
! The Norwegian delegates from AM
erica to King Haakor's coronation,
have arrived at Christiania and were
enthusiastically received.
a. L. Harris, republican, has been
sworn in and has assumed the duties
the late John NJ Pattison, democrat
The editions of eight st. Petersburg
newspapers We're confiscated for pub
fishing circumstantial accounts of the
recent massacre of Jews at Bialystok
The president and Secretary Shaw
have agreed to deposit 100000 of
government money in San Francisco
banks, with bonds of the city as Sc
curity. The money is to remain with
the banks until such time as the gov
ernment shall call for it.
John Joseph Kean. who kidnapped
Frederick Muth. seven year old Phil,
adelphia boy. was arrested tried, con
victed and sentenced to 20 years in
the penetentiary Il hard labor, all with.
in "a hours.
A jury at Columbia, Mo-, recently
awarded Sam B. Cook, former secre-
tary of state, $4,000 damages against
the st. Louis Post-Dispatch for alleged
libel.
Jacob H. Schiff, the New York
banker, has received messages from
reliable parties in Finland saying
that the messacre of Jews in Bialystoll
was but>the beginning of a series of
systematic massacres similar to those
of last October.
A band of 800 Pulajanes recently
raided the town of Burauen, island
of Levte, P. l.. Five policemen were
killed, five wounded and the remainder
of the force captured. All the muni-
cipal records We're taken from the
tribunal and burned
owing to demonstrations by the
radical element of the Russian lower
house of parliament during the recent
ministerial explanations the presi-
dent of the body was compelled to
adjourn the sossion for a time.
After an extended session of the
cabinet recently Attorney General
Moody issued a statement announcing
that the government was ready to
proceed against the Standard Oil COM
pany for violation of various laws
against combinations in restraint of
trade and for receiving rebates from
the railroads.
The federal grand jury at Cape
Girardeau has returned indictments
against the owners of the Smith farm
in Southeastern Missouri charging
them with holding negroes in slavery
The Missouri supreme court has
set aside the recent order ousting the
Delmar Jockey club and imposing
fine of $1,000 and has granted mo-
ton for a rehearing of the case.
The sultan of Morocco has signed
the Algeciras treaty without any con-
ditons.
The heaviest rain and wind storm
of the year recently visited the central
portion OF Kansas, damaging railroad
and telegraph communication.
The strike of the Ohio coal miners
has been settled and $4,000 men will
return to work Immediately
The Kansas postmasters have elected
J. Frank Smith. of Pleasanton, as pres
ident for the ensuming term. The
meeting next year will be at Salina.
Two men were killed and seven
others injured in an accident in the
Pennsylvania railroads tunnel at New
York recently.
A series Of earthquake shocks wera
felt throughout the Philippine islands
recently. No damage was reported.
The eighteenth annual convention of
the International Pressmen and As
sistants Union opened in Philadelphia
Will 250 delegates present.
Employees of the Isthmian canal
commission have arranged for a regular
old-fashioned Fourth Of July celebra-
ton at Panama.
The cotton manufacturers of Fall
River, Mass, have granted the opera
tiyes an increase in wages Of IA per
cent.