The Springfield herald., 1906-11-09

books balanced.
Oklahoma and Indian territory
millcrs at a meeting in Oklahoma
City declared that the shortage oil
cars for the movement of grain and
cotton is seriously interfering with
business.
The trial of the Castellane divorce
suit began in Paris, recently After
partial statement of plaintiffs case
an adjournment was taken for one
week.
The worst prairie fire IN IT years
swept over the country south OF Dick
inson, N. D., recently, destroying
livestock and burning many fam
buildings
The German steamer Hermann
was recently sunk In collision with
another steamer. Twenty'three OF
her crew were drowned.
The Russian steamer Jcssica re'
Gently foundered in the Gulf of Both
mia. The captain and 80 men were
drowned
The second peace conference at the
Hague is to be convoked next Easter.
The New York court OF appeals has
decided that nominations of Independ-
ence league for various offices were
legal, thus reversing the court be-
low
An unsuccessful attempt was made
recently to blow Up the new Balti-
more and Ohio railroad bridge at
Youngstown, o.
United States marines recently
nipped two incipient uprisings of ex-
Cuban insurgents in the bud and com
PEELED them 10 disperse.
Eight persons arrested for the re.
cent robbery OF the St Petersburg
custom house have been tried by
court martial and executed.
Latest advices from the scene OF
the wreck of three electric cars near
Atlantic City, N. j.. place the nun.
Der OF drowned Mt 53. The coroner's
jury is now Investigating the acci-
dent.
The department of agriculture has
issued two bulletins regarding the
material and manufacture of de-
natured Or Industrial alcohol
violent storm which recently
swept over southern France did con.
siderable damage along the coast.
Nice suffered severely.
The promgrammc OF receptions and
dinners at the White house for the
season of l9oC-19O7 has been announc-
ed by Secretary Loeb.
What is claimed to be the largest
lodging house in the world has largest
thrown open 20 working men in Bos-
ton.
By his finger prints II soldier in
prison at Lcavenworth, Kan. was
identified as 4 long lost English muir
derer.
All the railroads operating in Okla
homa have bcom made defendants in
a complaint filed with the Interstate
Commerce commission by the attorney
general of the territory.
The government receipts for Octo.
ber exceeded the expenditures by 81
624.211.
One man was killed and one fatally
injured in an explosion in a coal mine
at Ottumwa. la. recently.
The Carriage Builders National
association has adopted a resolution
declaring that the tariff question
should be removed from partisan
politics and turned over to perma-
nent commission of commercial cx-
perts.
Emperor William is suffering with
a heavy cold.
Charles Whitney Norton, said to be
for extensive 5windrns
operations in various parts OF the
country, in which his victims were de-
frauded out of securities amounting
to $3,0OO,OO0 has been arrested in
Chicago.
Four companies. comprising the
Cotton Oil trust. were recently fined
s1,25o and costs Mt Little Rock for
violation of the Arkansas antitrust
law.
The Carnegie Plow and Manufacture
ing company's plant near Pittsburg,
Pa. has been destroyed by fire.
Jasper Webb and Lewis johnson,
farmers. We're shot and killed by Il
Mexican recently near Brlstow. |. T.
They had quarreled over cotton
weights.
Two workmen were killed ana fivc
others injured by the collapse of a
derrick at the Wannamaker building
in Philadelphia.
Suit for $4,000 damages has been
filed against District Attorney John B.
Moran. democratic candidate for gov
ernor of Massachusetts. by William II
Fairbanks. alleging slander.
Herbert l.. Bridgely. secretary of
The Peary Arctic club, has received
dispatch from Commander Robert E.
Peary, the Arctic explorer, stating
that he had reached a point LIS miles
from the north pole, and was re-
turning
Ten indictments have been returned
against TWO former members of the
state cattle commission and the Con
solidated Rendering company. a.
Maine concern, for selling diseased
meat. by the Burlington, Vermont,
grand jury.
The Medical Association of the
Southwest closed an interesting ses-